The Westville Camera Club

Hi!

The image upload facility for the September monthly image submissions has been enabled.

Some of our new members are battling to get their images into the correct format before uploading. Here are the guidelines:

1. In your photo editor, scale a copy of your image to fit within the landscape size of 1024 x 768 pixels. This does not mean that a portrait image may be 768 x 1024 pixels. Our digital projector projects a landscape image of 1024 x 768 pixel proportions and your image must fit within those constraints

• In the example above, landscape image “A” achieves full impact of the screen by occupying the maximum 1024 x 768 pixel size. (nudge, nudge, wink, wink!)
• Portrait image “B” has a maximum height of 768 pixels.
• Panorama image “C” has a maximum width of 1024 pixels.
• Square/custom image “D” has a maximum height of 768 pixels.

2. Maximum file size is 500 Kbytes or less. If you are using Photoshop, when you save the image as a JPG image, you can adjust the “Quality” of the image and the file size will reduce accordingly.

These image size and file size restrictions are in accordance with PSSA rules and applicable to Salon entries.

From this month onwards, you may submit a maximum of 4 images, as the WCC/MCC InterClub challenge is now closed.

The categories are :

• Altered Reality
• Nature
• Open
• Photo-Journalism
• Set Subject

The Set Subject for September is “Real Close” and the brief is:
“Close up photos of any object but not necessarily macro. e.g. A photo of a whole flower would not be considered close up whereas an image showing a part of it would.”

Have fun.

If you intend participating in the “Scott Kelby 4th Annual Worldwide Photo Walk” this year, then wander (rush, may be a better option) on over to the Photo Walk website and register.

There are only 50 places and 7 are already allocated.

Update: It starts at Musgrave Centre, past/through Essenwood Flea Market. Down to Currie Road and back to Musgrave Centre. Approximately a 3km round-trip.

Click!
Chas.

Hi all,

The June 2011 gallery (SS = repetition) has been updated and looks a little different this month.

Refer to the full image listing at the bottom of the page to see the award for each image.

As from this month, I’ll be grouping all the images into a single gallery for gold and merit awards for all images and no longer one gallery per section and star rating.

The gallery image name also no longer has the award as part of the image name.

For copyright protection, all images displayed from this month onward, will have the WCC logo and text embedded into the image. The images have been reduced to Photoshop image quality 9 and the scaled down to fit within a low resolution 800 x 600 pixel size. The copyright for each image exists with the photographer and not with the WCC. This should hopefully go a long way to preventing your images from being copied directly off the website. The watermark is not a layer that can be lifted off the image, it is part of the image.

Please do not forget that the upload cut-off for images to be submitted for the month of August is midnight on “Monday, Monday”. Set Subject is “Headshots”.

Upload cut-off for the images taken during the photo-walk is midnight on Sunday 28th August 2011.

Click!
Chas.