The 1st Wednesday of each month is typically an Exhibition or Competition meeting. Check the calendar to determine if the meeting is an exhibition night or a competition night. Non-members may participate in exhibitions, but only club members may submit images for competitions. Any questions or concerns may be directed to the LTPC Competition Coordinators, currently Jane Richards, Chuck Rasco, and Michael Ryno.
Exhibitions and Competitions are designed to help expand our skills and challenge ourselves as photographers. There are Open competition nights where members can submit any genre of photography. Otherwise there are competition nights where members submit images related to specific topics. Any images submitted not relating to the competition genre focus will be moved to non competing. Topics are identified in the calendar events and defined in competition announcements. In addition to the competition nights, there are exhibition nights to help members improve their images through friendly and constructive member critique.
Exhibition Guidelines
- Members may submit up to 4 images total. Non-members are welcome to submit up to 2 images once a year without becoming a club member. If we have too many to view in one night the number of images may be reduced, as needed.
- Submit digital images for review and critique. All aspects of submitted work must be the work of the member artist. Use of online clipart or unoriginal image aspects are not allowed. No identifying marks such as watermarks and copyright marks can be visible on the front of the image.
- Upload digital image(s) by midnight on the Sunday prior to the Exhibition meeting.
Competition Guidelines
- Members must be present at the Competition meeting to enter. Exception is given for members to enter 2 competitions a calendar year in their absence due to vacations and work conflicts.
- Members may submit up to 4 images total, but no more than 2 in any category: Digital Color, Digital Black & White*.
* Black & White (B&W) images are defined as a photograph or picture developed or executed in black and white or tones of black and white only i.e. sepia tone. A black and white image with one other color is considered a color image. Please note that to support virtual meetings we only use two Digital categories. - Submit digital images for voting by club members and a photography professional guest judge. All aspects of submitted work must be the work of the member artist. Use of online clipart or unoriginal image aspects are not allowed. No identifying marks such as watermarks, digital signatures, and copyright marks can be visible on the front of the image, as the judging is completely anonymous.
- Once an image has been submitted for a club competition, it may not be submitted again. Changing an image from color to black and white, or altering an image by cropping, or other means of editing, does not constitute a new image. Submitting an image that has been previously submitted to a competition will result in disqualification of that image and forfeiture of any points awarded to that image.
- Upload digital image(s) by midnight on the Sunday prior to the competition meeting.
Competition Awards
Ribbons will be awarded in each category for a Judges Award*, 1st place, 2nd place, 3rd place, and honorable mention. Points will be assigned for purposes of calculating end of year LTPC awards, presented at the LTPC end of year celebration. Points will be assigned as:
- Judges Award* – 10 points
* In addition to member voting results, an assigned non-competing judge will critique and score each image from 5-10 points, selecting the best image from each category (digital color, digital black & white) for a Judges Award. - For every competition, each image receives the sum average of club member scores, plus the judge’s score. Images that are tied will receive the judge’s points, plus the winning image will receive one additional point (example: if three images score 10 from the judge, the final image selected by the judge to break the tie will receive 11 points); plus places for 1st, 2nd, 3rd and honorable mention will be used if there is a need to break a tie for the end of year awards.
Competition Skill Levels
There are three (3) different skill levels recognized by the club:
- Beginner / Intermediate (BI) – Members who are learning the basic operation of the camera and the basic concepts of composition, exposure, lighting, and post-processing of images. AND Members who are learning or comfortable with photography fundamentals and knowledgeable in the concepts of composition, exposure, lighting, and post-processing techniques for creating images.
- Advanced (A) – Members who are experienced in the technical aspects of the camera and proficient in the concepts of composition, exposure, lighting, and post-processing techniques for creating images. May be skilled in more than one genre of photography, for example, landscape, portrait, macro, photojournalism, wedding, etc.
- Professional (PRO) – Members who are professional photographers.
Submission Standards
Digital Images
- File type must be JPG or JPEG.
- Use a simple file name of no more than 40 characters. Avoid special characters such as apostrophes – most will be stripped from the file name during submission.
- Size images at least 2000 pixels on the long side. There are otherwise no longer image size restrictions. However, please note that depending on your network bandwidth, larger files may take longer to upload. We recommend limiting the file size to 4MB as large resolution images are not needed and can in fact slow down our viewing process. Also note that images will be reduced to optimal screen quality (no more than 800px wide or 600px high at 72dpi) before they are posted to LTPC websites / social media.
