N4C is expanding digital competitions this year, and will award points for the winners . In order for the winners of our competitions to be admissible in the N4C competitions, they must meet certain criteria. The rules for the LCC digital competitions follow.
1. All photos to be either of the following two N4C categories:
Pictorial Photography--all photo subjects qualify; “interest” accounts for 1/3 of the score.
Nature--photos must be absent any evidence of the presence of, or interference by man. Zoo animals are accepted if the setting is natural with no depiction of the cage or bars. Domestic animals and plants are rejected.
2. Photos may be with digital camera, or scanned from film.
3. Photographs must be taken by the entrant.
4. Entrants give LCC and N4C the right to reproduce their images in any way.
5. Images must be in .jpg format.
6. Maximum image size is 1024 pixels by 768 pixels. Max. file size is 500 kb.
7. Naming your image files is critical: follow this example: 01,LR028,DP,Beautiful Sunset.jpg
01 = to be used by Competition Committee
LR028 = LR indicates Lincoln Camera Club. 028 is entrant’s personal N4C member number (contact Darlene Duvall if you do not have a number assigned).
DP = contest category (DP is for “Pictorial“, DN is for “Nature“).
Beautiful Sunset = image title
Note: .jpg is the file extension; commas are required as indicated.
8. Images may be sent by e-mail to Darlene Duvall
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by the competition meeting date, or brought to the competition meeting on CD.
9. Maximum of 3 entries per person per category for a total of 6 entries. No distinction is made between black and white, and color images.
10. Images may be manipulated as desired.
11. Judging will be at the “Competition” night announced in the Bulletin and Website.
Digital Competition 