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BOYNTON BEACH CAMERA CLUB
COMPETITION RULES
1. BBCC MONTHLY COMPETITION PROGRAM & CONDITIONS OF ENTRY:
The Boynton Beach Camera Club Monthly Image Competition is open to all BBCC Competition Members in good standing. Held from January thru June and from September through December annually, the competition is normally held on the first Monday meeting of each month. Competition Members may show up to two (2) digital images in each of the two category groups (color and/or monochrome) and skill classes they participate in.
Competition Members must also show at least one image in regular monthly club competitions over a three consecutive month period to remain active and in good standing. Any Competition Member who does not compete for two consecutive months will be notified via an email reminder that their competition status will be lost and their membership status will be changed to General Member (non-competing member) due to inactivity unless they submit an image at the next scheduled competition. Note: This rule is based on the current competition calendar year and that each January begins a new year. End of Year competition or special competitions are not included.General non-competing members, who have not previously competed and desire to compete on a regular basis must submit a portfolio of three images to the Competition Vice President, Michael Rosenbaum at Polyandy@comcast.net via email for review and competition group classification. Members who have lost their competition status may request reinstatement via email to the Competition Vice President, namely, Michael Rosenbaum. In all cases, Competition Member status is based on vacancies available within the total competition membership group and is assigned on a first come basis as requested. If there is no competition vacancy available, members will be placed on a pending (waiting) list by the Competition Vice President and will be given the next available opening based on their listed date.
If a competition member misses a competition, that member will be entitled to submit two (2) make-up entries at one time in each category they participate in up to three (3) times per year. Make-up entries must ONLY be submitted at the very next competition that the maker competes in and can only be for the one month preceding the date the member enters back into competition. Members in attendance at a club competition who do not submit images are not entitled to submit makeup entries at the next month’s competition meeting. Make-ups from the current year cannot be submitted in the following calendar year.
IMAGE RESUBMISSION: Each BBCC member may show an individual image up to a maximum of three times, unless it receives a score of “27” or it is selected as Image Of The Month (IOM). Images that have received a top score of “27” and/or IOM designation are only eligible to be in competition one more time at the END OF YEAR COMPETITION. Following that, the member MUST retire all images exhibited during the current calendar year from further BBCC competitions.
IMAGE OF THE MONTH COMPETITIONS: All BBCC members who participate in a select competition group are eligible for the IMAGE OF THE MONTH (IOM) award in that group. This award is limited to one (1) per exhibited group per month and is based on a score of “27” or “26” as awarded/ selected by the judge(s) in the final round. Scores of “25 or less” are not eligible for IOM.
Submission of entries implies the acceptance of all conditions. The entrant must be the owner of all rights of the submitted works. Entry is not limited to images created and or modified digitally and images may also be acquired and/or modified traditionally and then scanned. The images must be submitted as Electronic files by Email only. CD/DVD submissions are not acceptable.
By virtue of submitting an entry, the entrant certifies the work as his own and permits the Boynton Beach Camera Club to reproduce all or part of the entered material free of charge for publication on the Club’s official Internet Website www.bbccimages.com.
2. COMPETITION GROUPS:
COLOR COMPETITION GROUPS: There are four (4) groups of color print competitions: “MASTERS”, “SALON”, “CLASS “A", and “CLASS “B”. Each Competition Member may submit up to two (2) color images per month in an Open Subject Category in their assigned skill group (“MASTERS”, “SALON”, A”, OR “B”).
MONOCHROME/B&W COMPETITION GROUPS : (Note: Monochrome is defined as one color plus white only. There are two (2) groups of Monochrome image competition: “MASTER’S/SALON and GENERAL: (A/B). Each Competition Member may submit up to two (2) Monochrome images per month in an Open Subject Category in their assigned skill group (“MASTERS/SALON” or “GENERAL”.
3. SUBMITTING IMAGE FILES:
All Images must be submitted as Electronic files via Email only and be in jpeg format. A maximum of two (2) images per group, unless marked as a “makeup”, must be submitted using the following method:
Email all images in a separate Email as individual attachments to both Barbara Miller at Bembrit@bellsouth.net and Michael Rosenbaum at Polyandy@comcast.net. Images incorrectly submitted will be forwarded back to the individual members for corrections and resubmission.
No zip files or CDs accepted! See instructions below on how to name your jpeg Electronic Files. The images can be sent one at a time or in groups of four, depending on your Internet Provider and Modem Speed. When sending your images by Email, your message should say how many images are attached and should show your full name.
