Photochrome Camera Club

Image-Fest 2009, Saturday, November 14 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM with lunch!

All Member Competition

Do you miss regular competition for your images? If so, you will be able to get your fix at our end of the year competition, Saturday, November 14. Mark your calendars now.

Although you may simply submit your images, you are encouraged to attend the competition. Those who did last year stayed till the very end. The competition will be judged by outside officials. Three judges will be assigned for each category. All images will be projected. No comments from judges, just viewing and ranking. This event will be a feast for your eyes!

Each member of Photochrome may enter five images (slide or digital submission) in each of the following categories*: Pictorial, Nature, Photo Travel, Photo Journalism, and Creative. Awards for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th places will be given out at the end of the year for each of these competitions. All winning images, and the Image of the Year will be presented in a slide show at the Annual Banquet. Start putting your best in a folder. If you submit the maximum number of images allowed we are talking 49 images each. Go for it!
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These are the instructions for using the free program Picasa to resize your images for submission for electronic projection at any Photochrome meetings, presentations or competitions. If you’re new to Picasa you might want to read some of the Getting Started Guide to find you feet in the program. Picasa is owned by Google and is an image management/browser piece of software that has some limited editing capabilities.

The proceedure for using Picasa to re-size you images for submission is as follows:

• Browse to the image you want to re-size and select it
• Menu: File > Export to Folder
• Choose the file location you want the reduced size file to be created in
• “Resize to” 1024 (use the slider of the field to enter this value)
• Quality should be set to “Automatic” or “Maximum”.
• Press the Export button
• Picasa will generate the small file  and it will automatically open up the results directory when it completes the process
• Rename the image file according to Photochrome file naming standards.
• Start your email program and address a new message to photochromeprojectionist@gmail.com
• Attach the file you just renamed to this email and submit it
• In a few minutes you should receive a confirmation email from photochrome documenting your successful submission.

If anything is unclear please comment here and we will try to address you issues.

Image-Fest 2009, Saturday, November 14 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM with lunch!

All Member Competition

Do you miss regular competition for your images? If so, you will be able to get your fix at our end of the year competition, Saturday, November 14. Mark your calendars now.

Although you may simply submit your images, you are encouraged to attend the competition. Those who did last year stayed till the very end. The competition will be judged by outside officials. Three judges will be assigned for each category. All images will be projected. No comments from judges, just viewing and ranking. This event will be a feast for your eyes!

Each member of Photochrome may enter five images (slide or digital submission) in each of the following categories*: Pictorial, Nature, Photo Travel, Photo Journalism, and Creative. Awards for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th places will be given out at the end of the year for each of these competitions. All winning images, and the Image of the Year will be presented in a slide show at the Annual Banquet. Start putting your best in a folder. If you submit the maximum number of images allowed we are talking 49 images each. Go for it!

Each member may submit four images in each of these special categories:

• Jack Cannon Perpetual Trophy – Best image of a recognizable San Francisco Subject
• The Walter F. Sullivan Memorial Award – Best Landscape or Seascape
• The Jules H Strauss Memorial Award – Best image of a Floral Subject
• The Dr. J. Humberto Arrieta Memorial Award - Best Portrait
• The Roy Humphries Memorial Award – Best image containing a Rose
• The Jaques & Margot Segal Award – Best image of a National Park or Monument

Rules & Deadlines:

Naming conventions—All Entries:

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Categories are:

• P—Pictorial
• N —Nature
• C —Creative
• PJ —Photojournalism
• T —Travel

Specials:

• Recognizable San Francisco subject —SF
• Landscape or Seascape —LandSea
• Floral Subject —Floral
• Portrait —Portrait
• Rose — Rose
• National Park or Monument —NatPark

Special Rules: For Pictorial, Nature, Photo Travel, Photo Journalism, and Creative— Image-Fest uses N4C definitions. They may be found on the www.n4c.org website.

Deadline (no exceptions):

• Submit digital images by NOVEMBER 6 to photochromeprojectionist@gmail.com
• Submit slides by November 5 Meeting

If you have questions feel free to ask the coordinator of the Image-Fest: Stacy Boorn. sboorn@aol.com, 415-731-6470.

by Martin Taylor

How many times have you heard members at meetings say, “It didn’t look like this at home” when they see their image projected? Confusingly, others tell us that their images look pretty much the same in their home digital darkrooms as they do at the club. What’s going on?

Have you ever tried to watch a TV during the day in a very bright room? The reflections can be so distracting as to make the screen unwatchable and the colors and dynamic range of the picture are washed out in the extreme. The same TV in the same room can look great that night. That’s the destructive power of ambient light.

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