DIGITAL SUBMISSION
SPECS
FOR MONTHLY CRITIQUE
MONTHLY
CRITIQUE INFO
- Two categories
at each meeting - THEMED AND OPEN
- Maximum
of 4 images total and no more than one themed image
- Non-competitive
environment with a constructive critique from a professional wildlife and nature
photographer
- Submit only jpeg images
- Email
files a week before if possible to uwpcimages@comcast.net.
If you bring them to the meeting we may not have time to load them for that month's
critique.
- Send themed category images
in an email titled 'themed images'
- Send
open category images in an email titled 'critique images'
- Limit
the size to less than 500kB per image
- Name
file with your name and a brief title with no spaces
(e.g. bobdean_treeinsnow.jpg)
MONTHLY
THEMES FOR 2012
- Jan - Summer
- Feb
- Winter Landscapes
- Mar - Line
- Apr - One tree in an open area
- May
- Abstracts in Nature
- Jun - Night Photography
- July
- Wild Animal Babies (no zoo or captive)
- Aug
- Extreme macro - tiny part of a subject not the whole thing
- Sept - Dramatic Storm Clouds
- Oct - Moving Water
- Nov
- Fall Reflections
- Dec - Old - subject must be about 100 years old (barns, mine stuff)
TIPS
ON SIZING IMAGES IN PHOTOSHOP
- Go
to Image > Image size and put in a maximum Document Size of 12 inches
- Set
Resolution to 300 pixels / inch
- When you
are finished editing your image, select "Save As" and make sure jpeg
is selected from the pull down menu
- Select
Quality 5 or 6 when JPEG Options window appears
