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Digital Rules
Preparing your Images:
To properly prepare your images you should visit our tips for
Preparing Images For
Digital Competition (Photoshop). We have spent considerable
time preparing these instructions and believe them to be as accurate
as possible. If you do have a question please forward that to a
committee member and we will respond. Questions and answers will
be posted on the web site so that all may benefit from that information.
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2006-2007 Digital Image Competitions
Member Guidelines
1. GENERAL CONCEPT
- There shall be seven (7) competitions conducted throughout
the year, beginning in October and running consecutively through
April.
- There shall be six (6) categories for each monthly competition:
General (G),
Manipulated (M),
Nature (N),
Photojournalism (J),
People & Portraiture (P) and
Photo Travel (T).
- Each member may submit a maximum of six (6) images per monthly
competition.
- A member may submit no more than one (1) image in any category
of the monthly competitions.
- Scores shall be maintained, category by category, on a cumulative
basis.
- Scores and ribbon awards shall be announced on the nights
of the monthly competitions.
- Cumulative scores, on a category by category basis, will be
maintained and end of the year awards shall be presented based
on the six (6) highest scores per maker.
- A Digital Image-Of-The-Year (DIOY) competition shall be conducted.
- All judges for the MVCC digital monthly and annual competitions
shall be provided by the Judges Committee.
2. ELIGIBILITY
- All members compete on an EQUAL BASIS in all of the categories.
- Entries will be accepted ONLY from members who have paid
their dues for the year.
- Digital images which have already won Digital Image-Of-The-Month
(DIOM), 1st Place, 2nd Place, 3rd Place or Honorable Mention
(HM) ribbons in the PRESENT or ANY PREVIOUS YEAR in any category
are INELIGIBLE for further digital competitions. Also, any slide
or print that won Slide-Of-The-Month, Print-Of-The-Month, 1st
Place, 2nd Place, 3rd Place or HM ribbons in the monthly competitions
in the PRESENT or ANY PREVIOUS YEAR are INELIGIBLE for further
digital competitions.
Exception:
A Black & White print ribbon winner may compete in the monthly
digital competitions.
3. DEFINITIONS (Source of definitions shown in
parentheses.)
- General (MVCC): General photography
is the use of the photographic medium as an art form. The emphasis
is on interest, visual impact, composition, and technical excellence.
Images are not confined to any particular subject, type, or
style of photography.. Subjects are broad, and include scenics,
close-ups, buildings, portraits, glassware and still-life. Special
techniques are also allowed, and include digital and darkroom
manipulation, provided that the subject of the image has not
been substantially altered (see Manipulated).
Allowable techniques include diffractions, use of distortion
surfaces, black light, diazachrome, multiple exposures, use
of trick lenses, selective focus and zoomed exposures.
- Nature Definition (PSA): Nature
Photography is restricted to the use of the photographic process
to depict observations from all branches of natural history,
except anthropology and archaeology, in such a fashion that
a well informed person will be able to identify the subject
material and to certify as to its honest presentation. The
story telling value of a photograph must be weighed more than
the pictorial quality. Human elements shall not be present,
except on the rare occasion where those elements enhance the
nature story. The presence of scientific bands on wild animals
is acceptable. Photographs of artificially produced hybrid plants
or animals, mounted specimens, or obviously set arrangements,
are ineligible, as is any form of manipulation that alters the
truth of the photographic statement.
- Photo Travel Definition (PSA): Subject
matter must portray photo travel. A photo travel photograph
must express the feeling of a time and place, portray a land,
its people, or a culture in its natural state, and has no geographical
limitations. Ultra close-ups which lose their identity, studio
type model shots or photographic manipulations which misrepresent
the true situation or alter the content of the image are unacceptable
in Photo Travel competition.
- Photojournalism Definition (PSA):
Photojournalism entries shall consist of pictures with informative
content and emotional impact, including human interest, documentary
and spot news. The journalistic value of
the photograph shall be considered over pictorial quality.
In the interest of credibility, photographs which misrepresent
the truth, such as manipulation to alter the subject matter,
or situations which are set up for the purpose of photography,
are unacceptable in Photojournalism competition.
- People & Portraiture (MVCC):
People and portraiture photography is use of the photographic
medium to capture the image of a specific person or a small
group of people. Some typical images are from model shoots (often
a single person in a posed position) as well as capturing a
person or people engaged in either indoor or outdoor activities.
- Manipulated (MVCC): Manipulated
photography is the REQUIRED use of computer enhancement to produce
an image that displays imaginative skill and originality of
thought, including the altering of reality. No image shall be
eliminated simply because it looks realistic, provided it shows
originality of concept. The final result MUST begin with an
original image that was captured by the maker either on film
or digitally. Any changes made to the original image(s) MUST
be done by the maker.
