Digital Image Competition
The Boston Camera Club holds approximately six Digital Image competitions each year. We show a slideshow of the submitted images while a guest judge offers a critique.

Starting with the 2025–2026 camera club season, the guest judge no longer assigns numeric scores. Instead, the judge selects images for Honorable Mention and awards first, second, and third place. During the competition slideshow, images that do not receive an award are shown in arbitrary order, followed by Honorable Mention images, then third-, second-, and first-place images.

Each competition has an Open category, plus two Special categories in which images must adhere to a specified theme. Each category has an A and a B level, giving us six sub-competitions. See the club calendar for upcoming competitions and their accompanying special categories.

In the week prior to the event, members also cast “popular” votes for their favorite images. After all the six sub-competitions have been presented, the competition concludes with a slideshow of the third-, second-, and first-place images as determined by the popular-vote tallies.

Submission Schedule
Image submissions open on Tuesday, three weeks before the competition. Submissions close at 11:30 PM on the Saturday 10 days before the competition. A week of popular voting begins after submissions close. See the club calendar for the specific dates.

Image Submission Requirements
To submit images to a competition, log on to the club website and navigate to Competitions > Submit Images to a Competition.

• Color space: It is strongly recommended that photographs be converted to the sRGB color space. This most closely approximates the color capabilities of typical monitors and generally provides the best presentation of an image.
• Maximum dimensions: 3840 × 2160 pixels. If an image exceeds the system's maximum dimensions, your upload will take unnecessarily long because the image will be resized after the upload completes.
• Maximum file size: 20.0 MB. If your image file exceeds this limit, you may see an error message and the image will not be uploaded.

Historical Notes
When this competition was held in person, competition images were projected onto a screen in the meeting room. These sessions were therefore called “Projected Image” Competitions. When the club moved to Zoom during COVID, the name was changed to “Digital Image” Competition.