The Interclub Competition is a digital (online only) photographic competition with the following categories for 2024.
The Inter Club Categories are:
- Open Monochrome
- Open Colour
- Creative/Altered Reality
- Nature, and
- Australian Landscape
Set Subject Category
This is an Individual category where any member from a Northern NSW Zone Club can enter up to four images, provided the entrant pays the required entry fee. For 2024 it is $1 per entry, payable to your club. Your club will be charged after close of entries.
Category 1 – Open Monochrome
- Any photograph containing shades of only one colour (including black and white).
- If toning is carried out, it must be over the total photograph; partial toning and/or the addition of one extra colour is not acceptable in a monochrome section.
Category 2 – Open Colour
Any photograph that is not monochrome.
Category 3 – Altered Reality / Creative
- This section is the extension of conventional photography into creative art.
- This is an image that has been created in camera (for example motion blur, double exposure) or had post processing manipulation and artistic effects added.
- The image must have a basic photograph origin, the original exposure and all post processing must be the work of the Image Creator.
- The storytelling element of the image should be considered.
- Art appropriation is not permitted. The use of other people’s artwork in images as a dominate element is not permitted.
Category 4 – Nature
- Nature photography records all branches of natural history except anthropology and archaeology. This includes all aspects of the physical world, both animate and inanimate, that have not been made or modified by humans.
- Nature images must convey the truth of the scene that was photographed. A well-informed person should be able to identify the subject of the image and be satisfied that it has been presented honestly and that no unethical practices have been used to control the subject or capture the image. Images that directly or indirectly show any human activity that threatens the life or welfare of a living organism are not allowed.
- The most important part of a Nature image is the nature story it tells.
- A complete description and definition of Nature is available in the FCC Definitions document. The link is provided at the end of the “General Rules for Inter Club Competitions”, on this page.
Category 5 – Australian Landscape
- A photograph of Australian natural land or coastal scenery, which may include people, buildings, animals, or other objects (example manmade roads/tracks & fences) provided these elements do not dominate the photograph.
- Elements such as cultivated fields, farms and astrophotography are permitted but must not dominate the photograph. Seascapes with no land do not fit the section.
- No modification that changes the truth of the Landscape image is allowed. Images may be cropped but no other technique that removes, adds to or moves any part of the image is allowed.
- A complete description and definition of Australian Landscapes is available in the FCC Definitions document. The link is provided at the end of the “General Rules for Inter Club Competitions”, on this page.
Set Subject Individual entrant Competition
Individuals are responsible for uploading their images onto the competition site at the MyPhotoClub website. The link button is located at the top of the page.
Closing date for entries: late February or Early March 2024. Date will be advised when decided.
- Individuals may enter a maximum of 4 images in total. This applies to individuals who may be members of more than one club
- The entries shall be submitted on behalf of the entrant NOT their club
- An entry fee of $1 shall be charged for each entry (Pay your $1 to your club, and each club will receive an invoice for those entries.)
- Entries must be in jpeg format ready for viewing on screen by projection
- Maximum width is 1920 pixels
- Maximum height is 1200 pixels
- Maximum size is 3MB
TOPIC for 2024:
“Abstract”
Definition:
An arrangement of colours and/or shapes which are not recognisable as known objects, although they may suggest any object or scene.
Explanatory Notes:
Sometimes called non-objective, experimental, conceptual or concrete photography, is a means of depicting a visual image that does not have an immediate association with the object world and has been created through the use of photographic equipment, processes or materials. An abstract photograph may isolate a fragment of a natural scene in order to remove its inherent context from the viewer, it may be purposely staged to create a seemingly unreal appearance from real objects, or it may involve the use of colour, light, shadow, texture, shape and/or form to convey a feeling, sensation or impression.
Medium: Digital Image
GENERAL RULES FOR INTER CLUB COMPETITIONS
- Each Club may enter a maximum of ten (10) entries in each Competition Category
- Each individual Member may contribute a maximum of three (3) images in each Category
- Each individual entry must have been exposed by the person making the entry who shall be a Member of an affiliated Club. All digital images must be the work of the author.
- An individual may not enter the same image in different Categories in the same year.
- Each Club must police its own entries.
- An individual may not re-enter an image from one year in any Category in any subsequent Inter-Club Competition.
- All Competitions shall be of “Open” subject unless otherwise specified.
- The Co-ordinating Club is responsible for disqualifying any entry that does not comply with the Zone Entry Rules.
- The Inter-Club Competition shall include the sections Monochrome, Colour, Creative, Nature and Australian Landscape ONLY and excludes the Set Subject.
- Northern Zone now follows FCC NSW guidelines and rules pertaining to competition rules and categories, including (now) the rule that AI cannot be used for generating any part of an image.
- The current FCC NSW Rules in 2023 can be found here: https://fccnsw.myphotoclub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/143/2023/03/FCC-Competition-Definitions.pdf
Electronic digital images.
Entries must be in .jpg format ready for viewing on a screen or by projection.
The maximum width is 1920 pixels.
The maximum height is 1200 pixels.
The maximum size is 3MB
Colour profiles – it is suggested that entrants send images in sRGB Colour space as images will be viewed on sRGB displays.
Each image submitted must only contain the image title. Letters only, no characters, with spaces between. (Please also exclude “copy”, or “01” or “02” unless it specifically applies to the image name). No Underscores between words within the title, quotation marks, etc.
EG: My Image Title
NOT My_Image_Title-01 (copy) or John “Citizen” Smith
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