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Draft Rules for Digital Projected Images.

 

 

1. Images presented in internal competitions for projection shall for the 2008-2009 season be either in slide or digital file format. Up to three images in either – not both categories can be submitted unless the individual rules of a particular competition say otherwise.

 

2. Points for Photographer of the year shall be obtained from the two categories prints and projected images (either slide or digital)

 

3. Digital images for projection can either be submitted in the format below to the competition secretary on hand in evening or emailed to the competition secretary by 22.00 on the hand evening at the latest. It is important that you receive a receipt note if emailing. Submission on the night can be on CD/DVD please make certain that whatever medium you use is clearly labelled with your name. Various forms of flash memory cannot be used as they often need to be registered to the computer and will cause the competition secretary undue trouble. The competition secretary will undertake to return your storage media by the date of the competition.

 

4. Our projector has a resolution of 1400 pixels wide by 1050 pixels high. To see your pictures at their best they should be at these dimensions.  If the picture dimensions are less then the picture will project small. If they are bigger you are leaving the resizing to the projector/projection software, not the best way to do it. If you do not have software to crop and resize images talk nicely to some one in the club who has and is prepared to help. So if your picture is landscape in format it should not be more than 1400 pixels wide and 1050 high. If it is in portrait format it should not be more than 1050 pixels high.  

 

5. Images should not have your name in the file name or on the picture. Please see that the file is named in the following sequence for our internal competitions. YourCompetitionnumber_competition date_your picture title. Thus the name could look like :-  A456_27_October_landscape.jpg     Note the prefix A in the example please use or A or B as a prefix to your competition number to indicate which group you are entering. This form of file naming will not apply to external and inter club competitions where the form of naming will be announced before the competition in question.

 

6. Metadata for the moment we will not worry about this too much. If you know how to, and have the software do put the image title, your name and copyright info in the Metadata.

 

7. Images can be submitted as .jpg or .tif If you use jpgs do use quality 12. If you are using tiffs then flatten all layers, remove any alpha channels, and use 8-bit colour and no compression. If you are emailing entries do use jpg to avoid bandwidth problems.

 

8. The images must be RGB NOT CMYK Convert your images to sRGB colour space. We will standardise on this for the moment and it is probably the safest way to ensure that judges can reliably see the colour of your images. Any problems and find someone in the club who might know more than you do to help!!!

 

9. The copyright of the images remains with you. The competition secretary will see that images are removed from his own computers and the one used for projection on the competition night. He will ask judges to remove your images from their computers.

 

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The club will try and be very tolerant as to how digital images are presented as we are learning and for the first year in particular we all have a lot to learn. As time progresses we should expect that advanced workers should have no problem in keeping to the rules but exercise tolerance and discretion to beginners.

 

DJA 2 September 2008