HCC Competition 
Houston Camera Club holds a club competition the first Tuesday of each month. Effective September 2008, both prints and digital projected images are included in competitions. In addition, there is a year end competition each August. [Note: This is a local competition for Current Active HCC members only. Outside Internet entries are not eligible.]
Competition categories include Pictorial, Nature, Travel, Photojournalism, Monochrome, Creative, and Assignment plus Unlimited prints. In addition, there is an annual Earl Gilbert Architectural Photography competition and a Matt Daura Landscape competition. This year's monthly assignments:
| July | Mail Boxes |
| August | Interior Stairwell |
| September | Beverage |
| October | Neon Lights |
| November | Fall Colors |
| December | Humorous Sign or Billboard |
| January 2012 | Holiday Images |
| February | Building Reflections |
| March | Emptiness |
| April | Animal, Not a Bird |
| May | Downtown at Night |
June | Animals, person or people playing in water |
| July | Bicycle or tricycle |
August | Fireworks |
Competition rules, procedures, & other guidelines for both print and projected digital competitions, effective September 1, 2011, are linked below:
Additional notes for projected digital image competition. The computer and projector will be set up for best possible color balance, brightness, and contrast using a colorimeter. Specifications important for proper display of your images on our equipment include:
Color space. Be sure to convert your digital image to the sRGB color space, if necessary, before saving for competition. Most compact digital cameras and digital SLRs are factory set to sRGB, but many photographers use the Adobe RGB color space for its presumed broader range of colors for their photos. If not converted to sRGB, these images will look a bit dull--especially reds, aqua-cyans, and violets--when projected.
Monitor white point. Our projection system is calibrated to a white point of 6500 degrees Kelvin. If you profile your monitor, you may want to use the same white point setting for improved color matching with our projector.
For more information, an Internet search for "Adobe RGB VS sRGB" and on "Monitor white point" will yield more facts and opinions than you will ever need. We use a Datacolor Spyder 3 Elite to create color profiles for our projector.