LPA Web Wiki

Revision Date: February 17, 2010

• Levels – Novice, Amateur, Advanced Amateur, and Master
• Divisions – Prints, Slides, and Digital
• Prints – 4 Levels, Digital – 4 Levels, Slides – All Levels Combined
• Classes - See ClassDefinitions

1. Competitions are open to current LPA members. All entries, digital, prints and slides, must be entered one week prior to competition night, by midnight. Enter at http://www.lpaphotography.com/photocomp/. No Late entries will be accepted. Prints and slides are not required to upload the image file, but it would be appreciated.
2. Entry fee $3.00 for each member for each contest.
3. Maximum of 3 entries per competitor per contest. This will include digital, slides and prints. Example: 3 slides or 3 prints, or 2 slides and 1 print, or 2 prints and 1 slide or 2 digital and 1 print.
4. Prints must have one minimum dimension of at least 9”.
5. Maximum mount board size in Novice, Amateur, and Advanced categories is 16” x 20” and 17” x 24” in the Master category. Panoramic prints may be up to 320 square inches in area in Novice, Amateur, and Advanced categories and up to 408 square inches in the Master category.
6. Prints must be mounted. Foam core is recommended, but mount board will be accepted. Borders on mount boards are acceptable.
7. Mats and frames are NOT accepted.
8. The back of each print will have the photographer's name and the title of the picture. Each slide will be identified by title and photographer's name on the mount, no stickers. Slides must have a dot on the lower left corner of the mount when viewed properly.
9. An image that has won 1st, 2nd or 3rd in any past LPA competition may not be re-entered. HM's may be re-entered. New work is encouraged.
   1. All entries will be judged at the level in which they are entered. The issuing of ribbons will be left to the discretion of the judge. Ribbons will not be given if the judge does not feel the entry is deserving of an award. Ribbons will be awarded for 1st, 2nd, 3rd and HM’s, and the decisions of the judges will be final. Judges will be selected by the Chairperson.
   2. When a competitor wins two first place ribbons in a given category since they started competing at LPA, they will be moved to the next higher level for the next competition year. For this purpose, only regular LPA competitions are considered. Blue ribbons won in other competitions, including the LPA's “Year End” competition and the AV Fair, do not count. Moving up to next level is “Mandatory” only once a year. You can choose to move up to the next level at anytime with the concurrence of the Competition Chairperson.
10. A new member may select the category they wish to start in, or voluntarily move to a higher level, with the concurrence of the Competition Chairperson.
11. The Competition Chair will update the MEMBER CATEGORIES list when new members join and member levels are changed.
12. A “Year End” competition will be conducted annually at the June meeting. First-place winning photographs from each of the 4 levels and three divisions will compete for an end-of-the-year trophy/award. Only one trophy/award per person per division will be awarded. Ties for “Year End” will be determined by a run-off vote. If a person has won first-place ribbons in more than one level, they will compete in the higher level for the end-of-the-year trophy. The judging method for this competition will be decided by the Competition Chairperson. The Winners List is maintained at: http://www.lpaphotography.com/custom/winners.php.
    • The level the photo won in, is the level the photo stays in, regardless of the level of the photographer for the year end competition.
13. One Entrant Provisions - All Competitions
    When there is only one entrant in a level then there is not much of a contest. For this reason, for print competitions in the Novice, Amateur and Advanced Amateur levels where there is only one entrant, although he/she may have 3 photographs the following process will be followed. The entrant will be contacted by the competition chair and given the choice of moving his/her entries to the next level or submitting the digital versions for judging at the original level. If the competition chair does not receive a reply from the entrant then the entries shall be moved to the next level. In the event that the next level has no prints then the image will be put in the digital competition at the original level.

1. File type: JPEG
2. Divisions: Four: Novice, Amateur, Advanced Amateur and Master (same as for prints).
3. File size: At least 100 KB, but not more than 4 MB.
4. Digital images must be received by the Tuesday before the competition (one week ahead). Enter your images at http://www.lpaphotography.com/photocomp/. No Late entries will be accepted.

1. Set JPEG compression to ‘high’ or ‘maximum’.
2. Set the maximum dimension in pixels to 1024 wide by 1024 high for best viewing on the club's projector.
3. Set color to sRGB to best match the color gamut of the club's projector.
4. Note: All entries, whether in vertical or horizontal format, will be viewed to fit the display monitor. As such, entries presented in the horizontal format will show up larger on the screen.

Image Upload Instructions (PDF)