Guidelines For Set Subject Competitions

These are suggestions only!

Photographers are encouraged to use their own imagination and creativity in their images

Notes

• The set subjects were suggested by club members and voted for by the club as a whole
• The guidelines are suggestions only and are open to interpretation and creativity by the photographer
• If any doubt, Google the subject for inspiration & examples, or ask in club for other members’ views
• Judge has final say on the night of the competition

2021-22 Season

• TOC1 PDI Plant Life
  • Plant life photography is an exercise in celebrating colour and/or texture. Whether it’s the vibrant red of a rose or the deep purple of a violet, colourful flowers and/or textures of leaves and petals
• TOC2 Print Street/Reportage
  • Street photography, also sometimes called candid photography, is photography conducted for art or enquiry that features unmediated chance encounters and random incidents within public places
  • Reportage photography, or what’s also known as documentary photography, is a photographic style that captures a moment or event in a narrative fashion, i.e., images that tell a story
• TOC3 PDI Sports & Action
  • Sports photography refers to the genre of photography that covers all types of sports
• TOC4 Print Landscape UK
  • Refer to the Landscape Trophy page
• TOC5 PDI Sunrise/Sunset
  • Photographs taken at the beginning, or end of the day showing the rising, or setting sun
• TOC6 Print Architecture
  • Architectural photography is the photographing of buildings and similar structures that are both aesthetically pleasing and accurate representations of their subjects

Heads up of Set Subjects for 2022-23 season

TOC 1 PDI Contre-Jour
TOC2 Print Moods in Monochrome
TOC 3 PDI Wildlife indigenous to the UK
TOC 4 Print Portraits
TOC 5 PDI Patterns
TOC 6 Print Every Picture Tells A Story