On 12/4/04, UNCLE BILL discumbobulated: >How many of you are bringing an *ist D to GFM, or other DSLR for that >matter. We may ask some of you for suggestions on how to set up a contest >using digital photos. > >Bill
Hi mate, Yup. D60 and some lenses plus MX and some lenses. How about shooting on a CF card (like you do) and then deleting everything that you don't want to enter, then handing over the CF card to a judge who downloads the contents to his laptop. The point is, the shot comes straight from the card with no chance of it going via a shooter's computer and being manipulated - colour corrected etc - just as a slide shooter's slides would be returned from the lab. Perhaps a set number of images could be stipulated to be 'supplied to judge' on the card. You might shoot 376 pics, but you'd have to delete all but (say) 36 (for old time's sake) to present to a judge for uploading. Once presented, the requisite shots could be selected for entering into [the] contest. Perhaps when 36 shots are offered to the judge for uploading, the judge would then provide a contact sheet printout to the contestant so he/she could mull over and choose those for the contest the next day (as with film). Shooters would have to avoid overdoing it - snapping 500 frames and whittling down to 36 could take a while. No point in stipulating shooting only 36 on the card - self-governing does not work. An alternative would be to provide CF cards with finite space but that's extra cost. As long as (say) 36 shots are provided for upload to the e-Judge, then it doesn't really matter how many were actually shot in the process - - or does it? Film shooters get 36 opportunities to present for processing, selecting contest entries out of that. You could argue that a slide shooter can't review focus and composition after the shutter is tripped, so why should a digi shooter be allowed that pleasure? Tough one. Individual judges followinging contestants and making sure they don't review pics? I think the emphasis of a digital contest would have to be far removed from the norms of a slide film contest. Take it as read that a digi shooter will review a shot for focus and whatever - part of the territory - BUT not being able to correct on a computer, perhaps placing more emphasis on the shooting stage and not being able to post-process. This means NOT shooting RAW - shooting Jpeg and getting the white balance *right*, and setting the in-camera sharpening and contrast right - pulling out pics that could be uploaded to the judges computer and practically printed out there and then. This is part of the skill - in knowing the camera and setting it up right. Very interesting premise, and just a few thoughts back at yer... A glass of Cotes du Rhone to the PDML. Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=====| www.macads.co.uk/snaps _____________________________
