The Trillium Photographic Club holds Clinics for image evaluation and education. This page gives an overview; for more details on submissions, see the Clinic Entry Instructions page
Members who wish to participate in the clinics should email [email protected] to be assigned a member level (if you are new to the club), or to ask any questions.
Your clinic# is assigned automatically by the website and is only used for internal purposes.
Documents you might like to review:
Trillium Categories in one page
Recognizing subjects for Nature and Reviewing Clinic Images
The Categories are Pictorial, Nature and Creative. The details start at p. 7 in the current version of our Members Handbook.
Clinics are your chance to share and learn from more experienced photographers to enhance your photographic skills. See Our Detailed Program Guide for Clinic Dates.
Only paying members and the immediate past president may enter clinics.
You can enter an image only once unless you altered it to achieve a substantially different result. You keep track of your images. We encourage you to enter recent work.
Member Levels: New members normally begin at the Bronze Member Level depending on circumstances. You earn Bronze Promotion Points (BPPs) with scores of 21 or more to advance to Silver, and so on.
Clinic Awards: Based on the member level. Top 15% in each Level receive Clinic Awards: top 5% receive Tops of Clinic (T.C.), remainder receive Honourable Mention (H.M.). Minimum score to receive a Clinic Award is 21 points. Sample result on clinic night: TC BPP means a Bronze member received a TC for bronze members with a score in the top 5% for bronze members and also earned a Bronze Promotion Point.
General Rules:
- All submissions must be your work, including digital manipulation.
- Copying and/or inclusion of elements from other artists’ images, in whole or in part, is not acceptable in any category, except where these are objects in the environment being photographed.
- Images created, in whole or in part, on the computer do not qualify in any category.
- Eligibility will be determined by the Club.
- New members are encouraged to submit their entries early to allow for review prior to clinic closing.
Rules listed in points 1-3 above cover the use of AI. Just like with CAPA, AI is okay as long as it’s not generative AI. Generative AI includes “elements from other artists’ images” or even images “created, in whole or in part, on the computer.” AI that works just on the pixels in the image using machine intelligence is okay. CAPA goes on at much greater length, basically expanding on those principles and setting out what tools are or are not acceptable, in both their general eligibility criteria and in their AI Authentication Standards page, where you can see which tools in which programs are acceptable.
Submissions: Clinic images are uploaded under Clinics, Clinic Uploads.
- Members can submit up to 5 JPEG files per clinic.
- They should be in the sRGB colour space.
Scoring: Trillium Photographic Club uses a half-point system allowing scores like 7.5. Three judges assess the images, so the final scores are out of 30.
Titles: The Image Title should be simple, and introduce or set the mood or perspective for your image. Nature has specific rules.
Size: Maximum horizontal size is 1400 pixels. Maximum vertical size is 1050 pixels. This does not mean every image has to be exactly 1400×1050. However, it is best to have at least one of the sides at the maximum, like 1400×800, 1050×1050, or 800×1050. General Notes on Exporting from Lightroom for Clinics
Please refer to the Members’ Handbook for further information.