ST ANDREWS PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY DIGITAL PROJECTION

Four internal club competions take place each year. These invite prints (Black & White, and Colour) and Projected Images. Two entries per member are allowed in each section. Prints should be mounted. (A standard size of mount is 40 x 50 cms, but members may sumbit smaller mounts)

If submitting digital entries then each member should submit a CD containing only the competition entries and no other files. If more than two files are contained on a CD, then the competition secretary may select two files at random to go forward. Alternatively send them by email to the Internal competitions Secretary Dave Vallis at davevallis63@gmail.com.

File names should include the membership number followed by the image title (e.g. 026_EarlyMorningLight.jpg) These files should submitted as jpegs in accordance with the guidance given elsewhere in this web site. (See digital projection).

NOTE: Please use three digits for your membership number. For example use 026 and not 26. This will help images to display in the correct order.

NOTE: We ask that members who enter internal Society digital competitions will allow the Society to use their images for this web site or for other external competitions that the Society may enter. Copyright of photographs will always remain with the photographer. We will assume that you are agreeable to this unless you advise us otherwise.

The STURROCK CHALLENGE takes place near the start of each season and is for a set of photographs on a specific theme. For 2012 the theme is "What does St Andrews mean to you?":

The KODAK CUP is open to pupils from local schools as well as St Andrews Photographic Society members. Entrants must submit three prints on a unifying theme. They may be in colour or monochrome, traditional or digital. The printing must be the entrant's own work.

The Society participates in a number of competitions each season with other clubs in the local area and in SPF competitions. As these are competitions between clubs and not between individuals, the External Competition Secretary,assisted by a selection panel, decides on the Society's entry. Members are encouraged to make their prints and slides available for selection.

FOUR-WAY COMPETITION between Dundee, Perth, Kinross and St Andrews (8 colour prints, 8 monochrome prints, 8 slides per club).

INTER-FIFE COMPETITION between Cupar, Dunfermline, Glenrothes, Kirkcaldy and St Andrews (8 colour prints, 8 monochrome prints, 8 slides per club).

THREE-WAY PROJECTED IMAGE COMPETITION between Cupar, Kinross and St Andrews (15 images per club with a maximum of three from any member)

SPF PROJECTED IMAGE CHAMPIONSHIP - an annual projected image competition between Scottish clubs (two rounds, each with 8 images per club). For details click here.

SPF PRINT CHAMPIONSHIP - open to all individuals entering through an affiliated club. Club results are based on the best 10 prints (at least 4 monochrome, at least 4 colour). You can see details by clicking here.

PHOTOGRAPHIC ALLIANCE OF GREAT BRITAIN (PAGB) GB CUP - an annual competition in which our Society usually enters the section for small clubs, the entry comprising 10 digital images, with no more than two from any one author.

This is a prestigious annual exhibition organised by Edinburgh Photographic Society. Details are given on their web site:

It is planned that the Scottish Photographic Federation will hold an international salon in 2012. Entries will be invited from individuals (not the Society) and should be submitted as prints. Other details should be announced shortly.