A copy of the Rules and all the relevant Forms will be emailed out to all Clubs who indicated they wish to enter. Clubs require a Club ID Code for their relevant Entry Forms it is not possible to supply these on the website, if you have not received your Club's copies of Code and Entry Forms by 11th January, you will have to contact Tom Doherty. A full copy of the Rules, which are the same as last year and covering letter can be downloaded here.

FULL RULES 2012

INTRODUCTION LETTER 2012

Please also see the SPF's Home page for a set of Digital Guidance Notes you may find useful.

The 2012 Championship,  is again a ‘Knock-out Competition’ very similar to the previous Slide Championship. Going back to the Knock-out Competition means we now have to exclude slide entries for this event so this year’s Championship is open to Digital Images only.
 All Digital Images for this event will be submitted by each Club in advance on CD, as a ‘Bank of Images’. This means that you do not require any equipment on the day, or to supply any images on the day.

We have summarised the requirements for this competition below –
 
The ‘Bank of Images’ will be a maximum of 40 Digital Images ; but you must submit a minimum of 20 Images to compete in the event.
Please Note – You only require 20 images to compete in this event, but the bank of 40 images is designed to allow you to select alternative images, for Round 2, Plate or Final, after you see what the judges like on the day. Any images not projected (i.e. not used) from your bank of 40, can be used in future years.
 
This ‘Bank of Images’ will be submitted in advance on CD, together with your Image Bank Titles Form, 1st Round Entry Form & Entry Fee to be with Tom Doherty by 29th Jan 2012. 
 
You require a minimum of 5 Authors to participate in this Competition.
 
You require to have a Club Representative present on the day, to select and submit your completed 2nd Round, Plate/Final Entry Forms only (no images), when requested.
 
Digital Images to be at max. 1400 pixels x 1050 pixels; tiff or jpeg; (see add. Guidance Notes)
 
Rules for file-naming are specific to this Competition and are supplied as part of the full Rules downloadable here.
 
You cannot enter images previously used in - SPF DIGITAL KNOCKOUT COMPETITION, SPF SLIDE KNOCKOUT COMPETITION, SPF CLUB SLIDE CHAMPIONSHIP, SPF PROJECTED IMAGE COMPETITION whether or not they were entered as slides or digital images
 
The Competition will be made up almost identically to the old Slide Championship of -
Round One (8 images), & Round Two (8 images),
followed by either
The Plate Competition (10 images) or The Final (20 images)
(Images used in Rounds 1 & 2 can be used in the Plate or Final)
There will be restrictions on the total of Nature images that can be used in each round,
and the number of images that can be used per author – full details with Full Rules
 
 If you require any other information on this event prior to submitting your Club’s Entry please contact Tom Doherty.