This sounds to me like it would both fun and enlightening, I for one would like
to
see some of the other members Photo work!!!
Terry
"George M. Anderson" wrote:
> Zuiks:
>
> Far below is a brief summary of the huge range of opinions I tabulated
> on the OM photo
> contest/display/dayinthelife idea.
>
> And here're my suggestions, based on the tabulation:
>
> Seems most want the contest, but the #s are not that far apart. Also,
> a large majority want critiques/feedback on their entries from our panel
> of experts (that's us.) Also, the idea of themes seems to resonate with
> most folks. 4-6 times a year appeals to most everyone. And most would
> allow any Oly body and any lens including 3rd party. Also included
> would be P&Ss and IS models. The only Oly camera type that has not been
> specifically included are digitals. Any thoughts?
>
> So, in order to get something done that may please the most folks, I
> suggest:
>
> * we start with one 'exhibit' of a 'Day in the Life' type. Actually,
> how about a 'Week in the Life' as it may not be possible for everyone to
> get out on the same day. That would be the first 'theme'.
>
> * We would decide on a week, say starting 2 weeks from today, and then
> have, say, 2 weeks to get entries in. So in about a month we would see
> the first fruits.
>
> * One entry per member would be digitized and e-mailed to me. John
> Petrush and Joel Wilcox have graciously offered their scanning services
> for those in need. Please contact them off-line for details. The image
> should be scanned (either RGB or B&W) at a resolution of 72 pixels/inch
> and appx 640/480 1:1 size. Saved as jpg medium res. This should keep
> image file sizes in the 20-50K range. Enuf to show off on the screen,
> but not so big as they take forever to download. Images should be
> accompanied by the details: body, lens, film, aper., shutter even
> filters. And a description of the image subject.
>
> * I will handle the display of the images on a subpage of my site. It
> would be accessed by "http://www.whitneygallery.com/olympus"; I will
> create thumbnails from the entries and have links to the larger photos.
> I'm not quite sure how to handle the critiquing yet. I may have to
> actually write some code to do that!. Certainly, list e-mails are one
> way to handle it at first, unless folks object to what may be a huge
> volume of e-mail.
>
> * Once the exhibit is up, folks can bandy their critiques about. All
> list members are eligible to critique. Each can critique none, one or
> as many entries as they want. Try to be constructive.
>
> * This thing, if it survives infant mortality, may morph into a contest
> I don't want to rule that out. To appease those who would not enter if
> it was a contest, we could have 2 'types' of entries: 'contest entries'
> and 'for display and/or critique only'.
>
> * I see the purpose as twofold at least: 1)Display our own work (strut a
> bit) 2)A learning experience (from critiques of our own work and seeing
> other peoples work)
>
> So, feedback on these suggestions is encouraged, I'll do my best to get
> this thing going if we decide we want it.
>
> George
>
> ******************Tabulated results ********************************
>
> Type:
>
> - Contest w/member judging only 1
> - Contest w/member judging and critique 14
> - Display only 10(about 1/2 want w/comments)
>
> Periodicity: (to start. Many responders willing to increase after a
> while)
>
> - monthly
> - 6 times/yr 3
> - 4 times/yr 5
> - twice/yr
>
> Types:
>
> - Themes 6 (Must be global
> - no themes 2
>
> [Possible Themes:
> - Day in the Life (shoot one day only.)
> - Water
> - Faces
> - 50m
> - architecture
> - kitchen
> - people at work
> - self portraits
> flora
> wildlife
> abstracts
> landscape
> children
> sports
> ]
>
> Bodies:
>
> - Any Olympus (incl IS, P&S, OM etc) 6
> - Only OM
>
> Lenses:
>
> - Zuiko only
> - Any lens on an Oly body 6
>
> Media:
>
> - Film only
> - Film and digital cameras
>
> Entries:
>
> - small to med JPEG w/pic, name, body, lens, aper, shutter, film. (as
> many as poss.)
> - should be 'new pix' taken for this thing 2
>
> Voting: (Concensus is overwhelming that all vote, whether they enter or
> not.)
>
> - One only 1
> - 1,2,3 4 (Tallier scores 3 pts for 1st, 2 for second, 1 for 3rd)
> - pick 3, no rank 1
>
> Display page:
>
> - Picture + tech details only. Critiques?
> - After judging, names will be posted with pix. 5
> - Names never posted 1
>
> Volonteers:
>
> - John Petrush - scanning of negs or slides. HTML writing.
> - Joel Wilcox - scanning slides and negs
>
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