Competition Rules



How to submit Digital Images

If you wish to submit digital images for Club Competitions you should first set up a free account with https://wetransfer.com. From within this web site you can send the images to tenbycc@prioryville.co.uk.


Mini Competition Rules

Entries are limited to new work on the specified subject. Entries are limited to a maximum of 4 digital images per member.

The digital images must not be more than 1600 pixels wide (landscape) or more than 1200 pixels high (portrait) in size. They should be saved as a jpg at 300ppi on a colour space of sRGB with a file size of no more than 2MB.

The file should be saved with the member’s club number followed by a space followed by the title of the image, e.g. 14 Puffin with Fish.


Internal Competition Rules

Entrants must hold the copyright of the whole image and members cannot submit work that has been placed 1st, 2nd or 3rd in a previous Tenby & District Camera club competition apart from the Panels competition. An image will be regarded as the same image even if the format is changed from how it was presented originally (changed to a colour, mono, digital or print). Individual images from entries into the Panels Competition may be entered into further club competitions regardless of the placing achieved.

Prints should be identified with the club members’ number and print title on the rear of the mount at the top right-hand corner when viewed from the back. The print should be mounted on thin 500mm X 400mm board(s) with a tolerance of +/- 2mm.

Digital Images must not be more than 1600 pixels wide (landscape) or more than 1200 pixels high (portrait) in size. They should be saved as a jpg at 300ppi on a colour space of sRGB with a file size of no more than 2MB. The digital image file should be saved with your membership number followed by a space then the title of the image, e.g. 14 Puffin with Fish.

Members may enter up to two prints and two projected images in each of the Internal Competitions apart from the Panel competition where one projected image panel of 5 images can be entered and the fourtograph competition where 4 projected images can be entered.

Tenby & District Camera club reserves the right to disqualify any image that the committee considers has broken these rules. The author will be given the right to challenge that decision conditional on the original image that was downloaded from the camera being submitted to the committee. Any disqualified image will be deemed to have scored zero and cannot be discarded when Photographer of the Year Trophy is calculated.

The club competition secretaries, following consultation with the committee, have the authority to not to accept any image that they feel offends common decency.

The committee will decide on the number and type of competitions that will be held in any year and publish them in the programme before the start of the season.


Club Competition Definitions

Open

Any subject matter, either colour or monochrome is allowed together with any form of image processing, including plugins.


Nature

  • Nature photography is restricted to the use of the photographic process to depict all branches of natural history, except anthropology and archaeology, in such a fashion that a well-informed person will be able to identify the subject material and certify its honest presentation.
  • The story telling value of a photograph must be weighed more than the pictorial quality while maintaining high technical quality.
  • Scientific bands, scientific tags or radio collars on wild animals are permissible.
  • Photographs of human created hybrid plants, cultivated plants, feral animals, domestic animals, or mounted specimens are ineligible, as is any form of manipulation that alters the truth of the photographic statement.
  • Processing of the captured image, by cropping, exposure adjustment, colour correction, noise minimisation, dodging/burning, HDR, focus stacking and sharpening is allowed.
  • Cloning of image defects, including overlapping elements, are permitted when these do not distort the truth of the principal subject. All allowed adjustments must appear natural.
  • Colour images can be converted to monochrome.
  • Access to biological subjects may be restricted. By submitting an image photographers warrant that they have followed relevant codes of practice and hold any necessary licences.
  • Images used in Nature Photographic Competitions may be divided into two classes: Nature and Wildlife.

    Nature: Images entered in a Nature competition can have landscape, geological formations, weather phenomena and extant organisations as the primary subject matter. This includes images taken with the subjects in controlled conditions such as zoos, game farms, botanical gardens, aquariums and any enclosure where the subjects are totally dependant on man for food.

    Wildlife: Images entered in Wildlife competitions are further defined from the Nature definition as of one or more extant zoological or botanical organisations free and unrestrained in a natural or adopted habitat. Landscapes, geological formations, photographs of zoo or game farm animals, or of any extant zoological or botanical species taken under controlled conditions are not eligible in wildlife sections. Wildlife is not limited to animals, birds and insects. Marine subjects and botanical subjects (including fungi and algae) taken in the wild are suitable wildlife subjects, as are carcasses of extant species. Wildlife images may be entered in Nature sections



Creative

Any subject matter, colour or monochrome with any form of image processing allowed including plugins. Creativity can be achieved ‘in camera’ or post process. All parts of the image should have the copyright of the photographer.


