SPLASH-IN
SPLASH-IN COMPETITION RULES AND ENTRY FORM
If you want to join the buffet meal on Saturday evening please register your intention
to attend by Friday 4 July latest (sooner if possible). If you have not registered
in advance we cannot guarantee buffet tickets.
If you want to take part in the Splash-In, but do not want to join the buffet, you may register on 11 or 12 July, although we would prefer you to register in advance.
Please register by one of the following methods:
ENTRY FORMS
On the Day
Download either On-the-Day.doc OR On-the-Day.pdf
SPLASH-IN CATEGORIES
There
are four categories; Close-up, Wide-angle, Animal portrait
and Humorous. A maximum of four images per entrant,
two in any one category for the first three categories are
allowed. In addition, each photographer may enter one image
for the Humorous category.
Images
entered in the Close-Up, Wide-Angle and Animal portrait categories
will also be entered in the overall competition for the grand
prize to be chosen by a panel of judges.
Splash-In category definitions
1.
Close-up - photograph taken of an area A4 size or less.
2.
Wide-angle - photograph taken of an area greater than A4
size.
3.
Animal portrait - photograph in which a fish or other marine
animal is the main focus of the image.
4.
Humorous - any form of image manipulation including composite
images (several images joined together) is allowed as long
as all of the components were taken in the sea on the day.
Beginners
In addition awards will be made to the Best Beginner in each category, and to an overall Best Beginner as selected by the audience. A beginner is defined as someone who has not come first, second or third in a national or international competition, such as BSoUP's Open and Beginners Portfolio Competitions, BSoUP or St Abbs splash-ins, Image, BUIF, U/W Photographer of the Year, Wildlife Photographer of the Year, Marine Conservation Society etc. Please identify yourself on the entry form if you qualify.
RULES
1.
Each competitor must be at the Mount
Batten Centre either in the bar between 8.30 -10.00 pm
on Friday 11 July to register
and pay their entrance fee, demonstrate that their memory
card is empty and take a photograph of the numbered BSoUP
identification card(s). If a competitor can not arrive on Friday night and wishes
to register on Saturday morning this can be arranged but must
be specially requested.
2. Competitors may take as many images as they wish, as long as they are on memory cards which have been registered (more than one memory card may be used). Images may be taken in any format but entries must be entered in JPEG format.
3.
Two stations will be available for competitors to hand their
chosen images in - between 4.00 and 4.30 pm at the Mount
Batten Centre, quick entries for those who do not wish to
come to the Aquarium before the evening event, or between
5.15 and 6.15 pm at the Aquarium. NO IMAGES WILL BE ACCEPTED
AFTER 6:15. Images may be downloaded
to the competitor's own computer to check quality, and to
perform any whole image optimisation as defined below, prior
to downloading to BSoUP's computer. Unfortunately, due to
time and resource constraints, laptops cannot be provided
by the competition organisers. If you would like to be able
to work with your images on a laptop and do not have one
of your own it is strongly advised that you make your own
arrangements in advance.
4.
MINIMAL digital manipulation using sharpening, colour correction,
brightness and contrast adjustment may be made to the whole
image ONLY except in the Humorous category (see below).
No cropping is allowed. The BSoUP committee
members present at the event reserve the right to examine
the original untouched image. Their opinion as to whether
an image submitted for the competition is eligible will be
final. In addition, the judges for the grand prize also reserve
the right to examine the untouched images on their shortlist
to determine whether the amount of post production affects
their choice in competition with slide entries.
5. Original, unchanged images must be kept on the card for 24 hours after the vote for the organisers to review if requested, to ensure that they were taken on the competition day and have not been changed other than as allowed by the rules.
6.
Images should be submitted in JPEG format at a maximum size
of 1400 pixels wide or 1050 pixels high, and with a resolution
of 72 dpi. If downloaded straight from a card, they will
be resized and rotated as applicable in Photoshop by the
organisers. File names should comprise the photographer's
name and the category, eg "MTresslerCloseUp1, MTresslerCloseUp2,
etc.
7.
Submitted entries will be projected later in the evening
at the National Marine Aquarium and judged by the audience
present. At the same time the winner of the grand prize will
be chosen from all entries in the Close-Up, Wide-Angle and
Animal Portrait categories by an independent panel of judges.
8. BSoUP reserves the right to publish winning images both in the society magazine and on the website. Winning images may also be used in future promotional material such as magazine publications for the event royalty free, but copyright remains with the photographer.
9. The organisers' decision on any matters arising from these rules shall be final.
PRIZES, TROPHIES AND INDIVIDUAL AWARDS
A total of 4 trophies and 11 individual awards will be awarded.
1. All entries in the Close-Up, Wide-Angle and Animal Portrait on the day competition categories will be eligible for the grand prize of a one week liveaboard holiday in the Red Sea donated by Tony Backhurst Scuba, which will be selected by an independent panel of judges.
2. The winning Close-Up image will receive the Sport Diver Trophy and an Olympus Mju 1030 digital camera donated by Olympus UK.
3. The winning Wide-Angle image will receive the Alan James Digital Image Trophy and an Olympus Mju 1030 digital camera donated by Olympus UK.
4. The winning Animal Portrait image will receive the BSoUP Trophy and an Olympus Mju 1030 digital camera donated by Olympus UK.
5. The winning Humorous image will receive the AP Valves Trophy and Buddy stab jacket, donated by AP Valves
6. The Best Beginner will receive a choice of a canvas print of one of their images or a free place on a one day course run by Maria Munn of Ocean Visions.
7. The runner up and the best beginner in each category will receive a copy of the book ‘Reefs Revealed’ by Alex Mustard, donated by the publisher Constable & Robinson, or ‘REEF’ by Scubazoo, donated by the publisher Dorling Kindersley.
Sponsorship for running costs of the On the Day competition is being provided by Sport Diver magazine
INDIVIDUAL TROPHIES
8.
The winner of the grand prize will receive an acrylic trophy.
9.
The winner and runner-up in each category, excluding Humorous,
will receive individual acrylic trophies.
10.
The winner of the Humorous category will receive an individual
acrylic trophy.
11. The
Best Beginner in each of the Close-Up, Wide Angle and Animal
Portrait categories, and the overall Best Beginner will receive
individual acrylic trophies.
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