General

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• Competitions can only be entered using the Competition Portal accessed via the competition tab on the club's website, chorleyps.org.

• The member must hold the copyright of the image and is only able to enter Chorley PS competitions where Chorley PS have sole rights to use members images.
  Images from members provided to any other club should not be entered into our competitions or our critique sessions.

• Images submitted to Chorley PS competitions or critique group cannot be provided to another club whilst they are a member of Chorley PS.

• Any manipulation of the image must have been carried out solely by the member. However, a commercial printer may produce your prints. 

• An image needs to be identified only by its title; the title must be unique to each image submitted by an author. The software will produce the file name automatically for PDIs and produce labels for you to print for print competitions.

• Images must be entirely the work of the photographer. In composite images all component images must meet this requirement. For the avoidance of doubt, use of images from any other source including, but not limited to, royalty free image banks and clipart are not permitted.

Open Colour Eligibility 

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• An image that does not fit in the Nature or Mono sections.

• Monochrome Eligibility –

• An image in tones of neutral grey ranging from transparent/white to opaque black.

• An image in a single colour.

• A print using a chemical process such as sepia, cyanotype, etc.

• A digital produced image ‘colourized’ in a single hue.

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Nature Eligibility

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• Images where living organisms are the primary subject matter.

• Nature includes - images taken with subjects in controlled conditions such as zoos, game parks, botanical gardens, aquariums and enclosures where the subjects are dependent on man for food. Scientific bands, tags or collars are permissible.

• Nature excludes – images where the subjects are obviously domestic animals or plants. Images where an obviously artistic treatment has been applied.

• Processing of the captured image, by cropping, exposure adjustment, colour correction, noise minimisation, dodging/burning, HDR, focus stacking and sharpening, is permitted, as is cloning of image defects and minor distractions including overlapping elements. 

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Prints 

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• Prints should be mounted on board or thick card.

• The size of the print, including the mount board is 50cm x 40cm. This is the only size for both internal and external competitions. It meets the requirements of the L&CPU and the PAGB.

• The printed labels should be attached to the back of the print in the top right-hand corner. There should be no identifying marks on the front of the print.

Projected digital images (PDIs)

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• PDIs should be 1600px wide x 1200px high. If an image is smaller than this, it should be placed on a black canvas which meets these dimensions.

• They should be saved as JPEGs with a maximum file size of 1MB.

• The colour space should be SRGB

• Images not meeting these specifications will be rejected by the software.