PHOTO REVIEWS & COMPETITIONS
This section provides instructions on what images to submit, and how to submit them, for the Club’s monthly photo reviews and the Club’s year-end competition.
HOW TO SUBMIT PHOTOS FOR MONTHLY PHOTO REVIEWS:
Photo reviews will be shown at each regular monthly meeting.
Members may submit their photos digitally or by bringing printed photos to the meetings. The procedures for both forms of submission are noted below.
The number of submittals for both digital and prints will be limited as follows:
Two (2) per member of any photo subject taken during the current Club season, plus
One (1) per member in their chosen Area of Concentration
Note: It will be up to the discretion of the person putting the digital review together to request additional photos from members if the submittals for a particular month are not enough for a substantial presentation.
A deadline date for submissions will be given when the photo review is announced (usually one week prior to the next monthly meeting). A deadline date is needed since it takes time for the person working on the review to put the show together, and once complete it is a challenge to start adding more photos just before a meeting.
Digital Submission Procedure:
Submit only jpeg images. Do not worry about cutting down on the pixels per inch or the resolution, any jpeg file will work. You may elect to shoot your photos in raw or jpeg, or do your computer editing and save your files as bmp or tiff files, but when you want them used for the Club’s photo review, simply save a copy as a jpeg file and submit that one for the review. Your camera’s default setting for saving your pictures is normally as jpeg files.
To send your digital photos to the Club, you have two choices:
1. Send to the Club’s e-mail address – ORPCphotoreview@hotmail.com – the photos must be sent as an attachment to the e-mail and not imbedded in the e-mail itself.
2. Copy the photos to a CD or USB Memory Stick and deliver it to a Program Committee members’ cubby. Please attach a name/address label so that the CD or memory stick may be returned.
Print Submission Procedure:
Members who submit prints are asked to bring no smaller than an 8x10 size mounted on a backing board or a pre-cut mat (they do not need to be framed). The maximum overall size (both print and backing) should not exceed 16x20. Please write your name on the back of the mounting board or pre-cut mat.
Review/Display Process at the Meetings:
Digital photos will be displayed on the screen. Mounted prints will be displayed on the Club’s light box.
OAK RUN PHOTOGRAPHY CLUB – 2009/2010 SEASON YEAR-END COMPETITION
HOW TO SUBMIT PHOTOS FOR THE YEAR-END COMPETITION:
Submission Levels: There will be three (3) member submission levels – Novice, Intermediate and Advanced. The Novice category will be eliminated at competition time if there are no “new member” submissions.
Submission Categories: There will be a total of two (2) submission categories: Non-Creative and Creative. Area-of-Concentration photos can be submitted in either category. Only photos taken during the period of May 2009 to May 2010, may be submitted. Deadline for submitting entries will be at the May 10, 2010, meeting.
Number of Photo Submissions: A maximum of three (3) photos can be submitted in one or both categories.
Submission Format: The size of submitted photos should be no smaller than 8 x 10 and no larger than 16 x 20. Submitted photos should be mounted on some form of mounting board (e.g., plain board, foam board, core board, pre-cut mat, etc.). Therefore, the overall size of the photo and mounting board or mat should be no larger than 16 x 20. Please note that if photos are not mounted, they will not be accepted for the competition, and any photos that are submitted in a frame will also not be accepted. Please also note that if photos are submitted in protective coverings, the coverings will be removed for judging. Every effort will be taken to return the protective covering after the competition, but there is no guarantee.
Prizes/Awards: This year, only ribbons will be awarded for 1st Place, 2nd Place, 3rd Place and Honorable Mention in each category (no cash). As in previous years, members of the Club will have an opportunity to choose a “People’s Choice” Award (ribbon only) at the June 14th meeting. This year, two (2) "People's Choice" Awards will be chosen - one (1) for the Non-Creative category, and one (1) for the Creative category.
Judging: We will retain use of three “outside” judges, and the Gordon Battaile judging rules will be used. These rules consist of the following:
Gordon Battaile Judging Rules
Attributes of the Photo to Consider:
- Technical Quality – focus, exposure, et al
- Composition
- Subject Matter/Impact
- Avoid personal bias. If you don’t like snakes and, because of it, you give a lower score than for a barn or a flower (which you like), that would not be fair. Photos should be judged using photographic standards, whether you have an emotional positive or emotional negative response to the subject(s) of the photo.
- Analyze the photo rather than just respond to it. For example, this photo is effective because __________, or this photo is not effective because _________. Ask yourself why you are responding to the photo the way you are. Go beyond instant like or instant dislike.
- Judge each image as a whole. Consider the photo’s best, and worst, attributes.
- Be consistent.
- Use the following scale to quantify your judgment:
4 C’s Scale 2-9 (1 is disqualified)
2 - 3 points: awful
4 - 5 points: weak
6 - 7 points: strong
8 - 9 points: great
2008-2009 SEASON YEAR-END COMPETITION WINNERS!
Excellent photos were submitted for the Club’s year-end competition, and the judges had a difficult task to choose the winners in each category. The winners were:
Novice Category
No entries were submitted.
Intermediate Category
1st Place – Mandy Durocher for “Long-Tailed Skipper Butterfly”
2nd Place – Mandy Durocher for “Pretty Bird, Pretty Bird”
3rd Place – Laurie Stamm for “I Don’t Like Crackers”
Honorable Mention – Laurie Stamm for “Chow Time”
Advanced Category
1st Place – Mike Baker for “Blue Morpho Butterfly of Aruba”
2nd Place – Carolee Carter for “Abandoned Doors”
3rd Place – Mike Baker for “Waterfall in Shaw Park”
Honorable Mention – Mike Baker for “Old Stone Bridge”
People’s Choice Award
Art Holt for “Painted Sunset”
LAST SEASON’S (2007/2008) YEAR-END COMPETITION WINNERS!
Novice Category
1st Place – Trinette Collmer for “Tuscan Tranquility”
2nd Place – Trinette Collmer for “The Old Doll Shop”
3rd Place – Shelley Sizemore for “Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep”
Honorable Mention – Marge Mitchell for “Counting Flowers On The Wall”
Intermediate Category
1st Place – Carolee Carter for “Shaker Window”
2nd Place – Anne Tuzzeo for “Owl At Florida Aquarium”
3rd Place – John Jacobson for “Thousands Ooh-Ah”
Honorable Mention – John Jacobson for “Hummel Painter”
Advanced Category
1st Place – Walt Markowski for “Ybor City Mime”
2nd Place – NC Sizemore for “Autumn in Pennsylvania”
3rd Place – Bob Durocher for “Close Friends”
Honorable Mention – Bruce Heaton for “Shutters Of Ponte Vecchio”
A SPECIAL RECOGNITION/People’s Choice award was given to:
Jim Collmer for “Sunrise On Big Sur”
Please see the photos of the winners in this section of the website
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL!
