Judging Courses 2023

Are you interested in learning how to evaluate and score photographic images or how to make a better image?

CAPA is pleased to provide our comprehensive and renowned course that teaches you how to look at and understand an image, comment on its strengths and opportunities, and correctly score it at Club and CAPA competitions. This full day course will make you a better photographer and includes a copy of the 100+ page CAPA Judges Manual.

You will quickly learn how to;

  • Identify The Strengths and weaknesses in a photograph
  • See the message the photographer intends
  • Spot the criteria that makes a photograph great
  • Understand the Techniques used to create the image
  • Set aside your own personal bias when evaluating
  • Apply a fair and impartial score to an image
  • Understand what judges look for in your photography
  • Discover new ways to evaluate photography
  • Know why it’s ok to break rules for great photography
  • First step to qualify to become a CAPA Certified Judge

Course Date: Sunday April 16, 2023 Full Day 9:00-5:30

Hosted by the Ottawa Camera Club
Location: Hintonburg Community Centre

(Limited to 30 people)

Course Date: Saturday Feb 4, 2023 Full Day 8:45-5:30

Hosted by the Camera 35 & CAPA Atlantic Zone
Location: Best Western Plus Airport Hotel, St. John’s

(Limited to 35 people)

CAPA Individual Members & Ottawa Camera Club Members $125.00
All Others $175.00

For more information on how to register for upcoming courses visit;
www.capacanada.ca/judging-courses

Oakville Camera Club Jan. 2023 News

On 02/06/2023, the Oakville Camera Club invites submissions for Capture Oakville Photography Competition – deadline Feb 6 at midnight. Open to all residents of Ontario.

For more info : http://www.captureoakville.com/

Or contact Jackie Gladman at info@oakvillecameraclub.com

Regina Camera Club Jan. 2023 News

On 01/31/2023, Saskatchewan Amateur Photography competition is a not-for-profit organized by the Regina Photo Club in an effort to promote amateur photography in Saskatchewan.

All entrants must be residents of Saskatchewan and have amateur photography status.

Get your best photos ready!

contact, David Bellerive at dbellerive@gmail.com ou see the website :

https://saskam.ca/

Photographic Guild of Nova Scotia (PGNS) Feb. 13 Presentation

Celebrating its 75th year as a club, the Photographic Guild of Nova Scotia is pleased to extend an invitation to join us for our Fred & Edie Greene Speaker series. There is no charge to attend these webinars, but donations to support the speaker series are gratefully accepted.

Making A/V Presentations for Competition and Fun – by George Hutchinson takes place on Monday, February 13, 2023 at 7:30 PM AST.

George “Hutch” Hutchison, QPSA, DFS4C has been recognized as a Gold and Silver Medal recipient in the PSA Projected Image Division (PID) Photo Essay Contest and also enjoys creating similar presentations for family, friends and memories. This presentation will include ideas for finding resources, organizing, sharing and building a slide show that will keep the audience engaged and wow competition judges.

To register for this presentation, please use the following link:

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/making-av-presentations-for-competition-and-fun-by-george-hutchinson-tickets-421536746757

Photographic Guild of Nova Scotia (PGNS) Jan. 22 Presentation

Celebrating its 75th year as a club, the Photographic Guild of Nova Scotia is pleased to extend an invitation to join us for our Fred & Edie Greene Speaker series. There is no charge to attend these webinars, but donations to support the speaker series are gratefully accepted.

“Creating AVs – From Concept to Creation and Presentation” by Lance Gitter takes place on Sunday, Jan 22, 2023 at 7:30 PM AST.

Lance Gitter, FCAPA is a well-known award-winning photographer in both still photography and in photo essay production from the Greater Toronto area. In the first of our audio-visual webinars, he will discuss the approach to Audio-Visual creation and presentation. Lance will include numerous award winning shows that he has created over the years to demonstrate and showcase the concepts and methods used to create them.

To register for Lance Gitter’s presentation, please use the following link:

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/creating-avs-from-concept-to-creation-and-presentation-by-lance-gitter-tickets-399780443067

Foothills Camera Club Jan. 2023 News

In preparation for the CAPA artistic competition due on January 30th, the Prairie Zone team in Calgary created two workshops with the Kensington Art Supply & Instruction store on January 8th. The sessions were 3 hours and lead by the extremely crafty and creative store owner and long time Foothills Camera club member Annette Wichmann.

The team created several photo stations which included oil and water, lens ball photography, rolled construction paper, pencils, paints and other art supplies, still life and more. The lighting consisted of LED tubes, party lights and LED panels. The attendees moved from station to station and created numerous types of images.

The Prairie Zone is excited to create these opportunities and is hoping to work with clubs across the Zone to continue to bring interesting photographic events to the membership.

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Richmond Photo Club Jan. 2023 News

Lions Gate Camera Club Celebration of Nature Photography Competition Results

The Richmond Photo Clubs placement was 8 out of 20 participating clubs. A top 10 showing! The clubs total score was 141 and the top overall score was 159.
Neil leNobel placed second in the Landscape category with a score of 26 and for his image ‘Through the Arch”, missing first place by .5 of a point.

Sue Olsen’s image in the Wildlife category scored 26.5 missing honorable mention by .6 of a point.

Congratulations to both Neil and Sue!

Thompson Community Centre

From December 1, 2022 through to December 31, 2022 the Richmond Photo Club had 12 images displayed at the Thompson Community Centre. This has been a successful way to promote our club and reveal our clubs artwork to the city.

On January 24th we will be having our first in person evaluation meeting since the pandemic began. This meeting will be a “Print Evaluation Night”. All members that choose to participate may submit up to three printed images, the theme is “Open”.

As each print is being evaluated by a judge during this meeting we will project a digital image. This way all members in the audience can view the image during the evaluation.
The winning images will have a printed version for possible inclusion in other external “Print” showings and there will be a digital version available for inclusion in on line competitions and events.

Lansdowne Photographic Show

Continuing to look forward, the largest upcoming event for the Richmond Photo Club will be the Lansdowne Photographic Show. This event will be held in Lansdowne Mall, Richmond, BC February 9 – 12, 2023. This public exhibit will showcase 96+ photos from Richmond Photo Club’s members. More on this event will follow as the date nears.

Jan. 2023 Competition Updates

January 2023 Competition Update

2022 Monochrome Competition

You can view the winning from this competition here:

The final competition report for this competition has been posted to the CAPA website. To view this report, you must first log into the CAPA website and select the Competition Reports from the Competitions dropdown menu.

If the Competition Reports are not visible on the Competitions dropdown menu, this indicates that you have not successfully logged into the CAPA website.

 

2023 Fall/Winter Competition

 

This competition is now open for the uploading of images. Closing date is March 1, 2023 at midnight Eastern Standard Time.

You can view the details of this competition here – https://capacanada.ca/2023-fall-winter-dautomne-2023/

 

Other competitions also open for uploading of images are as follows: