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The Victoria Camera Club and its members have entered into compeititons since the salons of its earliest years. In their modern form, competitions serve to stimulate the search for that "perfect" image and to provide an opportunity to develop one's skills and techniques. See the VCC Awards History here.
New in 2009-2010
Click here for the complete set of guidelines to Victoria Camera Club Competitions 2009-10 (pdf).
The VCC Upload Manager, used to enter your images to this year's Club Competitions, is available for both PCs and Macintosh computers.
Click here to obtain your copy of the PC version: VCCUploadManager.
Click here to obtain your copy of the Mac version: VCCUploadManager.
Highlights
A quote from the guidelines: "The VCC Competitions Committee, along with the Club Executive, has developed a new and exciting program for this year with changes that will make it easier and more fun to participate. Rather than having specific months dedicated to either Nature or Open, we now have those competition categories each and every month, along with a new Theme category. This last one should be attractive to those members who would like to challenge themselves in areas they would not normally explore. And, whereas in the past it was only possible to submit in one digital category each month, members are now able to submit in three.
These changes should make for a really exciting competition year with many varied opportunities for members to be involved."
Bobbie Carey and Michael Lambie
Categories and Media: Seven categories including a new Themed Topic each month. Broad scope for digital, print and film slide entries. See the guidelines for the full details.
Entries: Up to six entries per month with a maximum of two in a given category. Nature and Open will be clearly differentiated. Monochrome prints will include both. See the guidelines for the full details.
Aggregate Awards: A new Grand Aggregate award will be added to those for each category. See the guidelines for the full details.
Year-End Competitions: Montlhy winners (1st, 2nd and 3rd) plus ONE additional image per category may be entered. See the guidelines for the full details.
Submissions: This year there is a user friendly "VCC Upload Manager" application to be used for submitting digital files along with digital versions of print files for critique night display. See the pointer near the top of this page to obtain your copy. The program will also be used to prepare submissions via USB stick or CD by those without the Internet. See the guidelines for the full details.
Digital Image Sizes: The pixel dimensions for digital images (for all three Digital categories) include a maximum of 1024 pixels in the horizontal direction AND a maximum of 768 pixels in the vertical direction. That means that the entire screen area covered by our digital projector (1024x768 pixles) can be utilized. It does mean that horizontal (or landscape) formats will be able to utilize a larger space than will be the case for vertical (or portrait) formats.
Naming Image Files: File names for all entries must use the format of the following example: Trees in Winter.jpg. Use spaces as required between words in the title. Do not use your name in the file title (changed from last year). Your name now goes up top on the "VCC Upload Manager" submission.
Open and Nature: For Colour Print and Digital media, there will be a clear separation of the Open and Nature categories. Images meeting the definition of Nature (below) must be entered in the Nature Category. Images not meeting that definition must be entered in the Open category.The Monochrome Print media is Open, in that case including Nature subjects. See the guidelines for the full details.
1. Definition
- VCC, along with CAPA, has adopted the International Federation of
Photographic
Art (FIAP) nature definition as follows:
“Nature photography depicts living, untamed animals and uncultivated
plants in a natural habitat, geology and the wide diversity of natural
phenomena, from insects to icebergs.
Photographs of animals which are domesticated, caged or under any form
of restraint, as well as photographs of cultivated plants are
ineligible.
Minimal evidence of humans is acceptable for nature subjects, such as
barn owls or storks, adapting to an environment modified by humans, or
natural forces, like hurricanes or tidal waves, reclaiming it.
The original image must have been taken by the photographer, whatever
photographic medium is used.
Any manipulation or modification to the original image is limited to
minor retouching of blemishes and must not alter the content of the
original scene.
After satisfying the above requirements, every effort should be made to
use the highest level of artistic skill in all nature photographs.”
2. Cropping - Any degree of cropping may be carried out. The photographer must remain vigilant, however, with respect to potential image quality losses due to over cropping, particularly when the cropped image is to be printed.
3. Image Processing - Stipulations regarding use of filters, plug-ins and other tools have been removed. Best available processing tools may be used but results should appear natural and such that, as noted in the definition above, the contents of the original scene are not altered.
Our Club Competition Schedule for 2009-2010
Entries are due on the second meeting date of the month (October 15, November 19, etc.)
See our Calendar page for the listings.
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[Note: Schedules for CAPA competitions for 2009-10 TBA.]
CAPA 2008-2009 Competition Guide (pdf)
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This event is held in March each year by the North Shore Photographic Society. Click here for this year's poster and on-line ticketing address.
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The Lions Gate Camera Club, in Vancouver, BC, hosts an annual Celebration of Nature Photography competition. Jim Craig will coordinate the Victoria Camera Club's entries this year. Check here for all the details on Celebration of Nature Photography 2009 (pdf).
Please read carefully the rules and image specifications on the linked poster. Your image file names should contain both the image title and your name (Tree Frog-Jim Craig.jpg). Jim will add the proper file name c/w the club designation as specified in the competition rules to each of the ten (10) images selected to be sent.
Kindly e-mail your images to Jim Craig no later than November 5, 2009.
If, for some reason you are unable to submit via email, or if you have any further questions, please feel free to contact Jim.
For your information, the judges for this competition will be:
Chris
Harris,
Darwin
Wiggett
and
John Marriot.
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In 2006 Douglas Bain conceived of a friendly competition between his new camera club here in Victoria and his former club, the Eastwood Photographic Society, in Scotland. With help from Gordon Simpson in Victoria and Jim McCreary in Scotland a successful competition was held which showcased work done on both sides of the Atlantic. Eastwood prevailed with 308.5 points to our 287.0. The images and judges' comments can be viewed here.
The second annual competition between the Victoria Camera Club and the Eastwood Photographic Society has now been successfully completed. In a reversal of fortunes, Victoria edged Eastwood in another close duel. View all the images, judges comments and marks awarded by each of the two judges here.
Andy Lessard coordinated the third annual competition on behalf of the Victoria Camera Club. Victoria eked out a narrow margin to win the rubber match. The full report of results can be viewed here.
The rules are as follows:
You are invited to view the Eastwood Photographic Society website and to peruse their newsletter, Thru the Lens.
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