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Right, if you were at the AGM a week last Sunday, you will have heard about the new Print Portfolio Awards
The Print Portfolio Award scheme is available through the Federation.
It’s purpose is to provide it’s affiliated members (individual photographers) with a credible yet achievable photographic award.
Although you submit your work as a portfolio, It is our intention to make the award scheme unique, challenging and interesting.
Although the portfolio is submitted as a cohesive portfolio of work, the images are scored individually.
Cohesion does not form part of the score but is an important requirement.
Although you may personally have a target, as an entrant, you do not pick the level of award you wish to obtain.
You just pick the number of prints you wish to enter as your print portfolio.
The level of award you achieve is dependent on the number of prints in
your portfolio, and the total average score achieved by the portfolio.
Certain levels can only be achieved with a higher number of prints in your portfolio.
The award assessment may seem a little convoluted, but it enables a very simple scoring and administrative process, which means we can offer the scheme at a lower cost than anything else currently available. It also means that it is very difficult to fail, although you may not always achieve the level you want.
Award Scheme Requirements
1. A submission must consist of a cohesive portfolio of prints, with a main title, and if required, a brief statement of intent (not more than 100 words)
2. The award scheme is based on you attending, as it will be necessary
to deliver and collect your print portfolio on the assessment day.
3. The assessment day will be an open event with spectator tickets available.
4. A portfolio submission can be between 4 and 20 prints, but must contain
an even number of images.
5. Print portfolios don’t have to be specifically arranged or ordered, but all prints should sit together and have a similar style in content and presentation.
This style, for example, could be, but not limited to, all birds, all flowers, all landscapes, all portraits, all monochrome.
The use of the same coloured mounts and similar processing styles
is essential to maintain good cohesion.
6. Individual prints can be any size upto 400x500mm, but have to be mounted on a 400x500mm mount board no thicker than 4mm.
7. Prints can be presented either mounted ‘Landscape’ or ‘Portrait’, but it is recommended that they are all presented in the same aspect and ratio, to
help cohesion.
8. You are not required to specify the level you are aiming for. The level achieved is based on the number of prints in the submission and your total average score.
9. The individual image score is derived by the five judges/assessors scoring each image at a pre-defined standard, with all the assessor scores then added together to give an individual Image score between 10 and 25.
10.
The total average score for the portfolio is derived by adding up all the individual image
scores and dividing by the number of images in the portfolio.
11. The proposed portfolio of prints have to be initially submitted online, as individual digital images, sized at 1600x1200 pixels as a jpeg image with a sRGB colour profile.
12. On initial application, your portfolio is assessed, by the administration team, for cohesion and theme, using your digital submission.
13. A portfolio can be rejected before the assessment and before payment, if no cohesion is witnessed.
The entrant will have a small window of opportunity to address highlighted issues, and re-submit,to still be assessed on the target assessment day.
So there you have it - watch this space for news of the fist adjudication day!
The rest of the AGM was all over an dusted in just over 25 minutes - no fights or contraversy. Like most club meetings - the meeting afterwards for those who stayed to chat was far more interesting and some good ideas were suggested and much discussion took place!
The main piece of news - the L&CPU subscription per member for 2027 is to stay the same as this year at - hoooooooray!
With one final reminder announcement:
