BATH PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
League trophies
Edna Thomas Trophy League Award for Colour Prints
Hyde Trophy League Award for Monochrome Prints
B P S Trust Trophy League Award for Digital Projected Colour Image
A New BPS Trophy League Digital Projected Mono Image
Arthur Downes Memorial Salver Annual “The One to Watch” award
The league scores will be totalled over the 7 rounds of the league and the trophy will be awarded to the winner of each category. The “One to Watch” award will be awarded to the member who has the highest total in any single one of the league categories, who never previously won a Society trophy.
Annual trophies
Frank Seale Colour Rosebowl Colour Print of the Year
Perpetual Challenge Rosebowl Monochrome Print of the Year
Lansdown Trophy Digital Projected Colour Image of the Year
A New BPS Trophy Digital Projected Mono Image of the Year
L C E Photo Essay Cup Annual Photo-Essay competition
L C E Enprint Cup Annual Enprint competition
Digital Enprint Cup Annual Digital Triptych competition
1. All Competitions
All entries will be anonymous. Members must use their Competition Number in all competition entries instead of their names. Copyright of images must belong to the member. Entries can originate from a film camera, digital camera or flatbed scanner. They may be digitally manipulated. The use of clipart is not permitted. All competitions are open to all Society members on an equal basis.
2. Definition of Monochrome and Colour:
A monochrome image is a black and white image or one that has been modified by the addition of a single colour tone to the entire image. All other images are colour images. E.g. a black and white image that has been modified by the addition of partial colour toning or by the addition of one or more colours to any part of the image is a colour Image.
3. League Competition:
There are seven rounds in the League Competition:
two rounds for Open Subject Prints,
two rounds for Open Subject Digital Projected Images (DPI)
one round for Set Subject Prints,
one round for Set Subject DPIs
one round for Panels of Three covering both Prints and DPI.
Each round will have both colour and monochrome classes.
The Set Subject for each year’s League Competition will be determined by the Competition Secretary in consultation with the Council and communicated to members before the summer recess of the previous season.
The Panel of Three Round is for entries comprising three separate but related photographs, which should work together as a panel as well as having individual merit. The three photographs (both Print and DPI) will be displayed as a panel and judged as such.
For each Round, the judge will be asked to select the best images from those presented in each class, so that points can be built up to enable the trophies to be awarded as above.
3.1 Eligibility
Members may enter photographs into either or both of the colour and monochrome classes in any round of the League Competition.
Print and DPI rounds: Members may enter up to two photographs in each class (i.e. a maximum of four entries per round).
Panel of Three rounds: Members may make one entry into each class (colour & monochrome), each comprising three photographs arranged as a panel.
Photographs that have been previously awarded (Placed or Commended) in any round of any year of the League Competition or Picture of the Year may not be entered into the League Competition.
Photographs that have not been awarded in the League Competition may be re-entered up to a maximum of three entries per photograph regardless of year or class entered.
Modifications to a previously entered image (including: alterations following the suggestions of a Judge, colour and monochrome versions, crops retaining substantially the same visual content) will be counted as a single photograph regarding eligibility for the League Competition.
Any individual Photograph that has previously been included as part of an entry (including winning entries) in one of the Annual Competitions (5) is eligible for entry in the League Competition, with the exception of a Composite Image prepared for the Digital Triptych Competition (5.5).
3.2 Notice
A calling notice will be sent by e-mail, three weeks before the competition night.
3.3. Submission of Entries
The hand-in deadline for entries is midnight, two weeks before the Competition evening. Entries must be delivered to the Competition Secretary by the deadline, as published in the Society’s programme.
Print entries will generally be collected at Society Meetings. DPI entries should be emailed to the Competition Secretary as advertised in the Newsletter.
If an entry fails to conform to the Entry Requirements, the member will be invited to resubmit. However, the entry must be received in the correct form by the deadline or it will be disqualified.
3.4Entry Requirements
3.4.1 Print & DPI Rounds
For Print & DPI rounds, entries must be ranked in priority from 1 (highest) to 4 (lowest). In the event that more entries are received than can be judged in an evening, the Competition Secretary will eliminate entries according to priority. If it is necessary to reduce the entries in any round, the cut-off level will be announced before the judging. Any Entries eliminated by this process are eligible for re-entry without affecting the maximum re-entries allowed.
3.4.2 Prints:
Prints may be trade or home processed, and must be mounted in a 50x40cm mount. Any print submitted in a manner that could damage other prints (e.g. with Velcro or exposed sticky tape, etc.) will be disqualified.
Each print must have a Bath Photographic Society Competition Label on the back, giving the member’s competition number, the title, the priority, the round number and class (monochrome or colour). The label can be downloaded from the Society’s website. Labels must be clearly and legibly filled out.
3.4.2.1. Panel of Three Prints: In addition to the competition labels, prints for the Panel of Three should have the desired layout indicated on the back –(i.e Left - Centre - Right).
N.B. The requirements for Print entries may be changed at the discretion of the Competition Secretary should it not be possible to judge physical prints.
3.4.3 Digital Projected Image (DPI):
DPI’s should not exceed 1600 x 1200 px (width x height), e.g. square images should not exceed 1200 x 1200 px. Images must be submitted in JPEG format and sRGB profile.
DPI files must be named with the member’s competition number, underscore, Category (colour or mono), underscore, (priority), underscore, image title.
e.g. 119_mono_(1)_pretty picture.jpg
3.4.3.1 Panel of Three DPI
Entries for the Panel of Three DPI must be a single image to the specification for DPI given above. This composite image shall comprise three separate photographs, each with or without a border, positioned on a plain background either separately or adjoining each other. The photographs must not overlap in any way to form a montage. One photograph cut into three parts and composite images entered in the Annual Digital Triptych Competition (5.5) are not permitted.
3.5 Scoring
The judge will be asked to select1st, 2nd and 3rd placed photographs and may award as many Highly Commended and Commended placings as he or she wishes.
The following scores will be awarded for all rounds except the Panel of Three
1st place 10 points
2nd place 9 points
3rd place 8 points
Highly Commended 6 points
Commended 4 points
Not placed 1 point
The following scores will be awarded for the Panel of Three Round
1st place 16 points
2nd place 14 points
3rd place 12 points
Highly Commended 9 points
Commended 6 points
Not placed 3 points
4 Picture of the Year
The Picture of the Year is an annual competition to determine the best image in each of the four categories of the League Competition:
Colour Print
Monochrome Print
Colour DPI
Monochrome DPI
4.1 Eligibility
Members may submit one entry per category. Only photographs that have previously been judged in one or more Rounds of the current Society Year’s League Competition. are eligible. Photographs may not be altered from the League Competition entry and must have been previously entered in the same category.
Prints: The print label will also be used to check eligibility.
DPI: The previous entered League Competition Round must be indicated in the file name.
e.g. 119_mono_R2_pretty picture.jpg
All League Competition rules will also apply.
5 The Annual Competitions
There are three competitions: Photo-Essay, Enprint and Digital Triptych. Each of these competitions is for a collection of photographs, rather than for single photographs. The Annual Competitions are usually held during the Society’s Christmas Social.
Entries are submitted on the evening of the competition.
5.1. Eligibility
Members are allowed an unlimited number of entries in each Annual Competition. Any photograph may be included in an entry to the Annual Competitions regardless of previous awards in the League Competition or Picture of the Year.
5.2 Judging
Judging is by secret ballot by the members present, casting a single vote in each Competition. The winner is the entry with the most votes. Members must not vote for their own entries.
5.3 Photo Essay Competition
This competition is for an essay of prints, depicting a story, which should comprise between 5 and 15 pictorially, linked images. An identifying title must be included on the front but must not show the photographer’s name or competition number. Descriptive text may be included.
