Competition Results & News

Bi-Monthly Print Competition Results

Print Competition Forms & Labels

You can download the entry form and labels for the 2011 - 2012 Bi-Monthly Competitions here.

Entry Form

Avery MP7163 Labels

Annual Print Competition

Please remember to provide digital copies of your prints for the Annual Print Competition. They should be sized and named the same way they are done for our Bi-Monthly Digital Image competitions.

Mike

Bi-Monthly Print League Results

The results for the Bi-Monthly Print Competitions are as follows. A big thank you to everyone who got involved and helped to make this years competitions a success. A special thank you to Keith for all his hard work.

2nd Bi-Monthly Digital Image League Results

A huge thank you to everyone who took part, very well done to the winners.

Beginners

Advanced

1st Bi-Monthly Print Competition Results

The results for the 1st Bi-Monthly Print Competition are as follows. Well done to everyone who took part.

Jack Yule 2010

The results for the Jack Yule are as follows. Well done to Jim Dunlop on taking the trophy.

Competition Winners 2010

From left to right: Wullie Patterson, Clive Turner, Ann McKelvie, Mairi Weir (President), Jim Dunlop (Hiding Behind The President), Lord Lucan (hiding behind Jim Dunlop), Mike Best, Tom Hassan, Birgit "Bibi" Van Den Broeck, Earl Nichol, Allistair Leckie, Keith Stott, Pat Cook and Ian Close.

Mrs President and Mike Best did not win anything this year but they threatened to kick the Trophy Table over and "wedgie" the official photographer if they were not allowed in the picture.

Paisley Photographic Society Winners 2010

Congratulations to all the trophy winners.

Annual Exhibition: Projected Images

Bi-Monthly Exhibitions: Projected Images

Best Set of Projected Images (Unseen Before)

Annual Exhibition: Prints

Bi-Monthly Exhibitions: Prints

SPF Silver Medal - TOM HASSAN
SPF Silver Medal - TOM HASSAN

Annual Print Competition

The Annual Print Competition handing in date is the 19th of March. You can download the entry form HERE.

Bi-Monthly Digital Image League Results 2009 - 2010

It has been another great year for PPS with oodles of fantasitc images. Well done everybody who took part.

Beginners

Advanced

2nd Bi Monthly Print Competition 2009 - 2010

Please download and print your competition sheet by clicking on this LINK.

Don't forget to clearly mark your prints with the following information:

Paisley Photographic Society
2nd Bi-Monthly Print Comp. 2009-10
Beginners
Intermediate    Mono Colour
Advanced
Section No.______ Comp. No.______

TITLE__________________________

The best method is to copy this information to a word processor and create labels.

Paisley Photographic Society Winners 2009

Congratulations to all the trophy winners.

Annual Exhibition: Projected Images

Bi-Monthly Exhibitions: Projected Images

Best Set of Projected Images (Unseen Before)

Annual Exhibition: Prints

Bi-Monthly Exhibitions: Prints

SPF Silver Medal - Duncan McDonald
SPF Silver Medal - Jim Dunlop

All the winners.

From left to right: Mike Best, Dan Jamieson, Keith Stott, Mrs Milliken, Mr President, Tom Hassan, Peter Shaw, Allan Donaldson, Allistair Leckie, Clive Turner, Jim Dunlop, Duncan McDonald.

Despite the solemnity of the occasion you'll notice that Duncan is wearing his trophy like a sporran and Jim has just been caught swigging lager out of his. Mr President had been balancing Tom Hassans trophy on his nose and Ace Photographer Willie Patterson just managed to catch the action as he flipped it onto his shoulder.

Annual Print Competition Results

Abbey in The Snow, winner of the Print of Paisley section - a fantastic image by Allistair Leckie. Click on the image for a larger version.

Congratulations to all the members who took part in this years Annual Print competition, the results are as follows:

Guidelines for Entries to the Annual Print Competition 2008/9

Sandy Robson has compiled detailed notes on how images will be judged and how they should be presented for our Annual Competition. Please Click HERE.

Bi-Monthly Print Competition Results

Congratulations to everyone who took part in the Bi-Monthly Competitions and especially to all our winners. It has been another excellent and successful year with a hugely varied and imaginative workflow from PPS members.

The Competition League is as follows:

Second Bi-Monthly Digital Image Competition

This is just a quick reminder that it is handing in day for the Second Bi-Monthly Digital Image Competition on Friday 18th December. You should present a maximum of FIVE images. Anyone who fails to get their images to Jean Blair’s assistant (Mike Best) by Friday evening will be horsewhipped through the streets of Paisley and then tarred and feathered – well maybe not feathered, I’ll probably use some synthetic material instead – health and safety and all that…

Sizing and Naming Files for Competition

For all competitions your images should be named as follows:

If your competition number is 247 and your first image is called “Big Scary Dog”, the filename should begin with 01 (zero one) followed by an underscore and then your competition number.  Subsequent image names should start with 02_247, 03_247 etc.

Immediately after this should be the name of your image (in title case) and finally the file extension - either Tif or Jpg – the file extension is normally added by your Photo Editing package.

Examples:

01_247Big Scary Dog.jpg
02_247Uncle Fred.tif
03_247My Finger In Front Of The Lens.jpg

Please do not use any other digits or formatting such as hyphens or apostrophes as these may be stripped out when the files are renamed for the judge.

If you need further information, please refer to the Digital Image Guidance notes below or contact Mike Best.

