Exhibitions

 
Judson Rhodes
Exhibition Chair

Photo by Lee Grymkoski

• Exhibition Rules
• How to name files for digital entries
• Guidelines for Year-End Exhibition

The first meeting of each month generally features a speaker. The second meeting in each month is devoted to our Photo Exhibition event. Members submit their images at the first meeting in the month which then are reviewed by a professional photographer who is not a club member. Each month we present a different judge from the top photographers in Albuquerque. There is no better way to improve your photos than to have an unbiased critique of your work.

While the main value is his/her educational critique, images are also scored by the judge, who awards 1st, 2nd and 3rd places and Honorable Mentions in each of the Groups, Divisions and Categories (see the Exhibition Rules for an explanation of these terms). Images are scored on a scale of 1 to 5 points each for Composition, Impact and Technical quality, resulting in a cumulative range of points from 3 to 15. Every image that places earns an appropriate ribbon.

New and less experienced members initially enter in the "B" Group. More experienced members exhibit in the "A" Group and the most accomplished present their work in the "AA" Group. The ELCC Exhibition Rules explain how one moves from B>A>AA.

Photographs can be submitted in any combination of these four media: Digital, Color print, Black & White print and Slides. All entries must have been exposed by the entrant. For any image that has been produced using photo-editing software, all major parts of the image, except for a digitally-produced mat, must have been captured by a camera.

A long-standing tradition in photography clubs is a method used to encourage the photographer's creativity and imagination: the "photo assignment". This is typically a topic or subject about which one creates a photograph representing that subject. Assignment topics are generated toward the end of the Club year and one topic for each month in the coming Club year is selected by the membership. These images are judged separately from those in the "Open" category.

Visit the Galleries web page to see Exhibition and other member photo galleries.