Trenna Packer Salver nature competition

Call for submissions for WPS’s entry

We are planning to enter the Trenna Packer Salver competition, which is a competition for a set of six nature projected images and is run by the Nature Photography Society of New Zealand, with the objective of illustrating the diversity of the natural world in New Zealand and its offshore islands.

We need a variety of subjects to make a set. Last year’s winning set featured a butterfly, a mushroom, a fern, a frog, a hot water stream, and a bird. So, while we do need some bird images, we need photos of a wide range of other subjects. And each image in the set needs to be by a different club member, so we need submissions from lots of members.

So, start thinking about some images that you might be able to submit. We’ll be accepting submissions from now until the end of Sunday, 31 May.

Entry is digital and images should be saved as jpeg, sRGB colour space, with 1620 pixels on the horizontal for landscape and 1080 pixels on the vertical side for portrait and at a file size between 400 KB and 1.2 MB.

To submit your entries, send them to comms@wps.org.nz with “Trenna Packer submission” in the subject line, and name the image files as: Packer_LastnameFirstname_Title.jpg

The full details of the rules are on the competition website https://naturephotography.nz/trenna-packer-salver/

The key points are:

• The subject matter is restricted to New Zealand and its offshore islands.
• Subjects may include wild flora (plants) and/or fauna (animals) in their natural (but not necessarily native) environment, inanimate natural subjects such as rocks and shells, natural landscapes and seascapes including geological features or processes and weather phenomenon.
• Landscape images must highlight a natural feature as the main subject of the image and titled accordingly.
• Cultivated plants and domestic or captive animals are not acceptable.
• Images must avoid evidence of humans.
• Images created in whole or in part by image creation software (frequently called ‘AI’ images) are not allowed.
• Images must be titled with scientific or common names of the plant, animal or geographic feature.
• Allowed editing techniques:
  ­ – Cropping, straightening and perspective correction
  ­ – Removal or correction of elements added by the camera or lens, such as dust spots, noise, chromatic aberration and lens distortion
  ­ – Global and selective adjustments such as brightness, hue, saturation and contrast to restore the appearance of the original scene
  ­ – Complete conversion of colour images to grayscale monochrome
  ­ – Blending of multiple images of the same subject and combining them in camera or with software (exposure blending and focus stacking).
  ­ – Image stitching – combining multiple images with overlapping fields of view that are taken consecutively (e.g. panoramas).
• Editing techniques that are not allowed:
  ­ – Removing, adding to, moving or changing any part of an image, except for cropping and straightening.
  ­ – Adding a vignette during processing.
  ­ – Blurring parts of the image during processing to hide elements in the original scene.
  ­ – Darkening parts of the image during processing to hide elements in the original scene.
  ­ – All conversions other than to complete grayscale monochrome.