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While dealing with the Coronavirus we have had to modify many of the competition rules.  We can not do prints.  Two digital photos are permitted.  Themes have been suspended so you can submit any photo you like to make it easier and possible for you to take photos without going going far from home or even outside.

 

Competition Rules

 

Three Categories

The club has a photo competition on the first Tuesday of every month except during the summer  months.  Often the club pays well known photographic professionals to judge submitted photos.  Members can submit photos in any or in all three of the following categories:

  1. Monochrome Prints

  2. Color Prints

  3. Projected Digital.

 

Three Levels Of expertise

  1. Beginners

  2. Advanced

  3. Masters

(You may choose your own level, except to the Masters group which is by invitation only.)

 

 

Category 1:  Monochrome Prints: 

Definition: Monochrome includes black and white prints and black and white images that have been altered by the addition of one color to tone the entire print.

  • One assigned and one open

  • Print size: Smallest is 8x10; Largest outside mat dimension is 16x20

  • All prints should be matted or dry mounted and no frames

  • Correct labels are supplied by the club

  • A member can enter both Color and Monochrome prints but can enter only one open and one assigned.

  • Monochrome Prints need to be significantly different from any other prints or digital prints that are or where submitted.

 

Category 2:  Color Prints:

  • One assigned and one open.

  • Print size: Smallest 8x10; Largest outside mat dimension is 16x20

  • All prints should be matted or dry mounted and no frames

  • Correct labels are supplied by the club

  • A member can enter both Color and Monochrome prints but can enter only one open and one assigned.

  • Color prints need to be significantly different from any digital prints that are or were submitted.

Category 3:  Projected Digital:

  • Advanced Group (A)...................... One assigned and one open
  • Masters Group (M)......................... One assigned and one open

 

Submitting Photos During Covid-19
All Photos are Open (Shoot Whatever You Want)

 

  1. Resolution:

  1. With the resolution set to 72dpi, the maximum horizontal dimension should be 1280 pixels and the maximum vertical dimension should be 800 pixels.  

  2. Note: If your picture is in horizontal or "landscape" format, the maximum horizontal dimension must be 1280 pixels (when you set this, the number of vertical pixels will adjust itself automatically). If your picture is in vertical or "portrait" format, the maximum vertical dimension must be 800 pixels (when you set this, the number of horizontal pixels will adjust itself automatically).  If two photos are being submitted then the total file size should be less than 2MB for both photos.

  3. Click Here  for additional directions

  1. Color Space

  1. It is recommended that SRGB be used as the color space, because the new projector uses SRGB.  If another color space is used the projected image may not  look as expected.

  1. Naming Photos

  1. Do not send your image with the file name assigned by your camera.

  2. Re-Name your pictures as follows (This is to be the new file name of your image)

  3. Your name in full (no spaces), followed by a dash; then your group (A or M category), followed by As for Assigned, or Op for Open; followed by a percent sign (%), then the title of the picture (you may add spaces but keep the total tile brief).

    An example:          JohnSmith-MAs%Farm Wheels.jpg                                     (Masters Assigned)
     another example:  MarySouth-AOp%Blue Morpho Butterfly.jpg                    (Advanced Open)
    another example:  JohnNorth-AAs%Farm Animals.jpg                                    (Advanced Assigned)

  1. Emailing Photos

  1. Digital Pictures must be sent as JPG.

  2. Entries to be submitted by email to the Club’s Gmail account at cscameraclub@gmail.com at least one week before competition date. 

  3. It is preferred that all pictures are sent as an attachment in the same email. Please do not send your images in "zip" format; this just makes more work.

 

Scoring

  • Each picture will be critiqued by an evaluator or judge. 

  • Scores for each entry range from 7 to 10, they will be recorded and accumulated from month to month.

  • A picture that receives a score of 8, 9 or 10 may not be re-entered in subsequent competitions except for the Best-of-the-Year Competition. 

  • Those with scores of 7 or below may be re-entered in the open section at either of the next two competitions after its initial showing. 

  • Titles will be read in advance of the judging and the names of photographers for any scores of 8, 9, or 10 will be announced immediately after the scoring. 

  • All entries must have a title.  The title “Untitled” is unacceptable. 

  • A title may not be reused except when re-entering a picture scoring 7 or below.  If two similar pictures are entered over time, they must have different titles. 

  • No person may enter more than one picture of the same subject in the same competition.  For example, if the assignment is “dogs,” there should be two different dogs, rather than two views of the same dog.

 Assigned Subjects

  • Every competition includes both open and assigned subject sections.  In addition to considering the standards for any picture, judges will be asked to evaluate how well the picture conveys the subject.  The assigned subject needs to fill at least 50-60% of the frame, in general. There will be the occasional time when the assigned subject does not fill half the frame but is still obviously the focal point of the image.  The assigned subject must dominate the image.  The assigned subjects for the current year will be found in the Calendar page of this website.