ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT CLUB COMPETITIONS ...and more!
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General Comments
Don't be nervous, your pictures will be interesting to other people. The judge's comments are intended to be constructive and to help you improve your images. Please remember that the judge only offers his opinion, the rest of the audience may disagree with him. He will often be unaware of the limitations on your viewpoint. The classic comment is to suggest moving to the right or left for a shot of a boat at Mersea, which would place the photographer up to their neck in water, swimming for their life. Judges at MIPS are usually experienced members of other camera clubs who are prepared to comment on images, and whose assessment standard has normally been approved by a panel of other judges organised by the EAF. Your first entry will normally be in the Strood Class, which will give the judge some idea of your experience, and therefore does not produce a hyper critical analysis of an image which would be useful to an expert but might discourage others. Note that the class entered is the only guide available to the judge. Members names are concealed until after the commentary; this is why you do not put your name or Title on the front of prints. Preparing Print Images It is advisable to mount your print in or on a stiff card measuring 50cm. by 40 cm. Most inter-club competitions that our club participate in demand this size. An A4 print in this size mount often looks very impressive. Label or write on the back of the mount, the title of your image, your Name, and class. It may also help if you add the club name, in case the judge mixes prints with other clubs while he previews them. MIPS Title - Your Title Your Name Class: Strood or Blackwater Bring your Prints to the club on the 'hand-in' date for the competition you wish to enter. Entries can be handed in early, by previous arrangement with the print secretary, but may not be handed in late. Digital Images The club's digital projector and software require images to be a specific maximum size in pixels; 1024 by 768. Camera images can be reduced to this size using image editing software such as Photoshop. Please remember to save the reduced image under a new filename and as a jpg, or the original image may be lost. Note - the 'pixels per inch' value displayed in the resize window only applies to printed images, and is not used for projected ones. The club equipment is calibrated to achieve the best possible colour fidelity, but all computer equipment interprets colour slightly differently. What you see on your own screen may vary slightly when reproduced on the club equipment. The colourspace should be set to sRGB. The club software uses a specific format for image filenames to identify the title and photographer so images to be entered must be saved with the correct form, or re-named to meet this need. Title – Name .jpg Do Not use Full Stops or Commas in your Filename The Digital Image secretary will accept images supplied on CD, DVD, USB memory stick or by email. The preferred email address is dick.waylen@btinternet.com Hand In dates For Digitally Projected Image competitions the 'hand-in' date is usually 3 days before the competition date. This allows time for the secretary to insert all the images into the software and check that they are correctly prepared. The images are sorted into a random display order. For Print competitions entries may be ‘Handed in’ on the evening of the competition. 
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THIS SEASONS TOP 3 PLACINGSCOMPETITION RESULTS11TH OCTOBER 2012
PRINT COMPETITION 'NATURE' STROOD CLASS UPTO A4 1st. Chris Weaver 2nd. Tori Andrews 3rd. Alan Weaver PRINT COMPETITION 'NATURE' BLACKWATER CLASS UPTO A3 1st. Barry Weaver 2nd. Barry Weaver 3rd. Rob Price DPI COMPETITION 'OPEN' 1st. Chris Moore 2nd. Judy Cooper Chris Weaver 3rd. Rob Price Dave Yardley Judy Cooper NOVEMBER 22ND 2012 PRINT COMPETITION 'OPEN' STROOD CLASS (UPTO A4) 1ST. BARRETT HART 2ND. TORI ANDREWS 3RD. CHRIS MOORE PRINT COMPETITION 'OPEN' BLACKWATER CLASS 1ST. TORI ANDREWS 2ND. ROB PRICE CAROLINE BOLINGBROKE 3RD. JUDY COOPER BARRY WEAVER PROJECTED DIGITAL IMAGES 'FUR & FEATHERS' 1ST. TORI ANDREWS 2ND. PHIL PASSFIELD TORI ANDREWS 3RD. DAVE YARDLEY JANUARY 24TH. PRINT COMPETITION 'LETTER G' STROOD CLASS (UPTO A4) 1ST. CHRIS WEAVER 2ND. PHIL PASSFIELD 3RD. VIC PRIOR PRINT COMPETITION 'LETTER G' BLACKWATER CLASS (OVER A4) 1ST. DAVE YARDLEY 2ND. PETER PANGBOURNE 3RD. DAVE YARDLEY DIGITAL PROJECTED IMAGES 'OPEN' 1ST. TORI ANDREWS 2ND. TORI ANDREWS 3RD. BARRY WEAVER MARCH 21ST PRINT COMPETITION 'TABLETOP/STILL-LIFE' STROOD CLASS JT.1ST. CHRIS WEAVER & CHRIS MOORE 2ND. DAVE YARDLEY JT 3RD. VIC PRIOR & JUDY COOPER BLACKWATER CLASS JT.1ST. BARRY WEAVER & PETER PANGBOURNE JT.2ND DAVE YARDLEY & VIC PRIOR 3RD. DAVE YARDLEY DIGITAL PROJECTED IMAGES 'LAKES,RIVERS,PONDS' 1ST. BARRY WEAVER JT 2ND. PETER PANGBOURNE & CHRIS WEAVER JT. 3RD. CHRIS WEAVER CHRIS MOORE JUDY COOPER BARRY WEAVER PRINT OF THE YEAR 1ST. ROB PRICE 2ND. BARRY WEAVER 3RD. DAVE YARDLEY DPI OF THE YEAR 1ST. CAROLINE BOLINGBROKE 2ND. CAROLINE BOLINGBROKE 3RD. BARRY WEAVER |
ANALYSIS TABLES 2012-2013
"Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography." ~George Eastman
