External Competitions

Thornbury Camera Club enters a number of external competitions throughout the year, as follows:

3 Way Battle

This is a day's photoshoot competition for digital projected images between Thornbury, Sodbury and Yate, and Crossbow. Each club chooses the venue for a year and the idea is for the three clubs to spend the day in the defined location taking photographs. Photographers can go individually or in groups, at any time in the 24 hour period. The photo shoot usually takes place on a Sunday in May, and the judging in the following September (by the host club).

Each club chooses its best 20 images and they are then sent to the host club who arranges for an external judge. The images are then finally shown and judged at an evening organised by that year's host club.

Historically, this photoshoot used film and only two films were "issued" to each club, the idea being to get the best pictures as seen on the day.With the decline in slide film use and the rise in digital imaging the competition has had to move to the latter medium and so some simple rules now apply. Images are not allowed to be "manipulated", other than by cropping or balancing brightness, contrast, and colour balance. Parts of the image may not be removed, substitued or added to.

Please see the latest news section and May's programme page for the latest information on this competition.

DPIC (Digitally Projected Image Competition)

This competition is run annually by the WCPF (Western Counties Photographic Federation). Each club that enters submits 25 digitally projected images, with no more that 5 being from any one photographer. Last year's competition was held on 15th February 2009 and you can view the images the Club submitted on our Picasa Website . This year's competition was held in Exeter on 14th February 2010 - please see "Latest News" for details of how we did.

Ace of Clubs

This is a competition between several clubs local to Bristol. Each club submits a specific number of images (usually 7), each from a different photographer and the organiser (external) arranges for judging. The results are returned via a digital/audio file for presentation at a Club evening. Thornbury Camera Club usually does quite well in this competition.