4. IMAGE FILE NAME: (HOW TO NAME YOUR JPEG IMAGE FILES)
The Boynton Beach Camera Club Monthly Image Competition uses the following codes to designate competition groups and participation class:
B is for color B Group use: -B#-title.jpg
A is for color A Group use: -A#-title.jpg
C is for color Salon Group use: -C#-title.jpg
D is for color Masters Group use: -D#-title.jpg
# =1 is the first color image submitted, 2 the 2ndE is for General Group Monochrome use: -E#-title.jpg
F is for Masters/Salon Group Monochrome use: -F#-title.jpg
# =1 is the first Monochrome image submitted, 2 the 2nd
The appropriate section letter (A,B,C,D,E,F) must be used as part of the Electronic File Name. The first four letters of your surname and the first initial of your first name will be used as the first part of the Electronic File Name (all lowercase) as shown below:
bbc-surnameX####-YZ-title.jpg
Surname is the first four characters (letters) of your Family name.
“X” is the first character (Initial) in your given name.
#### is the last four digits of your Florida home phone number.
Y is the Section letter (A,B,C,D,E,F)
Z is the image number (1-2) of the entry. For “makeup's”, Z will be image numbers 3 and or 4.
Title is the name you are assigning to the image. Filenames are not case sensitive and may contain upper and lower case letters and have spaces between words.Example:
The following images were submitted in Color Group A and Monochrome Group E, by John Smith, Phone No. 561-555-1212
bbc-smitj1212-A1-Moon Over Miami.jpg
bbc-smitj1212-A2- My Greatest Image.jpg
bbc-smitj1212-E1-Bald Eagle in Sepia.jpg
bbc-smitj1212-E2-Chimp Family.jpg
This naming convention is necessary to assure that files from different makers will have unique names, and that each image is matched to the correct maker.
5. JUDGING:
All images entered into monthly competition will be digitally projected on a screen with an Electronic Projector at a resolution of 1024 X 768 set to 16.7 million colors. The projector will be tuned via a color adjustment tool prior to the meeting and will be adjusted according to ambient light, etc. All images submitted must have the Color Setting preference sRGB in order to maintain competition integrity.
Judges will score utilizing the BBCC 27-point system. Each image score award will range from a minimum of 21 to a maximum of 27 points each. Scores will be computer recorded following the judge’s decision and will be announced as recorded.
6. PRESENTATION STANDARDS - ENTRY FILE DIMENSIONS AND SIZE:
The required maximum horizontal dimension is 1024 pixels and the maximum vertical dimension is 768 pixels. Smaller Images are acceptable. If the Images do not meet the file criteria, the competition committee will try to notify the entrant so that the images can be resent. If this is not possible, the committee will try to resolve the problem.
PREPARING IMAGES WITH STANDARDIZED SIZING FOR PROJECTION WITH A DIGITAL PROJECTORPrior to opening images that you will be submitting for monthly competition you must change your color settings with in your digital program (Photoshop Elements, 7.0, CS series and any other program you may be utilizing.
When the program (Photoshop) is open, select EDIT>COLOR SETTINGS.
Next select WORKING SPACE and scroll until you find sRGB.
Select sRGB and make sure that PRESERVE PROFILE MISMATCHES is selected under Color Management Policies and ASK WHEN OPENING is checked. This setup allows you to keep your original color profile but to selectively switch it to the sRGB working space so that all images in competition will be of the same value.Once the above procedure is completed, click OK. Note that this will stay in memory and only needs to be accomplished once.
Open image and a window may open indicating a color file mismatch. Select CONVERT DOCUMENT COLORS TO WORKING SPACE and click OK. Duplicate the image and close out the original file, if asked to save select NO to retain color profile of the original imageWhen sizing an image for competition, follow the following steps:
1. Using the duplicate image only, Left click on the word "image" in the menu bar and then left click on "image size" in the drop down menu.
2. Be certain there are check marks in the “constrain proportions" and "resample image" boxes in the
Image Size window.**FIRST - Change the resolution to 72 pixels/inch
The following maximum pixel size dimensions are to be used for images in both the portrait and landscape formats
Change the width pixel dimension size to 1024 pixels
Change the height pixel dimension size to 768 pixels
If either dimension size exceeds the above maximums you must lower the value to conform to the limit.
Next, left click on the word FILE in the menu bar and then left click SAVE AS. Choose your location for the "save in" box by left clicking on the blue arrow at the right end of the "save in" box. The desktop is a convenient place. Type YOUR COMPLETE PERSONAL CODE TO INCLUDE TITLE AND ALL INFORMATION OUTLINED IN #4 ABOVE in the "file name" box.
Change the "format" by left clicking on "JPEG" after left clicking on the blue arrow box at the right end of the format box.
Left click on "save" and select “high” for the jpeg quality option
Left click "OK".
Once you have prepared all of your images for submission send as attachments to your email. It is suggested that you indicate in the Subject line BBCC Images for Competition and add a short note in the Message block such as “Attached are my submissions for the “month” competition. Note that you may send in images in advance of the deadline for the forthcoming competition and that you may also send images for future competitions.
Revised June 4, 2008