The Selection Committee (for Externally judged "Battles")
The selection group will comprise of 5 members from the club, and will be chosen on a rotation basis.
The Selection Committee organiser will be in charge of organising this rotation, and all who want to take part will have an opportunity to do so.
The Selection Committee organiser will be in charge of organising this rotation, and all who want to take part will have an opportunity to do so.
The images which have been selected for a competition will be shown on private page on the website (please refer to Competitions Process to understand how the competition submissions will be displayed on the website).
Each member of the group will be given a score sheet with four gradings.
A group member will not be able to vote for their own image. In this instance, that member’s image will be awarded the average of the other committee members’ scores for that image.
The selectors will grade the images 4, 3, 2, 1. Therefore the maximum score for one image will be 20 (ie 5 members, each voting 4 for an image).
Each member of the group will be given a score sheet with four gradings.
A group member will not be able to vote for their own image. In this instance, that member’s image will be awarded the average of the other committee members’ scores for that image.
The selectors will grade the images 4, 3, 2, 1. Therefore the maximum score for one image will be 20 (ie 5 members, each voting 4 for an image).
The Selection Committee organiser will then total the scores via a spread sheet.
The Competition Secretary will have already ensured that the submission rules of the hosting club have been adhered to prior to publishing the images on a "hidden" website page (eg 10 images per club, no more than 2 images per photographer, image sizing etc).
In this way, when the page of submissions is reviewed by the Selection Committee, it will only have to judge the best 10 (for example) images.
In the event of a tie the Selection Committee organiser and two other members will decide which image should go through.
Following the above process, the top scoring required number of images will be put forward to represent the club in the competition.
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Internal Competitions
The Competition Secretary will ask for members to submit images by a given deadline.
The Competition Secretary receives the images, identified as “Themed” and/or “Open”.
The Competition Secretary will upload these images to the website on a "hidden" page which will not be accessible nor visible before the competition is judged.
The selected images will then be forwarded to the competition judge.
The competition is judged and the images are scored. The judges will not know the names of the participating photographers.
After the competition, the Competition Secretary will make public the images on the website and will order the images by 1st, 2nd, 3rd, Highly Commended. These images will have the photographers' names appended in the caption. All the remaining images will stay on the website for approximately 2 weeks, pending the Selection Committee’s review of these non-placed images and/or any scheduled club discussions.
The Competition Secretary will then remove all non-placed images from the website, leaving only the images placed 1st, 2nd, 3rd and Highly Commended.
As the season progresses and more competitions are judged, the Internal Competitions page will serve as a portfolio of the club’s best work, and will thus be available for certain external competitions, such as WPF events.
The Competition Secretary will not retain any member’s images on disk after the competition cycle is complete. The placed images, however, will remain on the Internal Competitions page as a record of the club’s activities and achievements.
The Competition Secretary will ask for members to submit images by a given deadline.
The Competition Secretary receives the images, identified as “Themed” and/or “Open”.
The Competition Secretary will upload these images to the website on a "hidden" page which will not be accessible nor visible before the competition is judged.
The selected images will then be forwarded to the competition judge.
The competition is judged and the images are scored. The judges will not know the names of the participating photographers.
After the competition, the Competition Secretary will make public the images on the website and will order the images by 1st, 2nd, 3rd, Highly Commended. These images will have the photographers' names appended in the caption. All the remaining images will stay on the website for approximately 2 weeks, pending the Selection Committee’s review of these non-placed images and/or any scheduled club discussions.
The Competition Secretary will then remove all non-placed images from the website, leaving only the images placed 1st, 2nd, 3rd and Highly Commended.
As the season progresses and more competitions are judged, the Internal Competitions page will serve as a portfolio of the club’s best work, and will thus be available for certain external competitions, such as WPF events.
The Competition Secretary will not retain any member’s images on disk after the competition cycle is complete. The placed images, however, will remain on the Internal Competitions page as a record of the club’s activities and achievements.
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External Competitions
The Competition Secretary will ask for members to submit images by a given deadline.
The Competition Secretary receives the images, identified as “Themed” and/or “Open”, and will ensure that the hosting clubs' rules have been adhered to.
The Competition Secretary uploads all the submitted images to a "hidden" page on the NQCC website, with an image number and the image's title. The photographer's name will be omitted.
The Competition Secretary will notify the Selection Committee that all images are uploaded to the website and are ready for selection.
The Selection Committee organiser will ensure that the committee has the required marking sheets for the images to be scored as per the Selection Committee guidelines.
The Selection Committee advises the Competition Secretary, by email, of the selected images for the external competition, identifying each by image number, image title and score given.
The selected images will then be forwarded to the competition judge / the club hosting the competition, quoting only image number and title.
The competition is judged and the images are scored.
The Selection Committee advises the Competition Secretary, by email, of the selected images for the external competition, identifying each by image number, image title and score given.
The selected images will then be forwarded to the competition judge / the club hosting the competition, quoting only image number and title.
The competition is judged and the images are scored.
The Competition Secretary will then make public the images on the website, and will rank the images by the scores given. After approximately 2 weeks, the Competition Secretary will remove all the non-placed images.
As the season progresses and more competitions are judged, the External Competitions page will serve as a portfolio of the club’s best work, and will thus be available for certain external competitions, such as WPF events.
The Competition Secretary will not retain any member’s images on disk after the competition cycle is complete. The placed images, however, will remain on the Internal Competitions page as a record of the club’s activities and achievements.
As the season progresses and more competitions are judged, the External Competitions page will serve as a portfolio of the club’s best work, and will thus be available for certain external competitions, such as WPF events.
The Competition Secretary will not retain any member’s images on disk after the competition cycle is complete. The placed images, however, will remain on the Internal Competitions page as a record of the club’s activities and achievements.