RULES
All entries
must have been taken underwater. Swimming pool and aquarium
shots are not eligible, unless specifically allowed for a
special competition.
The entrant
must be the photographer.
Images
entered must not have come first, second or third in a
national or international competition, such as BSoUP's
Open Portfolio or Beginners' Portfolio Competitions or
the BSoUP or St Abbs Splash-Ins, Image, U/W Photographer
of the Year, Wildlife Photographer of the Year, Marine
Conservation Society, Antibes festival of underwater images,
the British Underwater Image Festival, etc.
All
portfolio competitions will be projected in digital format
only, but slides may still be submitted in advance for
scanning by us, if you lack the facility to scan them yourself
(see next paragraph).
When
submitting a portfolio, all six images should be laid
out on a black background, 1400 pixels wide by 1050 pixels
tall (at a resolution of 72 pixels/inch), organised in
two rows of three images, and saved as a jpeg file. For
single images competition such as the International Focus-on,
the image must be no taller than 1050 pixels and no
wider than 1400 pixels. Larger images will be rejected
by the server. See the "Re-sizing
Images For Competitions" for more details but
please that NOTE individual image sizes given are for
guidance only - you may wish to include images of different
sizes to those quoted. This is fine provided the entry
has two rows of three images.
Entries
should only be a single jpeg or jpg file - no Powerpoint
or other formats please. As the image will be projected, it is advisable to convert it to sRGB, which is a better profile for projections.
File names
should include your name (e.g. john_smith01.jpg).
Many of
the past Beginners, Best of British, Open, and Theme Portfolios
are reproduced in our Gallery.
You might like to browse through them and read the linked
pages on how the photographs were taken and/or chosen to gain
an insight into what makes a winner. There is also an article
on choosing slides for a winning portfolio by Colin Doeg called
Six of the best
which you might like to read before preparing your portfolio.
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