Exhibitions

Please note that there have been changes to the Exhibition Rules, particularly with respect to slides (no longer accepted) and to the number and types of media allowed. These Rules changes will go into effect with the first meeting of Club Year 2011 (September 2010). Please be sure you have read and understand the new entry requirements. Please direct any questions you have to exhibitionchair@yahoo.com.

• Exhibition Rules
• How to name files for digital entries
   

Judson Rhodes
Exhibition Chair

Photo by Sandra Nettles-Rhodes

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 among 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 B, A and AA) 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 to A to AA.

Photographs can be submitted in any combination of these three media: Digital, Color print or Black & White print. Slides are discontinued effective with September of 2010. 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. The list of Assigned categories for the 2011 Club Year is presented at the bottom of this page.
 

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