Ards Camera Club

NIPA Information
NIPA website www.niphoto.co.uk

Inter-club competition subjects for 2008 - 2009

Round 1: Open

Round 2: Water

Round 3: Open

Round 4: Street Photography

Round 5: Open

Extract from NIPA Competition rules (2008-09)

There will be three competitions, one for monochrome prints, one for colour prints and one for colour transparencies.

In the first four rounds, prints may be any size up to 16" x 12" and must be on mounts which may be any colour and any size up to 16" x 12".
In the fifth round, prints may also be 20” x 16” mount size.

MONOCHROME prints:
1. All black and white and monochrome images are included.
2. A black and white image which has been modified by the addition of a single tone to the entire image is defined as a monochrome print.

COLOUR prints:
1. All images, other than those defined above are defined as colour images.
2. A black and white image which has been modified by the addition of partial toning, or by the addition of one colour to any part of the image is defined as a colour print.

Roy Finlay Memorial Natural History Competition

Entries to be at clubroom Friday 31st October 2008.
(In order for entries to go to the NIPA council meeting on Thurs 6th November 2008)
Competition rules

NIPA Annual Exhibition

Entries to be at clubroom Friday 28th November 2008.
(In order for entries to go to the NIPA council meeting on Tue 2nd December 2008)
Mounts must be 20"x16" only.

NIPA Annual Beginners Competition

Entries to be at clubroom Friday 19th December 2008.
(In order for entries to go to the NIPA council meeting on Thursday 8th January 2009)
Competition rules (NIPA website)

NIPA Audio Visual Festival

Entries to be at clubroom Friday 6th February 2009.
(In order for entries to go to the NIPA council meeting on Monday 9th February 2009)
Competition rules (NIPA website)

Subjects and Themes for Inter-Club rounds 1-5, for 2009-2010

After a vote, [at NIPA] the following Subject and Theme was agreed for 2009-2010

Round 1 Open
Round 2 Subject is Portraiture
Round 3 Open
Round 4 Theme is ‘Macro’
Round 5 Open

Projected Digital Images

It was agreed that, [at NIPA] from the 2009 season, slides will be completely replaced with projected digital images. As a first step, NIPA will ask each club to submit, to the Council meeting on Thursday 6th November, or by post to the NIPA president, a CD containing six digital images from six club members. The only criteria (at the moment) is that the files should be sized at 1024 pixels by x pixels high for landscape format, or 768 by x pixels high for portrait format, and should be saved in jpeg format, quality at least 8. This preliminary event is designed to test the projection facilities available to each club. The complete CD should contain 6 images from 22 clubs, i.e.132 images, all different. Clubs will then be supplied with the CD, and asked to comment on the quality of the images, as displayed at their club premises.

1) An entry shall consist of prints, on a mount whose maximum dimensions are 16 in by 12 in, or digital files in jpg form with a maximum width of 1024 pixels and a maximum height of 768 pixels.

3) The subject may be any natural object or organism in the wild and unrestrained and unconfined. Domestic, Zoo, Feral or escaped animals or those in collections etc., and cultivated plants are ineligible.

4) The faithful representation of the subject at the taking of the shot must be maintained. Digital manipulation of the whole image, e.g. rotation to level the horizon, sharpening or cropping is permissible. However, part manipulation, e.g. the addition of a highlight in the eye, or removal of unwanted detail is not, nor are sandwich shots, combinations of separate images etc.

5) While reasonable care will be taken to protect entries, NIPA will not be liable in the event of loss or damage however caused.

6) Each image should be labelled with a title, author's name and club. The entry should also show the entrant's address and telephone number or email address.

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