Photography News | Issue 39 | absolutephoto.com
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CameraClubof theYear in associationwith Camera Club of the Year contest 2016-17 Welcome to the launch of this year’s contest. Over this and the next four issues there will be the chance for your club to qualify for a very special photo event where the overall winner will be decided
The search for the Photography News Camera Club of the Year 2016-17 starts here. To be victorious, your club has to overcome two challenges. The first is to qualify for the final by coming top of the pile in one of the five monthly rounds. Then the final itself is going tobeaveryspecial day’sphotoshoot, thedetails of which will be released simultaneously to the five finalists. However, what we can reveal now is that the final will be a unique event that will offer a tremendous creative challenge and a never-to-be-forgotten experience for the finalists. The overall winner will thoroughly deserve the prestige of being our Camera Club of the Year 2016-17. But we’re getting ahead of ourselves here so let’s start from the beginning. For this year’s contest we have teamed up with long-established imaging brand Fujifilm
and over this and the next four issues we’ll be announcing a theme and inviting five pictures from each club. Your club’s competition secretary (or whoever is going to enter each month) must sign up on absolutephoto.com. Terms and conditions are also available on the website. 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. Once you have signed up to go theMembers Area on the top menu bar, click on that and you will see Camera Club of the Year 2016- 17 on the drop-down menu. Select that, then register your camera club and follow the upload instructions. JPEG files should be at least 1500 pixels on the longest dimension and, preferably, be in the sRGB colour space. Fujifilm has had a very busy 2016, kicking off with the worldwide launch of the X-Pro2 in January, following up with the X-T2 in the summer and finishing off the year with the development announcement of its mirrorless medium-format GFX system. This is due for a 2017 launch so much more on that product when it is officially launched. Along the way, Fujifilm also added several optics including the XF100-400mm f/4-5.6, the XF35mm f/2 and a 2x teleconverter to its expanding system. The X-system has found a serious following in a very short period – the X-Pro1 and three prime lenses were announced only six years ago. The lens system now has 23 products including high-spec zooms and superfast fixed focal length lenses. About Fujifilm
A club can only enter one set of five images from five different members each round, while failure to enter five shots will mean the missing shot/s scores zero points; so it is crucial to enter the full number of images. After the closing date each picture will be scored out of 20 points and the highest scoring club each month will qualify for the final. In the event of tied scores, we will ignore the highest and lowest scores and average out the three remaining scores. The highest score wins. If scores are still tied, all five scores will be averaged out. When the issue with that month’s result is published, the scores for every picture entered will be published on the website so you can see how you have done. There is no monthly prize apart from qualifying for the final shoot-out and once a
club has qualified for the final it need not enter again. Of course it can do it for the challenge and pictures will still be scored but there is no reward for winning in this instance. In effect, because each monthly contest is self-contained, ie. it is not a league system over the period of the contest, you do not have to enter every month – perhaps it is a theme the club is less strong at or the club’s contest secretary has gone on holiday. Clearly it makes sense to give yourself as many winning chances as possible, however. So, good luck everyone. Read the entry details again, check out the theme on the opposite page and start gathering your entry. Qualify for the final and your club could be joining us for a very special photography event with the title of Camera Club of the Year to be won.
What your club couldwin
We’ll be publishing five subject themes over the coming months – the first is opposite – and we want to see five pictures from each club on each of those themes. The club that achieves the highest score qualifies for the final shoot-out, which will take place in spring 2017. Photography News and Fujifilm will host the final at a location to be confirmed. What each club has to do at the final will be kept secret until all five finalists are known and those clubs will be informed at the same time. What we can confidently say is that the final shoot-out will be a memorable event for everyone concerned. So read about each theme and register your club on absolutephoto.com to get the ball rolling – and good luck!
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