Conditions of Entry

Preamble:  The NPF is holding a photographic competition and exhibition as one of the activities on the NPF weekend – 27th and 28th August, 2022.  Entries in the competition will be judged in advance of the exhibition to enable trophies, certificates and reports to be prepared ready for presentation.  Maitland Camera Club are managing the administration of the competition.

Competition Details, Rules and Instructions:

  • The competition is open to individuals who are members of NPF affiliated clubs.  Due to the imbalance in club membership numbers, there will be no inter-club competition.
  • Images must not have won awards in previous NPF annual competitions.
  • The competition will cater for six sections: Monochrome Prints (MP), Colour Prints (CP), Nature Prints (NP), Open Digital (OD), People* Digital (PD) Macro Digital (MD).

*Images of a person or people with an emphasis on storytelling (not just a portrait, in other words…)

  • All photographs and elements of photographs must have been captured by the entrant and no image or substantially similar image may be entered in more than one section by the same entrant.  Any manipulation of the image must be done by, or under the explicit direction, of the entrant.
  • Individuals may enter a total of six (6) images across the six (6) sections, with a maximum of two (2) entries in any one section.
  • Entry fee is $45 is per person regardless of the number of sections entered.  Payment of this entry fee will entitle the entrant to attend all the NPF activities across the weekend as well as entry to the photographic competition.
  • Each club will need to organise the bulk delivery of prints to a central location by Friday 12th August, 2022. (that will be Lindie or Stewart)

Key Dates:

  • 1st July, 2022 – Entries open
  • 12pm Sunday 7th August 2022 – Closing date for each entrant to upload entries to the NPF on MyPhotoClub – https://npf.myphotoclub.com.au/
  • 12/08/2022 – Deadline for bulk delivery of prints by club representative to designated address.
  • 13 – 21st August, 2022 – Judging
  • 27th August, 2022 – Exhibition and presentation of awards

Awards:

For each section, a trophy for 1st place and certificates of merit for nine other images.  1st place will be chosen from images gaining the highest scores.  The certificates will be chosen from the remaining highest scoring images.

Definitions:

  1. Photograph – A visible image originating from the action of light or other forms of radiant energy upon a photosensitive medium or device.
  2. Monochrome Image – A photograph that contains shades of only one colour.  If toning is carried out, it must be over the entire image.  Partial toning and/or the addition of one extra colour are not acceptable in a monochrome image.
  3. Colour Image – A photograph that is not monochrome.  It includes a monochrome photograph that has been partially toned or had colour added.
  4. Nature photography records all branches of natural history except anthropology and archaeology. This includes all aspects of the physical world, both animate and inanimate, that have not been made or modified by humans. Nature images must convey the truth of the scene that was recorded. No modification that changes the truth of a Nature image is allowed.  Images may be cropped but no other technique that removes, adds or moves any part of the image is allowed. Techniques that remove elements added by the camera, such as dust spots, digital noise and lens flare are allowed. Complete conversion of colour images to greyscale monochrome is allowed. Partial conversion, toning and infrared captures or derivations are not allowed. Multiple images of the same subject that are combined in camera or with software by focus stacking, exposure blending or stitching (images taken consecutively and combined by overlapping) are allowed.

Vignetting and Borders:  Vignettes are not allowed in Nature images.  Any border added must be a single border of white or grey, no greater than 3-5 pixels in width.  Single black borders of the same dimensions are allowed in Prints.”

e. People – images of a person or people with an emphasis on storytelling.

Image Size:

  1. Entries in the Monochrome, Colour or Nature print sections are to be no smaller than 25cm x 20 cm in size and are to be attached to 50cm x 40cm or 20” x 16” mount board.  Combined thickness of print and mount board is not to exceed 4 mm. ( For this year ONLY, the NPF Committee will allow us our slightly smaller images and boards – HPG!)
  2. The back of all print entries must display the label printed from the web MyPhotoClub site.

Preparation of Prints by Clubs Prior to Submission: 

For each print section, entries from each club are to be sorted in order, using the numbers allocated by the website.

Preparation of Digital Entries by Clubs Prior to Submission:

None required. Entrants are to upload as per normal club entry but using the NPF site, same size and conditions apply. Any entries submitted to your local camera club using the MyPhotoClub site may be selected and can automatically be used without the need to upload again.

Go through your Gallery on our Website and pick your images. Any tips or critique from judges in previous competitions, apply that to your image and then save your image in a folder on your desktop and load from there, instead of directly from HPG to NPF.