Digital Projection Division

  •          Competition Night
    •    Will be the same night as open and nature slides, generally the first Thursday of the month.
  •          Competition Categories
    •    Will be Color General,  Monochrome General,  Nature ,  Color Creative,  Color Assignment ,and Monochrome Assignment
    •    Each entrant can submit up to 3 images in each Category for a total of 18 possible images per month.
  •          Competition Rules
    •    Will loosely match those of council.  See http://www.gdccc.org/docs/DigitalProjection.htm for more details.
    •    Extensive digital manipulation is allowed in Color Creative and Monochrome General.  In the other categories manipulation is limited to minor adjustments such as contrast, brightness and sharpening.  See the council link above for details.
  •          Beginning Rankings
    •    Click here for your current club standings.  If you are not listed here, you are a beginner in each category
    •    Will match the person’s 2008  standings in council digital.  For assignment, beginning standings will match your 2007-2008 LCC assignment slide standings.
    •    No one will start higher than Salon in any category.
  •          Digital format of submissions
    •    Will match those of council. Images need to be in JPG format, 100 DPI, 768 pixels in the longest dimension and must be in the sRGB color space.  Click HERE for a detailed explanation of how to format your images.
    •    If you would like to have me format your images for you, be sure to let me know that that what you have submitted requires modification.  If you can mail them ahead of time and have them named correctly, that would help.
  •          Entry Submission
    •    Please try to email your entries to dgetschman@comcast.net  by Tuesday evening prior to the night of the competition. If you can't make this deadline, email them anyways and bring them to club as well.
    •    If you can’t send them ahead of time, you may bring them to club the night of the competition on a CD or mass storage device.  
    •    If you bring your entries in on the night of the competition, please fill out one of the entry sheets provided.  There will be a separate sheet for each division ( If you have sent your images in ahead of time, by email, you do not have to fill out the sheets).
  •          File naming convention

Will be similar to that of council:

Division – Class – Club – Last Name – First Name – Title of File – JPG

No hyphens or underscores are allowed except if needed in the image title:

 

Example:

CG BE LCC Smith Joseph Black-capped Chickadee.jpg

 

Division Abbreviations:       MG – Monochrome General

                                               CG – Color General
CC – Color Creative
NA – Nature

CA - Color Assignment

MA - Monochrome Assignment

 

Class Abbreviations:           BE – Beginner

                                                AD – Advanced

                                                SA – Salon

                                                ST – Star

 

Club Abbreviation:               LCC – Livonia

 

Last Name – First Name:    Smith Joe

Please - no middle initials and be consistent – do not use Joe  Smith one time and then Joseph Smith another.  Choose either Joe or Joseph.

 

Title of File:               The file name can use hyphens if necessary, for instance,

Black-capped Chickadee.  Do NOT use any symbols or special characters, including “#” or “/” or “\” or any others in your file name.  There are a lot of “/” used for dates in slide names and “#” used for #1, #2, #3, etc.  However, since the PC and the web server use these “symbols” to signify a subdirectory and the “#” will definitely cause the web server to truncate file names at the “#” sign, you will have to find another way of naming your files.  Instead of Blue Bird #1 – make it Blue Bird 1.   If the maker uses a date in their file, perhaps 093005 or 09302005 would work for 9/30/05. 

 

                                                            Use only spaces between your words in your file name:

 

                                                MG BE LCC Smith Joseph Black-capped Chickadee.jpg

                                                CG BE LCC Smythe Dennis Blue Bird 1.jpg

 

 

Special presentations

    •    If you have a special presentation you would like to give at club, please let the director or president know ahead of time and we will schedule you in.