Categories
Capture Oakville Categories
The Photography Competition features up to six-(6) categories, each with specific subject matter and criteria to challenge and inspire the artistic and technical capabilities of the photographers entering the competition.
Capture Oakville is a major juried photo competition using judges qualified under the Canadian Association of Photographic Arts (CAPA).
Capture Oakville
The Streets of Oakville
An image that captures and demonstrates the interaction of people and their behaviours in public places within Oakville where you capture a realistic ‘decisive moment.’
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Though people usually feature directly, street photography might be absent of people and can be of an object or environment within Oakville where the imagery projects a decidedly human character in facsimile or aesthetic.
Capture Lanscapes
A grand expanse of Scenery, Landscape, spectacular natural event, or Environmental vista which conveys the scale, size or proportion of what you are photographing.
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The image may include methods such as wide-format panoramic field-of-view, High Dynamic Range (HDR) techniques. Human elements are acceptable, as long as they are not the primary subject matter.
Note: Cityscapes are excluded from this category.
Capture People & Portraits
A compelling portrait photograph that captures the moment of contact or interaction, while accentuating the essential characteristics and personality of the human spirit.
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The human subject should be the central element. Photographs can include, Candid or Posed, Portraiture, Studio, or Photojournalism.
Nature & Wildlife
Compelling image of natural elements such as wildlife, plants, insects, and close-ups of small natural subjects or textures.*
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Notes:
Close-up or Macro photographs are welcome in this category.
* Small natural subjects or textures could include parts of animals/plants/insects such as feathers, flower stamens, pollen, leaf vein patterns, compound eyes of insects, etc.
** Hand-of-Man elements are ‘discouraged.
Capture Black & White
A ‘creative’ visual image which uses the aesthetic of the black and white medium to best represent the impression of tone, texture or contrast in order to attract, guide and/or polarize the viewers attention. This category is open to any subject matter.
Exploration
Open to creative and innovative images that explore new personal directions in the art or science of photography and result in compelling images with strong visual and/or emotional impact.
Any subject matter or technique may be used. Images will be evaluated on their creativity, impact and inventive application of photographic principles and techniques.