SFCC may 2025 Photo Contest

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The Sioux Falls Camera Club holds two competitions for members each year, in December and May. Categories are Color Pictorial, Color Nature and Black & White. 

(***Descriptions of categories are listed below***)

FOR THE MAY 2025 CLUB PHOTO CONTEST:

Please submit your entries to sfcameraclub@gmail.com

Subject line:   "May Contest Entries" 

ALL ENTRIES MUST BE SUBMITTED  NO LATER THAN THE EVENING OF APRIL 30! 

LABEL YOUR PHOTOS AS FOLLOWS:

For Nature:  (Your name).(Title of Your Photo)1.DN.jpg

For Color Pictorial: (Your name).(Title of Your Photo)2.CP.jpg

For Black and white: (Your name).(Title of Your Photo)3.BW.jpg

The email address is:   sfcameraclub@gmail.com.

Subject line:   "May Contest Entries" 

Remember that the deadline for submission is the April 30!

As always, your submitted images must be in the JPEG format and be 1920 pixels or less on the longest side and file size no more than 750 kb.  If you do not know how to size your photos, please reach out to the club and someone will help you.

Everything you need to know in order to submit photos to the SSCF competition is listed below. Please read these instructions carefully.

LABEL YOUR PHOTOS AS FOLLOWS:

For Nature:  (Your name).(Title of Your Photo)1.DN.jpg  

For Color Pictorial: (Your name).(Title of Your Photo)2.CP.jpg

For Black and white: (Your name).(Title of Your Photo)3.BW.jpg

*****The Catagories are:

Nature (DN) -  Nature Photography is the recording of our natural world by some photographic means. Included are all branches of nature except Archeology and Anthropology.

1. No photograph is worth distress or injury to any wild creature.

2. Nature photographs may be either black & white or color.

3. The hand of man shall not be present in any nature entry except where wild animals have adapted to the built environment (e.g., fence posts and other man-made objects freely adapted for use by wild creatures). 4. Banding or tagging on nature subjects is acceptable. Photographs at bird feeders are not acceptable if any part of a man-made feeder is shown in the photograph.

5. Photographs taken in zoos, animal farms, or game farms are acceptable if the hand of man is not visible. 6. Domestic animals, and pets are not acceptable. Adjustments must look natural. The use of HDR, exposure blending, focus stacking, stitching, and related techniques that combine more than one image is acceptable, provided the resulting image is natural in appearance.  

Color Pictorial(CP) -  In pictorial photography, the artistic quality of the presentation is emphasized. The subject itself is not restricted: All subjects qualify. Pictorialism emphasizes beauty of subject matter, tonality, and composition as opposed to documentation. Thus, there is more freedom for artistic interpretation.

1. The Pictorial category is well-suited for use of modern digital techniques, including HDR, exposure blending, focus stacking, stitching, and related techniques that combine more than one image.

2. At the time of writing, computational photography is emerging as a rapidly growing field. The Pictorial category is receptive to the use of modern photographic techniques and innovations, provided the intent of the photograph is to present an artistic interpretation of recognizably real subjects.

Black & White (BW) - The Black & White category is similar in character to Pictorial, except that the Black & White category is for monochrome images. Images are limited to monochromatic hues or shades of gray, although filters may be applied to give a hue or tint. Different photographic processes and toners give a different hue to a black & white photograph, for example, selenium, sepia, and split toning (duo-toning). 

1. No fraction of the image shall be given a special color treatment. 

2. Black & White prints and digital images may be created from a. black & white film, b. digital black & white captures, or c. digital color images converted to black & white.

3. The use of HDR, exposure blending, focus stacking, stitching, and related techniques that combine more than one image is acceptable. 

Each image must be labeled in the following fashion:

For Nature:  (Your name).(Title of Your Photo)1.DN.jpg

For Color Pictorial: (Your name).(Title of Your Photo)2.CP.jpg 

For Black and white: (Your name).(Title of Your Photo)3.BW.jpg

*****Remember the images must be no more than 1920 pixels on the longest side and the file size must be less than 750KB. 

*****When you are ready to submit your images, send them to sfcameraclub@gmail.com

Please put “  "May Contest Entries" ” in the subject line of your email 

Please get your images in no later than the evening of April 30!!!!!