Definition:
The subject matter is unrestricted in this Open competition. You can enter anything from Creative to Wildlife.
This competition will be held four times each competition year, beginning in the fall. Judgings will be in November, January, March, and May. Any club that is a PSA member may chose to compete as a club, with honours awarded to individuals, and to the clubs with the highest accumulated points for the year. The photographs will be digital only (traditional film images scanned into digital format or direct from digital cameras), and will meet PSA’s general requirements for photographs entered into exhibitions. (The photographic work must be the maker’s, commercial clip art is not allowed, etc.) The category is Open, and includes post processing alterations.
Each club may enter up to 6 images per competition from 6 different makers. A full complement for one season would be 24 images. Depending on the number of participants, clubs will be divided into five groups.
Images shall be scored from 1 to 5, with the maximum total score of 15 possible. Twenty per cent of the scores will be eligible for honours, based on highest scores. Once the approximately 20% have been selected, the judges will select approximately one half for Honourable Mentions, and one half for Awards. Finally, from the awards only, one image will be selected as Best of Show.
Please note: Individuals may not enter images through two different clubs.
Once an image has been entered into the Interclub PID Competition, it is ineligible for re-entry in this competition even if the maker moves to another club the following year. No two clubs may submit images by the same maker.
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Specifications
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Images should be in JPEG format, maximum 1400 pixels on the horizontal x 1050 on the vertical in size
- RGB or sRGB colour space
- Maximum number of submissions per VCC member is two
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VCC Results
The Victoria Camera Club had a good result, tying for 5th out of 26 clubs in Group C of the PSA Open Round 1. Ian Clay and Lorna Scott were given Awards of Merit for their submissions. In the 2nd Round of the PSA Open, the Victoria Camera Club registered a 6th place tie among 24 clubs. Daniel Rondeau won an Award of Merit and Judy Johnston was awarded an Honourable Mention. For the first two Rounds we are tied for 5th place. In the third round of the PSA Open competition, the VCC tied for 10th place. For the final result including all three rounds we placed a respectable 6th. Congratulations to Mike Wooding for his Honourable Mention. See gallery at right
This year, due our success last year, we were bumped up to Group C. In Round 1, Steve Smith’s “Lake Runners” won an Award of Honour and Lois Burton’s image “Maybe Tomorrow” earned an Honourable Mention. Congratulations to both of them. The VCC placed 5th out of 24 camera clubs. In Round 2, the VCC placed 7th out of 25 camera clubs, with Mark Sicherman receiving an Award of Honour and Steve Sproston receiving an Honourable Mention. In Round 3, we came in 2nd place out of 23 clubs in Group C ....another great result. Four of our six submissions won awards! Gordon Griffiths and Rick Shapka won Awards of Honour and Leah Gray and Kim Smith won Honourable Mentions. For the year we tied for 4th place after 3 rounds and placed 12th out of 126 clubs in all five groups. See the gallery. Watch the Results Video
The VCC competed in group D this year against 23 other clubs. Fourteen of the 24 images submitted this year received PSA awards. VCC Members receiving awards were Suzanne Huot, Rick Shapka, Evan Guengerich, Christine Hutchins Gallagher, Mike Wooding, Peter Koelbleitner, Leah Gray and Michael Murchison. We placed 2nd in the 1st round, 1st in the second round, 1st in the third round, and tied for 3rd in the fourth round.
The final results for the year have been announced! The Victoria Camera Club had a total score of 281 points which was good enough for 1st place among the 23 clubs in Group D and 2nd place among 126 clubs overall, which was a repeat of our outstanding performance of last year! This means that for 2019/20 we will move up to Group C. Congratulations to all who participated. See the gallery
- 2017/18
In the four rounds of competition in Group E of the Interclub Digital Open Competition, the VCC placed first in the first three and third in the fourth. This resulted in a final first place finish among 38 camera clubs! In fact out of all 130 clubs in all five groups, we came in second! Truly a remarkable achievement. See the gallery
Equally impressive, eleven out of the twenty-four images that were submitted received awards, including five Awards of Merit and five Honourable Mentions. Special congratulations are due to Jonathan Adams for his "Pixie by Starlight" image which took Best of Show in Round 2.
Due to our strong performance we will be move up to Group D for the 2018-19 season. For more details on this competition and the individual awards please click on this link. >> read more
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