CATEGORIES
These categories may overlap. It will be your choice to pick the category you wish to enter your image.
The InFocus Committee reserves the right to change the category of your entry if they deem it necessary.
Below you will find examples for each category. Please click on any image to see full sized.
Thank you to past years participants for these lovely examples!
The InFocus Committee reserves the right to change the category of your entry if they deem it necessary.
Below you will find examples for each category. Please click on any image to see full sized.
Thank you to past years participants for these lovely examples!
1. New Category: ARTISTICALLY ENHANCED
This is where you can let your imagination soar, where the image in your camera can truly become the image you envisioned in your mind. Or maybe not. Perhaps the camera’s image is the embarkation point on a mission of discovery. Regardless, whatever digital manipulation or darkroom wizardry is employed, it must be your own and may not include borrowed skies or other third-party visual elements of any kind. If you are entering composited images, or images using photo editing software filters that produce painterly or motion effects, multiple exposures done either in-camera or in software, or images employing intentional camera movement, this is the category for you.
Entries with these effects will not be accepted in other categories.
If in doubt, please ask before submitting your work.
This is where you can let your imagination soar, where the image in your camera can truly become the image you envisioned in your mind. Or maybe not. Perhaps the camera’s image is the embarkation point on a mission of discovery. Regardless, whatever digital manipulation or darkroom wizardry is employed, it must be your own and may not include borrowed skies or other third-party visual elements of any kind. If you are entering composited images, or images using photo editing software filters that produce painterly or motion effects, multiple exposures done either in-camera or in software, or images employing intentional camera movement, this is the category for you.
Entries with these effects will not be accepted in other categories.
If in doubt, please ask before submitting your work.
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2. LANDSCAPES
- Includes but is not limited to landscapes, seascapes, panoramas, time-lapse, outdoor scenes, sunsets, farms, light-painting, night shots, aerial photography. These images depict an expanse of scenery. The subject is the scenery and not individual elements of the scene.
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3. MAN MADE
- The subject of the image is manufactured, created or constructed by human beings; including but not limited to still life, architecture, toys or machinery.
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4. ANIMALS
- From “Gnat to Whale”, “Domestic to Wild” “Loved to Feared.” May include: Birds, mammals, insects, reptiles, rodents, amphibians, fish and other marine life, domestic pets, any living creature other than a human (they have their own category).
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5. PLANTS
- A living organism of the kind exemplified by trees, shrubs, herbs, grasses, ferns and mosses, seeds, bulbs, algae and fungi. May be a macro or close up image or an entire “landscape” if the plant(s) are the subject of the image.
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6. PEOPLE
- People images may be photos of groups or individuals. The image could be a staged portrait or could be a spontaneous moment. The people or person is the subject of the image.
