The club will hold a number of critiques throughout the year. We do not use the term ‘competition’ as it is misleading as there is no particular competitive element in our events. They are intended as fun, a chance to display your work and to receive expert and helpful feedback from an experienced judge. Viewing others’ images will hopefully be interesting and inspiring.
The following rules are not intended to be intimidating in any way but to ensure that all can understand how the critiques will work and how images can be submitted
Critique Rules
- The critiques are for fun and the comments are intended to help and improve your photography, there are definitely no losers! All club members are encouraged to enter the critiques.
- Critiques may be on a theme where the image presented should in some way refer to the theme or open where any image may be submitted.
- Images are submitted anonymously and identified only by the membership number.
- The author should conceive and provide a name of the image
- The image must be taken by the club member submitting it who must own the copyright. If it is a composite image (i.e. made up from several separate images) the author must have photographed ALL of the elements within it.
- Only fully paid up members of the club may enter the critiques.
- All entries must be submitted by the stated critique event closing date. In unusual circumstances late entry made by possible with the prior agreement of the critique secretary
- Images submitted to the critique must not have been previously entered into a critique either at this or any other photography club.
- Images may be entered either as a paper print or a Digital Projected Image (DPI)
Submission of digital entries
- Digital entries must be uploaded via the members area on the club website
- The images should be in the JPEG format so the file should end with either .jpeg or .jpg (these are the same thing)
- The file size of the images should be reduced. If you have appropriate software the file size should be at least 1600 pixels wide or high. The optimum size of file is 2-3Mb.
- Please contact us if you need further help – [email protected]
The file name of the image should be changed to the following format
NNN_AA_XXXXXXXXXX.jpeg
Where;-
NNN is your membership number
AA is the critique number (e.g 01, 02 etc)
XXXX is your name of the image
As an example 104_01_A summer evening.jpeg
Submission of Print entries
- Prints should be presented in a mount no larger that 500mm x 400mm
- Care should be taken to ensure that any tape or adhesives used cannot damage other prints (i.e. acid free – if in doubt please speak to the critique secretary)
- The rear of the print should display the following information only
Membership number
Critique number
The title of the image
This information should be displayed in the top left of the rear and orientated in the same way as the image should be viewed i.e. portrait of landscape