CAPA Fine Art Competition  

  
Submit by:  
30 December 2024 

CAPA is looking for innovative and creative images that express a unique vision.  They encourage creativity in composition and execution.  Pictures of individuals experiencing homelessness, infirmity or personal crisis will not be accepted.

There are five themes this year:

  • Abstract - the creative use of shape, colour, light and composition in new ways, or with a fresh perspective, can make an everyday scene abstract.
  • Landscape - urban or rural, creative perspectives and lighting can create a compelling landscape of any environment.
  • Wildlife - innovative composition or new perspectives on animals, birds, insects or reptiles can go beyond merely capturing their appearance.
  • Portrait - Indoors or outdoors, individuals or groups taken with a fresh innovative approach with respect to composition and lighting are welcome.
  • Still Life - artistic arrangements of inanimate objects using lighting, depth of field and perspective can find beauty in ordinary things.

 

Open Editing

All  in-camera, on-camera and post-processing techniques can be used except those using AI generative technology. All elements contained in the submitted images including replacement skies, textures and added elements must have been taken by the submitting photographer. Elements contained in an image can be removed.  No digital frames or mats are permitted.  Triptychs are permitted.

CAPA's permitted machine learning AI rules continue to evolve.  As of May 28, 2024, CAPA has identified 8 post-capture processors which use AI generative technology:  Canva, Lightroom, Luminar Neo, Photoroom, Photoshop, Picsart, Pixlr, and Stylar AI.  The generative features in these applications are not permitted.

AI machine learning features which ARE permitted include (as of May 28, 2024): Luminar Neo's "AI Structure", "AI Sky Replacement", and "AI Skin Enhancer";  ON1 Photo Raw's "AI Auto Enhance", "AI Match Batch Processing", and "AI No-Noise";  DxO PhotoLab's "DeepPRIME denoising, sharpening and PRIME deblurring";  Topaz Labs AI's "Gigapixel AI", "DeNoise AI", and "Sharpen AI";  and Photoshop 2024 tools that DO NOT trigger the Firefly algorithm, including "Spot Healing Brush", "Remove Tool", "Healing Brush Tool", "Patch Tool", "Content-Aware Move Tool", "Re-eye Tool", "Clone Stamp Tool" and "Pattern Stamp Tool".  If in doubt, review CAPA's updated web site.

The latest Lightroom Classic release (13.3.1) now has a "generative remove" tool where there was once the "Heal" Tool, and which is now called the "Remove" Tool.  As a "generative" AI tool that uses Adobe Firefly, it will fall into the list of Disallowed tools.  Also in the latest Lightroom Classic, the new "Lens Blur" is permitted as it is not an AI generative tool. 

Images created totally electronically with no photographic origin, including renderings generated via text prompts, are prohibited.  Images must be captured in either British Columbia or the Yukon, by a light-sensitive device or surface and recorded on paper, film or in a digital format.  Post capture treatments using artificial intelligence and third party pre-sets may not add or generate textures or elements not captured by the photographer.  The original RAW or JPEG of Potential winning images may be requested.  CAPA uses a variety of techniques and proprietary algorithms to detect generative AI. 

Colour, black & white, monochrome and infrared images are permitted.

Submissions

Club members may submit up to two photos by December 30, 2024 for consideration for the VC Club entry of 6 images by different members. Individual CAPA members may submit up to 3 images to CAPA for the Individual portion of this competition, which closes January 30, 2025. 



 

     

Specifications

  1. Images should be in JPEG format, maximum 1400 pixels on the horizontal x 1050 on the vertical in size

  2. Note: One of the dimensions must be exactly the maximum allowed size (either 1400 or 1050 pixels).

  3. sRGB colour space and have a maximum file size of 1.8 MB

  4. Maximum number of submissions per VCC member is two.                                                                                                                                  See 2025 Fine Art Competition for more information.

   

VCC Results

  • 2024/25:
    Results are in on the CAPA Fine Art competition.  VCC placed 12th out of 46 clubs.  No awards for us in the "club" competition, but still, a respectable showing.  Congratulations to Geof Squarok, "Reflections - Four Eyes on the Pond" (25 points), Anne McCarthy, "Layers of Me" (23.5 points), Normand Marcotte, "Urban Art" (23.5 points), Kathryn Delany, "Hummingbird Notes", (23 points), Ron Charles, "Bound by Nature", (22 points) and Jim Fowler, "Great Blue Feathers", (22 points).  In the Individual portion of the competition, Kathryn Delany won an Honour Award for her three images.

    See the gallery to the right.

  • 2019/20: 
    • Victoria Camera Club placed 17th out of 32. See the gallery
  • 2017/18: 
    • Victoria Camera Club came in tied for 8th place. The good news is that Dan Takahashi's image "The Moment" placed third overall and was given a merit Award Ribbon. See the gallery

  • 2016/17:
    In 2016, Victoria Camera Club tied for 4th, earning an Honourable Mention Award. This was considerably higher than our 9th place finish in 2015 and our 16th place in 2014.  See the gallery
  • 2015/16: 
    Victoria Camera Club placed 9th in 2015 which is a major improvement from finishing 16th in 2014. Meherzad Romer did us all proud by having the highest scoring image (28 points) for his excellent image "Intricacy in Simplicity"! See the gallery

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