Prints may be trade or home processed, colour or monochrome or a combination and may be of any size. They should be mounted on a board no larger than 50 x 80cm or 40 x 100cm, which can be formed by two 50 x 40cm boards placed together.
5.4 The Enprint Competition
This competition is for 3 prints on a common theme. The images should be linked but need not tell a story. An identifying title must be included on the front but must not show the photographer’s name or competition number. Descriptive text may be included.
Prints may be trade or home processed; colour or monochrome or a combination of both. Individual prints should be no larger than 18 x 13cm and be mounted on one board not exceeding 50 x 40cm.
5.5 The Digital Triptych Competition
A single DPI image must be submitted as a Composite of 3 photographs. The Composite Image must be a new image for the current Society year. In contrast to the DPI Panel of Three (3.4.3.1), creativity is encouraged in the way the Composite Image is created. Any techniques (digital or other) can be used as long as 3 different photographs have been used in the making of the final image. The title must be included within the image, no more than 12pt, and must not detract from the image.
The final Composite Image should comply with the League Competition requirements for DPI. The digital file should be named with the member’s competition number and the image title.
Composite Images entered into the Digital Triptych Competition are not eligible for entry into the League Competition.
5.6. Exhibition
The winners of the Photo-Essay Competition and the Enprint Competition should endeavour to show their entries at the club’s annual exhibition. If the Photo-Essay winning entry was submitted on the larger of the board sizes then the competitor is responsible for transport to/from the exhibition.
6 Review and communication
All rules will be reviewed before the start of each season by the Competition Secretary and agreed by the Council. The rules can be found on the Society’s website and will be communicated to all members by a printable file sent via the Newsletter at the start of each year. The Membership Secretary will send the file to new members.
7. Interpretation
Members should have a version of these rules to hand to help them make decisions regarding their entries. The Competition Secretary will provide clarification when needed. If a member believes that a photograph has been incorrectly entered into a competition, they should inform the Competition Secretary and the President who will then take appropriate action.
added 29th November 2021
League trophies
Edna Thomas Trophy League Award for Colour Prints
Hyde Trophy League Award for Monochrome Prints
B P S Trust Trophy League Award for Digital Projected Colour Image
A New BPS Trophy League Digital Projected Mono Image
Arthur Downes Memorial Salver Annual “The One to Watch” award
The league scores will be totalled over the 7 rounds of the league and the trophy will be awarded to the winner of each category. The “One to Watch” award will be awarded to the member who has the highest total in any single one of the league categories, who never previously won a Society trophy.
Annual trophies
Frank Seale Colour Rosebowl Colour Print of the Year
Perpetual Challenge Rosebowl Monochrome Print of the Year
Lansdown Trophy Digital Projected Colour Image of the Year
A New BPS Trophy Digital Projected Mono Image of the Year
L C E Photo Essay Cup Annual Photo-Essay competition
L C E Enprint Cup Annual Enprint competition
Digital Enprint Cup Annual Digital Triptych competition
1. All Competitions
All entries will be anonymous. Members must use their Competition Number in all competition entries instead of their names. Copyright of images must belong to the member. Entries can originate from a film camera, digital camera or flatbed scanner. They may be digitally manipulated. The use of clipart is not permitted. All competitions are open to all Society members on an equal basis.
2. Definition of Monochrome and Colour:
A monochrome image is a black and white image or one that has been modified by the addition of a single colour tone to the entire image. All other images are colour images. E.g. a black and white image that has been modified by the addition of partial colour toning or by the addition of one or more colours to any part of the image is a colour Image.
3. League Competition:
There are seven rounds in the League Competition:
two rounds for Open Subject Prints,
two rounds for Open Subject Digital Projected Images (DPI)
one round for Set Subject Prints,
one round for Set Subject DPIs
one round for Panels of Three covering both Prints and DPI.
Each round will have both colour and monochrome classes.
The Set Subject for each year’s League Competition will be determined by the Competition Secretary in consultation with the Council and communicated to members before the summer recess of the previous season.
