MONTHLY COMPETITIONS
Hoylake Photographic Society runs six "monthly" competitions each season. Within each competition there are three sections - Mono Prints, Colour Prints and Projected Images. The maximum entry in each section is three. Members may only enter six images overall.
We have a list of standard competitions
- Open
- ManMade
- Landscape
- Nature
- People
- Pictorial
Each season we pick four of the above. To ring the changes, each season the President decides upon one theme and the Committee chooses another theme
The competitions for the 2023-2024 season are as follows:
- Open - Hand-in - 23rd September. Judging - 6th October
- Pictorial - Hand-in 21st October. Judging - 3rd November
- President's Theme - Patterns - Hand-in -18th November, Judging - 1st December
- People - Hand-in - 6th January. Judging -19th January
- Committee Theme - Three - Hand-in -3rd February. Judging - 16th February
- Nature - Hand-in -24th February. Judging - 8th March
Full details and definitions of these Competitions may be found on the download below.
Projected Images
- Projected images should be sized at no more than 1600px wide and no more than 1200 px high.
- Remember that images may look brighter when projected, so adjust your brightness and contrast accordingly. The best way of doing this is to see how your images project on the club projector, and experiment with contrast and brightness and saturation. Your monitor may not be calibrated. If you view in daylight or artificial light what you see there may not be what you see with a projector in a darkened room.
- If you wish to put a white border round your image do not make it more than 2px.
- The screen behind the image will be black so there is no need to put your image on a black background of the projection size. The black background has to be removed if the image is put on the web or in a catalogue.
How to upload Projected Images
Prints
Prints may be home produced or commercially produced. Members can give advice on printing and on good commercial printing services. Prints should be mounted on card not more than 40cm by 50cm. If you think that you might enter prints in the L&CPU competitions then they must be mounted at 40cm by 50 cm.
DO NOT PUT YOUR NAMES ON THE BACKS OF THE PRINTS FOR MONTHLY COMPETITIONS.
- Mounting and backing boards can be bought from the Club. Members are always happy to give advice on how to mount
- Digital versions of Prints must be uploaded using the same procedure as that for Projected Images.
HOW OFTEN CAN I USE THE SAME IMAGE?
An image can be used in three different formats – as a Colour Print, as a Mono Print and as a Projected Image. With each format an image can be used once in a monthly competition and once in the Annual Competition. Once used in the Annual, and image may not be used again in that format.
Apart from use in the Wednesday Night Group, a single image, could, in its various formats, be entered on six separate occasions. However, don’t be surprised when members groan when they see the image yet again!