BIPP

Digital Entries only for 2016

Entry this year will again be digital only– submit them on a CD/DVD or send them via https://www.wetransfer.com to secretary@bippscotland.com .

Colleges may submit their Student’s images on a single CD/DVD providing each Student’s images are contained within their named folder and accompanied by a completed signed entry forms and payment.

Please give your images unique names as the judges will only see the image names and it will avoid confusion.

Entries received will be acknowledged within a week of receipt. If you have not received acknowledgement within that time please email secretary@bippscotland.com

Fees:

Professional category – £5 per image

Student category: BIPP Student Member – £2 per image, Non-members – £3 per image

Submissions will be accepted from 17th March 2016

All entrants must complete an individual entry form
The deadline for all submissions is 11^th April 2016. We cannot accept entries after the deadline.

Entry Rules

Please read these carefully and if unsure contact Linda Macpherson (details below)

1. An image can only be entered in a single category. All images must have been taken since 1^st May 2015 and entries in the professional categories must have been taken as part of commissioned work with the exception of the Open Category which can be from any discipline whether commissioned or not. Entry forms must identify the commissioner/client for whom the image was produced. Images can be or can have been entered in another competition. There is no limit to the number of images entered in any Category including Cat. 7 Student.
2. The FILENAME must be the TITLE of the image, preceded by the code for the category entered, for example: ICM-title-of-the-image.jpg. Please give your images an original title to avoid having several similarly named images in the same category. The title will be used to announce the winning entries, therefore try to make it a unique title. Student entries should contain the suffix a,b,c or d to indicate which subcategory they are entering their image. e.g. STDa_girlportrait.jpg.
3. Images may be captured by digital camera or scanned from negatives, slides or prints. Images must be submitted in JPEG file format at print resolution (300dpi) if it were to print to a maximum size of 16 inches in the largest dimension. Send the CD/DVD (in ISO 9660 format – NOT Mac format), along with a completed Entry Form and Entry Fee to the address below. CD/DVD must be clearly marked with the author’s name, address, postcode, phone number and e-mail address, using a fine permanent marker on the top surface. Alternatively you may wish to simply identify the Author on the disc and include all the information in a text file within the disk. Entries can also be sent via WeTransfer, subject to prompt receipt of the form and fee. Completed entry forms can be sent by post or as an email attachment to secretary@bippscotland.com
4. Images may be straight or manipulated. Composite images may only be entered in Categories 1, 2 and 3 and in Categories 7(b) and 7(d). Composite images must all be the work of the author and not a composite of other’s work.
5. Images entered in Category 4 (Wedding) must have been taken during the course of an actual wedding that the entrant was commissioned to shoot and not posed by models or taken during a post-wedding shoot.
6. All entrants must be aware that any accepted image or images may be posted on the region’s website. The organisers reserve the right to withhold from posting on the website any entry, the content of which, they consider to be unsuitable for public display. The organisers will make every effort to deter viewers from downloading the images from the site, but authors must realise that this is a possibility. Copyright of any part or whole of the image resides with the photographer.

The winners and runners-up will be announced at the Awards Event on Sunday 8th May 2016. All CD/DVDs will be destroyed immediately after the Awards.

Entries to be sent to:

Linda Macpherson

39 Redford Drive

Edinburgh

EH13 0BE

email: secretary@bippscotland.com

CATEGORIES

The following categories will be judged. An overall winner will also be chosen in each category plus a runner-up.

1.     Industrial, Commercial, Advertising, Architecture (ICM) 2.  Pictorial, Illustrative (PIL) 3.  Open (OPN) 4.  Wedding (WED) 5.  Press/PR (PPR) 6.  Portraiture (POR)

7.    Student (STD) : a)     Social & Portraiture b)     Advertising & Fashion c)     Photo-journalism d)     Open – anything not covered by previous three categories There is no limit on the number of images a student can enter in any student category.

Entrants to the Professional Categories must have full membership of the BIPP (Licentiate, Associate or Fellow)

Research: 

During previous year was very successful Lee Howell, ex student of Edinburgh college and photographer and retoucher. He entered the competition with fashion and advertising images which are very well done and he is focusing for details. Lee was very successful this year in professional category with his set of 5 fashion images, they were studio shoot and edited to add plastic feel to them.

All work above by Lee Howell

Sandra Vijandi was also very successful with her images in BIPP competition 2014. All were fashion images. The images from the winning set were taking on different locations. On Sandra’s images I like that she focuses on the models poses and I like how she uses colour palette. 

Selection of Images for entering this competition:

I have chosen 3 of my favourite images which I did for the major project for last semester. From the research on the previous years’ winners I can see that BIPP competition is all about pretty, perfectly edited images. I like the winner images because of they colours and colour palette and I would also like to enter with with colour images. Selection of my 3 images are in fashion genre, but I am also thinking about submitting them on “Open” category. According my research, fashion genre in BIPP competition is more about images which we see in fashion magazines as Harpers Bazaar and Vogue and I would say that my selection will not fit in those magazines. Its a fashion portraiture edited in collage style so it would probably fit more in “open” category.

For the this unit I choose to submit the first image with the green leafs. I tried to achieve 3D effect on this image and that’s why I worked with different layers here and placing selection of images on the top of each other. I completed this collage for my major project and the theme was movie about Geisha and her life story.