2019 Altered Reality Competition

This competition closed on January 15, 2019.

Some amazing photos were submitted for this competition.

You can view the winning image for the Club category of the competition here. For the Individual category winnings, you can check them out here.

The competition report has also been posted to the website but access to it is restricted. However, you will need to log into the website to view this document. All participants in this competition have been emailed a copy of this report.

2019 Monochrome Competition

This competition closed on January 30, 2019. At the time of the closing, a total of 861 images were submitted for both the ‘Club’ and ‘Individual’ categories of this competition.

Two teams of judges are now viewing and scoring the submitted images.

It will take some time to finish the judging and the breaking of any ties.

Hopefully, the final competition report will be completed by the end of February or sooner if possible.

Open Theme Competition

This competition is open for the uploading of your images. Competition closes on February 20, 2019 midnight (Central Standard Time – Ontario).

You can check out the details of this competition here.

We are expecting a large number of images to be submitted for this competition and have arranged for two teams of judges.

This competition is being hosted by the Toronto Digital Photography Club.

Any questions about this competition, please forward them to Lance Gitter at capa@tdpc.ca

2019 Portrait Competition

This competition is now open for the uploading of your images. The competition closes on March 31, 2019 at midnight (Central Standard Time – Ontario).

Competition is being hosted by the Prince George Photographic Society.

You can check out the details of this competition here.

Any questions about this competition should be directed to Tanya Stewart at quintato0301@gmail.com and Selena Laing at sjwagner@shaw.ca

2019 Canada: My Country Competition – 2020 Salon My Country

The Musée National de la Photographie (MNP) in association with CAPA and Olympus will host a three month print exhibition from January to the end of March 2020 called “2020 Salon My Country.” A total of 39 images representing our Country with 3 images depicting each province & territory. All images submitted into the 2019 Canada: My Country competition will be considered for selection as the top 39 (3 images per theme) winning images for the 2020 Salon My Country. Got it!

This competition closes on April 30, 2019 midnight (Central Standard Time – Ontario) and is being hosted by the Director of Competitions.

You can view the competition details here.

Any questions about this competition should be forwarded to the Director of Competitions at competitions@capacanada.ca

Some recent questions received for this competition are listed below with our corresponding responses:

• Question#1: Just to clarify, 2020 Salon My Country, is an exhibition? What does it mean?

Response: The top 39 images from our 2019 Canada: My Country (Club and Individual categories) will be selected for inclusion in the 2020 Canada My Country Salon. This selection process for the 2020 Canada My Country Salon will take place after the 2019 Canada: My Country Award Winners have been finalized. For the Salon, CAPA judges will select the best three images for each theme (province/territory) from the top images from the ‘Club’ and ‘Individual’ categories of the 2019 Canada: My Country Competition. The selected 39 top images will be printed and mounted by the MNP then put on display.

• Question#2: I do not have to supply the RAW format, only?
  · minimum size of image file – 10 MB
  · image print size – minimum 11 x 14 inches or maximum 16 x 20 inches
  · Resolution – 300 pixels/inch

Response: No, you do not need to provide the RAW file for the 2019 Canada: My Country Competition. However, the image you submit into the 2019 Canada: My Country Competition must meet the image specifications as outlined in the competition webpage such as a maximum dimension of 1400 x 1050 pixels and file size no larger than 1.8 MB.

Once the top 39 images have been selected for the Salon, the respective photographers will be contacted and they will be required to provide a larger copy of their selected image with specifications you listed above and are included in our 2019 Canada: My Country Competition webpage.

It is this larger sized image which will be printed and mounted by the Museum. If the photographer cannot provide the larger sized image file then their image will not be included in the top 39 images and it will be replaced with the next highest scoring images in that theme.

Therefore, all photographers submitting an image to the 2019 Canada: My Country must have available a larger sized copy of their submitted digital image file with the noted image specification.

• Question #3: Can I use an enlarging program (i.e. Topaz AI GigaPixel or On1 Re-Size) to increase the size of my image to meet the larger specifications for printing?

Response: This decision is left to the individual photographer to make. The only concern that CAPA has is that the larger image file is a representation of the image selected by the judges.

