DEADLINE IS MIDNIGHT OF THE SATURDAY PRIOR TO COMPETITION NIGHT.
Our club holds its competitions on the third Wednesday of the month. To compete, members must have paid their dues and all images must be made by the members.
To submit images you would submit them under www.gbccphotography. com.
Deadline is 12 noon of the Saturday prior to the competition night We strongly suggest you enter your images well before the competition deadline so that if you have any issues we can resolve them quickly. Please contact Mike Fernandez at mf10099@gmail.com and Pat Benham at pbenham09@gmaill.com if you have any problems.
Categories :
1 Digital Open Up to 2 entries are allowed. Classes are Salon, AA and A based on individual photographers abilities. Comments on one are allowed.
2 Monochrome Up to 2 entries are allowed. Classes are AA and A Monochrome images are Black and White and cannot have any color in them. But they can be sepia images. Comments on one are allowed.
3 Creative Artistry Up to 2 entries are allowed. Classes are AA and A. Creative Artistry allows makers to express themselves. Comments on one are allowed.
4 Assigned subjects 2 entries are allowed. There is just one class which is G for General. The subjects are chosen by members before the beginning of the season. The September assigned subject is always Nature . No Comments are allowed.
Nature Images This is our September assigned subject. We go by PSA and NECCC rules as follows;
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.
No “signs of man” are allowed in this category. For example roads or manmade paths or cultivated flowers allowed. Horses are not allowed in this competition. If you have any question on submitting Nature images please contact Pat Benham via email pbenham09@gmail.com
Format for Digital Competitions
Digital Size rules Submission: Images must be in JPG format and not jpeg. Images should be scaled to maximum of 1920 x 1080 for landscape, 1080 x 1080 for square and 1080 is the maximum height for portraits. The total size of the image should not be larger then 2 mgs.
If you find it difficult to resize with your software, at the ‘Members link page’ there is a free software, Faststone to download and that program makes it very simple to resize and add a border.
Please make sure to enter your class properly. Salon Class is for Digital competition only. Members may belong to different classes. You may be Salon in Digital, but AA in Mono etc.
PRINTS: GBCC does not have a print completion but we are a member of NECCC. They sponsor a print competition held at the Greater Lynn Photographic Association (GLPA). This year’s competition dates are Saturday, October 18, 2025 and Saturday, March 28, 2026.
This is a great way for printmakers to participate in an exciting print competition. The NECCC BOD hopes you will enter this free Individual Print Competition as we try to keep prints and print making attractive to competitors and alive in our photographic clubs and organizations.
For more information, please go to the NECCC.org website, go to competitions then individual print comp. Delete all the rest of that page
Correction Makeups:
Makeups give members the opportunity to catch up in your entries after missing competitions. You can begin to enter your makeups in the second competition night of the season. The maximum makeups per year are 4 per competition type.
That allows you to have 4 for digital or 4 for mono and so on. You can
enter up to 2 makeup entries into any single competition category in a single night.
This rule will allow you to submit 2 makeups for Digital, CA, or Mono in any competition night after the first competition night.
No makeups are allowed in Nature or Assigned.
Comments Policy
Comments are allowed for Digital, Mono and CA images. Members are allowed to have comments on one image in each of those category.
Nature and Assigned submissions do not get comments.
The option to ask for comments is in the website submission page along each submission. Please request one comment per category.
Image Of the Year Competition
We have a final competition in May called Image Of The Year. This is a competition
to select images previously entered in the season with special honors. In order to compete, you must have had entered at least 7 images in each of the different categories each season. Those categories are in Digital Open, Creative Artistry and Mono.
An email will be sent to every participant with all of their submissions eligible after the April regular competition for the year. Members can then use those images to enter in the May End of Year competition.
The ‘Image of the Year’ competition has prizes are 1st prize and 2nd prize. There is also a ‘Most Point Award. competition in each of the categories such as Digital Open, Creative Artistry and Mono.
Submissions are done by uploading your images to this website:
First you must login at ‘Members Login’.
User name and password are required. They are case sensitive.
Once logged, select ‘New Competition UPLOAD’ and fill the spaces.
You may comeback here as often needed to make changes, until closing time.
For more details in how to submit, see the ‘Uploading Guidelines’.
Use the back arrow in your browser to return to ‘The members page’
Fields to be filled in The “Submission Page” are:
—Image File This field will allow you to search in your own PC for a file to upload. No symbols allowed in the file name. No special renaming of the file required.
—Image Title: Enter the title and please do not use symbols, like *'”@_&^%~.
Keep it short.
—Competition Type: Select the type of your image.
—Your Class: Select ‘your class’ like A, AA or (S for Salon). This is needed for Judging on line.
—Sequence: Drop down the Sequence option, click the sequence wanted.
Review when sending more than one image per category.
Recall, only 2 images per competition type.
Makeups are extra. See makeup rules below.
—Comments: (Comments are optional, see above guidelines )
—Note(Not this season): Color Prints and Mono Prints needs the files to be submitted here.
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