Eligibility
Members’ dues must be fully paid be fore entering any competition. Club visitors cannot submit images for any competition. Entries must be the original work of the photographer submitting the work. The exact same image can only be entered in one regular club competition. Images submitted cannot be more than 4 years old. For more details, see the RULES.
Categories (including for Inter-Club Competition held at CCC)
Digital Images: Salon prints (matted, at least 5x7 but no larger than 16x20):
1) color 1) color
2) black & white 2) black & white
3) digital art
1) color 1) color
2) black & white 2) black & white
3) digital art
Entries
No member can submit more than ten (10) images (prints and/or electronic files). No more than three (3) entries may be submitted in any category. Two or more people constitute a competition in any category. If you are submitting salon prints, use this ENTRY FORM. For digital images, use the File Naming Rules below and submit to clubcoastalcamera@gmail.com.
File Naming Rules
Follow these rules when submitting any image to the Coastal Camera Club:
Files must be named using the following format:
X#$Coastal$LastName$FistName$ImageTittle$YYYY-MM.jpg
X = the type of file (Open, Digital Art, Black&White, etc) and YYYY-MM is the year and month of the event for which you are submitting the file. For example: O2$Coastal$Smith$John$The Red Barn$2011-01, this is an image titled The Red Barn by John Smith of the Coastal Camera Club to be submitted to a competition in January of 2011.
File Size (updated April 2016)
**Please remember the maximum size for competitions with the new projector is 1920 pixels wide by 1080 pixels tall. Important tips:
This is a maximum for each dimension; that is, if you have a square image, it must be sized to 1080x1080.
When emailing images, be sure your email program does not resize the images.
If the files are to be used in a club critique, they can be full size.
Images must be submitted to clubcoastalcamera@gmail.com with the subject line indicating the event for which you are submitting. If sending multiple images, they might need to be sent in more than one email.
Files must be named using the following format:
X#$Coastal$LastName$FistName$ImageTittle$YYYY-MM.jpg
X = the type of file (Open, Digital Art, Black&White, etc) and YYYY-MM is the year and month of the event for which you are submitting the file. For example: O2$Coastal$Smith$John$The Red Barn$2011-01, this is an image titled The Red Barn by John Smith of the Coastal Camera Club to be submitted to a competition in January of 2011.
File Size (updated April 2016)
**Please remember the maximum size for competitions with the new projector is 1920 pixels wide by 1080 pixels tall. Important tips:
This is a maximum for each dimension; that is, if you have a square image, it must be sized to 1080x1080.
When emailing images, be sure your email program does not resize the images.
If the files are to be used in a club critique, they can be full size.
Images must be submitted to clubcoastalcamera@gmail.com with the subject line indicating the event for which you are submitting. If sending multiple images, they might need to be sent in more than one email.