• Question #4: Open editing? Can be a composite?

Response: You are correct. This is an open competition. As outlined in the 2019 Canada: My Country Competition, it states as follows:

Open Editing– All in-camera, on-camera and post-processing techniques are permitted. Only exception – skies cannot be replaced. Final image can be a combining multiple images and elements in a final image. However, all components of the final image must have been taken by the entrant. Images that are created totally electronically with no photographic origin are prohibited from this competition. Colour or black & white or monochrome images are permitted.

With regards to submitting a composite image, the Open Editing details as noted above addresses this point.
However, one point must be emphasized – you must also comply with point #1 of the CAPA Competition Criteria which states:

“The photographer asserts and agrees that all components of the submitted image are my original work and does not contain the elements created by someone else; and as such I hold and will retain the copyright for the image”

• Question #5: Am I limited to only photographing and submitting images from my home province/territory or can I submit images from other provinces/territories?

Response: You are free to submit images from your home province or territory or images that were taken in another province or territory. The decision on which images to select for each theme totally rests with each entrant.

Update – Canada: My Country competition

The Musée National de la Photographie (MNP) in association with CAPA and Olympus will host a three month print exhibition from January to the end of March 2020 called “2020 Salon My Country.” A total of 39 images representing our Country with 3 images depicting each province & territory.

All images submitted into the 2019 Canada: My Country competition will be considered for selection as the top 39 (3 images per theme) winning images for the 2020 Salon My Country.

The Director of Competitions will contact each entrant whose image was selected as one of the top 39 images and request that they provide their selected image with the following parameters for printing by MNP

• minimum size of image file – 10 MB
• image print size – minimum 11 x 14 inches or maximum 16 x 20 inches
• Resolution – 300 pixels/inch

During the Salon, the organizers will recognize 3 images that best represent the province/territory.

Clarification:

This is not a ‘restricted editing criteria’ competition. Therefore, you do not need to have available the original RAW file or the original un-touched JPEG file, but must be able to provide a printable file per above parameters.

This competition closes on April 30, 2019.

Check out the details of the Canada: My Country Competition webpage for details. If you have any questions about this competition or the 2020 Salon My Country, please email the Director of Competitions at competitions@capacanada.ca or Alain Dubeau for those wishing clarification in French at Quebec@capacanada.ca

All copyright will remain with the photographer. CAPA, MNP & Olympus may use the images for promotional purposes with credits to the photographer.

Revised – A CAPA Series of Four Images Competition

Competition details for this competition have been re-fined to provide more clarity.

The revision is outlined below in  yellow :

Two Parallel Competitions – a CAPA Photo Series ‘Individual’ Competition, open only to CAPA members, and a CAPA Photo Series ‘Club’ Competition, open to CAPA member camera clubs. In the ‘individual’ competition CAPA members can upload a maximum of 4 images to complete a series. In the ‘club’ competition camera clubs can upload a maximum of 2 series of 4 images each,  but each series must be from at least 2 different photographers and no photographer may enter in more than one of the series.  For both the Individual and Club components of this competition, CAPA medals and Honourable Mention Ribbons will be awarded to entrants with the highest aggregate scores. Merit Award Ribbons will be awarded to the top three individual images.

Clarification:

This is not a ‘restricted editing criteria’ competition. Therefore, you do not need to have available the original RAW file or the original un-touched JPEG file.

This competition is now open and images can be uploaded. It closes February 28th, 2019. Hosting Camera Club – Shuswap Photographic Arts Club – Competition Coordinator – Henry Schnell – hatschnell@yahoo.com

Open Theme Competition

This competition is also now open for uploading of your images.

Clarification:

This is not a ‘restricted editing criteria’ competition. Therefore, you do not need to have available the original RAW file or the original un-touched JPEG file.

This competition closes February 20th, 2019. Hosting Camera Club – Toronto Digital Photography Club – Competition Coordinator– Lance Gitter at capa@tdpc.ca

Altered Reality Competition

This competition is now open and closes on January 15, 2019 at midnight (Central Standard Time – Ontario).

