Folio Competition is held once a year. There are three categories: Seniors, Weddings and Families/Children. Members may enter two commercially available and unaltered folios with a maximum size of 12"x 24" over all and eight openings of 4"X 5" with the following criteria.

Folios are judged on impact, creativity, variety, salability, expression, posing, composition, color balance and uniformity, print quality, the "appropriateness" of the images as a senior portrait (such as inappropriate sexual content, violence, demonic overtones, etc.), and folio presentation design.

Print Competition is held once a year. Each member may enter up to 4 Photographs OR 3 Photographs and 1 Event Album. The images may be in any combination of classes: Wedding, Portrait or Open. The photographs must be mounted and unframed on a 16x20 with a minimum image area is 80 square inches.

Prints are judged on the 12 Elements of a Merit Print. 1 Impact, 2 Creativity, 3 Style, 4. Composition, 5 Print Presentation, 6 Color Balance, 7 Strong Center of Interest, 8 Lighting, 9 Subject Matter, 10 Print Quality, 11 Technique, and 12 Storytelling. Starting in 2005 you can view the prints from the competiton.