PGNS
Program Change Highlights for 2009/2010
September 2009
1) New Trophy
Mervyn Kumar-Misir has generously donated a new trophy to be awarded annually to the person with the highest cumulative score in Guild and CAPA Theme Competitions.
2) Print Competition Entries
Prints no longer need to be mounted for Guild, CAPA or PSA competitions. Prints that are not mounted will be the new norm. However, previously mounted prints may be entered in PSA and CAPA competitions. Print images should be a minimum of 80 square inches e g 8 by 10 .
3) Additional Digital Competition
An additional digital competition has been added to balance with the John Wm Webb original slide night. The rules are identical to a Guild Competition i e maximum total of 7 entries with no more than 2 entries per category; and all images must be new (never previously entered in any competition at the Guild.)
4) Trophy Calculations
CAPA pictorial slides will not count towards the Tim Randall Trophy for cumulative pictorial score. CAPA and PSA slides will not count towards the Cyril Smith Trophy for cumulative nature score. All CAPA and PSA slides will now count towards the John Wm Webb Trophy for slides (in addition to slides entered in the four regular Guild competitions and the JWW special slide competition.)
5) CAPA Changes
All entries in CAPA competitions must be taken within the two year period before the competition closing date. i e the date by which club entries are to be submitted by the Guild. So, for example, in the case of the CAPA competition scheduled for the Guild on September 20, the closing date for our submission of entries is October 30th. Therefore all images for the competition must have been taken after October 30th 2007. Timing requirements for all other CAPA competitions will be posted in the schedule on our website in due course.
CAPA has a new Altered Reality Competition where images must be “heavily manipulated” and obviously creatively enhanced. This includes, but is not limited to, composites, creative filters, etc. The images are not meant to look like a regular photograph.
CAPA no longer has the rule for the Nature Category that : No more than 20% of the original image may be cropped.
CAPA print images must be a minimum of 80 square inches in size, excluding any digital mat area.
6) PSA Print Competition Changes
The Guild will be competing in 4 PSA print categories:
- Large Colour Print
- Small Colour Print
- Large Monochrome Print
- Small Monochrome Print
There will no longer be a distinction between prints made by the “Maker” and those produced commercially “Trade”. Both types of prints can be entered in any of the four categories.
Maximum dimension for a small print is 96 square inches e g 8 by 12 inches
Maximum dimension for a large print is 16 by 20 inches.
The Monochrome categories include black and white, sepia tone, and allows one highlight colour.
In each PSA print competition, members may enter up to four prints with a maximum of 2 per category. For example you could enter one print in each of the four categories, or two prints in Large Colour and two prints in Small Colour. (The rule that only one print per maker per category may be sent away has not changed.)