Clarifications:

1.  This is not a ‘restricted editing criteria’ competition. Therefore, you do not need to have available the original RAW file or the original un-touched JPEG file.
2. Can I submit a caricature image for this competition? The answer is YES.
   Competition closes on January 15, 2019 at midnight (Central Standard Time – Ontario) and is being hosted by Lance Gitter at capa@rhcameraclub.ca

Monochrome

For this competition, we have five different themes.
An entrant can enter one or more images in any of the five themes. Both camera clubs or individual CAPA members must enter images in at least two themes.
Based on messages received, we have expanded the Animals/Birds theme to include (wild or domesticated)

Clarifications:

1. If my image is not in the right theme will it be moved by the Competition Host into the right theme? The answer is No.
2.  Is a ‘sepia’ image permitted in this competition. The answer is Yes because sepia is a form of photographic toning – a tone which has been added to a black and white photographer to ‘warm’ up the tones. Sepia tones images are still considered a black and white image for our competition.
3.  Will my image be disqualified if it is deemed not to be in the right theme? The answer is Yes.
4. Which theme would I enter a covered bridge in? The answer is Architecture theme.
5. I am considering in submitting a monochrome photograph of an aircraft. If so, what theme could I submit under? The answer is – aircraft would not fit in any theme unless it could be included in a Landscape theme.
6. If an image could possibly be in more than one theme – the primary focal point of the image should be used to determine what theme it should be in. If the situation is unclear then the entrant will be given the benefit of the doubt.
7.  This is not a ‘restricted editing criteria’ competition. Therefore, you do not need to have available the original RAW file or the original un-touched JPEG file.

This competition closes on January 30, 2019 and is being hosted by the Director of Competitions.
If you have questions about this competition, please email the Director of Competitions at competitions@capacanada.ca

Photo Journalism Competition

The winners of this competition are now posted on our website. You can view the winning images and results on the Competitions’ Winners – Club and Winners – Individual webpages.

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ON1 PHOTO RAW 2019 DISCOUNT

The On1 Corporation is providing CAPA members with a discount price on their new On1 Photo RAW 2019.

The discount code is contained in the “Discount” section of the MEMBERS portion of our website. To view the MEMBERS’ categories, you will need to log into our CAPA website using your username and password.

COMPETITION: SEEKING CLARIFICATION

Over the past few weeks, we have received several enquires seeking clarification on specific points. Each of these enquires are listed below along with our corresponding response:

1. QUESTION: Regarding the 2019 Monochrome competition, I wondering which of the theme (Human, Landscape, Architecture, Flower/Plants, Animal) I would select to upload an image of a vehicle or aircraft?
   RESPONSE: The answer is Architecture. CAPA defines architecture as “the capture by means of photography of the activity of designing and constructing buildings and other physical structures by a person or a machine. A wider definition often includes design of the total built environment, from the macro level of how a building ingrates with its surrounding man made landscape to the micro level of architectural details and some times, furniture.”The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines architecture as “formation or construction resulting from or as if from a conscious act” and “a unifying or coherent form or structure.”
2. QUESTION: Is Sepia accepted in the Monochome competition?
   RESPONSE: – Yes. Sepia is a form of photographic print toning – a tone added to a black and white photograph in the darkroom to “warm” up the tones (though since it is still a monochromatic image it is still considered black and white).
3. QUESTION: I’ve heard a rumour that CAPA now is not permitting older images to be entered into a CAPA competition. Could you confirm this point?
   RESPONSE: In July 2018, we updated our CAPA Eligibility Criteria to include the following in italic:
   The photographer asserts and agrees “that I will endeavour to submit a current image for a CAPA competition.” This provision was added as a requirement for CAPA images to be accepted into the international Four Nations competition. As the outlines, the new revision states ‘endeavour’ and does not state ‘must’ or ‘should.’  Therefore, we leave it to the good judgement of each photographer.  The Director of Competitions will not be checking the image’s metadata details for the date of capture nor for the date the image was processed.

2018 NATURE COMPETITION

The winners of this competition are now posted on our website. You can view the winning images and results on the Competitions’ Winners – Club and Winners – Individual webpages.

2018 FINE ART COMPETITION

This competition had many outstanding images submitted and the judges were challenged to select the winning images.

