Competition Guidelines

Competition Overview
2023 – 2024
Quick Summary

There are two types of monthly competitions: 

                          Open                                                Special Theme

Unless labeled as a Special Theme, competitions are Open Contests. Photos can be of any subject or use any editing technique. 

Special Theme Contests require entries to meet the stated theme of the contest.

All members can submit up to 3 pictures into monthly Open competitions, and 3 images for Special Theme competitions.

There are 4 competition classes:

               Beginner              Advanced                 Salon                     Master

New members are automatically placed in the beginner class.  At the end of the season, members may advance to a higher class depending on their scores for the year.

Each monthly competition consists of  8 Digital contests:

Monochrome Beginner

Monochrome Advanced

Monochrome Salon

Monochrome Master

Color Beginner

Color Advanced

Color Salon

Color Master

Monochrome images must contain only shades of a single color.

Your entries can distributed without restriction between the Digital-Monochrome and Digital-Color contests of your Class.

In each of the contests, from among images that received a score of 9, a judge shall select a 1st, 2nd and 3rd place image.

Only first place winners of monthly competitions will be automatically entered into the club’s end of year contests when the best Picture of the year will be determined.

Technical Requirements for MCC Digital Entries

  • The name of the file should only contain the title of the image
  • Maximum of 1920 pixels on the longest edge
  • Any color space
  • JPG only
  • Thin stroke border recommended if the background is dark
  • There must be no writing (Name, Title, etc.) on the picture
  • All images for MCC competitions must  be uploaded to VISUAL PURSUITS

Digital Technical Requirements  for NJFCC Contests

  • Maximum of 1050 pixels on the longest edge
  • sRGB color space
  • JPG only
  • There must be no writing (Name, Title, etc.) on the picture.
  • Images for NJFCC competitions must be uploaded to PHOTOCONTESTPRO.COM

Refer to Click Here for more NJFCC Information.

Instructions for uploading files can be found HERE.

If you have any questions, use our Technical Support Form

Revised July 2022

For detailed information, refer to the document below.

MCC-Contest-Descriptions-2021-1-1

Right click to download a copy of these guidelines

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