Stourport Camera Club Rules
As there has been some confusion regarding the rules, we have simplified these for the
year 2O26 only as a trial.

• Absolutely no generative fill; there is a big difference between generative fill and content-aware. lf not sure, please ask. Cloning is allowed, as you are using your own pixels.

• Only images taken in camera can be used as background or foreground. No layers downloaded, either free or purchased, can be used, including any background or layers given free with magazines, courses, either online or in person. We have a good name out there and want to keep it that way.

• For the year 2026 only,the number of times an image is entered in a competition or critique night is up to the photographer. However, we suggest twice is probably best. After all, we do not want to see the same image time after time. We do not learn from that.

• For the print/dpi of the year, an image has to be entered exactly as per any competition. lf an altered image has been judged/critiqued, then that image can be entered in the end of the year competition, but it has had to be shown in an earlier competition/critique evening during the course of the year in question. Once you have given an image a title, you cannot alter this. (Changing titles can be very confusing for competition secretaries, as well as causing issues with the competition software).

• DPI/Print of the Year can and may include: any image from a club critique night, a judged competition by an outside judge, from the BNM, flower competition, landscape competition, 4 related images, and 5 on a board. From the latter two, of course, only 1 image is to be used, but they must relate to the year in question.

• On a critique night 3 members - totally anonymously - score the images, out of 20. (lf these members have entered the club critique night, the average score of the two other scoring members will be used) These scores will be added up per image (scores will not be announced that night, but will be emailed as soon as possible, and of course displayed on the board the following week) and are added to the total year score. These member judges must agree prior to the competition, and their names will be pulled out of a hat. Only members who are willing to do so will be asked to judge, and only once per calendar year.

• And last, but not least, please keep a record of the images you have entered. Any image not entered in any club competition, critique night, (see all in point 4) or that has been entered in a previous image of the year competition will not be allowed.

As always, the DPI sizes are to be no more than 1200pixels high and 1600 pixels wide and saved as sRGB jpeg. All images should reach Mieke, at either email address by the Iast Thursday before the competition/critique in DPI form, both for the DPI and the Print competitions. All prints should be handed in, to Lesley, the Thursday before the print competition/critique. And titled as follows: 

01_image title_Joe Bloggs

you can enter a maximum of four images per competition, so the number at the beginning must increment from 01 up to 04 for each of four submitted images.