You can view the winning images and results on the Competitions’ Winners – Club and Winners – Individual webpages.

2019 ALTERED REALITY COMPETITION

Traditionally, this competition attracts some of the most interesting and amazing photographic creations.

We encourage you to consider entering your images into this competition. However, it is important that you first read the competition details prior to submitting your images.

Competition closes on January 15, 2019 and is being hosted by CAPA Member Lance Gitter – FCAPA.

2019 MONOCHROME COMPETITION

This competition closes on January 30, 2019 and is being hosted by the Director of Competitions.

If you have questions about this competition, please email the Director at competitions@capacanada.ca

It is CAPA’s intention to offer services to its members in both English and French. With this in mind, we are working to the best of our abilities on French translations of the website’s main pages. This is a demanding task and will require some time to achieve. We appreciate your patience.

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Décembre 2018, nouvelles des concours

PHOTO RAW 2019 OFFERT À PRIX RÉDUIT PAR ON1

La société On1 offre son nouveau logiciel Photo RAW 2019 à prix réduit aux membres de l’ACAP.
Le code requis pour profiter de cette offre est disponible dans la section ‘’Discounts’’ de la partie réservée aux membres de notre site Web. Vous devez être connecté sur le site Web de l’ACAP à l’aide de votre nom d’usager et de votre mot de passe pour que la section ‘’Members’’ du menu principal soit visible.

CONCOURS : DEMANDES DE CLARIFICATIONS

Nous avons reçu plusieurs demandes au cours des dernières semaines en vue d’obtenir des éclaircissements sur des points spécifiques. Toutes ces demandes sont énumérées dans la liste ci-dessous et chacune est accompagnée de la réponse correspondante que nous avons écrite :

1. QUESTION: En ce qui concerne le concours ‘’Monochrome 2019’’, je me demande quel thème choisir (humain, paysage, architecture, fleurs/plantes, animaux) pour soumettre l’image d’un véhicule ou d’un aéronef ?
   RÉPONSE: La réponse est ‘’architecture’’. L’ACAP définit l’architecture comme ‘’ la capture par le biais de la photographie d’une activité consistant à concevoir ou construire des bâtiments ou d’autres structures matérielles par une personne ou par une machine. Une définition plus large inclue souvent la conception de tout notre environnement construit, depuis l’échelle macro qui décrit comment les bâtiments s’intègrent à leur environnement paysager jusqu’à l’échelle micro qui inclue des détails architecturels et même parfois l’ameublement.’’ Le dictionnaire Merriam-Webster définit l’architecture comme ‘’un aménagement ou une construction qui résulte ou qui semble résulter d’un acte conscient’’ et un aménagement ou une structure intégré ou cohérent.
2. QUESTION: Est-ce que le sépia est accepté dans les concours monochrome?
   RÉPONSE: –Oui. Le sépia est une forme d’impression photographique avec une modification des tonalités- en chambre noire, on ajoute des tons de brun à une photographie noir et blanc afin de ‘’réchauffer’’ les tonalités (le résultat reste monochromatique et est considéré comme du noir et blanc)
3. QUESTION: J’ai entendu une rumeur à l’effet que l’ACAP permet maintenant que des anciennes images soient soumises dans un concours de l’ACAP. Pouvez-vous le confirmer ?
   RÉPONSE: En juillet 2018, nous avons mis-à-jour notre section ‘’Critères d’éligibilités de l’ACAP’’ afin d’ajouter le texte suivant en italique : Le photographe certifie et convient que ‘’ Je m’efforcerai de soumettre une image récente pour les compétitions de l’ACAP’’. Cet article a été ajouté dans les critères d’admissibilité afin que les images de l’ACAP soient acceptées au concours international Four Nations Competition. Il est écrit ‘’je m’efforcerai’’ plutôt que “je dois’’ ou ‘’je devrais’’. Cette décision est donc laissée au bon jugement du photographe. Le directeur des concours ne consultera pas les métadonnées d’une image afin de vérifier la date de création ou de post-traitement de l’image.