The Panel of Three Round is for entries comprising three separate but related photographs, which should work together as a panel as well as having individual merit. The three photographs (both Print and DPI) will be displayed as a panel and judged as such.
For each Round, the judge will be asked to select the best images from those presented in each class, so that points can be built up to enable the trophies to be awarded as above.
3.1 Eligibility
Members may enter photographs into either or both of the colour and monochrome classes in any round of the League Competition.
Print and DPI rounds: Members may enter up to two photographs in each class (i.e. a maximum of four entries per round).
Panel of Three rounds: Members may make one entry into each class (colour & monochrome), each comprising three photographs arranged as a panel.
Photographs that have been previously awarded (Placed or Commended) in any round of any year of the League Competition or Picture of the Year may not be entered into the League Competition.
Photographs that have not been awarded in the League Competition may be re-entered up to a maximum of three entries per photograph regardless of year or class entered.
Modifications to a previously entered image (including: alterations following the suggestions of a Judge, colour and monochrome versions, crops retaining substantially the same visual content) will be counted as a single photograph regarding eligibility for the League Competition.
Any individual Photograph that has previously been included as part of an entry (including winning entries) in one of the Annual Competitions (5) is eligible for entry in the League Competition, with the exception of a Composite Image prepared for the Digital Triptych Competition (5.5).
3.2 Notice
A calling notice will be sent by e-mail, three weeks before the competition night.
3.3. Submission of Entries
The hand-in deadline for entries is midnight, two weeks before the Competition evening. Entries must be delivered to the Competition Secretary by the deadline, as published in the Society’s programme.
Print entries will generally be collected at Society Meetings. DPI entries should be emailed to the Competition Secretary as advertised in the Newsletter.
If an entry fails to conform to the Entry Requirements, the member will be invited to resubmit. However, the entry must be received in the correct form by the deadline or it will be disqualified.
3.4Entry Requirements
3.4.1 Print & DPI Rounds
For Print & DPI rounds, entries must be ranked in priority from 1 (highest) to 4 (lowest). In the event that more entries are received than can be judged in an evening, the Competition Secretary will eliminate entries according to priority. If it is necessary to reduce the entries in any round, the cut-off level will be announced before the judging. Any Entries eliminated by this process are eligible for re-entry without affecting the maximum re-entries allowed.
3.4.2 Prints:
Prints may be trade or home processed, and must be mounted in a 50x40cm mount. Any print submitted in a manner that could damage other prints (e.g. with Velcro or exposed sticky tape, etc.) will be disqualified.
Each print must have a Bath Photographic Society Competition Label on the back, giving the member’s competition number, the title, the priority, the round number and class (monochrome or colour). The label can be downloaded from the Society’s website. Labels must be clearly and legibly filled out.
3.4.2.1. Panel of Three Prints: In addition to the competition labels, prints for the Panel of Three should have the desired layout indicated on the back –(i.e Left - Centre - Right).
N.B. The requirements for Print entries may be changed at the discretion of the Competition Secretary should it not be possible to judge physical prints.
3.4.3 Digital Projected Image (DPI):
DPI’s should not exceed 1600 x 1200 px (width x height), e.g. square images should not exceed 1200 x 1200 px. Images must be submitted in JPEG format and sRGB profile.
DPI files must be named with the member’s competition number, underscore, Category (colour or mono), underscore, (priority), underscore, image title.
e.g. 119_mono_(1)_pretty picture.jpg
3.4.3.1 Panel of Three DPI
Entries for the Panel of Three DPI must be a single image to the specification for DPI given above. This composite image shall comprise three separate photographs, each with or without a border, positioned on a plain background either separately or adjoining each other. The photographs must not overlap in any way to form a montage. One photograph cut into three parts and composite images entered in the Annual Digital Triptych Competition (5.5) are not permitted.
3.5 Scoring
The judge will be asked to select1st, 2nd and 3rd placed photographs and may award as many Highly Commended and Commended placings as he or she wishes.
