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Pictures of the Summer Submission Directions

Entries will be uploaded in the form at the bottom.

You can submit up to 4 images from the time between Picture of the Month Meetings.

The deadline for submissions is 7:30 p.m. the day of the meeting (Tuesday night).

All images should include correct metadata including:

  • A complete, ready to publish caption
  • The caption should not include a name in the credit line
  • The photographer’s name, contact, and copyright information
  • An accurate capture time

Image file specifications:

  • JPEG with little to no compression (level 8-12 in photoshop/80-100 in Lightroom)
  • 3000 pixels on the long side
  • sRGB Color Space

File Naming

  • Should include  Last Name, Month, File Number
  • LastName_September_01

Resources for writing metadata

Lightroom

Photomechanic