Battle Information | |
What is a Battle? A battle is a competition between two or more clubs. Some are just between two Clubs; most of those which Devizes take part in involve several Clubs. At the other end of the scale are inter-club competitions which are regional or national in scale – the annual Digital Projected Image Competition (DPIC) held by the Western Counties Photographic Federation (WCPF) is open to all of the 100+ member Clubs of the Federation and around 50 of them typically participate. Devizes also have a special Battle internally – between the lady and the gentlemen members of the club. It’s often the most fiercely contested of the lot! The format varies from Battle to Battle in terms of the number of images each Club needs to put forward, and whether these are Projected Images or Prints. Most Battles these days are Projected Images only – which simplifies enormously the logistics around selection delivery of the entry and management – but there are occasional ones which involve Prints; the annual Battle Devizes are involved with between 7/8 other Clubs at Warminster is print only. The host club or event organisers will appoint a Judge for the occasion. For Battles, the judge has to award each image with a mark – usually out of 10 or 20. There is no absolute scale for the marking – so an 18 from one judge isn’t necessarily equivalent to an 18 from another – but the marking is a means for the judge to express his or her views on the images relative to one another in that Battle. The winning Club will be the Club with the highest aggregate score across all of the images they have entered. How are images selected to represent the Club? All members can put forward images for consideration to represent the Club. |
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Devizes CC Ladies v Gents results |
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Western Counties Projected Image Competition (DPIC) results - 2012 -2022 |
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G.B. CUP Open and Nature Competitions results |
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Calne Multi - Club Annual Digital Battle results |
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Frome Wessex v Devizes CC results |
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Warminster Camera Club Annual Multi - Club Print Competition results |
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Swindon PS, Stratton CC, Royal Wooton Basset & Devizes CC Battle Results 2019 |
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Other 'Battles' with local clubs are sometimes arranged - dates and details will be shown on this page and in the Programme. |