MGPS Digital Competition Submission

A pictorial representation of land, sea, seashore, or urban environments that captures the aesthetic appeal of these outdoor settings. It brings the viewer into the scenery and perfectly captures the setting, mood, and feeling in the location. It can focus on wide-angle shots of landforms, rivers, estuaries, seas, seashores, city skylines, streetscapes and the like. It may also involve closer shots of features of these environments. If humans or animals are in the image, they should not be the main foci, but rather be intentionally present to give a sense of scale to the image.

Lines come in many flavours and just as many ways to create them. Lines can be thick, thin, plain, single, contour, broken, continuous, curved or straight. Consider the composition when compiling the image.

Any digital image that has received an honour or merit in the last 12 months will be considered automatically.
However you can submit up to 8 images for particular consideration for the Interclub Competition by submitting 4 print and 4 digital images.

The selection will be done at the start of August, a panel of members will select 3 images that stand out for each of the following categories:
* Portrait (An image of a person or
persons from the waist up
only, not a full length shot.)
* Scapes (an expansive view, no dominant subject)
* High Key
* Water in Motion
* Animals
* SOCIAL DOCUMENTARY (Black & White)
* Non-A Grade Open (or Novice photographers for clubs who don’t have gradings)

An abstract image is an attempt to express an emotion, sensation or impression and does not attempt an accurate depiction of visual reality. It may involve the use of colour, light, shadow, texture or shape to achieve this. An abstract image may isolate a fragment of a natural scene in order to remove its inherent context from the viewer. It may be purposely staged to create a seemingly unreal appearance from real objects.

Any photograph containing shades of only one colour. If toning is carried out, it must be be over the total photograph-partial toning and/or the addition of one one or more colour is not acceptable in this monochrome section

The image must bring to mind the title of a book which is in the public domain, either recent or historical. This can be achieved either by word association or scene association with elements of the image providing clear clues as to the title of a valid book.
Name image with Book title

Refer to MGPS website competition page or Member handbook number 6.1 page 11

An image of any subject or genre

2 open images can be entered for both the digital and the print competitions.

This is for testing purposes only