Timing
- The Annual Portfolio Competitions will be held in February for Open and November for Novice.
- Entries will close around two weeks prior to the meeting date to allow time for the external judge (appointed by the WAUPS Committee) to review the entries and return the results and feedback. Exact dates will be published in the WAUPS enews to members.
Portfolio type
- You can choose whatever images you like for your portfolio, but they generally fall into two types:
- A “theme” portfolio will have a specific focus such as a colour, location, fish species, etc.
- A “range” portfolio showcases a range of skills and interests such as macro and wide-angle photography and the ability to capture action, behaviour, portraits or detail
Images
- Each photographer must submit a portfolio made up of:
- Novice Portfolio- three separate images
- Open Portfolio – four separate images.
- Images used in portfolio competitions must not be the same images (or very similar images with only minor variations) used in any previous portfolio entry as the intent of this competition is to showcase unique, content-diverse images. If the portfolio entry contains images that the committee considers to be the same as used in previous entries, the portfolio entry will be disqualified and not included in the judging.
- It is acceptable to use images previously submitted into the Pixels competition.
- An image that has won Image of the Year competition is not eligible to be used in the portfolio.
- If the portfolio entry contains less than the required number of images, it will be disqualified and not included in the judging.