TRI-CLUB COMPETITION April 22, 2026
Whaling City Camera Club * Cape Cod Art Center Camera Club * Upper Cape Camera Club
Competition Parameters
21 Categories
Digital Photos taken from 2023 to present
Members may submit one photo to any and all categories
One photo will be chosen from each category for the Tri-Club Competition
No member will have more than one photo in the Tri-Club Competition
Three judges will rank the photos in the Tri-Club Competition
Tri-Club Competition Categories
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1
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Landscapes
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12
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Portrait - Person
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2
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Seascapes
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13
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Architecture
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3
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Winter Scenes
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14
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Intentional Camera Movement
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4
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Fall Colors
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15
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Stormy Weather
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5
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Nightscapes
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16
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Strictly Black & White
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6
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Long Exposures
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17
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Tree(s)
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7
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Street Photography
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18
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Something Yummy
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8
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Flowers
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19
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Wabi Sabi
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9
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Wildlife
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20
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Living Things with Wings
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10
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Reflections
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21
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Shadow Play
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11
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Sports
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Tri-Club Competition Rules
General Guidelines
All elements of an image must be from a photograph created by you. In general, all tone,
color, sharpening, noise reduction changes and removal of elements may be done to the
image regardless of how the edit is accomplished. Exception: the Wildlife category and Living Things with W categories must follow standard nature rules – no hand of man, no use of removal tools except minor cropping, etc.
Not allowed
• Use of third party images such as textures or skies that have been purchased,
downloaded or included as part of software.
• Use of Generative Fill and prompt-generated AI programs to create new imagery.
• Watermarks, logos or any other identifying mark. (Generative Fill for object removal
and re-touching is allowed.)
• Compositing. This includes includes sky replacements, textures and other forms of moving
elements from one image to another. See below for HDR, focus stacking and stacking for noise reduction.
Allowed
• Cropping.
• Exposure and color adjustments, including the use of presets either included with your
software, purchased or downloaded for free.
• Removal and/or moving of elements (except in Wildlife and Living things with Wings). This includes use of the clone stamp, healing brushes, content-aware tools, etc.
• Generative Fill (as long as it is in the context of retouching/removal and not adding new
subject matter).
• HDR and exposure composites of a same scene (eg in a night scene it’s okay to
combine a long exposure of the foreground with a shorter one of the stars) .
• Focus Stacking and stacking for noise reduction.
• Noise reduction.
• Lens and perspective corrections.
• Computational tools built in to cameras and phones for exposure and color control, but
not for adding new elements such as textures not in the original scene.