I’m an FCCC member, but I changed my camera club. How do I make this change on the FCCC site?

It’s very easy to change your club affiliation:

1. Visit the Update My Profile page.
2. Click the Camera Club Affiliation dropdown.
3. Select your new club from the list. The site will display a confirmation dialog with important information.
4. Please read the instructions in the dialog, and confirm it when you’re done.
5. Click the Save My Changes button. The admins of your new club will receive an email notification.
6. Once your new club confirms your membership with them, all actions from this point forward will be for your new club, such as entering competitions.

I’m a member of my camera club, but I can’t login to this website.

Although you are a member of your camera club, membership to the FCCC website is separate.

First of all, you’ll need to make sure that your camera club is one of the active clubs listed on the Clubs page. The only way to become a free member of this site is if you are affiliated with a club that is an active paid member of the FCCC umbrella.

Second, you’ll need to register on this site, and affiliate yourself with that club. Once your club confirms your membership, you will become an active, free member of this site, and can participate in our triannual competitions, and have access to other benefits and member discounts (as was available for the recent FCCC Conference). Please read the FAQ on the details of how to join this website.

My new temporary password doesn’t work!

If you requested and received a new temporary password via the Forgot My Password option, but you still can’t sign in successfully:

1. Make sure you are using your email address, and not any old “username” you may have had for the old version of this site.
2. The password is case-sensitive, so make sure you are correctly using the lowercase or uppercase version of any letters.
3. If you copy and pasted the temporary password from the email, please make sure you did not copy any spaces before or after the password. You can play it safe by double-clicking the password before copying it.
4. Try manually typing in the temporary password. Make sure you don’t confuse zero (“0”) with the letter “O”, one (1) with the lowercase letter “l”, or the lowercase letter “1” with the uppercase letter “I”.
5. If it’s not very clear because of the above characters, use the Forgot My Password option again to ask for a different temporary password. But first try the copy and paste method described in point #1, above.

Once you have logged in successfully with the temporary password, be sure to visit the Update My Profile page to change your password to something you will remember.

I can log into the site, but it won’t let me upload my images for the competition.

This is likely because you have recently joined the FCCC website, but the join process is not fully completed yet:

• If you joined as someone affiliated with a Florida camera club that is under the FCCC umbrella, the leaders or reps of that club need to confirm your membership with that club in order for you to be an approved “free” member of this site. When you originally joined this site, you would have received a join confirmation email explaining this fact. At the same time, the reps of that club would have also received an email asking them to confirm your membership with that club. The reps would receive daily reminders until they either confirm or deny your membership. If you still haven’t received an email confirming either decision, it is up to you to reach out to them to let them know you are awaiting their action. At this point, it is out of the hands of the FCCC.

I forgot my password. Can you send it to me?

For security purposes, we do not store your password in the system. Instead, a “hash” value representing your password is stored. Nobody can sign into your account using this “hash” value, so your account is safe.

But if you did forget your password, you will need to have it reset. In order to do this, visit the Forgot My Password item under the Membership menu, or visit this link: http://f3c.org/membership/password/

We will send a temporary password to your email address, which you can use to login to the site. Once you use this password, visit the Update My Profile item under the Membership menu, or visit this link: http://f3c.org/membership/profile/, and change the password to one you can remember.

How do I join the FCCC?

You would need to register on the site by clicking the large red Join Now button on the right-hand side of the page (or click on it, below):

Join Now!
Enjoy the benefits of being a member!

or selecting the Join the FCCC item under the Membership menu.

Once you’re on that page, when entering your profile information, you have a couple of options:

1. Join as a member of an FCCC-affiliated camera club
2. Join, and then register a new camera club to affiliate with the FCCC
3. Join as a competition judge

The first option will provide you a free membership to this site. If you use this option, make sure to select your club from the Camera Club Affiliation drop down list. You must already be a member of the club before doing this, otherwise the club will not approve your FCCC membership.

Your club reps would then receive an email asking them to confirm and approve your club membership. When they do, you’ll receive an email letting you know, and you’ll then be an official member of the site. Then you’ll be eligible for this and all subsequent competitions as long as you remain a member of your club. You will also be eligible for member discounts for events, etc.

The second option allows you to join with the intention of registering a new camera club. You should only use this option if you are a president or rep of your camera club, otherwise, your membership will not get approved. Once you join using this option, you would be redirected to the Sign Up Camera Club page, where you would specify the information we need in order to approve new clubs, and then directed to the payment page where you could pay your initial annual fee via PayPal (or credit card), or get our mailing address to send in a check for the fee. If you use the online payment method, once the payment is processed, your club would immediately become a registered FCCC club, you would automatically become an affiliate member (and rep) of your club, and other members could join affiliating themselves with your club. If you pay the annual fee via check, your club’s activation would be initiated upon our receipt of your check payment.

The third option should only be used if you are not yet a member of the FCCC, but you’ve been invited by our Digital Competition Coordinator to become a judge for an upcoming competition. If you use this option, you would be able to use the judging feature on the site once the judging period for your assigned competition begins, but you would not be able to participate in entering competitions, etc.