Harbour House Monitor Showcase

[Wendy Rosier]

We have a great opportunity to showcase our photos and Salt Spring.

 

Harbour Houses has a 52 inch screen in the Restaurant and wants Salt Spring images to run in a slide show for its patrons and they have asked us if we would do this.

 

So this is we we need:

• Your best images of Salt Spring:  horizontal (landscape) orientation only

• Size:                     Image should be 1920 x 1080 pixels. The length (width) being 1920 px to fill the screen width.  If the height is less than 1080 px  it will put a black border on the top and
  bottom but this can be OK

• Subjects:              Landscape, seascape, habourscapes, mountainscape, gardenscapes, treescapes, etc..use your imagination.

• Subjects to avoid:  Anything personal, portraits-especially children-for legal reasons, scenes with identifiable people (a model release form may be necessary) though a crowded Saturday Market is OK if it is a really good shot

• Season:                Right now, any season but when you shoot anything new keep this project in mind and think of how it might apply to a seasonal theme and potentially reshoot the same location under different conditions

How to get your spectacular images to me:

      Try email to me at [e-mail] first but since these are high resolution  images email might not work.   If the file is too big for your server, then email me that you have one or more images and I will send you a link to the dropbox file I have created for this project and you can upload to it.

I'm really looking forward to seeing your great SSI shots.

Cheers

Wendy

 

 

[Wendy Rosier]

I forgot to mention that Harbour House wants to give credit to each individual photographer so as each image come on there will be a short fade in/out over print of your name.

[Doug McMillin]

The size requirement mentioned above will test a few members' software abilities, I suspect.

How to create exactly a particular image size (1080x1920 pixels in this case) is not something everyone may have done before, even if they do have the software available. Resizing to one of the two dimensions is an option offered in many low-end software packages, some of them freebies, provided one 'takes what one gets' in the other dimension.

In this case the target size, by having an aspect ratio of 1.778, may make this more of a problem. Most cameras produce images having aspect ratios between 1.250 (5/4) or 1.333 (4/3), and 1.500 (3/2), meaning that cropping will be a must, not just an option.

So, should help be made available for members wanting to submit, or someone asked to volunteer the service itself? Anyone have a suggestion? 

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How many images per member?

[Wendy Rosier]

As Doug mentioned, the sizing may be difficult for many...so if you have a great horizontal shot you can send it to me and I will resample or crop it to fit at least one of the dimensions and send the modified version back to the sender for approval.

 

 I will need the largest, highest resolution of the image that you have...in other words don't size it for email or the web-which are typically 72 or 92 dpi -dots per inch.  A good resolution would be 240 to 300 dpi.

If your program doesn't tell you, just choose an uncompressed version....

 

Hope that makes sense.

 

Also to answer Doug's other question about how many images per member....at this point any number you  have!  I will be fair in putting them together and put in equal numbers for each member - as long as I have enough make up a 30 minute display.  If I can't do equal numbers because there aren't enough submitters, I will do the best I can to make it appear even...perhaps a credit screen with contributing photographers listed with the location of the photo.

 

Which reminds me that I forgot to ask you to send me the location of the shot with the image.

[Curt Firestone]

Wendy,

What is the frequency of change?  Will it be like ROCO with a new show every ________?

Curt

[Wendy Rosier]

Eventually we would like to do a seasonal theme/change so every three months starting with Spring.  But as I said above, I'll take anything to start with just to get us going.

[Bob Rogers]

Hello All:

 

The crop ratio is 16:9  the same as HD TV.

 

So I would suggest cropping your image as a JPEG in the format 16:9 and sending it full size.

 

Most imaging software has some standard crop ratios and it usually includes this ratio.