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General Rules for all Cup and Trophy Competitions

Entry is open to all members of the Society, except associates, but members are limited to one entry for each competition. Subject matter is unrestricted.

The award-winning panel/set for each competition will be exhibited as such at the Society's next annual exhibition.

All prints and projected images entered are eligible for entry in the annual exhibition provided that they also conform to the conditions of entry of the Exhibition.  

Prints or slides previously entered in these competitions, or accepted in previous IDPS Exhibitions, are not eligible and must not be included in entries.

The committee appoints one independent judge for the print competitions and one for each of the projected image competitions. These judges are asked to award each cup or trophy for the panel of prints or set of projected images, irrespective of subject matter, which best meet, the requirements of each competition.

Entry fees are charged for each competition to assist in covering the costs incurred by involving external judges. Entry forms can be obtained from the exhibition secretaries.

Rules for the Print Cups

Entrants are required to submit a “hanging layout” with each of their entries. This is a diagram showing how prints should be displayed as a panel.

On the back of each print, in the top left-hand corner, entrants must display their name, a print title and a location number which identifies the image's location in the relevant hanging layout.

Prints must be mounted and adequately backed, mount size must be 50cm x 40cm . One dimension of the print must exceed 24cm.  Framed prints and any print liable to damage other prints (eg Velcro pads or detached mounting tape) will be disqualified.

Prints must be less than two years old at the date of entry.

Rules for the Projected Image Cups

*Digital images should be;

• sized so that the maximum horizontal dimension is 1400 pixels, the maximum vertical dimension is 1050 pixels and be saved at maximum quality as a JPEG (ie .jpg) format file.
• named as ixx.jpg, where xx = the entry number off the entry form.
• supplied on CD, DVD or USB stick clearly labelled with the entrant’s name.

Transparencies must be in 5cm x 5cm  mounts, correctly spotted (when viewed correctly and with the image upright place a spot in the bottom left-hand corner) and marked with the entrant’s name, title and sequence number.

Each set should be given a title which must be entered on the entry form.

Cups and Trophies

Entry Rules

* Change in image size for digital images for projection to comply with EAF/PAGB requirements