Photography News Issue 29

20 Camera Club of the Year IN ASSOCIATIONWITH

Photography News Issue 29 absolutephoto.com

Round 4: Movement Closes: 07/03/2016

Camera Club of the Year 2015-16 With two more chances to qualify for the final, it’s time to get your club members motivated and ‘moving

How to enter

First, your club’s competition secretary (or whoever is going to enter each month) must sign up at absolutephoto.com . Next, click on Members’ Area in the menu bar, then choose Camera Club of the Year 2015-16 from the drop-down list. Simply register your camera club and follow the upload instructions.

So far, three camera clubs – Dorchester CC, Harpenden PS and Ayr PS – have all qualified for the final shoot-out to win the first prize of the Canon imagePROGRAF PRO‑1000 and the prestige of being our Camera Club of the Year 2015-16. The winning images from Round 3 are opposite and all the entries can be viewed on absolutephoto.com. We’ve teamed up with Canon and this year’s Camera Club of the Year promises to be bigger and

better than ever and it is easy to enter too. To start, every club must register on absolutephoto.com. Once registered, go to the Member’s Area tab and click on Competitions and then Camera Club of Year. Follow the instructions from there to upload images. Each month we set a theme and we want to see five images from five different club members on that theme. Any club or group is eligible to enter so long as there are at least five

members. Online groups, internal company clubs and those clubs not affiliated to the PAGB can enter. After the closing date, the images will be judged by the experts at Photography News and the top- scoring club from that month will qualify for the grand final and win a Canon PIXMA PRO-100S A3+ printer worth £499.99. Once a club has qualified for the grand final they needn’t enter again – they can if they want but they are not eligible for the monthly prize.

Clubs can enter at any point, even at the fifth and final round. After the five monthly rounds, we’ll have five finalists and theywill be asked to submit more pictures on a theme yet to be revealed. It is from these images that the overall winning club will be decided. The overall winners earn the accolade of the Photography News Camera Club of the Year 2015-16 and win a Canon imagePROGRAF PRO-1000, a professional 12-ink A2 inkjet printer worth £1199.99. Show off your photographs in the best light with Canon’s imagePROGRAF PRO-1000 photo-quality printer. This is a pro-level printer featuring the capacity to produce exhibition-quality enlargements up to A2 size. The 12-ink system features LUCIA Pro pigment inks that offer a high level of lightfastness. It can use either Photo Black or Matte Black for fine art media without switching between cartridges, saving ink and time. The large capacity inks include Canon’s Chroma Optimizer. This is applied over prints to enhance glossiness and smooth bumps between ink droplets to expand colour gamut and ensure maximum blacks. For shots from Canon EOS cameras, a new Crystal Fidelity feature ensures faithful reproduction.

Canon imagePROGRAF PRO-1000

The Camera Club of the Year wins… … a Canon imagePROGRAF PRO-1000. This brand-new professional quality A2 printer is worth £1199.99. It uses a 12-colour Lucia PRO inkset that includes four blacks for excellent monochrome output. On appropriate media, Lucia PRO inks have impressive lightfast qualities. … an exclusive day with renowned professional landscape and travel photographer David Noton, enjoying a workshop and an illustrated talk.

The first in a new series of printers from Canon, the PRO-1000 uses the L-COA PRO Image Processing system ensures precise placement and mix of the printer’s four-picolitre ink droplets. It also accepts high-resolution files of 1200ppi for the ultimate reproduction of fine detail. Print speed is impressive, with A2 prints produced in around six minutes, and it’s almost silent in operation, and as befits a modern printer it has Wi-Fi and Ethernet connectivity for maximum convenience. The overall winner of the Camera Club of the Year contest wins one of these highly desirable printers, so get thinking about your entry right now.

Overall winner prize: CANON imagePROGRAF PRO-1000

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Overall winner prize: DAVID NOTON exclusive day

Monthlywinners

The five monthly winners each get a Canon PIXMA PRO-100S worth £499.99. This is a professional quality A3+ printer, featuring an eight colour inkset with excellent lightfast qualities.

Its built-in Wi-Fi capabilities means wireless connection is possible so prints can be made from tablets and phones as well as the computer. canon.co.uk

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