Digital Image projection - contest
doemoezi
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Dear freinds
I hope this is the right spot to ask this question.
We will start organising a contest of digital images.
We have a professional PC and beamer.
I am looking for some information about organising, evaluating this.
Is there any software available?
We allready have contests in MC an C prints and slides. Normally every one can bring in 5 phot's. Half of the bunch of photo's are accepted and that half is ranked from good to best.
While showing the photo, explanation is given why or why not.
Since this projectioncontest is new for us i will be happy to read your reactions.
I hope this is the right spot to ask this question.
We will start organising a contest of digital images.
We have a professional PC and beamer.
I am looking for some information about organising, evaluating this.
Is there any software available?
We allready have contests in MC an C prints and slides. Normally every one can bring in 5 phot's. Half of the bunch of photo's are accepted and that half is ranked from good to best.
While showing the photo, explanation is given why or why not.
Since this projectioncontest is new for us i will be happy to read your reactions.
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Comments
That's a good question you ask here. By "beamer" I assume you mean a projector device that hooks up to a laptop or desktop computer.
I think you can follow similar rules as with the paper-based images. Maybe participants can keep a scorecard, or you can use an Excel spreadsheet to keep tabs on all the categories that photos will be ranked on.
The biggest challenge you face will be the projector itself. It will have to be calibrated using a hardware device like a Spyder that has the capability of calibrating projectors. This will require you to put the calibration device on a tripod of some sort about one foot from the wall screen. Then you will go through the software-managed calibration process.
If you don't calibrate, all the images will be less than they were--colors will be inaccurate, lighting will be off, contrast will be muddy or overblown etc. This is just not appropriate for judging images.
If you cannot properly calibrate the projectors, then I suggest keeping competitions to printed output (a large calibrated computer monitor will also work, if the audience is small enough to manage polite viewing). I speak from personal experience here--nothing is more frustrating than showing great shots on a messed up projector and having to spend most of your words explaining what things should really look like.
Good luck and do share with us how it went.
M