5th DPI Competition - 19 February 2014

[Mike Farley]

The fifth digital projected image competition of the 2013-14 season will be held on 19 February 2014, when the judge will be past president of the RPS, Rosemary Wilman, HonFRPS, AFIAP, BPE5*. Entries should either be handed in on CD/DVD or memory stick at the meeting of 12 February or sent via e-mail to croydoncameraclub@gmail.com by midnight on Saturday, 15 February 2014. Entrants must state in which class they are competing.

All members should have a printed copy of the competition rules, which are also included with this post or can be viewed on the club's website along with the general instructions. (Apart from the change to the Bamber Trophy for monochrome images when only prints were eligible this year, the rules are unaltered since last season.)

http://www.croydoncameraclub.org.uk/Mem ... nRules.htm

Entries should consist of up to three images which should conform to the following criteria:

• Maximum dimensions of 1,024 pixels horizontally and 768 pixels vertically
  
• sRGB colour space
  
• Image file names should be a two digit number to show the order in which it is to be projected, followed by a space and the title (e.g. 01 Rusty Nail.jpg).

It is recommended that you save your files with the JPEG quaility setting set to its maximum level. The JPEG standard was initially designed to reduce the file sizes of images and one way in in which it does this is by removing information during the compression process. Using the highest quality setting ensures that the extent to which this occurs is minimised.

Not all entries received conform to the above requirements, with the omission of colour space settings or incorrect file names being the most common errors. In the case of the former, the competition software does an automatic correction, although there might be unexpected changes in colours as a result.

There is advice on the club's website about preparing images for competition, but if you are unsure of any aspect of processing your entries you should speak to a Council member.