Monthly contest ribbons will be awarded as follows; 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and Honorable Mentions. Winners are allotted points for each ribbon they win as follows:

1st place————8 points
2nd place———–6 points
3rd place————4 points
4th place————2 points
Honorable Mention——1 point

A picture may be entered in a maximum of 3 ACC monthly contests through the course of its lifetime. After being entered in a total of 3 monthly contests, whether the picture wins a ribbon or not, it is no longer eligible for future ACC monthly contests. Once a picture wins a 1st, 2nd, 3rd, or 4th place it is ineligible for any future ACC monthly contests. Any picture which has won an Honorable Mention shall be eligible for future contests until it wins a placement ribbon or has been entered in a total of three monthly contests.Any picture which has won 1st, 2nd, 3rd, or 4th place in monthly contest, is eligible to be entered in the year end judging of that program year in the class in which it was entered, regardless of the maker’s current class standing.

Black and White—”The Margaret H. Bevan Award
Color Prints———”The John R. Boykin Award”
Slides——————”The Wilbur R. Bevan Award”

General Guidelines

You may submit up to three images in each category per month.
There are four competition categories: color prints, monochrome prints, slides, and digital images.
Competition within each category is divided into two classes: novice and unlimited. Promotion from the novice class to the unlimited class in each category occurs by accruing 60 points.

Prints

Prints must be matted. The print and mat assembly may not exceed 16”x 20”in size. The contestant’s name, picture title, category, class, and contest date (month/year) must appear on the back of each print.

Slides

Hold the slide in front of a light source as you would have it appear on screen. Grasp the slide with your left thumb and forefinger in the lower left corner. Affix or draw the dot underneath your left thumb. Slides must have a spot placed upon the mount for competition. The spot tells the projectionist the correct manner of projection. Use the following procedure to properly place the spot: Write your name and slide title on the slide mount as well.

Digital

Images should be sized no more than 1024 pixels on the long side (1024 x ??? or ??? x 1024). Due to current projector technologies, images bigger than those dimensions get reduced to that resolution by the operating system, often resulting in strange visual artifacts when displayed.
Images should be saved in the sRGB color space as jpegs. A quality setting of around 80% (8 of 10, 80 of 100, etc) is all that is necessary for viewing on screen. Settings higher than that do have benefits when printing, but result in unnecessarily large file sizes for the purposes of competition. Smaller file sizes are processed faster, resulting in smoother operation of the viewing software.
Files should be named according to the following convention:
A class identifier, ‘n’ for novice or ‘u’ for unlimited, should prepend the filename and be followed by an underscore.
The image name should appear next. For multi-word titles, it is helpful to either capitalize the first letter of each word or separate each word with an underscore. Although most mechanisms of uploading/transferring/emailing files handle spaces in titles, this is not universal. If you have problems sending files with space-separated titles, try the methods mentioned above instead.
An underscore and the owner’s first and last initials should follow the title.
Finally, make sure the file extension (.jpg) exists.
Examples: Here are file name samples using the above convention:

u_BridgeOnTheRiverKwai_cb.jpg
u_bridge_on_the_river_kwai_cb.jpg
n_thistitleisveryhardtoread_cb.jpg
n_some have trouble with this_cb.jpg

Email images to contests@arundelcameraclub.org no later than 9:00 pm on the Monday before the competition. You will be notified that your images have been received intact and are viewable. If you do not receive confirmation by 10:00 pm Monday evening you should resubmit your images. All images received by 9:00 pm Tuesday will be loaded onto the laptop computer to be used during competition the following evening. Images received after Tuesday at 9:00 pm will not be included in the competition.

If you have any questions, please email them to contests@arundelcameraclub.org.