The following scores will be awarded for all rounds except the Panel of Three
1st place 10 points
2nd place 9 points
3rd place 8 points
Highly Commended 6 points
Commended 4 points
Not placed 1 point
The following scores will be awarded for the Panel of Three Round
1st place 16 points
2nd place 14 points
3rd place 12 points
Highly Commended 9 points
Commended 6 points
Not placed 3 points
4 Picture of the Year
The Picture of the Year is an annual competition to determine the best image in each of the four categories of the League Competition:
Colour Print
Monochrome Print
Colour DPI
Monochrome DPI
4.1 Eligibility
Members may submit one entry per category. Only photographs that have previously been judged in one or more Rounds of the current Society Year’s League Competition. are eligible. Photographs may not be altered from the League Competition entry and must have been previously entered in the same category.
Prints: The print label will also be used to check eligibility.
DPI: The previous entered League Competition Round must be indicated in the file name.
e.g. 119_mono_R2_pretty picture.jpg
All League Competition rules will also apply.
5 The Annual Competitions
There are three competitions: Photo-Essay, Enprint and Digital Triptych. Each of these competitions is for a collection of photographs, rather than for single photographs. The Annual Competitions are usually held during the Society’s Christmas Social.
Entries are submitted on the evening of the competition.
5.1. Eligibility
Members are allowed an unlimited number of entries in each Annual Competition. Any photograph may be included in an entry to the Annual Competitions regardless of previous awards in the League Competition or Picture of the Year.
5.2 Judging
Judging is by secret ballot by the members present, casting a single vote in each Competition. The winner is the entry with the most votes. Members must not vote for their own entries.
5.3 Photo Essay Competition
This competition is for an essay of prints, depicting a story, which should comprise between 5 and 15 pictorially, linked images. An identifying title must be included on the front but must not show the photographer’s name or competition number. Descriptive text may be included.
Prints may be trade or home processed, colour or monochrome or a combination and may be of any size. They should be mounted on a board no larger than 50 x 80cm or 40 x 100cm, which can be formed by two 50 x 40cm boards placed together.
5.4 The Enprint Competition
This competition is for 3 prints on a common theme. The images should be linked but need not tell a story. An identifying title must be included on the front but must not show the photographer’s name or competition number. Descriptive text may be included.
Prints may be trade or home processed; colour or monochrome or a combination of both. Individual prints should be no larger than 18 x 13cm and be mounted on one board not exceeding 50 x 40cm.
5.5 The Digital Triptych Competition
A single DPI image must be submitted as a Composite of 3 photographs. The Composite Image must be a new image for the current Society year. In contrast to the DPI Panel of Three (3.4.3.1), creativity is encouraged in the way the Composite Image is created. Any techniques (digital or other) can be used as long as 3 different photographs have been used in the making of the final image. The title must be included within the image, no more than 12pt, and must not detract from the image.
The final Composite Image should comply with the League Competition requirements for DPI. The digital file should be named with the member’s competition number and the image title.
Composite Images entered into the Digital Triptych Competition are not eligible for entry into the League Competition.
5.6. Exhibition
The winners of the Photo-Essay Competition and the Enprint Competition should endeavour to show their entries at the club’s annual exhibition. If the Photo-Essay winning entry was submitted on the larger of the board sizes then the competitor is responsible for transport to/from the exhibition.
6 Review and communication
All rules will be reviewed before the start of each season by the Competition Secretary and agreed by the Council. The rules can be found on the Society’s website and will be communicated to all members by a printable file sent via the Newsletter at the start of each year. The Membership Secretary will send the file to new members.
7. Interpretation
Members should have a version of these rules to hand to help them make decisions regarding their entries. The Competition Secretary will provide clarification when needed. If a member believes that a photograph has been incorrectly entered into a competition, they should inform the Competition Secretary and the President who will then take appropriate action.
added 29th November 2021