Capa 2024 Competition - Atlantic Zone
Below are the images that I felt fitted the competition brief. It is always hard to decide which to finally choose but in the end it is a process of elimination and you just decide.
Submission 1 - Plus Judge Critique and Scores
Submission 1:
My first submission was through my club and is from my trip to Bonavista, NL trip. When travelling whenever I see an old church I always like to shoot them. I especially love the old and small churches. You could tell there was s a long history for this small beauty. The yard also included some very old headstones, some of them leaning with age, added to the simplicity of the image.. I did call the image Faith, Deep and Simple. The simplicity of the church and surroundings did not take away from how is was cared for and used.
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Submission 2- Plus Judge Critique and Scores
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My second submission was through the individual competition for the Atlantic Zone 2024. This was a shot taken in NL in 2020 at Mistaken point. I did do a black and white conversion. It was a typical overcast day in Nl and the sea was very rough crashing over the unique formations of Mistaken Point. I just love the stark beauty of the rock!
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Submission 3- Plus Judge Critique and Scores
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My third submission was through the individual competition for the CAPA Atlantic Zone 2024. This was a shot taken in Halifax, NS in 2022 at from the Harbor whart. The schooner that does tourist tours was arriving back in the harbor. I did a black and white converstion to try and convey the histopry and romance o f sail. Seeing the three masted schooner sail into the modern harbor certainly a sense of wonder ramance and histoy. I do want to do this tour myself, maybe this summer!
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Competition Rules:
Scope of Competition
This is an open theme and images should be limited to being be captured in the Atlantic Zone.
This competition is only open to paid-up individual/family CAPA members and CAPA Member Clubs residing in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland & Labrador and Prince Edward Island.
As an open theme – animals, birds, insects, landscape, nature, people. wildlife, etc…
For this competition, we are seeking your best image(s).
Judges will score the images and one judge will provide comments on each image. To accommodate the providing of scores and comment, camera clubs are being limited to only uploading a maximum of eighteen (18) images from 18 different club members and individual CAPA members are limited to only two (2) images.
Competition Process
Competition Coordinator – Cheryl Bramble – Assistant CAPA Director of Competitions.
Questions about the scope of the competition and/or the editing criteria should be directed to the Coordinator at prior to the closing day of the competition.
Closing Date of Competition – March 30, 2024 at midnight Atlantic Standard Time.
Open To – All paid-up individual CAPA members and CAPA camera club residing in the Maritimes and in the territory of Nunavut.
Two Parallel Competitions: ‘Individual’ Competition for only CAPA Individual members (limited to a maximum of two (2) images and CAPA ‘Club’ Competition for all camera clubs (limited to a maximum of eighteen (18) images from eighteen (18) different club members.
Awards – For both the Individual and Club components of this competition, CAPA medals and Honourable Mention electronic certificates will be awarded to entrants with the highest individual score.
How To Enter Competition – check out our How To Upload Images To CAPA Competition here.
Competition Coordinator– CAPA Assistant Director of Competitions – Cheryl Bramble. Any questions about the competition, please contact the Competition Coordinator well in advance of the closing date of the competition.
- Eligibility Criteria – Prior to submitting any photo in a CAPA competition, all entrants must first read the CAPA Eligibility Criteria relating to images submissions. – READ ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA HERE
- Permitted Editing Techniques:
All In-Camera Techniques: Any adjustments made directly within the camera during image capture.
On-Camera Techniques: Utilizing on-camera features and settings for image enhancements.
Post-Processing Techniques: Editing the image using post-processing software.
Sky Replacement: Sky replacement but the replacement sky must have been captured by the same photographer submitting the image into the competition.
- Editing Techniques Not Permitted:
Images without Photographic Origin: Images that are entirely generated electronically with no photographic origin.
Frames, Borders, Pin-lines, and Mats: Photograph must not contain any decorative elements like frames, borders, pin-lines, or mats. This includes the edges and markings of scanned film. When the frame is integral to the captured image, for instance a window frame or door frame that has been captured by the camera, these elements are permitted.
Artificial Intelligence Renderings: Images that have been created or modified using specific AI generative techniques: in-painting (where AI fills in generated elements not captured by the photographer or where AI removes elements from a photograph); or out-painting (where the AI extends beyond the original boundaries of the image captured by the photographer using generated elements). Whether with or without text prompts, these are not permitted for submission into a CAPA competitions.
The inclusion of Photoshop application features, such as Firefly’s AI Generative Fill and AI Expand cannot be contained in your image submitted into a CAPA competition. Similar positions will be taken with other AI systems with these features.
This updated provision will be in effect starting from November 30, 2023, and it will apply to all CAPA competitions.
- Image Metadata Required:
For all competitions: it is mandatory that your submitted image includes complete image file metadata. Alternatively, if your image is chosen as a potential winning entry, you will be required to provide the original images (e.g., un-retouched JPG or RAW files) used in developing the submitted images. Ensure that all requested files maintain the full image file metadata.
- Accepted Image Types:
Black & White Images
Infrared Images
Colour Images
Specifications
Title of Image
When images are uploaded into a competition, you are required to enter the title of your image into the Title Field. Title can be in either English or French or both.
A weak image title, such as ‘pretty flower,’ will fail to stimulate the judge’s interest in the image and may result in a lower score than expected.
Image File Name
The image file name that you create prior to uploading into this competition should also be simple, and could be the same as the Image Title. For example: John Snow-Sublime Nova Scotia Sunset
Image Size – Dimensions
You must ensure your image is re-sized to meet the following two parameters:
- Saved as a jpg image with a maximum file size of 1.8 MB.
- Dimensions: Maximum horizontal size: 1400 pixels and maximum vertical size: 1050 pixels.
Example of Image Sizing – Check details here
Note: Images smaller than the maximum dimensions will ONLY be accepted when one of the image edges has a horizontal size is 1400 pixels or the vertical size is 1050 pixels. For example: square image – 1050 x 1050 pixels; 1400 x 800 pixels; or 700 x 1050 pixels.
Note: Images will NOT be rotated by the judges and will scored as submitted.
During the uploading process of your image, our online competition system will verify if the image is less than 1.8 MB and meets the two parameters.
If your image fails this verification process, you will receive an error message and it will appear below the upload image box.
Depending on the error message – you will need to either reduce the file size of the image to be 1.8 MB or less or re-size the dimensions of your image. After doing so, please re-try uploading your image.
Suggestions – Use sRGB colour space for your image. For colour accuracy: we strongly recommend that you calibrate your monitor to ensure colour accuracy from your monitor to the image projected to the judges.
- An Image’s title may be used by the judges in evaluating a submission, so entrants should take care in selecting a title that complements or contributes to the vision or message being presented in the image.
- The judges will assign scores primarily based on the ‘emotional’ components of the image, considering values such as creativity and emotional impact. Secondary emphasis will be place on the ‘technical’ aspects, followed by considerations of the ‘composition.’
- Technical and Organizational factors, such as exposure, sharpness, focus, space, and composition, will be taken into account solely to the degree they do or do not support or reinforce the creative vision and storytelling. Images will not be penalized in scoring for so-called technical rule infractions, such as focus, if that is immaterial to the creative vision and storytelling.
Likewise, judges take into consideration in their scoring the degree to which the entrant’s use of techniques such as colour, monochrome, duo and multi-tone, contributes to or supports the creative vision and the story telling value of the image.
Likewise, judges take into consideration in their scoring the degree to which the entrant’s use of techniques such as colour, monochrome, duo and multi-tone, and infra-red, contributes to or supports the creative vision and the story telling value of the image.