MNPC League Draft Competition Rules
1. There are six
competitions, 3 for advanced members and 3 for beginners. There are currently
insufficient beginners to sustain separate beginners’ competitions. Beginners
and advanced members images are therefore currently judged together.
1) Advanced Monochrome
Prints
2) Beginners Monochrome
Prints – Currently Beginners Prints are entered in the Advanced Section.
3) Advanced Colour
Prints
4) Beginners Colour
Prints - Currently Beginners Prints are entered in the Advanced Section.
5) Advanced Projected
Digital Images (PDIs)
6) Beginners Projected
Digital Images (PDIs) - Currently Beginners PDIs are entered in the Advanced
Section.
2. There are 5 rounds in
all 6 competitions. The subject in each round is as specified in the MNPC
programme.
3. A member may submit up
to 4 entries in each category in each round of the competition.
4 An entrant’s score in a
round of a competition is the sum of the marks awarded to his/her best 2
individual entries in the round.
5. The winner of each
competition will be the entrant with the highest cumulative score from 5
rounds.
6. Prints may be any size up to 40cm x 30cm and if mounted must be
on mounts not exceeding 40cm x 30cm.
7. Each print must show on
the back of the mount:-
a. entrant’s reference
number (or name if no reference number has been allocated)
b. title of print
c. whether advanced or
beginner (Not currently required)
d. subject, number and
year of round
8. Projected Digital Images
should be submitted using the MNPC League Competition Uploader, the address of
which will be provided at the start of the season. If use of the uploader is
not possible images may be submitted by email to the organiser.
All
PDIs must conform to the following:
a. Be in jpeg format
and sRGB colour space
b. Be sized to a maximum
of 1600 pixels wide and a maximum of 1200 pixels high.
c. Each image must be
titled. The title should not include the name of the entrant.
9. Any
print or PDI may be entered once only in any season of the MNPC league.
Any print or PDI
which has been awarded first place in a round of the MNPC league or which
following entry in the league has received a star in a NIPA competition is
debarred form further entry in the league.
Any print or PDI
which has received a star in a NIPA competition before being
entered in the MNPC league may be entered once only in the league thereafter.
Any print or PDI
which has neither been awarded first place in a round of the MNPC league nor
been awarded a NIPA star may be entered in two further seasons and is debarred
thereafter from further entry.
A print or PDI
debarred from further entry may however be re-submitted as a re-interpretation
of the original photograph.
10. Entries must be
submitted by the date specified in the MNPC league for each round.
11. It is assumed that all
entries are available for selection in the NIPA Inter-Club competition unless
an entrant makes his wishes to the contrary known in advance.
12. The organisers will
endeavour to return all entries (except those selected for entry in the NIPA
Inter-Clubc ompetition) on
or before the club meeting following the competition date.
13. The current marking
arrangements agreed by the committee must be displayed in the clubroom and on
the website for the duration of the competition season.
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