2018 CONCOURS LA NATURE

Les noms des gagnants de ce concours sont maintenant affichés sur notre site Web. Vous pouvez voir les images gagnantes et les résultats sur les pages web accessibles par le menu principal en suivant ‘’Competitions’’ – ‘’Winners–Club’’ ou bien ‘’Winners – Individual’’.

2018 CONCOURS LES BEAUX ARTS

Plusieurs images exceptionnelles ont étés soumises à ce concours et la sélection des images gagnantes a constitué un défi pour les juges.
Vous pouvez voir les images gagnantes et les résultats sur les pages web accessibles par le menu principal en suivant ‘’Competitions’’ – ‘’Winners–Club’’ ou bien ‘’Winners – Individual’’.

2019 CONCOURS REALITÉ ALTÉRÉE

Traditionnellement, ce concours reçoit des créations photographiques parmi les plus intéressantes et les plus étonnantes qui soient.
Nous vous encourageons à soumettre vos images à ce concours. Toutefois, il est important de lire d’abord la description détaillée du concours avant de le faire.
Le concours se termine le 15 janvier 2019 et sera l’hôte de Lance Gitter, membre de l’ACAP, FCAPA.

2019 CONCOURS MONOCHROME

Ce concours se termine le 30 janvier 2019 et sera l’hôte du directeur des concours.
Si vous avez des questions à propos de ce concours, alors transmettez-les par courriel au directeur à l’adresse competitions@capacanada.ca.

L’ACAP veut offrir à ses membres des services en français et en anglais. Avec cet objectif en tête, nous travaillons au meilleur de nos capacités à traduire en français les principales pages du site. Cela représente un important défi et prendra un certain temps à réaliser. Merci de votre patience.

Uploading of Image Size Requirements

We have received a message that an entrant could not upload their image despite the fact that the images did not exceed the maximum dimension of 1400 pixels by 1050 pixels. Our online competition system has been configured to only accept images provided that the maximum image size is 1400 pixels by 1050 pixels and that one dimension must be either 1400 pixels or 1050 pixels. If you are unable to upload an image or have a question about uploading, please email Sheldon Boles at seboles@telus.net

2019 Altered Reality Competition

The closing date for this competition is January 15, 2019. Competition is now open for the uploading of your images. The Scope of Competition remains the same as our last year’s competition. If you have any questions this competition, please email the Competition Host representative (Lance Gitter) at capa@rhcameraclub.ca

2019 Monochrome Competition

The closing date for this competition is January 30, 2019. Competition is now open for the uploading of your images. As you will recall, our 2018 Black & White Competition was extremely popular and we received more images than expected. Consequently, the hosting of the competition was quite demanding.

To offset the management of our 2019 Monochrome competition, we have created five different themes:

1. Human Individual/Groups (street photography is included)
2. Landscape/City-scape/Sea-scape
3. Architecture (inside/outside)
4. Flowers/Plants (wild or cultivated)
5. Animals/Birds (wild or feral)

Depending on the volume of images received, we may need to have than one team to judge specific themes.

Questions

We had a few some questions about the Animals/Birds category:

1.  “does this mean, a bird or animal, say captured in a sanctuary or on a reserve is not included?”
   There are no restriction on images being submitted. So photographers can submit images of a bird or animal captured in a sanctuary or on a reserve.
2.  “does the no restriction includes all kinds of animals like domestic pets or birds? Or do we stick to wild or feral?”
   All animals and bird are included.

Special Note

One point to remember for this competition is that entrants must enter at least 1 image in 2 different themes.

If you have questions about this competition, please email the Competition Host representative – Sheldon Boles at seboles@telus.net

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2018 FINE ART

We have received two email messages seeking clarification about the new Scope of Competition for the 2018 Fine Art competition. The points raised and the clarification provided is outlined below.

The key elements of the Scope of Competition are state:

Fine art photography has no universally agreed upon meaning or definition. However, fine art photography does go beyond just capturing an image and cropping. Therefore, an image must not be submitted into this competition if it would have qualified for a CAPA competition with a Restricted Editing Criteria such as: Nature, Photo Journalism or Wildlife.

