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Digital Images:

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

Starting  February 2025  -  The club will be using Visual Pursuit

1. Resolution:  up to 300dpi.

1. The new Maximum dimensions is 1920 by 1080

2. The software will automatically default to this size if you submit a larger image while maintaining your original aspect ratio

3. Note: If your picture is in horizontal or "landscape" format, the maximum horizontal dimension must be 1920 pixels (when you set this, the number of vertical pixels will adjust itself automatically).  Do not exceed 1080 pixels vertical.   If your picture is in vertical or "portrait" format, the maximum vertical dimension must be 1080 pixels (when you set this, the number of horizontal pixels will adjust itself automatically). 

4. Click Here  for additional directions

2. Color Space

1. It is recommended that SRGB be used as the color space

3. 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)

4. 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.