Category: Competitions

End of year competition 2016

Stephen Edmonds

A reminder that entries for our end of year competition are due on Tuesday 25 October, less than two weeks away. Of images entered throughout the year, members can select from those to enter the end of year competition with two images in each of:

  • Open print
  • Colour EDI
  • Monochrome EDI

The entry must have been entered into a 2016 monthly competition and in the same format. A print must have been previously entered as a print, and an EDI must have been previously entered as an EDI. An EDI cannot be printed and entered as a print, or vice versa.

On Tuesday 25 October bring your prints along to be placed in the competition box, but do not resend your EDI files to the comptetion address, you only need to send through the filename of each entry.

There is also the President’s Trophy, no topic has yet been set, but those entries are not due until towards the end of November.

June 2016 ‘People’ results

Stephen Edmonds

Printed images of the month


A grade: Vicki Moritz – Wilson inlet tree


B grade: Christopher Herft – Havan a smoko

Open EDI images of the month


A Grade: Vicki Moritz – Canal rocks Pano


B Grade: Marie Shaw – Last light

Set subject EDI images of the month


A Grade: George Skarbek – Young bikie


B grade: Angela McLeod – Beach Babe

April 2016 ‘Weather’ results

Stephen Edmonds

Printed images of the month


A grade: John Mallett – Where Is It


B grade: Julie Kemp – Beauty and the Beast

Open EDI images of the month


A Grade: Craig Francisco – Lotus Flower – Redux for Dave


B Grade: Alan Bennett – RX777

Set subject EDI images of the month


A Grade: Anthony Yap – MistCover


B grade: Julie Madders – Window of Rain

Lightroom export settings for club competitions in 2016

Stephen Edmonds

For members that use (or are thinking about using) Lightroom, here is an (updated) example of the settings to use when exporting images for our monthly competitions:

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The file settings section is where you set it to JPEG, ensure the colour space of the exported file is sRGB (doesn’t matter what your source image is, the export will be sRGB) and enable a file size limit (JPEG quality is automatically adjusted to achieve this which is why quality is greyed out).

In the image sizing section is where you size the image. These settings will produce an exported image that fits within our maximum width of 1920 pixels and maximum height of 1080 pixels while maintaining the aspect ratio.

If you had to severely crop your image (eg you didn’t have a long enough zoom) then the don’t enlarge setting will not stretch out a small image to the 1920×1080 size that could result in a blurry or blocky image..

Ignore the resolution option. This is only a suggestion for printing, it has no impact on how many pixels are in the image. In general, unless you are scanning from or printing to a physical surface, don’t worry about ppi or dpi.

Once you have your export settings entered, you can save them as a user preset so that next time you just select the preset instead of going into the export dialog.

February 2016 ‘Industrial landscape’ results

Stephen Edmonds

Printed images of the month


A grade: Cuc Chong – Hidding Hatter


B grade: Marie Shaw – Calmness

Open EDI images of the month


A Grade: Cuc Chong – Red Queen of Spades


B Grade: Marlene Chaitra – I don’t share


B Grade: Julie Kemp – CUPPA TIME

Set subject EDI images of the month


A Grade: Geoff Shaw – Zinc Works Reflections


A Grade: Alan Scott – Smoking Mill


B grade: Colin Killick – Abandoned foundry Norway