Our Assignments

Assignments are treated like homework.  Upcoming assignments are posted in the Member Database.

We’re all encouraged to go out and work at doing our best in challenging ourselves to get the best shot we can. Your images may be uploaded into the member database during a given time period and subsequently are then available for voting. The results are tallied and a slideshow is presented with all submissions and the winners being announced.
Only your own images are to be used, computer generated additions to an image are not acceptable. There is a wide range of expertise among our members, we all participate in the same categories and there is a need to keep the playing field (rules) equitable for everyone.

The submission photos can be placed into each of three categories:

• Colour – Colour images are based on a single shot.  The image has little to moderate post-processing. Essentially, there is cropping, straightening for horizons or other lines, and moderate work for exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, saturation, etc.
• Black & White – Black and white images are based on a single shot. The image is best taken in colour and changed in editing software to black and white. Do whatever it takes to get the very best contrasts in the image. Black and white is all about good, crisp contrast. Spot colour in black and white images is not acceptable.
• Digital Art – This is the category to test your skills or experiment with more aggressive post processing, HDR, photo stacking or the use of overlays that present visual elements of line, shape, colour, form, and texture, etc.

Whenever possible, the assignment topic is aligned with the speaker at the general meeting or some topics from the education meeting. Any queries about our assignments can be sent to assignments.opc@gmail.com

To see our prior assignments, click on this link or LookBack.