Contests & Critiques

Download the Meeting Contest Rules.

View results from Club Contests.

The Contest Rules are for internal contests held during club meetings. For Annual Contest rules, please refer to the Annual Contest menu item to the left of your screen. The purpose of the contest is to WIN of course!

The judge will be asked to provide feedback on the image.  It can be brief, but we encourage them to do so for our education and benefit. If you disagree with their judgment, you can discuss it with them after the meeting.   The photographer should not be known while the contest choices are being made.  When they choose the Honorable Mentions, 3rd place and 2nd place images, you will be asked to reveal your full name as the photographer.  First place participants do NOT announce their names until BEST OF SHOW is decided.

The following guidelines are presented to facilitate and improve upon our experience as a club, not rules to limit it. Any minor infractions that may arise can be over-ridden by the presiding officer at the meeting.

Eligibility - Open to members who have paid their current dues.

Media: We can no longer display prints; all of our images are digitally-uploaded to an FPT site.

The contest allows digital manipulation unless stated in the contest description. All images received should be generated from your original photographs (not a composite of elements of other images which are not your work).  Images should NOT BE GENERATED BY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) PROGRAMS

Number of Entries: For most contests or critiques, we allow a total of  FOUR (4) entries for each member. We have OPEN and THEMED categories.  If you have more than two (2) entered per category, we reserve the right to remove any additional images.  You may decide to enter images in each category, or in only one category.

Interpretation of a contest "category": The judge may reject an image that he/she may feel does not suitably fit within the category. For example, Stars may be expected to be celestial images, but Hollywood notables or a Christmas tree ornament may be entered. We allow flexibility unless it is stated otherwise; the final decision is made by the judge.

DIGITAL SUBMISSIONS

Your digital files must be renamed, resized, and formatted as a JPG image. Remember to save your image on your computer by using ‘Save As’ and saving it into a different folder. I create a  CPC CONTESTS folder on my computer,  Saving into this folder and renaming will safe-guard you from overwriting your original image. Please follow the naming protocol which will be provided in a CPC email, in the NEXT MEETING post, and/or in the Members Info tab.  Typically the naming convention is an indicator for the Theme category or OPEN  then your first name last initial and the image number *(01) or (02).  For example, in the Architecture contest images would be named ARCH DianneR (01) and in Open it would be OPEN DianneR (02).  This naming helps the images be easily separated for proper showing.

Upload deadline - Digital images must be uploaded to the site no later than 5:00 pm the Saturday before the Contest. It is possible that if you submit your image after that time it will be included in the images shown, however, we do not guarantee that the image will be in the contest.

Notification for sending in your digital submission - You will be notified by e-mail on how to name your image or where to find the instructions.  You can start your upload at that time. The email is usually sent to the membership a few days  prior to our meeting.

Digital images must be sized correctly - you use EITHER vertical or horizontal instructions; you do not need to meet both criteria. NOTE SINCE WE ARE NOW SHOWING THE IMAGES VIA ZOOM THE MAIN RESIZING REQUIRRMENT IS TO RESIDE TO 2MB or less.

• Vertical images are no taller than 1200 pixels (px). If your image is somewhat square, use the vertical pixel height.  (Check the horizontal side - it should be no wider than 1600 px.)
• Horizontal images are no wider than 1600 px.
• Images should be renamed and saved in JPG format.
• The size should be 2MB or less; larger file sizes may not upload

AND FINALLY...

Awards for contests will include first, second, third, and at least one honorable mention (or 10% of the entries for the category.)

The Winners (1st, 2nd, 3rd) and Honorable mentions will be posted to the website. The secretary will title the image with a description; if you wish a specific title for your winning image please announce the title before the end of the ZOOM or  send a note to info@churchvillephoto.club with the preferred title ASAP.

If we have scheduled an outside judge for a Contest and they do not appear, a club member who does not have a photo submission will be chosen as a judge for that Contest session.

Judges will be offering input on images.  The photographer can ask questions of the speaker, and visa versa.

NOTE DUE TO CHANGES IN THE VARIOUS CLUB'S EXECUTIVE BOARDS / OFFICERS ROSTER there has not been an interclub competition held since 2022.

2021-2022 INTERCLUB COMPETITION - the contest is scheduled for November 17th.

The InterClub committee has decided on the categories:
The categories will be open, surreal, motion, sky  and still life.
See the Club Meeting Schedule for full details.
The contest will be a ZOOM meeting.  Wait for the email to link to the contest.

Every year several clubs in the area compete for the coveted wooden Club Trophy. It's fun for every club and creates a friendly competitive edge for our club members.
Four clubs are participating:
Churchville Photography Club (CPC)
Doylestown Photography Club (DPC)
Cheltenham Photography Club (CPC2), and
Indian Valley Photography Club.
Images are assigned points by the judge(s).  The club with the highest score wins the honor of taking the Club Trophy home.

View results from past InterClub Competitions.  (Just a note, the 2020-2021 INTERCLUB COMPETITION was canceled DUE TO THE COVID-19 restrictions.)