Monthly EID Guidelines
Monthly club Electronic Image Division (EID) competitions are held from September through April. The club EID Chair will send the top six Traditional images and the top four combined Monochrome and/or Altered Reality images to their respective 4C’s Monthly EID Chairs for regional judging, held from October through May.
The competitions are conducted in accordance with the process and restrictions provided in the 4C’s “Gold Book” (March 2023) at https://bit.ly/3gaPscn.
Monthly EID competitions are segregated by image type: Traditional, Monochrome, and Altered Reality. YAAP members may submit up to two (2) images total for these EID competitions but only if one is of the Traditional type. The other image submitted may be either Monochrome, or Altered Reality. It is the members responsibility to specify the image type.
The club EID Chair will send the top six Traditional images and the top four Monochrome and/or Altered Reality images to their respective 4C’s Monthly EID Chairs for regional judging, held from October through May.
Image Type and Designation
There are three image types:
Traditional, designated by the letter T, which will encompass the majority of photographs.
Monochrome, designated by the letter M, which includes black and white and monochrome toned photographs (for example, sepia).
Altered Reality, designated by the letter A, which depicts photographic subjects in a substantial departure from realism. For guidance on this type, refer to the 4Cs “Gold Book” at https://bit.ly/3gaPscn (navigate to the Gold Book folder in the document list for the most current version).
File Format
The file format must be carefully adhered to since images sent to the 4Cs are processed in part by a program that reads the file name. Images must be in JPEG (jpg) format without any visible signature or watermark. It is recommended (but not required) that they be in the sRGB color space. Avoid using the Prophoto RGB, which projects with vastly distorted color tones, according to the 4Cs EID Traditional chair.
File Size
All of the following size requirements must be met:
- Horizontal dimension maximum: 1920 pixels*
- Vertical dimension maximum: 1080 pixels*
* including any borders and key lines.
File Name
Images must be labeled using the following format:
FirstnameLastname_CLUB_TitleName_ImageType.jpg (where the image type is denoted by a single capital letter: T for traditional, M for Monochrome, A for Altered Reality.
Examples of proper file names:
JohnDoe_YAAP_PrettyFlower_T.jpg
EllenDoe_YAAP_MonochromeFlower_M.jpg
RachelDoe_YAAP_AlteredFlower_A
For non-scored, commentary only images:
LarryDoe_YAAP_Farmhouse_N.jpg
Do not separate the words in the name or title. Do NOT use any spaces in the file name. Use underscores ONLY to separate your name from the club’s initial, the club’s initials from the image’s name and the image’s name from the image type.
Submission Email Address
Submit images to our club EID Chair at yaapeid@gmail.com