If you would rather cut your own leg off with a plastic party knife than buy Photoshop or one of its derivatives there is a very easy to use and free basic photo editing package called FastStone Image Viewer which can be downloaded from here: www.faststone.org/FSViewerDownload.htm

It is more than adequate for sizing and naming your images for competition and it also allows you to easily preview your changes such as sharpening before you commit to them.

If you need more control but are still unwilling to increase your mortgage for a copy of CS4 you should give the most excellent GIMP a try. It is also free and is a worthy rival to Photoshop.

You can download it here: www.gimp.org

If you do a search on Google for GIMP and end up with pictures of people dressed up in rubber you are way off track - unless you like that sort of thing of course. ;)

Jack Yule Trophy Results - 12th December 2008

Congratulations to David Augustin on winning the Jack Yule Trophy.

Digital Image Guidance

There are only five things you need to know (for now anyway):

Q. How many images should I submit?
A. Five maximum.

Q. What size should my images be?
A. An image orientated as a Portrait should be 1050 pixels high – it will never exceed the 1400 pixel limit for width - so you don’t have to worry about that.

An image orientated as a Landscape should be no more than 1400 pixels wide and no more than 1050 pixels high – this is something you should check BEFORE you actually resize your image. A square image should be 1050 pixels by 1050 pixels maximum.

In all cases, you should try and get your image as close as possible to the 1400 by 1050 limit, as this will display your images at their best. Don't forget to constrain the proportions of your image when it is being resized, otherwise it will end up looking stretched. Your images should be resized AFTER you have done all the fiddly bits such as colour corrections, contrast tweaks etc. The very last thing you may want to do is a spot of sharpening, but don’t go crazy with this as the images are being sent to a screen rather than a printer and don’t need to be sharpened quite so much. As a rule of thumb, if you can see obvious white halos on your image you have gone too far and should undo your sharpening and then redo it but tone it down a bit.

Q. What Colour Space should my image files be saved in?
A. sRGB. What this is called in the application you are using may vary - in Photoshop it is known as “sRGB IE61966-2.1” - in the application you are using it may just be called sRGB.

Q. What format should my image files be saved in?
A. Either TIF or highest quality JPEG.

Q. What should I name my Image Files?

A. Your image filenames should start with a number from 01 to 05, followed by an underscore (hold down the Shift Key and press the minus sign (-) to the right of the zero key) and then your competition number and the full name of your image (in title case). For example, if your competition number is 123 and your first image is a Jpeg called “misty Loch Ard”, it would be named “01_123Misty Loch Ard.jpg”. Consequent images would start with 02_123, 03_123, 04_123 05_123 etc.

You should NOT use any other numbers in your Image Name as they will be stripped out by the software that prepares the images to burned to CD for the Judge.


I have tried to make this guide as generic as possible (not everyone uses Photoshop or one of its derivatives) so you may have to delve into the help files of the application you are using in order to find out how to resize and save images as sRGB.

Print Competition Guidelines

Click HERE to view the Print Competition Guidelines.

Click HERE to view the Annual Print Competition Guidelines.

The guidelines for both competitions are pretty similar, if you have any questions please speak to Sandy Robson who will be perfectly willing to give you any advice you require.

N.B. Don't call him when he's having his dinner or he will hunt you down like a dog and kill you.

Paisley Photographic Society 2008 Prize Winners

The 2008 competition winners - Another fantastic year gone by, another fantastic year to look forward to - .

Slide Competition Results

Beginners

Advanced

Print Competition Winners

ANNUAL EXHIBITION: PRINTS

BI-MONTHLY EXHIBITIONS: PRINTS

Bi-Monthly Print Competitions Overall League Results 2007-8

Beginners Monochrome

Beginners Colour

Intermediate Monochrome

Intermediate Colour

Advanced Monochrome

Advanced Colour

2nd Bi-Monthly Print Competition 2007 - 2008

Another excellent competition, so thank you and congratulations once again to everyone who took part in the 2nd B-Monthly Print Competition.

Colour Results (C - Commended, HC - Highly Commended)

Mono Results

1st Bi-Monthly Print Competition 2007 - 2008

Congratulations to everyone who took part in the 1st B-Monthly Print Competition, what a fantastic variety of quality work. Very well done to all the winners.

Colour Results

Mono Results

Paisley Photographic Society 2007 Prize Winners

Congratulations to all the 2007 prize winners who managed to battle their way to the top through a plethora of extremely heavy competition from some massively talented photographers.

Renfrewshire Inter Club Slide Competition

The ‘lesser’ and first of the two is our hosting of The Renfrewshire Inter Club Slide Competition. This will take place at 7.30pm. on Friday, 23rd February in Gallowhill Community Centre, Paisley, where there is generous free parking space. This year, nine Renfrewshire Clubs are competing for the Trophy, and our Judge is from the Top Drawer – Sandy Cleland F.R.P.S. A.F.I.A.P. Admission is £3:00 for your Programme, Interval refreshments and the numbered programme gives you the chance to win a mint up to date Corel Paint Shop Pro X software package valued at over £100! There will also be an extravagant raffle with Fabulous prizes ranging from Full Highland Dress Hire to Bottles of Spirits and Wines. All are welcome but accommodation is limited to 200 in total!

Balderstone Trophy – David Smith with “Clyde Arc”

Print of Paisley – Bob Brown with “Oakshaw Skyline”

Best Portrait – “Golden Boy” by James Dunlop

Best Landscape – “The Farmhouse” by Allan Donaldson

Best Colour Print – “Evening Trot” by Nicky McKenzie