NOTICES

Next weeks meeting will be a PRACTICAL MODEL SESSION.
Bring in your cameras and your entries for the "OPEN" Digital Image Competition.

Rules

SOCIETY RULES

1. The club shall be called the Gwent Photographic and Digital Imaging Society, and membership shall be open to all interested in Photography.
2. Membership of the Society implies the undertaking to comply with and abide by these Rules.
3. a) Subscriptions shall be fixed at the Annual General Meeting and payable at the first meeting in January.
b) Prospective members are allowed to attend 1 month without payment.
c) Only fully paid up members would be eligible to:-
i) Have a vote and be eligible for nomination for election at Annual General Meetings.
ii) Enter Society competitions.
4. The Officers shall consist of a Chairman, Vice Chairman, General Secretary, Treasurer, Syllabus Secretary, Competition Secretary and Publicity Officer.
5. The affairs of the Society shall be managed by the elected Officers (Rule 4) and four Ordinary Committee Members.
6. All Officers and Ordinary Committee Members are to be elected at the Annual General Meeting and are eligible for re-election each year.
7. Special meetings may be convened on a requisition signed by at least six members, stating the object, and sent to the Secretary at least fourteen days before the date proposed.
8. At committee meetings, four shall form a quorum, and at a General Meeting, eleven.
9. The Secretary shall keep minutes of all the meetings, and conduct the correspondence of the Society.
10. The Treasurer shall collect all subscriptions and monies due. At the close of each Society year, a balance sheet shall be drawn up by the Treasurer, and audited by two ordinary members appointed for this purpose at the Annual General Meeting.
11. A Society member may be expelled or asked to resign at the decision of the Committee. The Committee can request a member to appear before it, provided that where any accusation or charge is made, the member shall be given full and reasonable opportunity to put forward a defence and bring witnesses at a later meeting. Any member expelled or asked to resign shall have the right of appeal to a Special General Meeting called for this purpose. All Committee proceedings and those of any Special General Meetings called under this rule, shall be treated as privileged and confidential.
12. The names of any member whose subscription is more than one month in arrears may be removed from the membership list by order of the Committee.
13. The Society accepts no responsibility whatsoever for items damaged or lost, whilst at the Society’s venue.
14. In the event of dissolution, a Special General Meeting shall be called at which a liquidator shall be appointed, and a decision made then or subsequently as to the disposal of Society assets. In the event that the Society is given an award or grant, then monies/assets derived from that grant shall be donated to a charity, to be decided at that Special General Meeting.
15. No alteration of, or addition to, these rules, shall be made except by the Annual General Meeting or a Special Meeting called in accordance with Rule 7.
COMPETITION RULES
  1. Photography, Copyright and any Image Manipulation to be the complete work of the entrant.
  2. Maximum of THREE (3) entries per member.
  3. There are two sections in each of the competitions:
    IMPROVERS and ADVANCED
    Improver’s entry to be identified with the letters “IMP”
  4. An image may only be submitted in a maximum of FOUR (4) competitions (including E-O-Y), assuming that it fits the theme.
  5. All entries to be handed in at least FOURTEEN DAYS prior to the competition, or earlier if the external judge so requests.
  6. Monthly competition winners, (Excluding E-O-Y), will be awarded 10, 7 or 4 points for 1st, 2nd or 3rd places and entered on a league table (Merit Table). Members will also receive 1 point for entering. In house judges will receive 2 points by exhibiting their own relevant work.
  7. The judge may, at his discretion, not award all three places, depending on the standard or number of entries.
  8. Print mounts are to be either 20″ x 16″ or 12″ x 16″ or their metric equivalent.
  9. Digital Images to be presented in accordance with the Society’s requirements.
PRINT PANEL OF THE YEAR
  1. Limit of ONE entry per member
  2. An entry to consist of a panel of FIVE prints, to be mounted individually, and marked 1-5 on the reverse for the judge.
  3. The entry should conform to the WPF recommendations of a themed panel.
DIGITAL IMAGE PANEL OF THE YEAR
  1. Limit of ONE entry per member
  2. An entry to consist of a panel of FIVE Digital Images, plus an additional image showing the layout of the panel for the judge.
  3. The entry should conform to the WPF recommendations of a themed panel.
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Progression from IMPROVERS to ADVANCED section
 Before Improvers move into the Advanced section, they must be able to show, “Ability” and “Competency”, in their photography.This shall be done by a means of a portfolio of Five (5) Prints or Digital Images.

There is no time limit or pressure put on an individual to produce their portfolio.

The portfolio will be assessed by a panel of three (3) judges from the advanced section, appointed by the committe

Winner of the Merit Table – Improvers, will be automatically transferred to the Advanced Section.
Posted by Alan at 6:28 am
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