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General The Delaware Photographic Society (DPS) holds competitions to encourage club members to show and improve their photographic work. Projected Image competitions will be held on the second Monday of September, October, Novenber, January, February, March and April during the DPS year. Competition meetings begin at 7:30 PM in the DuPont Pavilion at Cokesbury Village in Hockessin, Delaware. An end-of-the-year competition for Projected-Image-of-the-Year is held in May. Categories The categories for each competition will be: Assigned Subject, Open, and Creative. All categories, except Creative, will have three classes: Class B, Class A, and Salon. Creative will be a single class.Eligibility The competitions are open to all current Active or Junior Delaware Photographic Society members whose dues have been paid prior to the competition. Nonresident members will have to become full members to compete in the Projected Image Competitions. Entries must be photographed by a digital camera or scanned by a digital scanner (including scanned photographic slides or negatives). Digital images entered in all categories must be solely the work of the entrant, inclusing any image manipulation.A selected image may not be re-entered. An image that has been previously selected in an intra-club competition, whether in print form or as a projected image, may not be re-entered. For an image capture to be entered twice, the image must have been substantially changed from when it was previously entered and selected, subject to the judgement and discretion of the print director or a member of the standards committee. If this matter is unclear, consult with the projected image director.
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Class Assignments Entrants will be assigned to competition classes by the Standards Committee prior to the first competition in September, or thereafter, prior to the first competition that the member enters. Members may petition the Standards Committee for placement in a different class. Image Requirements
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Image Comments If comments are requested, they must be requested during the time that an image is projected.Assigned Subjects A list of Assigned Subjects for the coming DPS year will be published in the previous year's June issue of "The Reflector". Assigned Subjects competitions are conducted in all classes. All projected images that are to be entered in the Assigned Subject contests must have been captured within one year of the contest date. The Open contest has no date requirement. Creative Creative is intended to encourage experimental or non-traditional work. The image may be whatever the maker wants it to be.Entry Method All Digital images must be entered through the members Web site at least three (3) days prior to the Digital Competition (Friday evening). Any images entered after that date will have to be resubmitted for the next competition.Selected Images Projected Images with scores in at least the top 25% of the competition will be designated as "Selected". The purposes for "selecting" images will be for choosing those images which will be re-shown after the judging, for choosing images that cannot be reentered in monthly competitions and for entering in the Projected-Image-of-the-Year competition.Judging and Scoring Images in each category will be reviewed by the three judges before scoring begins. Images will receive a score from each judge and will be ranked by the sum of the three judges' scores. Selected images in each category and class will be eligible for entry into the Projected-Image-of-the-Year competition at the end of the year. Selected images or similar images may not be entered again in monthly competitions but they may be entered in the Projected-Image-of-the-Year competition or as part of the Photo Show competition.Disqualification Exhibitors are responsible for adhering to the competition rules set forth. The Projected Image Director may disqualify an image that does not conform to the rules of the competition. In all cases the Projected Image Director is responsible for making the final ruling.Annual Awards Cumulative scores will be kept for each member in each category and class. First, Second, and Third place brass plates will be awarded to the top three members in each category and class. An award will also be made to the member in each class and category who has the highest selection percentage with at least 10 of 14 possible entries in that class/category. In case of a tie the member who entered the most images in that class/category will prevail. Other awards can be awarded at the discretion of the Projected Image Director.Projected-Image-of-the-Year Competition A Projected-Image-of-the-Year (PIOY) competition will be held in May. Each competitor may enter up to 10 of their selected images or one non-selected image and up to 9 selected images. All entries must have been entered during the current year in Class B, Class A, or Salon. There is no distinction between Asigned and Open subjects in the PIOY. The PIOY competition will be juried by three qualified judges who are not DPS members. One image will be chosen as the Projected-Image-of-the-Year and winner of the Morris James award. Up to 10 Honorable Mentions will be awarded in each class with a limit of one HM per entrant. Notice By virtue of submitting your entry, you permit DPS to reproduce all or part of the entered material free of charge for publication and/or display in media related to the Society. The Delaware Photographic Society will take all reasonable care to ensure that all submitted images appear before the judges and are entered in the correct Class. However, the Delaware Photographic Society cannot be responsible for any errors or omissions in this regard. Entering the contest signifies your acceptance of this statement.
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Mark Reed, Projected Image Director |