Montly Competitions

how to enter your work for competitions:

Competitions are only open to club members.

• Complete print quality PDF entry form for our monthly club competition
• Competition Rule Book is now available for download
• 2008 Annual Awards Results

PROJECTED images and three mounted prints - You can only enter three per competition

• three colour prints or  three mono prints
• three digital colour image or three mono digital images (see digital rules below)
• If you want to enter slides your must organise this with the competition secretary
• See 'Set Photographic Subjects' for the coming year listed in the programme calendar.

Prints

• Titles are optional. For prints the title may be written on the front or back of the print or record it on a piece of paper for the competition secretary.
• Your photos can be uplifted at the next meeting after the competition judging.
• Bring your photographs mounted or un-mounted, at club meetings. They will be stored in a portfolio case to keep your photos nice and safe.

Digital

• Please check your digital entries carefully before giving to the Competition Secretary.
• Images must be no more than 72 DPI and no more than 1024 pixels on the longest side.
• Titles are optional. For digital images, the title shall be included in the file name.
• Save images to a CD with the title of your image and as a jpg.  e.g. zanzibar_squid_seller.jpg
• If your images are large and you don’t have an image resized, e.g Photoshop, the competition secretary will downsize the image to a maximum of 1024 pixels although they would rather not have to. No other image adjustments will be undertaken.
• Waikato Photographic Society does NOT take any responsibility for the possibility of compromising the quality of your images.

Slides

• Titles are optional. For slides the title shall be along the top of the slide as held for projection record it on a piece of paper for the competition secretary.

Images for the website

Club members only may submit work for showing on this website.  Submit your images to our webmaster.

• Email your web ready image, 72 dpi and 150 pixels on the longest side to Virginia.  Please note that Virginia will resent being emailed very large files, a 500KB email is much too large.
• Remember when resizing your image in Photoshop change the DPI first before changing the pixel size.
• Images with high contrast and fine detail will not compress as well and produce larger file sizes, so depending on the image something between 15 and 55KB is acceptable.
• Smaller file sizes are better, but no compression artefacts please (see the How To mentioned earlier).
• Images on a CD are okay – give them to Virginia Schnauer she will resize and compress them.
• Slides and Negatives: If you don't have a scanner for these forms of media, some of our members have scanners.