DIGITAL WILDLIFE NATURE CLUB COMPETION
Definition: Nature photography is restricted to the use of the photographic process to depict all branches of natural history, except anthropology and archaeology, in such a fashion that a well-informed person will be able to identify the subject material and certify its honest presentation.
The story telling value of a photograph must be weighed more than the pictorial quality while maintaining high technical quality. Human elements shall not be present, except where those human elements are integral parts of the nature story such as nature subjects, like barn owls or storks, adapted to an environment modified by humans, or where those human elements are in situations depicting natural forces, like hurricanes or tidal waves.
Scientific bands, scientific tags or radio collars on wild animals are permissible.
Photographs of human created hybrid plants, cultivated plants, feral animals, domestic animals, or mounted specimens are ineligible, as is any form of manipulation that alters the truth of the photographic statement. No techniques that add, relocate, replace, or remove pictorial elements except by cropping are permitted.
Techniques that enhance the presentation of the photograph without changing the nature story or the pictorial content, or without altering the content of the original scene, are permitted including HDR, focus stacking and dodging/burning.
Techniques that remove elements added by the camera, such as dust spots, digital noise, and film scratches, are allowed.
Stitched images are not permitted. All allowed adjustments must appear natural. Color images can be converted to grey-scale monochrome. Infrared images, either direct-captures or derivations, are not allowed.
Images used in Nature Photography competitions may be divided in two classes: Nature and Wildlife. Images entered in Nature sections meeting the Nature Photography Definition above can have landscapes, geologic formations, weather phenomena, and extant organisms as the primary subject matter. This includes images taken with the subjects in controlled conditions, such as zoos, game farms, botanical gardens, aquariums and any enclosure where the subjects are totally dependent on man for food.
Images entered in Authentic Wildlife sections meeting the Nature Photography Definition above are further defined as one or more extant zoological or botanical organisms free and unrestrained in a natural or adopted habitat. Landscapes, geologic formations, photographs of zoo or game farm animals, or of any extant zoological or botanical species taken under controlled conditions are not eligible in Wildlife sections. Wildlife is not limited to animals, birds and insects. Marine subjects and botanical subjects (including fungi and algae) taken in the wild are suitable wildlife subjects, as are carcasses of extant species. Wildlife images may be entered in Nature sections of Exhibitions.
SPECIAL NOTE: The Australian Photographic Society Interpretation of Nature definition has been included on the CAPA website. This definition can be read here.
OUR CLUB CUTOFF DATE: Midnight March 1, 2015 to be emailed to seboles@telus.net
NOTE: Within 2 to 4 hours of you sending me your images, I will provide to you an acknowledge of receipt of your email message and attached images. If for some reason you don’t received my email message, please call me on my cel at (604)825-7084.
OUR CLUB SCORING DATE: March 4, 2015
DIGITAL OPEN CLUB COMPETITION
Definition: All subject matter is allowed in “Open”. The photographer can make enhancements in the camera (zooms, pans, multiple exposures, blurs, cropping) as well as modifications and enhancements using digital imaging software (HDR, focus-stacking, selective layering – using photographs of the same scene) to improve the overall presentation of the original captured image e.g., improved contrast/tonality, enhanced colour.
OUR CLUB CUTOFF DATE: Midnight March 1, 2015 to be emailed to seboles@telus.net
NOTE: Within 2 to 4 hours of you sending me your images, I will provide to you an acknowledge of receipt of your email message and attached images. If for some reason you don’t received my email message, please call me on my cel at (604)825-7084.
OUR CLUB SCORING DATE: March 4, 2015
DIGITAL PORTRAIT CLUB COMPETITION
Definition: A portrait is a photograph that displays the expression, personality, and mood of the subject, and is exclusively of humans. An image previously receiving an Award or HM in a Portrait Competition is not eligible for entry. By virtue of submitting an entry, the entrant certifies the work as his/her own and permits CAPA to reproduce all or part of the entered image free of charge for publication any of CAPA publications, CAPA website, DVD of competition winning images and our CAPA magazine. The CAPA competition assumes no liability for any misuse of copyright. The maker may alter images electronically or otherwise. Computer generated graphics and artwork created by the maker of the image may be incorporated, so long as the photographic content is predominating. **Winning photographers in Portrait Competition will be asked to provide a release signed by the subject or subject’s parent or guardian if the subject is 16 or under.**
OUR CLUB CUTOFF DATE: Midnight March 1, 2015 to be emailed to seboles@telus.net
NOTE: Within 2 to 4 hours of you sending me your images, I will provide to you an acknowledge of receipt of your email message and attached images. If for some reason you don’t received my email message, please call me on my cel at (604)825-7084.
OUR CLUB SCORING DATE: March 4, 2015
PRINT OPEN CLUB COMPETITION
Definition: A variety of subject matter is accepted including abstracts. The photographer can make enhancements in the camera (zooms, pans, multiple exposures, blurs, cropping) as well as modifications and enhancements using digital imaging software (HDR, focus-stacking, selective layering – using photographs of the same scene) to improve the overall presentation of the original captured image e.g., improved contrast/tonality, enhanced colour. Non-photographic components such as text, or computer-simulated imagery (which were not part of the original photograph) are not acceptable. No composites. Techniques that dramatically change the presentation of the original captured image must be entered in the ‘Altered Reality’ Competition.
Botany – includes images that portray uncultivated plant life such as trees, flowering and non-flowering plants, ferns, algae, fungi, etc. in their natural habitat. Photographs of domestic plants, artificially produced hybrid plants, flower arrangements etc are ineligible. Entrants are required to identify their botany images on the entry form for Botany award consideration: place a “B” on the right side of the entry number to indicate the image is a Botany entry. e.g. John Smith 1B Yellow wildflower.
OUR CLUB CUTOFF DATE: midnight March 1, 2015 to be emailed to seboles@telus.net
NOTE: Within 2 to 4 hours of you sending me your images, I will provide to you an acknowledge of receipt of your email message and attached images. If for some reason you don’t received my email message, please call me on my cel at (604)825-7084.
OUR CLUB SCORING DATE: March 4, 2015.