The goal of fine art photography is in creating a fine art image is to use subjects and techniques as vehicles in the process of conveying a strong message, idea, vision and/or emotion.

So the question has been raised – “can a nature or wildlife image be submitted into the Fine Art competition with the above noted key elements?” Yes – however the image must go beyond mere capturing of an image, cropping and making minor changes to the image.

Another question raised was “can I submit a ‘once-in-a-lifetime amazing nature photo’ in the 2018 Fine Art Competition? “ No. However, this photo can be submitted in the 2018 Nature and/or the 2019 Open Theme competitions.

Why were these changes made? Over the past year, we have received many complaints that nature and wildlife images have dominated the Fine Art Competition while others felt that these images did not meet the Scope of Competition.

The emphasis in our CAPA competitions is to provide an equal opportunity for all photographers and encourage them to enter competitions when their images meet the Scope of Competition.

In reviewing the past three years of CAPA Fine Art competitions, it was discovered that:

• It appears that the competition hosts did not pre-screen the submitted images to ensure only images that met the Scope of Competition were presented on the ‘day-of-judging’
• Selected judges had a strong background in nature/wildlife photography

To correct this situation and ensure an equal opportunity for all photographers, the following steps have been implemented:

• refinement of the 2018 Fine Art Competition Scope of Competition
• three judges have been selected who are all Certified CAPA Judges and have extensive experience with the topic of Fine Art
• updated the CAPA Competition Standards to include support for the Competition Host:

A Review Committee of two or more Certified CAPA Judges may be appointed by the Director of Competitions or the Competition Chair Person to preview images/presentations submitted to a CAPA competition to ensure all the images/presentations comply with the competition details webpage and will advise the Director or the Competition Chair Person of their findings.

• all CAPA competition detail webpages contain a Special Note at the bottom which states: Questions about the scope of the competition and/or the editing criteria should be directed to the Competition Coordinator prior to the closing day of the competition. For the Fine Art Competition – the Competition Coordinator is Derek Hayes (Certified CAPA Judge & recognized fine art photographer and author) – derek@derekhayes.ca

A post-competition review will be undertaken to determine if further refinements are necessary for our Fine Art competitions.

Opening Competitions for Uploading of Images

We have only opened up the three competitions for this fall because we are expecting to receive then upload the new enhancements to our online competition system.

To minimize any disruptions and the risk of loosing submitted images, we will be opening up the competitions in stages as follows:

• November 1, 2018 – Altered Reality Competition and Monochrome Competition
• January 1, 2018 – 2019 Open Theme Competition and 2019 A Series of 4 Photos Competition
• February 1, 2019 – Portrait Competition
• March 1, 2019 – 2019 Canada: My Country Competition
• April 1, 2019 – 2019 Annual Photo Challenge Competition.

Noted open dates are 1 to 2 months prior to the closing date of the competition.

2019 Audio Visual Presentation Competition

The previous Special Note – For a club submission for this competition – at least two people must be involved in creating the audio visual presentation” has been revoked and replaced with:

CAPA individual members and camera clubs are limited to one AV submission. For a club submission for this competition, the audio visual presentation can be from 1 or 2 club members.

Monochrome Competition

• Question: Is a sepia image admissible into the Monochrome Competition?

Response: The definition for Monochrome is what is defined by FIAP and is included below:

A black and white work fitting from the very dark grey (black) to the very clear grey (white) is a monochrome work with the various shades of grey. A black and white work toned entirely in a single colour will remain a monochrome work able to stand in the black and white category. On the other hand a black and white work modified by a partial toning or by the addition of one colour becomes a colour work (polychrome) to stand in the colour category.

Sepia is defined as “a tone added to a black and white photograph in the darkroom to “warm” up the tones (though since it is still a monochromatic image it is still considered black and white).”

Therefore, a sepia image is permitted because it is a single colour which remains a monochrome work able to stand in the black and white category.

• Question: Is there a limit on the age of photos submitted?

Response: Based on the recent rule changes for the 2019 Four Nations Competition, we have revised our CAPA Eligibility Criteria to include:

#10 – “I will endeavour to submit a current image for CAPA competitions”

We will NOT be strictly policing this point by verifying the data contained in the image’s metadata details. However, we encourage photographers to consider this new revision.

