Archive for February, 2011

The annual photo shootout between the San Antonio Camera Club and the Houston Camera Club will be held on March 26, 2011 in Goliad, Texas. The photo shootout will take place in the town of Goliad, and at the reenactment of the Battle of Presidio La Bahia.

Lunch arrangements for all participants and their guests have been made at the Blue Quail Restaurant located in the downtown courthouse square at 11:30 AM. Lunch will be ordered and paid for by each person at the lunch counter. A private room has been reserved adjoining the restaurant for the two clubs. t has plenty of room for the two clubs to have a fun time visiting with members from both clubs. Let the women at the counter know you are with the photo shootout and they will point you in the direction of the room.

The following websites have some helpful information.

Goliad Chamber of Commerce

Presidio La Bahia website

Schedule of Events for the Reenactment

Espíritu Santo State Historic Site

(There are no required subjects to be shot of the mission, but it is well worth your time to go and photograph.)

Here is the list of subjects to photograph:

Miscellaneous Objects (found around town or at the battle reenactment):
A. Antique
B. Something that has rust on it
C. Flag or flags
D. Monument or statue (there are several around town)
E. Something red
F. Fence, gate, or wall
G. Window
H. Door
I. Flower or flowers, or cacti
J. Something that gives off light
K. Bell or bell tower
L. Animal that is living or was once living (can be domesticated or wild)
M. Food and/or a drink
N. Hat or bonnet (must compose close to 50% of the photo)
O. Photographer’s choice

Downtown or somewhere in town:
P. Landscape shot of the Courthouse
Q. Close-up shot of the Courthouse
R. Historic house or building

Reenactment:
S. Cannon or weapon used in the battle
T. A male soldier in period costume
U. A female in period costume
V. A child in period costume
W. A landscape shot of the Presidio Chapel
X. An interior shot of the Presidio Chapel (can be a landscape shot or close-up shot)

Rules and Regulations for the Photo Shootout on March 26, 2011:

1. The contest will be held on Saturday, March 26, in and around Goliad, Texas.
2. Images eligible for the competition must be taken by members of each club on the day of the competition. Each participant may take an unlimited number of images of each subject. However, they may enter only one image of each subject in his/hers club’s competition.
3. All images must be taken on March 26, 2011. There is no hourly time constraint, enabling the creation of fewer “flat light” images during midday, and can include sunrise or night exposures.
4. Images may be captured either digitally or with slide film. The final images submitted by each club for the final competition that is judged by a neutral club will need to be in digital format. This would require the scanning of any of the top images on a subject which are slides. There will NOT be a separate slide competition.
5. Each club will select two entries for each subject from all of the images submitted for that subject by its participants. In general, each participant must have at least one image included in the club’s final selection. However, if a person submits five or fewer images (that is, does not fully participate), his/her club may elect (but is not required to elect) not to include any of that photographer’s images in its final selection.
6. Black and white images are acceptable and will be judged together with other color images of that subject (not as a separate class).
7. Projected digital images must be sized not to exceed either 1024 pixels horizontally or 768 pixels vertically and should be saved in jpeg format at any jpeg quality level.
8. Each subject will be identified with a letter and each participant should be assigned a number by his club — between 100-149 for the Greater San Antonio Camera Club and between 150-199 for the Houston Camera Club.
9. A participant’s images should be identified with the letter of the subject followed by an underscore( _ ), followed by the participant’s number; for example: C_125.jpg. This will facilitate organizing images by subject.
10. Normal digital adjustments – such as, cropping, sharpening, adjustments with the levels and curves tools, correction of dust spots, use of filters, etc. are permitted. Cloning of anything into or out of an image, other than the elimination of dust spots, is not allowed.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE:

Please e-mail all entries to by 5 p.m. on Sunday, April 3.

Note: Thank you to Denise Willems, Jenny Fowler, Cathy Hood and Jody Lynch for planning this year’s shootout.