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UPCOMING EVENTS Enter our 2016 Photo Competition: Deadline July 1, 2016 BY PAT WHITTINGHAM Imagine the satisfaction of winning the next HOTG photo competition and seeing your image on the cover of the fall 2016 issue! Images will be judged on originality, technical quality, composition, overall impact and artistic merit. Technical quality relates to image clarity (sharpness), image size in portrait orientation, image noise, and colour balance. This year we’ll allow submissions that have undergone basic colour adjustment, resizing, cropping and noise reduction in either the camera itself or with post-production in an image editor such as Apple Photo, Picasa, Lightroom, etc. There are no restrictions on when the images were taken. We are especially interested in images that showcase the wide range of habitats across our planet including forests, grasslands, lakes and rivers, deserts, sunsets and sunrises, oceans and coasts, wildlife and world wonders. Please do not include photographs of pets or domestic animals. Images of captive animals photographed in zoos and commercial game farms or wildlife photographed in provincial, state and national wildlife preserves are allowed. If you include people in your submission, you will need to obtain the necessary releases from the individuals depicted, and to provide copies of those releases to HOTG. A standard release form is available from HOTG upon request. Here are a few suggestions on getting the best from the camera. If you have a very high-resolution camera (16 megapixels or more) you could shoot in horizontal (landscape) or vertical (portrait) orientation as you would probably have sufficient resolution to crop for an 8.5” x 11” cover from a horizontal shot. Otherwise, you would be well advised to shoot in portrait orientation. Ideally the camera will be set for its highest resolution (fewest pictures stored on the memory card), Auto White Balance (AWB) and Auto Focus (AF). Shooting in good light or using a flash can minimize image noise. If you are using a zoom lens, I suggest you get as close as possible to the intended composition to minimize cropping. Of course creativity trumps all this guidance. Often deviation from these guidelines creates a winning image. So don’t be afraid to “break the rules.” As we are looking for images for the front cover of the magazine, a portrait (vertical) orientation is preferable or a landscape shot of high quality that allows the image to be cropped to a final 8.5” x 11” portrait print size. Note that the two photos below show the results of cropping a landscape horizontal shot down to a vertical portrait shot. But the suitability of a snowy winter scene on a fall issue cover would likely not make the cut. So please keep in mind that the winning image will be used on the fall cover when submitting your entries. Details of the contest will appear before Christmas on the website http://ourbgcc.com. Good luck and good shooting. Below left: Original landscape orientation Below right: Portrait (cropped) 34 <strong>DECEMBER</strong> 2015
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