It is CAPA’s intention to offer services to its members in both English and French. With this in mind, we are working to the best of our abilities on French translations of the website’s main pages. This is a demanding task and will require some time to achieve. We appreciate your patience.

Octobre 2018, nouvelles des concours

BEAUX-ARTS 2018

Nous avons reçu deux courriels demandant des éclaircissements sur la nouvelle portée du concours beaux-arts 2018. Les points soulevés et les éclaircissements fournis sont décrits ci-dessous.

Les éléments clés de la portée du concours sont :

La photographie de beaux-arts n’a pas un sens ou une définition acceptée universellement. Cependant, la photographie de beaux- arts va bien au-delà de la capture d’une image et de son recadrage. Par conséquent, une image ne doit pas être soumise à ce concours si elle se qualifierait à un concours de l’ACAP avec des critères de post-traitement restreints tels que: nature, photo journalistique ou de la faune.

L’objectif de la photographie de beaux-arts est d’utiliser des sujets et des techniques comme moyens de transmission d’un message fort, d’une idée, d’une vision et/ou de l’émotion.

La question qui a donc été posée: « une image de la nature ou une image de la faune peut-elle être soumise au concours beaux-arts avec les éléments clés mentionnés ci-dessus? » Oui-cependant l’image doit aller au-delà de la simple capture d’une image, de son recadrage et de l’application de changements mineurs.

Une autre question posée était: «puis-je présenter une photo de nature étonnante, une photo d’une fois dans la vie dans le concours beaux-arts 2018 ?» Non. Cependant, cette photo peut être présentée dans le concours nature 2018 et/ou les concours à thème libre de 2019.

Pourquoi ces changements ont-ils été apportés? Au cours de la dernière année, nous avons reçu de nombreuses plaintes alléguant que les images de la nature et les images de la faune ont dominé le concours de beaux-arts, tandis que d’autres estiment que ces images ne répondaient pas à la portée du concours.

Les concours de l’ACAP visent à fournir une opportunité égale à tous les photographes et à les encourager à participer à des compétitions lorsque leurs images répondent à la portée du concours.

En examinant les trois dernières années du concours beaux-arts de l’ACAP, il a été découvert que:

– les responsables du concours n’avaient pas préalablement examiné les images soumises pour s’assurer que seules les images satisfaisant à la portée du concours étaient présentées lors de la «journée de jugement»
– les juges sélectionnés avaient une solide expérience en photographie de la nature et de la faune.

Pour corriger cette situation et afin d’assurer une chance égale pour tous les photographes, les étapes suivantes ont été mises en œuvre:

– raffinement des règles du concours beaux-arts 2018
– trois juges ont été sélectionnés qui sont tous des juges certifiés de l’ACAP et qui possèdent une vaste expérience sur le thème des beaux-arts
– les normes des concours de l’ACAP ont été révisées afin d’y inclure un soutien à l’hôte du concours :

Un comité de révision de deux ou plus juges certifiés de l’ACAP peut être nommé par le directeur des compétitions ou la personne responsable du concours pour prévisualiser les images/présentations soumises à un concours de l’ACAP et s’assurer que toutes les images/présentations sont conformes aux règles sur le site WEB; il avisera le directeur ou le responsable de la compétition de ses conclusions.

– au bas de toutes les pages des règles de concours de l’ACAP s’affichera la note spéciale suivante: Les questions concernant la portée du concours et/ou les critères d’édition doivent être soumises au coordonnateur de la compétition avant le jour de clôture du concours. Pour le concours des beaux-arts, le coordonnateur est Derek Hayes (juge certifié de l’ACAP, reconnu comme photographe beaux-arts et auteur) – Derek@derekhayes.ca

Suite au concours une évaluation sera initiée afin de déterminer si d’autres améliorations sont nécessaires pour nos concours beaux-arts.

