Creative Image Competition
The aim of this competition is to promote more creativity among the membership in the hope of getting a greater variety of images when putting together panels for national competitions.
However please note that the winning images should not automatically be selected for inclusion in panels. The competition secretary will retain them and others for consideration by the selection committee.
Rules for Annual Creative Image Competition
- Entries will be accepted as Colour Print, Monochrome Print, Projected Image or any combination.
- Standard club competition rules will apply as regards file size print size and Mount Board size.
- Members may enter a total of three images in the competition, in whatever medium or variety of media they like.
- All Entries will be marked with your competition number in file name or club labels provided by Competition Secretary
- Entries will not be categorised for judging purposes, the judge will look at all images and choose the best image whether it be colour print mono print or projected image
- There will be a perpetual Trophy awarded for first place there will be no 2 nd or 3 rd placing.
- Images for this competition may not have been previously used in competitions but may be used in the annual exhibition.
GRADING AND LEAGUES
For competition purposes, club members are graded into Premier, Advanced, Intermediate and Novice.
Premier
Intended photographers with an IPF or other recognised Distinction.
Advanced Grade
Intended for experienced photographers as selected by the Grading Committee.
Notes for Premier and Advanced Section
A. Both these sections will constitute the ADVANCED section of the club as regards external competition.
B. For judging purposes both these sections may be submitted as a single section to the adjudicator in the event of insufficient entries.
Intermediate Grade
Existing club membership and new members who are graded as such by the Grading Committee.
Novice Grade
Intended for all new members not graded otherwise by Grading Committee. At the end of the season the Grading Committee will consider all members in this league for promotion to the Intermediate Grade.
Promotion
At the end of the club season Intermediate and Advanced members will be considered for promotion, by the Grading Committee, to the next Division based on their performance in Club and external competition. Note, however, that the minimum criteria for membership of the Premier Section is that the member holds an IPF, FIAP or other recognised photographic distinction
Movement between the divisions is by way of promotion only: ie nobody will be demoted!
League Competitions 2007 - 2008
Within each of the above grades the following league competitions will take place:
1. Monochrome Print League of5 rounds, maximum of one print per round.
2. Colour Print League of 5 rounds, maximum of one print per round.
3. Projected Image (35mm Film transparency, 35mm Digital Transparency or JPEG image) League of 5 rounds, maximum of one image per round.
Note All the Leagues will be marked out of 50 for each entry.
Points will be allocated on the placing of each entry as follows: -
1st 20 points
2nd 18 points
3rd 17 points
4th 16 points
5th 15 points
6th 14 points
7th 13 points
8th 12 points
9th 11 points
All entries under 9th will get 10 points
Note: - Joint placing, points will not be split i.e. two 3rd will get 17 points each and the next place will be 5th and will score 15 points. However, judges will be instructed to ensure there is no joint placing in the top 4 images.
The Photographer of the Year Leagues
Each of The Winners of the:
“Monochrome Print Photographer of The Year.”
“ Colour Print Photographer of The Year.”
“Projected Image Photographer of The Year.”
Will choose and submit six of the images they have used in monthly competitions in the category, which they have won.
This means that a judge will score 18 images from three competitors. The images will be shuffled. Each image will be awarded points out of 50 the Judge will not be able to recognise if an image belongs to a particular author or set as they will be numbered 1-18 by the competition secretary.
When all the images are scored (the judge will not be selecting a winning image, he/she will be scoring each image points) each competitor’s set of six will be totaled. The Highest total will be the winner and the author will be deemed to be “Club Photographer of the Year.”
In the unlikely event of a tie the highest individual image score will count e.g. if one competitor scored a 49 for one image and the person tying scored highest 48 the competitor with the 49 would win, should they both have the same number of 49s the next highest scores would be compared until such time as there is a winner declared.
In the event of a competitor winning two league titles e.g. colour print and projected image they would have the advantage of competing in the final with two sets of six images. However each set of six will be tallied separately, i.e. not as a set of twelve.
If a competitor wins all three titles then of course they will automatically be declared “Club Photographer of the year.”
Changes to number of League medals awarded .
In each of the leagues: Where no more than four people compete. Medals will only be awarded to 1 st and 2 nd place and a cert for third.
Where no more than three people compete. A medal will be awarded to first place and a cert for the other places.
It is deemed unlikely that this situation will arise very often as most members in each grade enter at least one league competition, they may then “drop out” for various reasons but they have competed in the league
The IPF National Club Competition, 2008 - 2009 Season
The details for this event will be posted shortly. This competition sees all the IPF affiliated clubs vying for the position of best club. Celbridge has a long tradition of participation in this event, and while regularly being in the top three or four clubs, has only won the overall title once in 1996 and came second in 2005 with a fifth overall in 2007.
The competition this year takes the form of two print panels of ten images each in Monochrome and Colour Print. The slides element will be held seperately as per the National Shield.
There are exciting changes planned by the IPF for this competition during the 2008-2009 season.
The IPF National Shield Competition
The IPF National Shield is a national club competition intended for non-advanced workers. Each club presents a panel of eight prints in monochrome and colour print. For the 2007-2008 season the slides section will again be held separately to the print competition.
Each club has to ensure that no more than one person has three images on each panel and thereafter a maximum of two ensuring that at least four photographers' work is represented on their panel.
The competition is hosted by a different member club of the IPF each year.
Contents:
Monthly league: Competition Rules and Guidelines
Guidelines for Colour and Monochrome Print entries
- There are 3 media categories, Monochrome Print, Colour Print and Projected image ANY of these types of projected image… 35mm slide film, 35mm digital slide, or Digital jpeg for projection.
