Salon Rules

General Rules:

  1. Entrants must be Crosstown Camera Club members in good standing.
  2. Monthly salons will alternate between Prints (Color and Monochrome) and Digital. There will be four print salons and four digital salons at regular club meetings. The board will determine the order of the salons.
  3. Each salon will consist of a “Topic” category and an “Open” category. The Topic category is the subject matter designated annually by the salon committee. The Open category is any subject matter that does not fit into the Topic category. The judge for each salon has the final decision as to what will be in each category.
  4. Each member may submit up to three photographs in each salon, dividing them between the Open and Topic categories as they wish. Members may also divide their entries between color and monochrome prints (digital images are judged in one category only).
  5. Competition prints must be submitted to the Edina Art Center (EAC) CCC drop off area by 7:00 p.m. Tuesday, the week prior to the Salon.
  6. Competition digital images must be submitted as email attachments sent to digitalsalon@crosstowncameraclub.com by 11PM Tuesday, the week prior to the Salon. Please make sure your emailer is NOT resizing your images when you send them by emailing yourself a test image prior to sending your competition images.
  7. Any photograph entered will be judged according to three basic criteria: TECHNIQUE, COMPOSITION, and IMPACT.
  8. The following three pieces of information are required for each entry:

NUMBER:

your CCC Member Number (not your name). This number can be found on your Membership Card. Entries with names or other image-maker identification such as Copyright Watermark, etc. will be disqualified.

TITLE:

a descriptive title for the photograph.

CATEGORY:

indicate whether the entry is Topic or Open.

Titles are for identification — for yourself, and for those who keep club records. Judges don’t always pay much attention to them. Use description instead of commentary (e.g. “Mike on a Bike” instead of “Will He Make It?”). Calling a photograph “Untitled” risks confusion in club records and later in your own memory.

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The Print and Digital Committees will interpret and apply these rules at each club salon and have the right to reject any entry not properly presented or labeled.

Digital Salon Rules:

Digital images must be submitted as email attachments sent to digitalsalon@crosstowncameraclub.com by 11 PM Tuesday, the week prior to the Salon.

How to Prepare Your Digital Images for Salon:

  • All digital images shall be the result of an initial exposure by the member. Images may be captured either using a digital camera or scanned from slides or negatives.
  • All digital images must be labeled with a CATEGORY (Topic or Open), member’s NUMBER and TITLE in the filename. Entries with a member’s name or other image-maker identification on the image, such as Copyright Watermark, etc. will be disqualified.
  • Digital images may be entered in either of the Topic or Open divisions but to a maximum of three images TOTAL per member per salon.
  • Digital images shall be 1280 pixels on the longest side.
  • Image file type must be JPEG.

Filenames for digital entries should appear as follows:

  • The file name should contain the following four items:
  • T for the salon topic or O for the open category.
  • NUMBER: your CCC Member Number (not your name). This number can be found on your Membership Card. Entries with names will be disqualified.
  • TITLE: a concise descriptive title for the image.
  • .jpg

Examples:

  • T.691.TheCat.jpg (Topic Entry)
  • O.691.TheBird.jpg (Open entry)

Additional Notes:

  • Always make a copy of your final image and resize and orient properly for viewing (horizontally or vertically) your duplicate prior to emailing.
  • Use maximum/100 image quality when saving image using the Save for Web method, or use Maximum/12 when using the Image Save method
  • Titles are for identification – for yourself, and for those who keep club records. Judges don’t always pay much attention to them. Use description instead of commentary (e.g. “MikeOnABike” instead of “WillHeMakeIt”). Calling a photograph “Untitled” risks confusion in club records and later, in your own memory.

The Print and Digital Committees will interpret and apply these rules at each club salon and have the right to reject any entry not properly presented or labeled.

Print Salon Rules:

Prints must be submitted to the Edina Art Center (EAC) CCC drop off area by 7:00 p.m. Tuesday, the week prior to the Salon.

How to Prepare Your Prints for Salon:

  • All prints shall be the results of an initial exposure by the member. All other processing may be commercially done, if desired.
  • Matting is encouraged but not required. No frames are allowed.
  • A TITLE, CATEGORY (Topic or Open), member’s NUMBER, and DIVISION entered (Monochrome or Color) must appear on the back top left side of the matte board. Entries with a member’s name will be disqualified.
  • Prints may be entered in either of the Topic or Open divisions but to a maximum of three prints TOTAL per member per salon.
  • Prints shall be no smaller than 15 square inches (3″ x 5″) and no larger than 320 square inches (16″ x 20″). Prints must be mounted on matte board no smaller than 80 square inches (8″ x 10″) and no larger than 320 square inches (16″ x 20″).

The following four pieces of information are required for entry and should appear in the top left corner on the back side of the matte board:

  1. NUMBER: your CCC Member Number (not your name). This number can be found on your Membership Card.
  2. TITLE: a descriptive title for the photograph
  3. TOPIC: indicating a Topic category entry. OPEN: indicating an Open category entry.
  4. MONOCHROME -or- COLOR

Additional Notes:

  • Mounting your print on still board or foam board is recommended. You can use spray adhesive, double-coated tape, Scotch Mounting Adhesive or heat mounting.
  • Titles are for identification – for yourself, and for those who keep club records. Judges don’t always pay much attention to them. Use description instead of commentary (e.g. “Mike on a Bike” instead of “Will He Make It”). Calling a photograph “Untitled” risks confusion in club records and later, in your own memory.
  • If you are able, please also send a digital copy of your print (conforming to digital salon rules) to digitalsalon@crosstowncameraclub.com. If your image is awarded a “Judge’s Choice” during judging, it will be displayed on the Crosstown website and used in the end-of-year presentation.

The Print and Digital Committees will interpret and apply these rules at each club salon and have the right to reject any entry not properly presented or labeled.

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