CONCOURS OUVERTS POUR LE TÉLÉCHARGEMENT DES IMAGES

Seulement les trois concours de cet automne sont présentement ouverts en attendant de recevoir des mises à jour des logiciels pour améliorer le téléchargement en ligne.
Pour minimiser les perturbations et le risque de perdre des images soumises, nous allons ouvrir les concours par étapes comme suit:

– 1er novembre 2018- le concours de réalité altérée et le concours monochrome
– 1er janvier 2019 – le concours thème libre et le concours une série de quatre photos
– 1er février 2019 – le concours portrait
– 1er mars 2019 – le concours Canada : mon pays
– 1er avril 2019 – le concours défi photo annuel 2019

Les dates d’ouverture indiquées sont de 1 à 2 mois avant la date de clôture du concours.

LE CONCOURS DE PRÉSENTATION AUDIO-VISUELLE 2019

La condition précédemment annoncée : « Pour une présentation de club à ce concours, au moins deux personnes doivent être impliquées dans la création de l’œuvre audio-visuelle » a été révoquée et remplacée par ce qui suit :

Les membres individuels et les clubs de l’ACAP sont limités à une seule soumission audio-visuelle. Dans le cas de la soumission d’un club à ce concours, la présentation audio-visuelle peut être celle de 1 ou de 2 membres du club.

CONCOURS MONOCHROME

Question: une image sépia est-elle admissible dans la compétition monochrome?
Réponse: la définition de monochrome est celle définie par la FIAP et est incluse ci-dessous:

Un montage en noir et blanc partant du gris très foncé (noir) et allant au gris très clair (blanc) est un travail monochrome avec les différentes nuances de gris. Une œuvre en noir et blanc teintée entièrement d’une seule couleur restera un travail monochrome capable de se tenir dans la catégorie noir et blanc. D’autre part, une œuvre en noir et blanc teintée partiellement ou modifiée par l’addition d’une couleur devient un travail de couleur (polychrome) et devrait être présentée dans la catégorie de couleur.

Sépia est défini comme « une teinte ajoutée à une photographie en noir et blanc dans la chambre noire pour “réchauffer” les tonalités (considérant que l’image est encore une image monochromatique, elle est toujours considérée comme noir et blanc).

Par conséquent, une image sépia est autorisée parce qu’il s’agit d’une seule couleur qui reste un travail monochrome capable de se classer dans la catégorie noir et blanc.

Question: Y a-t-il une limite à l’âge des photos qui peuvent être soumises?
Réponse: Sur la base des changements récents des règles du concours des 4 nations 2019, nous avons révisé nos critères d’admissibilité pour les concours de l’ACAP pour inclure:

#10 – « Je m’efforcerai de soumettre une image récente pour les concours de l’ACAP. »

Nous n’allons pas strictement surveiller ce point en vérifiant les métadonnées de l’image. Cependant, nous encourageons les photographes à tenir compte de cette nouvelle approche.L’ACAP veut offrir à ses membres des services en français et en anglais. Avec cet objectif en tête, nous travaillons au meilleur de nos capacités à traduire en français les principales pages du site. Cela représente un important défi et prendra un certain temps à réaliser. Merci de votre patience.

CAPA Atlantic Zone Director, Michiko Nishijima, presents Andre Reinders with the certificate of an Honorable Mention for his image “Mia.” The image was awarded in the Open Category of the 2018 Four Nations Competitions. While CAPA received the 1st place for this category, Andre was the only individual from CAPA who was awarded.

For this competition, CAPA was required to select 80 images from different photographers and image appropriate for inclusion into one of four categories: Nature (15 images), Monochrome (15 images), Open (35 images) and My Country (15 images).

The 50 to 75 images from each of our 2017-2018 ‘Club’ & ‘Individual’ competitions were shortlisted and re-judged by a separate team of Certified CAPA judges. Based on their scoring, the top 80 images were selected as CAPA’s submission to this competition.

In mid-August, we received official notification that CAPA placed 1st in this competition. You can check out the details on the 2018 competition here.

CAPA has put together a PowerPoint presentation containing all the 80 CAPA submitted images to the Four Nations competition. CAPA members and camera clubs can request a copy of this presentation by emailing Henry Schnell (CAPA Secretary) at secretary@capacanada.ca

In 2019, CAPA will be hosting the Four Nations Competition. We will be using the same selection processes as we did in 2018.