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Mini-Comps

Past winners (see below)

At the monthly NCUPS membership meetings a still photography minicomp is held. Video minicomps are held quarterly. Members bring in a slide/digital image/video on the subject of the month, the submitted media is judged by the audience and a check is awarded to the 1st place winner. All images must have been taken by a NCUPS member underwater. Skill levels of competition are: novice and open. Photographs/Images entered may not have won anything whatsoever anywhere. The minicomp may be canceled or postponed if the featured presentation runs long, at the discretion of the board.

Mini-comp Rules

The mini-comp is intended to be a fun competition that encourages all NCUPS members to participate and have their work judged at the pleasure of the audience without distracting and unenforceable technical rules.

Levels

There are two different (arbitrary) competitive levels that NCUPS uses to identify photographers in mini-comps:

Novice: Beginning underwater photographers who have not won more than three first place awards in an underwater photography competition (individual club contests excluded), nor may they have received money (other than contest awards) for their underwater photography. Once a photographer has won the mini-comp three times, he or she must move up to Open.

Open: Photographers who don't qualify as Novice or who choose to promote themselves to Open.

Special Rules for Digital Images

Manipulation

Any image may be manipulated electronically or in the darkroom to improve its photographic qualities. Images containing merging of multiple images, moving image elements into unnatural situations or drawing or adding unnatural animation to the image, except when the mini-comp category specifically specifies creative images, will not be allowed.

Entry

Digital images should be brought to the meeting on a CD or flash drive, for download to the club laptop. Only one image file for each entrant will be downloaded. Please do not bring an entire directory full of images. Entries should be scaled to 1024 x 768 pixels and saved in JPEG format with compression that reduces the file size to less than 500k bytes. You must be present at the meeting to enter.

2006 Winners