T H E G A L L E R I E S
The challenge galleries are located at:
http://www.pbase.com/cslr_challenge/cslr38_inanimate_objects
There are two galleries/categories you can enter submissions into:
Eligible and Exhibition.
- Eligible: Entries must be taken with a Canon Digital SLR camera
during the Challenge period, please see the timetable below. A
maximum of 3 images per person may be submitted to this gallery.
- Exhibition: Entries can be taken with any camera at any time. A
maximum of 3 images per person may be submitted to this gallery.
T I M E T A B L E
Challenge Start: Friday, 25th March 2005 0:00 UTC
Challenge Ends: Tuesday, 11th April 2005 23:59 UTC
Voting Begins: Wednesday, 12th April 2005 0:00 UTC
Voting Ends: Thursday 13th March 2005 23:59
- The voting booth will open automatically at the end of the
challenge and stay open for voting for 48 hours. I will post a link
to a new voting thread in this thread (or its successor, if we hit
the 150 post limit) as soon as possible after the voting has begun.
You do not need to wait for the voting thread in order to vote. The
voting booth is here:
http://www.liteserv.com/cslrvotebooth/index.php
P R E P A R I N G _ Y O U R _ I M A G E ( S ) _ F O R _ U P L O A D
- There are no limits on image post-processing. Edit to your tastes
and the voters will decide if it’s too much.
- To have your image(s) come across the way you’ve intended - on
multiple monitors, browsers and operating systems - make sure it is
in the sRGB color-space and please embed the color profile when
saving.
- There is no limit on pixel dimensions, but viewers are more
likely to appreciate your work at its original size without the use
of scroll bars. So - unless your photograph has a very
untraditional aspect ratio - keeping the longest side of the image
at 800 pixels or less is strongly recommended.
- Please size your images to 150kb or less. The size of the file
once it is uploaded to PBase is the size that counts. PBase reports
the size in the rightmost column on the ”edit this gallery”-page.
150kb = 150x1024 bytes = 153600 bytes. To save you the trouble of
recompressing, I have found that aiming at around 140kb in
Photoshop, usually will keep the file size under the allowed 153600
bytes once it is uploaded to PBase.
- To preserve the EXIF-information, it is recommended to use the
”Save As”-command instead of ”Save for Web”. When updating an image
in-place, PBase will retain the original EXIF and therefore using
”Save for Web” can be used in that circumstance.
U P L O A D I N G _ T O _ T H E _ G A L L E R I E S
- The login and password are unchanged from the last challenge. New
contributors should email the moderators at pass(at)imageattic.net
for these credentials. Please allow a few hours to receive a
response. Note: (at) = @.
- If you need help in uploading to PBase, an additional help page
is available at
http://www.imageattic.net/pbase_howto.htm
- Please ensure each image includes your name and a unique title.
For eligible entries, the date on which it was taken and the camera
model must also be shown. Exif-information is not a must, but
always appreciated. Also, feel free to share your shot set-up,
post-processing details, and the like with your fellow
photographers.
- Those who prefer more plainspoken and critical comments on their
images should mark their title(s) with an asterisk (
).
B E I N G_ A_ G O O D_ C I T I Z E N
- Please respect one another’s work. Do not delete, move, or
otherwise edit other entries. Please respect the first-come,
first-serve sequence of the gallery. You may update your images
in-place, provided that the subject matter and general treatment
have not materially changed (PBase supports this function on the
“Edit Image” page).
- Image by image, please share your comments with your fellow
photographers. Challenges reach their full potential when the
dialogue becomes as important as the images themselves. You have to
be logged in, in order to leave and read comments.
- By clicking on ”profile” at a gallery page and then on ”View Your
Forum” (you have to be logged in for this to show) at the Profile
page that appears, you will get to the PBase-forum for Canon
DSLR-challenge. This is a great way to follow new comments on any
and all images in the galleries.
If you are the first to comment on an image, I kindly ask you to
type (or copy paste) the title of the photograph into the
subject-field of the commenting page. This will default the subject
field of all subsequent comments to the title of the photograph and
will make the PBase-FORUM so much more informative and legible
Q U E S T I O N S
Please post any questions, comments, and concerns in this thread.
You can also send me an e-mail d_j_willis (at) yahoo.com.
Good luck, and thank you for participating!
