[nwbcc] Rules for club competition

[D.H.Peregrine,]

Marilyn and all,

--On 20 January 2007 15:12 +0000 marilyn adams 
<marilynadamswestbury at hotmail.com> wrote:

> I have 2 examples of competition rules relating to projected images
> for consideration - there will need to be a decision shortly as the
> first round of the competition will soon be upon us.

For image size maximum dimensions of 1024 x 768 is clear, on the 
other hand having a maximum file size may on occasion penalise some 
photos with a lot of intricate detail. I have just done some 
experiments with photos which have unusually large original files and 
saving them at 1024 x 768 with maximum quality. The largest file I 
generated was 1021 kb. This 1Mb size should not cause difficulties 
these days.

For type, jpeg is obvious.

The IoM requirement that all parts of the image must have been taken 
by the entrant is also sensible.

With regard to submission: a title will in most cases be sufficient 
to identify a photo, but if no title is preferred or a very simple 
title is used, then some extra symbols should be added to the file 
name in case the same title is used more than once:
e.g. 'No title d5f.jpg',  or 'Tree 5391.jpg'.

As a discussion point:

I expect digital submission to be very popular. If so, we may like to 
divide digital images into two categories:

1. Straight images - no manipulation other than attention to simple 
adjustments such as cropping, brightness, contrast, etc.

2. Manipulated images.

I recall that the Brunel200 competition had some good examples of 
prints in the latter category.

Yours

Howell