Monthly Competition Guidelines
Monthly competition Guidelines
Throughout the year we run digital and print competitions. This is an important part of the memberships’ creative development.
Each month the club runs a Digital only competition, where each member is able to submit up to 2 images for judging, with a maximum of 1 image in any category. The points awarded from the judging of these images are accumulated throughout the calendar year and prizes are awarded at the end of year dinner.
The judging for this competition is carried out by a mixture of local photographers and qualified PSNZ judges.
Image categories
Open
This section is all yours. Pick your subject, take your best shot. We’re always pleased with the wide variety of images members come up with.
Set Subject
Each month there is a set subject for you to test your skills and creativity against. These subjects are set for the whole year, prior to each years commencement. The main thing to remember is that the photo should clearly have a link to the theme that is evident to the viewer.
Creative / Altered Reality
What some would refer to as playtime. This is where you get to try those photography techniques that cause others to ask how did they do that? No hard and fast rules but a slight preference for in-camera experimentation and the software usage enhancing rather than turning the image into something else completely.
Entry Guidelines & Specifications
Entry into any photographic competition run by the Hawkes Bay Photographic Society Inc. (HBPS) implies acceptance of the following terms and conditions:
- All entries must be produced by the entrant, and must originate as a photograph taken by that entrant. Extensive editing and processing of the entry is allowed, if undertaken by the entrant. However, images that are produced without the initial use of a camera by the entrant (e.g. computer generated graphics) are not allowed.
- Entrants must ensure that they have permission to photograph and exhibit any subject featured in their entries.
- An entry may include components of multiple different images (e.g. different Individual photographs blended in photoshop), but when this occurs, every individual image used must satisfy the above requirements.
- Entrants retain copyright of all entries.
- However, all entrants grant HBPS the right to reproduce and distribute their entries for the following purposes:
- Any reproduction and distribution that is necessary to allow for judging, including electronic transmission of images to Judges residing outside Hawke’s Bay.
- Display of entries at club meetings.
- Reproduction of award-winning images for publicity purposes, including on the HBPS website. When this occurs, all such images will appear with credit to the author.
- Entries should comply with all rules displayed on the HBPS website, at https:/hbps.co.nz/competition-rules-and-guidance (this page)
- NOTE: These rules can change from time-to-time. The HBPS committee does endeavour to communicate any change in rules to as many members as possible, however it is still worth checking the website regularly to ensure your entries are compliant with the current rules.
This section is all yours. Pick your subject, take your best shot. We’re always pleased with the wide variety of images members come up with.
Digital file naming/labeling convention:
- Title of your image
- Your name and grade are automatically added by the Online Portal.
- Please do not add your name to the title.
Each month there is a set subject for you to test your skills and creativity against. These subjects are set for the whole year, prior to each years commencement.
Digital file naming/labeling convention:
- Title of your image
- Your name and grade are automatically added by the Online Portal.
- Please do not add your name to the title.
This section is all yours. Pick your subject, take your best shot. We’re always pleased with the wide variety of images members come up with.
Digital file naming/labeling convention:
- Title of your image
- Your name and grade are automatically added by the Online Portal.
- Please do not add your name to the title.
- A maximum of 2 images per month.
- No more than 1 image in any one category.
- Only digital files will be accepted – only JPEG or JPG images.
- Maximum upload file size: 20 MB
- Images larger than 1920px horizontal (wide) and 1080px vertical (high) will be automatically resized down to fit within the PSNZ guidelines
- Images that don’t have at least one side the minimum recommended length above will not be accepted.
- All images must be your own photos. Any digital manipulation must have been done by yourself, or on your specific instructions. Professional scanning from film to digital media is allowed.
- Images must be submitted via the HBPS Monthly Digital Submissions portal
Submission options:
- Images are due: by midnight of the Club Meeting (ie the last Tuesday of the month) that the subject finishes on.
- Images to be loaded via the new portal – https://hbps.cameraclub.co.nz/
- Only 2 images may be loaded – The HBPS Portal currently accepts 3 and you will be asked to delete one image. It will save everyone time if you stick to the limit of 2 images.
- Any issues please email competitions@hbps.co.nz
- Results will be available at the end of month meeting following the submission deadline.
Important note: No extension to the deadline as the committee needs to send all images for external judging.