Monthly
Club Competitions
For Subjects / Themes 2018
- 2019 see NIPA section below - 'Inter-Club
Competitions'
Monthly Competition Rules - click
here
(pdf
file) (Amended Aug 2017 - Change
to PDI size. Maximum of 3 prints per section).
Monthly Competition Entry Form - click here
(pdf file)
Size of Entry:
Prints: For all 5 rounds, prints may be
any size on a maximum mount size of 40cm
x 30cm
PDIs: Must be in jpeg format and sRGB colour space.
Sized to a maximum of 1600 pixels wide and a maximum of 1200 pixels
high.
See
note 1 below.
N.B. Tutorials on resizing images for PDIs
are available below
1.
NIPA has now adopted the PAGB standard for all PDIs. From
2017, PDIs up to 1600px wide and 1200px high
will be accepted for all NIPA Competitions. Please note that any
PDI of smaller dimensions will be displayed with a dark grey border
on the NIPA projector.
For the club projector you may wish to resize PDIs to 1024px x
768px.
Annual Exhibition 2019
Closing Date for entries: Friday
12 April 2019
Exhibition - Rules - 'pdf'
file - (amended
Apr 2019)
Entry form - Prints - 'pdf'
file - (2019)
Entry form - Prints - 'Word'
.doc - (2019)
Entry form - PDIs - 'pdf'
file - (2019)
Entry form - PDIs - 'Word'
.doc - (2019)
Triptych / Three Related Images Competition
Rules - click here
(pdf
file) (Amended
Mar 2012)
Tutorials
Resizing images for Projected Digital Image Competitions
(PDI)
Two tutorials are available below, one as a pdf document
the other as a video.
See note 1 & 2 below.
1. NIPA
has now adopted the PAGB standard for all PDIs. From 2017, PDIs
up to 1600px wide and 1200px high will be accepted
for all NIPA Competitions. Please note that any PDI of smaller
dimensions will be displayed with a dark grey border on the NIPA
projector.
For the club projector you may wish to resize PDIs to 1024px
x 768px.
Projected
Digital Images (PDI) - Resizing Tutorial
- click here
(pdf file)
2. The PDI tutorial
on the link above is for the previous NIPA standard of 1400px
wide x 1050px high. When using this tutorial please replace 1400px
with 1600px and 1050px with 1200px.
PDI Image Resizing Guide in Adobe Photoshop -
YouTube
video
A brief description of this seasons new PDI sizes, and how to
resize any image to fit a particular projector size.
Latest hand in dates at the club for other NIPA
Competitions 2018 - 2019
(New dates will be added when available)
(These dates are to enable entries to be taken to the respective
NIPA council meeting)
Entry Forms and Rules can
be found on the NIPA
website
> NIPA Roy Finlay Memorial
Natural History Competition
Latest
hand in date at club:
>
NIPA Novice Competition
Latest
hand in date at club:
> NIPA Audio-Visual Festival
>
NIPA Annual
Print Exhibition and Projected Digital Image (PDI) Exhibition
The above dates may be subject to change.
Constitution/Rules and Child Protection
Policy
Ards Camera Club Constitution/Rules - click here
(pdf
file)
Child Protection Policy - click here
(pdf
file)
(Ards Camera Club has adopted the NIPA
Child Protection Policy)
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