Waverley Camera Club

Entering your images in our competitions is a very good way to learn to take “better” photographs. The word ‘better’ is in quotes because quality in an image is largely in the eye of the beholder – what appeals to one judge may differ from what appeals to another. It is also true that art photographs differ from, for example, family or holiday photographs – a perfectly good family photograph may not make a successful art photograph. But there are some absolute guidelines as to what constitutes a good photograph, and by competing you do learn to take better photographs.

Waverley Camera Club runs a program of monthly competitions within the Club, and also competes several times a year against other clubs in Inter Club Competitions.

Members can also enter National and International competitions.

Monthly competitions

Club members are divided into two levels, A grade and B grade. Within each grade are two competitions, printed images and EDI (Electronic Digital Images).

For all four of these monthly competitions a guest judge will provide feedback (concentrating on the B grade images as it is assumed that the A graders already know what they are doing) and will award Merits and Highly Commended’s to any images they feel are deserving of such awards. One image from each competition will also be nominated as a monthly winner.

On a judging night, the guest judge , after providing their feedback and awards for the entered images, will usually give a talk on their own field of interest.

Points are awarded as follows:

• Merit award – 2 aggregate points
• Highly commended award – 3 aggregate points
• Image of the Month – 1 additional aggregate point

Promotion from B to A grade will be via two routes. The B grader with the highest aggregate in a year will automatically go up to A grade. Additionally any member who accumulates a 30 point aggregate total over the term of their membership will be promoted to A grade.

• Monthly competition results
• E Mail Your EDI Images

2010 schedule

The set topic is only mandatory for A grade entries. The B grade competition is open every month, however the set topic may be followed if the entrant wishes.

Rules

• Members are in either A grade or B grade
• Two printed images per member per month
• Two EDI (Electronically Displayed Images) per member per month
• Entries must be submitted by the first Tuesday in the month prior to the competition
• The same image cannot be used in both EDI and print competitions unless significantly altered
• Printed images are to be mounted, not framed
• A digital copy of each printed image is also submitted for projection during the meeting
• EDI entries (and digital copies of printed images) are to be:
  • Submitted via email to comp@waverleycameraclub.org or on CD to competition steward
  • JPEG of 1MB (1024KB) or less
  • no more than 1024 pixels wide and 768 pixels tall
  • Digital images are named in following format format: WCCLPYYMM-##Z-title
    • L is the level, A or B
    • P denotes that the image is an EDI version of a submitted print
    • YYMM is year and month of the competition, must be 4 digits
    • ## is your member number, 2 digits
    • Z is used to distinguish entries, A or B
    • title is the chosen title of the image

File naming examples:

• WCCA1005-20B-Waterfall.jpg would be the filename of the second EDI entry from A grade member 20 for the May 2010 competition.
• WCCBP1005-21A-Daisies.jpg would be the filename for the digital copy of the first printed image from B grade member 21 for the May 2010 competition.