Common features | Photography Club | Competitions | Organisations
All sites within MyPhotoClub have access to these features to use within their club or competition:
- Communication
- Simple and efficient communication through posts to the website
- Automated email messaging of each post’s contents to members, subscribers, potential or previous entrants.
- Competitions
- Online competition entry
- Image dimension, size & type checking
- Acknowledgment messages sent to entrants
- Competition results message
- PDF catalog of results produced
- Full archive of images & results data
- Judging Methods
- Remote judging with comments and awards for each entry given by a single judge
- Online scoring – multiple judges enter a numeric score for each entry
- Keypad judging – USB keypads to record a numeric score
- Acceptance score management
- Membership management
- Online payments for competitions, catalogs, membership & events.
- A single account enables access to all sites
Photography Club features
TopEvery photography club can utilise these features. Access is restricted to members of the respective club.
- Members profile pages
- Photo & photography-related bio
- View and comment on images entered by the member
- Re-use of entries
- Members can nominate previously uploaded images for entry into other club competitions or any competition hosted by MyPhotoClub
- Competition galleries
- View slideshow and comment on all images entered in completed competitions/upload activities
- Comments trigger email alerts
- Members can vote for favourite entry.
- Competition Management
- Grades and grading management
- Pointscore management
- Workshop and development activities
- Critique corner – upload an image for all members to evaluate and suggest improvements
- Reference file provision
- provide a raw file and invite members to upload their processed version
- provide instructions on how to do an activity – then upload the result.
Competition features
Top- National/International competitions to gain recognition
- Local competitions – fundraising and sponsored events.
- Inter-club competitions – between clubs or interest groups
- Circuits – entries judged more than once
A typical competition life cycle can use all of these features:
- Advertising
- A dedicated website for the competition
- Mail distribution to potential entrants
- Simple entry form
- File type, size, image dimension, and entry numbers are managed
- Entries can be adjusted up until the closing time
- Receipt notification sent whenever entries are changed
- Competitions automatically close at the nominated time.
- End to end entry fee management
- Fees collected using online payments
- Group or coupon discount options
- Fee can be set based on number of sections, entries or set rates per section
- Receipt notification sent whenever payments are made
- Print Management
- Front and rear label generation
- Mailing label for packages generated.
- Nominate sale price option.
- Complete workflow to manage print receipting and tracking.
- Entrant is notified on receipt of prints.
- Sorting and ordering all managed so that prints are kept in judging order.
- Judging
- Formal three-five keypad numeric score judging
- Online comment and award entry
- Online scoring that emulates numeric score judging
- Acknowledgment and result publishing
- Detailed individual scorecards sent by email
- Individual scorecards can be looked up online
- Slideshow full gallery of all entries/acceptances with result details
- High-quality pdf catalog produced
Organisations
#Top- For regional, state, or national bodies.
- Locate the nearest club.
- Comprehensive contact page.
- Competitions – between member clubs or interest groups