[nwbcc] Fwd: Rules for club competition

[John Case]

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> From: John Case <jc007j4181 at blueyonder.co.uk>
> Date: 20 January 2007 17:36:46 GMT
> To: "DH Peregrine, Mathematics" <D.H.Peregrine at bristol.ac.uk>
> Subject: Re: [nwbcc] Rules for club competition
>
> Regarding Howell's discussion point about straight and manipulated  
> images, I don't think it would be practical to differentiate. After  
> all, all that matters is the merit of the image the judge finally  
> sees on the screen, how it was produced is not relevant, providing  
> of course all parts of the image are the photographer's own. All  
> members who enter digital images, since they obviously have  
> computers, have an equal opportunity to manipulate their images if  
> they wish to.
>
> John
>
> On 20 Jan 2007, at 17:00, D.H.Peregrine, wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
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