Landscape, Seascape and Urban Landscape
  • Processing of the captured image, by cropping, exposure adjustment, colour correction, noise minimisation, dodging/burning, HDR, focus stacking, stitched panoramas and sharpening are allowed.
  • Cloning of image defects, including overlapping elements are permitted when these do not distort the truth of the principal subject. All allowed adjustments must appear natural and trees, fences or skies must not be removed or added.
  • Colour images can be converted to monochrome.
  • Urban Landscape can be defined as something that in some way describes a town or city, represents an attempt to understand an experience of a city or town, concentrates on structures or processes rather than on people and can deal with either detail or a broader view.
  • Adding texture to an image or part of an image would not be allowed in an image reality competition such as this, as it would distort the truth of the image.


Monochrome
The mono competition should be treated the same as an open competition with regards to the rules apart from the obvious of being mono.
A black and white work fitting from the very dark grey (black) to the very clear grey (white) is a monochrome work with the various shades of grey. A black and white work toned entirely in a single colour will remain a monochrome work. On the other hand, a black and white work modified by a partial toning or by the addition of one colour becomes a colour work (polychrome) to stand in the colour category.



Gary Jenkins Memorial Macro and Close-up Competition

Photograph of any small creature, plant or object or a close up detail of any creature, plant or object generally rendered at life size or magnified to emphasise detail not normally visible. Small is further defined as generally a subject not greater than 5 centimetres natural size. Standard processing such as cropping, exposure, colour, noise and sharpening adjustments are permissible. Focus and exposure stacking of separate images as one is allowed. Other composite format images or significant creative adjustment to the subject is not permitted.
The emphasis of Macro is to be on small things and in this competition, to include all insects. Which is very much what Gary enjoyed.
Generally, no Bird or mammal worldwide fit within the size frame, so are excluded from the competition, however, parts of bird or mammals will fit the criteria, such as an eye, or the detail of a feather etc.
Any everyday item or part of an item within a size limit of 50mm would be suitable.
Some small flowers, plants or parts of flowers would be allowed
Larger dragonflies and other insects would be allowed.

We ask all authors to enter the macro competition in the spirit of small, something Gary himself would have endorsed.

Panel
  • A Panel competition consists of 5 digital images on a linked theme.
  • A 6th digital image is to be supplied which shows the layout of the panel.


Fourtograph

Four themes are to be specified in the programme. Four digital images may be entered, one on each of the specified themes. Every image will be judged and awarded scores by the club members present on the evening and the overall placing will be decided by the highest aggregate score.

Street

Images do not have to be taken on the street, they can be taken in buildings, on the beach or any public place and should contain some human element. Images can be generally categorised under these 3 headings:
1. Candid shots capturing the day to day lives of people who are unaware of the presence of the photographer.
2. Street portraits which may or may not be shot candidly and which focuses on the person more than the environment.
3. Geometric Street Photography which concentrates more on the built environment than the human element.

The MIKE ROWE Memorial

The Mike Rowe Memorial competition will be held towards the end of the season and open to any member who has not achieved a 1st, 2nd or 3rd in any club competition (excluding mini Competitions) up to that point in the season.

Sport

Any image that records a competitive activity or is associated with a competitive activity will be considered to be a sports photograph.

Trophies that are available to be Awarded

Photographer of the Year Trophy: The club member with the highest total score accumulated from all competitions judged by an outside judge throughout the season. A tie will be broken by the member gaining the greatest number of 20’s, then 19’s and so on until the tie is broken

Print of the Year Trophy: Selected by an external judge from the prints that have been placed 1st, 2nd or 3rd in all competitions that have been judged by an external judge excluding the Panels. It is the responsibility of individual club members to submit prints that qualify for this competition.

Projected Image of the Year Trophy: Selected by an external judge from the digital images that have been placed 1st, 2nd or 3rd in all competitions that have been judged by an external judge excluding the Panels.

Ray Hine Trophy: Awarded annually to the member with the highest total points scored accumulating from all three open competitions both print and digital combined. A tie will be decided by the greatest number of 20's 19's and so on until broken.

Merit Trophy: Awarded to the member who has the highest total points score at the end of the year from all competitions judged by an outside judge throughout the season excluding mini competitions and who has not gained a 1st, 2nd or 3rd place in those competitions.

Nature print trophy.
Nature digital image trophy.

Creative print trophy.
Creative digital image trophy.
Landscape/Seascape/Urban Landscape print trophy.
Landscape/Seascape/Urban Landscape digital image trophy.
Monochrome print trophy.
Monochrome digital image trophy.
Best Panel trophy
Fourtograph trophy
Mike Rowe Memorial Trophy.


Updated 5th September 2025