2019 - 2020 Assignments
2019
January---Kids Expressions
February---Black and White
March---Antique Toys
April---Old Paint
June---Outside My Window - any shot taken while looking out your window
July---Night Time Shot
August---Rusted
September---Old Transportation
October---Walls and or Fences
November---Time to do Barns again, old, new falling down or something about it that makes it special
December---No Competition this month
2020
Churches - inside or outside or landscape that includes the church
February---Black and White
March---Red - should be dominate color or have any significant "red" object in the photo
April---Leaves -all seasons, even winter from macro to a whole forest
MCC Monthly Contest Rules
1. A club photo contest will be held each month.
2. Contestants must be members in good standing to either enter or judge.
3. Divisions are "Assignment", "Open Division" and "Photo Art Division"-all print divisions.
4. Suggestions for assigiments shall be given in September, voted on in October and presented in November. Assignment
images may not be taken until after the release of the list in November. Open and Photo Art division s may be taken
anytime.
5. Print sizes: prints must be 8x10 minimum and no more than 16x20 inches maximum -Matts must be a minimum 11x14 and no more than 16x20 inches
6. All entries must be matted or mounted on mounting board.
7. Prints can be either digital or traditional chemically produced, can be either color or black and white and must be
contestants own photos.
8. Entries may not be obscene. The club has the right to reject any entry and the decision of the President/ and or board
is final.
9. Each contestant may enter up to three prints each month. Both in same division or split between divisions.
Note: Temporarily we are allowing 3 prints per contestant .
10. All entries must have a title on a club entry label placed on the back top center of the entry. No titles
are to be on the front of any print except in the photo art division. No names are to be on the club entry label until
after the judging.
11. No first place winning prints may be entered a second time in any MCC monthly contest.
12 Members may not vote for their own entries or any prints they have assisted in preparing.
13. Assignment prints may be brought in by another person for judging but all other divisions the maker must be present
for the judging.
2. Contestants must be members in good standing to either enter or judge.
3. Divisions are "Assignment", "Open Division" and "Photo Art Division"-all print divisions.
4. Suggestions for assigiments shall be given in September, voted on in October and presented in November. Assignment
images may not be taken until after the release of the list in November. Open and Photo Art division s may be taken
anytime.
5. Print sizes: prints must be 8x10 minimum and no more than 16x20 inches maximum -Matts must be a minimum 11x14 and no more than 16x20 inches
6. All entries must be matted or mounted on mounting board.
7. Prints can be either digital or traditional chemically produced, can be either color or black and white and must be
contestants own photos.
8. Entries may not be obscene. The club has the right to reject any entry and the decision of the President/ and or board
is final.
9. Each contestant may enter up to three prints each month. Both in same division or split between divisions.
Note: Temporarily we are allowing 3 prints per contestant .
10. All entries must have a title on a club entry label placed on the back top center of the entry. No titles
are to be on the front of any print except in the photo art division. No names are to be on the club entry label until
after the judging.
11. No first place winning prints may be entered a second time in any MCC monthly contest.
12 Members may not vote for their own entries or any prints they have assisted in preparing.
13. Assignment prints may be brought in by another person for judging but all other divisions the maker must be present
for the judging.
Editing Rules for the Different Divisions
All divisions: All entries must be taken and enhanced by the photographer.
Photos may be printed by an outside lab providing that lab makes
no other corrections to the print beyond what the photographer
has done.
Assignment Division: The purpose of these rules are to provide an even playing
field for all entries so an advanced photographer does not
have an advantage over a beginning one. It is also a test
of your ability with the camera and not an editing program.
1. You may flip a photo such as reversing a slide.
2. You may straighten the photo and correct keystoning.
3. You may reduce noise, dodge and burn, correct exposure, color
balance, white balance, saturation and sharpening.
4. HDR images are allowed as long as is not over the edge such as
what are sometimes referred to as "Grunge" photos.
5. YOU MAY NOT add elements to your photo or remove any major
elements other than by cropping.
Open Division: All the above rules apply to this division except you may now
remove elements such as beer cans , cigarette butts and power/
phone lines, etc. and replace bland skies with a different sky.
NOTE: You should help the enviroment by cleaning up the garbage
before you take the photo instead of doing it in Photoshop.
Photo Art Division: There are only a couple of rules here.
You may composite photos, run speciality filters, paint or any-
thing else as long as it is your own work. We ask if possible
for you to include a small photo(s) of your work so as to make
easier for the judges to understand and judge what you have
done.
Resize for "Digital Competition
Suggestions For Judging Catagories
ARTISTIC: is the "Wow Value" of a photo-the creative extra that makes a photo stand out from the
ordinary photo and makes people take a second or third look.
TECHNICAL: is the sharpness of focus, good exposure, etc., presentation such as neatness of matting
and mounting.
COMPOSITION: refers to how the subject and other objects and areas are arranged in the frame-such as
the rule of thirds, filling the frame with the subject when appropriate-the use of color,
saturation, light and dark areas, leading lines, avoiding such things as mergers. All
compositional techniques should help emphasize the subject.
ordinary photo and makes people take a second or third look.
TECHNICAL: is the sharpness of focus, good exposure, etc., presentation such as neatness of matting
and mounting.
COMPOSITION: refers to how the subject and other objects and areas are arranged in the frame-such as
the rule of thirds, filling the frame with the subject when appropriate-the use of color,
saturation, light and dark areas, leading lines, avoiding such things as mergers. All
compositional techniques should help emphasize the subject.
Monroe Camera Club Constitution and By-Laws
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