Competition: RPS members

Your photograph as the main image on https://rps.org

Published 23 April 2020

Emily Mathisen RPS Web Content Manager webadmin@rps.org

Would you like your photograph to be the most prominent image on the RPS website?

Each week there will be a theme. From received entries, a number of members work will be selected to feature as the main image on the home page for a day each the following week.

This page will be updated with new themes until the project closes.

How to enter - please follow the instructions below carefully:

Images should be jpegs in landscape (rather than portrait or square) format and 2000 pixels wide.
Do not send images with frames added or watermarks on the image (credits will be added to the page)
Images should be titled like this: Jan Smith ARPS.jpeg (but with your details obviously!)
Colour Space: sRGB
Images should be sent to: webadmin@rps.org
Please include your membership number
Specify the theme you're entering in the email subject field
Think quality rather than quantity
Enter as many images as you like per theme - good luck!

Things to look out for:

1) Focusing issues are one of the main reasons that images can't be used - please check your work carefully before sending in. Focusing on the eyes is important if you are sending in animal or human portraits.

2) Banding - this can often be found in large blocks of solid colour in photographs and appears as lines. There are many tutorials online on how to avoid it and how to rectify if it is apparent in your work.

3) Dust and other debris covering key areas of your image.

Due to the volume of entries, we will only be notifying successful entrants which day their work will feature. Not getting selected is no reflection on the quality or content of your work. Various things have to be taken into consideration including the page layout, text position and balance of entries throughout the week - so please don't be discouraged and we hope you will enter again!

If you are not a member of the RPS and would like to participate, you can join find out more about joining the Society here.

Themes (your interpretation of the following word):

Bokeh (for tips click here) - Opens: 15 February. Closes: 21 February

"This month, after the Bokeh theme, I will be winding down the weekly website home page competition for now as we prepare for the reopening of RPS House. I would like to extend a huge thank you to all the members who have entered the competition. It has been such a pleasure chatting with you and working my way through the thousands of images that have been entered. We have had entrants from all over the world from Egypt to Madagascar, China to the frozen north of Sweden with many people participating all year. I very much hope to revisit this competition at a later date and wish you well in the interim" Emily Mathisen, Web Content Manager

Previous themes - selected image from all featured that week:

To read a feature on the first 19 weeks of the competition (including images) please click here.