ENTRIES ARE NOW open for the 2018 Premier Trophy Awards Competition, the annual recognition of excellent painting and decorating work across the sector. The prestigious competition is celebrating 30 years and will return to Plaisterers’ Hall on
5 July 2018 for the Awards Ceremony. Work completed in 2017 is welcomed from decorating firms of all sizes and for 2018
the Judges have revised the categories to better represent the diversity of entries: Decorative: this could include the use of conventional coatings, and spraywork.
Awards
Highly Decorative: this could include the use of conventional coatings, woodstains, wall coverings and specialist decorative techniques and specialist finishes such as gilding, marbling, graining and artwork.
Industrial: this could include the use of conventional and high performance coatings to transport infrastructures and works or premises.
Sole Trader/Small Contractor: this represents the vast quantity of work carried out in small domestic and small contracts area. For this award you should be companies with no more than seven employees.
Residential: this includes domestic dwellings, housing association contracts, apartments, student accommodation etc.
Commercial: Offices, leisure centres, hotels, retail outlets, education and health establishments.
New Build: this category is where at least 70% of the work is on new surfaces that have not been painted or coated before using conventional coatings, wall coverings and spraywork.
Supreme Winner: To be chosen by the judges from the seven category winners. Winning a Trophy Award is recognition of the calibre of your work and It gives potential
clients reassurance that you offer a quality service and product. Photographing your projects
Start with a "before" shot Don't forget to take a picture of your starting point before you begin any work. This will allow you to show the difference your work has made.
Show details Take close-ups of the final finish and any specific detailed work that you are proud of.
Get up close to show us the finer details.
Show the whole picture Take several shots of the finished work - room by room, the outside of the building or structure to give the sense of the work as a whole. Remember to use any available lighting too, if the image is too dark (or too light) then we won’t be able to see your work!
Tell a story Take a sequence of pictures that conveys the main points of the project. The picture before the work began and include all the steps. Make a sequence by standing in the same spot and taking a series of pictures from the same vantage point at various stages of the project.
To show your project in in the best way you need to think about the pictures and the story they convey. Here are some tips to producing pictures for a project.
Fill the frame For a close up view of small objects or details, shoot at your camera's closest focusing distance. Some cameras have a close-up (or ‘macro’) setting or accept accessory close-up lenses. With digital camera, shoot
at the highest
resolution and then crop the picture in the computer.
This
square is 300 x 300 pixels
Print Versions To feature the project in the magazine we require a certain amount of pixels in the image otherwise it will appear blurred or distorted. The number of pixels required to print an image so that
the print becomes almost indistinguishable from a print made from film,
varies according to the size of the print. The minimum requirement for printed versions of pictures is 300dpi. Remember the larger the image is to appear, the more pixels are
required to cover the space and give a clear, sharp image. So use a good quality digital camera with at least a 5 megapixels capability, and don’t resize or use any of the options often provided to reduce the file size when saving from the camera or sending across email.
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association news
Closing date 12 January 2018
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