our Competitions
The best photographs of each month’s Wantagh Camera Club critiques are submitted to the Photographic Federation of Long Island’s (pflionline.org) monthly inter-club competition of digital and print images. The PFLI is a voluntary non-profit organization of camera clubs from Nassau and Suffolk counties and the five boroughs of New York City.
The competition is divided between beginners and advanced members and is held in five categories: color prints, black and white prints, color digital images, creative images and black and white digital images.
The PFLI and the Wantagh Camera Club are proud members of the Photographic Society of America.
PFLI Competition OVERVIEW
Members are grouped according to photographic skill and experience so as to make the PFLI competition as fair as possible. Your placement in these groups will be determined when you initially join the club and again prior to the start of each competition season. Every effort will be made to keep the groupings as equitable as possible. In the interest of fairness and accurate record keeping, no request for a change will be permitted during the competition season.
The “AA” GROUP (Salon) - The “AA” group is for members that finished at the top of the “A” group scoring averages the previous season.
THE “A” GROUP - The “A” group is for members who have attained an advanced level of skill and competitive photography experience.
THE “B” GROUP - The “B” group is for people new to competitive photography or who have not attained a level of skill and experience necessary to compete in company with the more advanced members. Unless extenuating circumstances exist, all new members will initially be placed in the “B” group.
preparation for images
COLOR PRINTS: MOUNTING - Prints must be mounted. Minimum image size is 8" X 10". Maximum mount size is 16" X 20". No frames are permitted.
IDENTIFICATION - A Wantagh Camera Club label must be affixed to the upper right corner on the back of the print’s mounting board, and an arrow drawn on the back of the mounting board pointing to the top of image.
IMAGE SIZE - Each image MUST be 900 pixels in its longest dimension (the other dimension will be automatically determined by its aspect ratio). The image must then be saved as JPG high quality, color space sRGB and resolution 72 pixels or 90 pixels per inch.
IDENTIFICATION - Each Digital Image must be named as follows: C27-code-group-image title.jpg
C27 is our club number (the C is required), code is your 9 character name (no spaces), A1 or B1 or CR is your group (the 1 doesn’t mean anything, but is required) title is the image title (up to 36 characters - it can have spaces), dot jpg. The hyphens are required.
Sample: C27-johnsmith-B1-look at the birdie.jpg
Delivery of image: At least one week before the Wantagh Camera Club critique date your digital images must be sent (via e-mail) to Barbara Crane (bctraveler1@me.com).