Motueka Camera Club
The primary aims of the Motueka Camera Club is to stimulate interest in the Art and Practice of photography, to offer members knowledge and practice in the capture and preparation of images for Local and National Competitions, and to provide opportunities in developing Photo Editing and image evaluation skills.
We meet in the SeniorNet rooms, 42 Pah Street Motueka, at 7.30pm.
Monthly meetings and competitions:
Each month we run competitions, each with a particular topic or theme. The competition rules are shown below. The 2011 meeting dates and topics are:
Monday 7th February - Straight from the camera / Open
Monday 7th March - Action / Open
Monday 4th April - Backlit / Open
Monday 2nd May - Impressionism / Open
Monday 6th June - Wet / Open
Monday 4th July - About the house / Open
Monday 1st August - Monochrome / Open
Monday 5th September - Close-up / Open
Monday 3rd October - Emotion / Open
Monday 7th November - Prints Portfolio / AGM
Monday 5th December - Bodyscapes / Open
Honours images
Images awarded the top grade of "Honours" on Club night for the past month are displayed on this website.
Click here to view them »
Annual Subscriptions:
The financial year begins 1 October, annual member-ship fee = $60.00 payable to the Treasurer.
Individuals joining in Oct - March pay the full.
Annual membership fee of $60.00. For families $30.00 per additional member.
Anyone joining April to September pays $6.00 per month up to and including September (no separate family fee). Thereafter pay the annual membership fee (plus $30.00 per additional family member).
Contact:
For any information or enquiries about Club meeting dates, please feel free to contact:
Alan Bilham - Ph: 528 6128 or
Lisa Ball - Ph: 528 9252
We’d love to see you!
Or check out our Facebook page here »
Photo exhibition, October 2010
In October we mounted an exhibition at Toyota Bowater's showrooms, featuring 90 photos submitted by 18 members. Read the report here »
Competition rules
- Only financial members are eligible to enter Club Competitions.
- There will be only one full Competition Grade for the membership “Salon”. New members may elect to start in a “Novice Grade”, who’s work is critiqued only, by the Judge, and not offered any scoring grades. The “Novice Grade” is rescinded as soon as the member requests to receive scoring grades.
- Images are to have been taken in the immediate, previous year. They may be colour or monochrome, the latter according to the PSNZ definition.
- Each entrant may enter a maximum of 3 images in total, at each Monthly Competition night, only two of which can be Digitally Presented. (All 3 may be mounted prints.)
- Prints must be mounted unframed using a mat with suitable backing, not exceeding 40x50cm (16x20) in size.
- Each print / digital file, must be labelled with the entrant’s Name and Grade, (i.e. Novice or Salon), Set or Open Subject, printed on the back of all prints and on the file of all digital images. Titles are optional.
- Digital Images need to be in jpeg format and sized to 1024 pixels along the longest edge, correctly labelled (as in 6 above) and then delivered by email or storage device to the Image Convenor 24 hours prior to the Competition nights meeting. Presentation will be in the sRGB colour space.
- All images must be entirely the authors work, at image capture and editing, but can be either self, or commercially processed.
- Prints must be presented to the Image Convener no later than 10 minutes prior to meeting commencement.
- Images will be judged by a nominated Judge, prior to or on Club night. Each image will be allocated its assessed grade by the Judge. Not accepted = 0, Acceptance = 2, Merit = 4, Highly Commended = 6, Honours = 8.
- The Judge will also nominate the best print and the best digitally presented image in the Monthly Competitions = 2 extra points.
- All images remain the property of the authors and must be collected by them or a nominated agent at the closure of each competition night.
- No Image that has been offered an award can be re-entered in the Monthly Competitions, except for the Portfolio competition.
- A register of the points earned by each member will be kept to ascertain the progress of members.