See also rules for projected jpeg images below
- Images may only be entered once in each competition, a new image is required for each round of the League and images for this season must not have been entered previous years. However Images from the club exhibition, which have NOT been used in previous club league, club nature or club panel competitions may be used in current, league, panel, and nature competitions
- All grades may enter up to two images in each of the three media (max 6 entries per person) . All Print and digital entries must bear the competition number of the entrant. All Digital entries will have this info in file name. Slides will have this info on label on mount. Print entries must have these details written on the official club competition label as provided by the Competition Secretary. All images in each category or medium that you enter will be Numbered as entry /1 and entry /2 ONLY
- Themes are for Novice and Intermediate and must be adhered to.
- Closely similar images are not permitted (e.g. a crop of one image being entered as a second image in the same or any other media) i.e. mono to colour
- Judge's decision is final (marked out of 50 points).
- All entries MUST be submitted on the Monday prior to the competition.
- 35mm Slides must be, spotted in bottom left corner.
- Prints must be mounted.
- Print or slide entries mounted in glass will not be accepted.
- Prints must not be larger than 12 x 16 AND Mount must not be larger than 16 x 20 INS
- Mount on a 20 x 16 inch board Black White or Cream
- When Mounting your print spray or paste the back of THE PRINT before sticking it to mount board as opposed to spraying or pasting the Mount Board as this will help prevent prints sticking together when packed in boxes for judging.
- Mark Clearly on the label provided, your competition grading and three digit competition number i.e. I 098/ 1 which reads as. …Grade Intermediate- Competition Number 098 -Print 1. Then stick the label to back of mount board
- All images in each category or medium that you enter will be numbered as entry /1 and entry /2 ONLY
- 20”x16” mounts are recommended for all prints.
- If You are unsure of anything to do with competition entries ask any committee member for help or advice, in the unlikely event that they do not have the answer to your question they will obtain the information for you.
- If you are not able to be present on competition night, please arrange with a friend to collect your entries. The club has nowhere to store images and accepts no responsibility for those not collected.
Rules and Guidelines: Projected Images.
( 35MM Slide Film · 35MM Digital Slide · Projected Digital image as JPEG).
- To enable the competition secretary to standardize the collection of digital images, each member will use a USB Memory card, which will be made available to you from the competition secretary at a low cost or you may provide your own USB card, but it must be clearly marked with your grade and competition number. You will use this card at all times to store and then transfer your images to the club laptop. To facilitate the speedy collection of electronic entries on” hand in night”. Cds, CF, Cards, memory sticks etc other than USB will not be accepted under any circumstances.
- As with Colour Print and Monochrome you may enter up to 2 images in this category.
- Members when saving their digital images (at home on their computer) for club competition will put their competition number and grade in the file name e.g. N097_1 which reads as Grade NOVICE Number 097 Entry 1
- Images must be saved on your USB card as jpegs. Maximum resolution 1024 pixels on the longest side (Any problems See handout for step-by-step instruction on how to do this. If you’re still having problems then talk to a committee member for help).
- Members will be responsible for transferring their own images to club laptop. However help and advice on transferring images will be available at all times from designated committee members on “hand in” night. Images may not be edited on the night of ‘hand in’.
- The club laptop with the images collected and loaded on it, will be given to the judge and images will be viewed on the laptop by the judge.
- The club laptop will be professionally calibrated with club projector at least once each season.
- Novice and Intermediate members must adhere to themes.
- Mono or colour may be used for projected images for club competition.
Click on any of the buttons below to see the latest league results
Competitions, themes and dates 2008 / 2009
Competition Hand-in night Theme Results League, Round 1 League, Round 2 National Shield League, Round 3 Panel Competition Nature Competition League, Round 4 League, Round 5 Annual Exhibition
Nature Competition
This is a Portfolio with an entry of 6 images in any chosen media. This competition is not graded. Images are allowable from other competition entries.
The Nature Competition is to be split into two sections and three trophies will be awarded. There will be no runners up awards. Novice and Intermediate members will compete for one Trophy. Similarly, Advanced and Premier members will compete for another Trophy. The third trophy will be a new perpetual trophy in memory of the late Anne Behan. This trophy will be awarded to the author of the best nature image chosen by the judge on the night. All grades compete for this trophy
Photographs submitted shall comply with the definition as published by F.I.A.P. and reprinted below:
FIAP Nature rules as stated on FIAP website August 2nd 2007
- Nature photography depicts living, untamed animals and uncultivated plants in a natural habitat, geology and the wide diversity of natural phenomena, from insects to icebergs.
- Photographs of animals, which are domesticated, caged or under any form of restraint, as well as photographs of cultivated plants are ineligible.
- Minimal evidence of humans is acceptable for nature subjects, such as barn owls or storks adapting to an environment modified by humans, or natural forces, like hurricanes or tidal waves, reclaiming it.
- The photographer, whatever photographic medium is used, must have taken the original image.
- Any manipulation or modification to the original image is limited to minor retouching of blemishes and must not alter the content of the original scene.
- After satisfying the above requirements, every effort should be made to use the highest level of artistic skill in all nature photographs
Panel Competition
Rules
I. This is a Theme Panel Competition.
II. The Panel must comprise of 6 images that sit together as a whole
III. One media can only be used, monochrome print, color print or 35mm slide.
IV. This competition is graded, Advanced and Non-Advanced.
V. All prints must be mounted and cannot be greater in size than 12” x 16”.
VI. No Nature images can be used. (Landscape is the sole exception. Images must be different to Nature panel if entered later
VII. Images are allowable from all other competition entries.