General
– Competitions are open to financial members only.
– People who are considering membership may enter images for comment
on up to two occasions. Points and grades will not be awarded.
– There are two grades; Newcomer and Open.
A new member is placed in the Newcomers grade for one year or until
they have accumulated five or more Honours awards, whichever
comes sooner.
– Submitting an image for comment grants MPS permission to publicly
display that image at MPS meetings for the purpose of allowing a judge to
make comments.
– The competitions held on the second Tuesday of the month normally have
two categories, which are Open Subject and Set Subject. Images
portraying any subject can be submitted in the Open category.
– A total of up to three images may be submitted each month in any
combination of set and open subject. The entered images must be digital.
– Images must originate from a photograph/s taken by the author.
Any digital enhancements must be undertaken by the author.
– Titles for images are optional.
– Images are judged and given awards as shown below. Points gained are
accumulated during the year and go towards the Set Aggregate Points,
Open Aggregate Points and Overall Aggregate Points trophies awarded at
the end of the year.
– Awards: Honours 10 points
Highly Commended 8 points
Merit 6 points
Accepted 4 points
– An extra point is awarded if two or more images are submitted in the Set
Subject category of a particular month.
– A judge’s award is final unless the judge chooses to change the award.
– Certificates are awarded for the Set Subject Image of the Night and the
Open Subject Image of the Night. A bonus point is awarded for each one.
– An image can only be submitted once in a monthly club competition unless
it has been passed in/Not Accepted, in which case it may be submitted in
a subsequent competition.
– Images by the same author which differ only slightly from one another will
be regarded as being the same image e.g. slightly different content or
crop, converted to b&w. Final determination regarding the similarity of
images will be made by the MPS committee.
– The MPS committee may declare ineligible for entry an image that it
deems inappropriate. Images should be suitable for a family
environment. The committee’s decision will be final.
Digital Registration
– Image entries must be uploaded via the MPS website by midnight
two Sundays before Club night on the second Tuesday of the month
– Colour Space: sRGB
– File Type: JPEG
– Image size:
No more than 1920 pixels wide and no more than 1080 pixels high.
– The file name of each entry must be in one of these formats:
Set Subject: S_MMMYY_Name_Title
Open Subject: O_MMMYY_Name_Title
e.g.
S_FEB25_Joe Bloggs_Black Sky
O_JUL25_Jane Bloggs_No Title
Use of Members’ Images
– Entering an image into an MPS competition or into an
external competition via MPS, grants the club permission to publicly display
that image at MPS meetings for the purposes of competition and
recognising good work.
– MPS wants to display those images which are awarded Honours and
Highly Commended on the MPS website, Facebook, Youtube, Instagram,
Tiktok, other social media and promotional publications. Submitting
a competition entry grants the club permission to display that image
unless the member opts out by including
“COMPETITION USE ONLY” in the title of the image.
– Any other use of a member’s image will only occur with the prior
permission of the author, e.g. club representation in external competitions.
– Images will remain the property of their author at all times and the author
will be acknowledged whenever possible.
Contact
– Members who have questions should contact:
digital.manukauphoto@gmail.com
– Further information can be found on the club website:
Manukau Photographic Society 