Manipulated involves the use of line, form and color that expresses
the maker's ideas or feelings in a non-traditional style. Any
reality may be distorted or otherwise modified by non-standard
techniques and controls. This includes unusual points of view
and imaginative use of subject matter or lighting as well as
any other conceptual idea such as abstraction, impressionism
and symbolism. It is not necessary to render the original subject(s)
unrecognizable.
Techniques may include distortions, bas relief, images montage,
wild color, solarization, posterization, motion blur, patterns
designed to yield non-objective or abstract images.
- Basic Digital Guidelines applicable to
Nature, Photo Travel and Photojournalism images (PSA):
No elements may be moved, cloned, added, deleted, rearranged,
combined or changed in any way that affects the integrity of
the image content. No manipulation or modification is permitted
except resizing, cropping, horizontal flipping (equivalent to
reversing a slide), selective lightening or darkening, and restoration
of original color of the scene. No special effect filters can
be added or applied, and any sharpening must appear natural.
4. AWARDS
- Each month, a First Place, a Second Place, a Third Place
and a selected number of HM ribbons shall be awarded, on a category
by category basis, for each competition.
- There shall be a single DIOM selected from all the images
in all the categories combined.
- The number of HM ribbons awarded in each category shall be
based on the following participation levels: one (1) ribbon
for 8-14 images; two (2) ribbons for 15-24 images; three (3)
ribbons for 25-34 images and four (4) ribbons for 35-44 images.
- Regardless of the participation level, an image must receive
a score of ten (10) or higher to be eligible for a ribbon.
- In the event that there are less than three (3) entries in
a category, the judge shall critique them, but no ribbons shall
be awarded. The entries may be submitted again during the season
to be judged and scored, with a chance to win an award.
- There shall be a DIOY competition, on a category by category
basis, at the end of the year.
- All ribbon winners from the monthly competitions are eligible
for DIOY awards, with the exception that a member may include
no more than two (2) HM images, on a category by category basis,
for the competition.
- A DIOY Plaque and a number of Honor Awards (HA) ribbons shall
be selected for each category.
- The number of HA ribbons awarded in each category shall be
based on the following participation levels: one (1) award for
8-14 images; two (2) awards for 15-24 images; three (3) awards
for 25-34 images and four (4) awards for 35-44 images.
- Year-end awards shall be given, category-by-category, based
on the sum of the top 6 scores. A First Place Plaque, a Second
Place Ribbon, a Third Place Ribbon and a selected number of
HM ribbons shall be presented. A total number of 25% of the
competitors shall receive in each category shall receive year-end
awards.
5. IMAGE PREPARATION
- All images shall be submitted in a JPEG format with a file
extension of .JPG.
- The maximum allowable horizontal (width) size for an image
is 1024 pixels; the maximum allowable vertical (height) size
for an image is 768 pixels.
- The maximum allowable file size shall be less than one (1)
megabyte.
6. IMAGE SUBMISSION
- Monthly submissions may be made by either E-Mail or on a
compact disc (CD) - the CD will not be returned.
- CDs containing images for the monthly competitions may be
given to any of the Digital Committee members.
- Images being submitted via the Internet must be included
as attachments to a message sent to
E-Mail address: dmvcc@paulparisi.com.
- All images must be submitted not later than two weeks prior
to the competition dates - the actual dates are reflected in
the MVCC Program Schedule. The 8-digit Filename Date shall to
be used as the first 8-digits of the image filename and is comprised
of the 4-digit year, followed immediately by the 2-digit month,
followed immediately by the 2-digit day of the month. Examples
of the Filename Dates are shown in Column 4 of the Table shown
below.
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Month
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Last Submission Date
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Competition Date
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Filename Date
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OCT 2007
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SEPT 19
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OCT 3
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20071003
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NOV 2007
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OCT 24
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NOV 7
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20071107
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DEC 2007
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NOV 14
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DEC 5
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20071205
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JAN 2008
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DEC 19
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JAN 2
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20081002
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FEB 2008
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JAN 23
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FEB 6
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20080206
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MAR 2008
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FEB 20
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MAR 5
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20080305
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APR 2008
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MAR 19
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APR 2
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20080402
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- The file name for each image shall be constructed as follows:
the 8-digit competition date (see Paragraph 6D above), followed
immediately by a dash (-), followed immediately by a single
letter indicating the category (see paragraph 1B above); followed
immediately by a dash (-); followed immediately by the image
title (an underscore "_" shall separate the words
in the title); followed immediately by a dash (-); followed
immediately by the member's 3-digit competition number.
Example:
The file name shown below would be used for an image titled
The Red Clowns for the People category as part of the December
06, 2006 competition by member number 200.
20061206-P-The_Red_Clowns-200.jpg
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