This section is all yours. Pick your subject, take your best shot. We’re always pleased with the wide variety of images members come up with.

Digital file naming/labeling convention:

Title of your image

Incorrect formatting: it is no longer necessary to add a number or your name or the month

Incorrect formatting: 400 – IMAGE TITLE – Your name – Competition Month.jpg

Important note: 

Your name and grade are automatically added by the Online Portal.  Please do not add your name to the title.

Each month there is a set subject for you to test your skills and creativity against. These subjects are set for the whole year, prior to each years commencement.

Digital file naming/labeling convention:

Title of your image

Incorrect formatting: it is no longer necessary to add a number or your name or the month

Incorrect formatting: 400 – IMAGE TITLE – Your name – Competition Month.jpg

Important note: 

Your name and grade are automatically added by the Online Portal.  Please do not add your name to the title.

What some would refer to as playtime. This is where you get to try those photography techniques that cause others to ask how did they do that? No hard and fast rules but a slight preference for in-camera experimentation and the software usage enhancing rather than turning the image into something else completely.

Defining the “creative” category:

The distinction between “creative” and “open” photography can be a difficult one to make. In its loosest definition, “creativity” refers to the use of imagination, originality, and inventiveness – attributes that we should be seeking to attain in all of our photographic endeavours.

For the “creative” category, we have ask our members to go a step further, and use some technique, either in-camera, or during post-processing, that gives the resulting photo a sense of alteration of reality. These photos may involve a number of different techniques and components that alter the photographic truth. The result may be surreal or abstract, it may be absurd, or it may display a clearly impossible scenario in a way that appears believable and realistic.

In this regard, the use of HDR or a long shutter speed, on its own and without manipulation of reality, is not sufficient. Nor is an unusual perspective on a subject – unless that perspective serves to alter the apparent reality of the subject.

While the above is a pre-requisite for this category, an outstanding “creative” image will go further, and demonstrate originality, inventiveness, and/or provoke an emotive response in the viewer.

Digital file naming/labeling convention:

Title of your image

Incorrect formatting: it is no longer necessary to add a number or your name or the month

Incorrect formatting: 400 – IMAGE TITLE – Your name – Competition Month.jpg

Important note: 

Your name and grade are automatically added by the Online Portal.  Please do not add your name to the title.

All digital files must comply to the following:

• Maximum upload file size: 20 MB
• Only JPEG/JPG image files are accepted.
• Images larger than 1920px horizontal (wide) and 1080px vertical (high) will be automatically resized down to fit within the PSNZ guidelines
• Images that don’t have at least one side the minimum recommended length above will not be accepted.

Submission options:

• Images are due:  by midnight of the Club Meeting (ie the last Tuesday of the month) that the subject finishes on.
• Images to be loaded via the new portal –  https://hbps.cameraclub.co.nz/
• Only 2 images may be loaded – The HBPS Portal currently accepts 3 and you will be asked to delete one image.  It will save everyone time if you stick to the limit of 2 images.
• Any issues please email competitions@hbps.co.nz 
• Results will be available at the end of month meeting following the submission deadline.

Important note: No extension to the deadline as the committee needs to send all images for external judging.