Have you had a look at the sister site to this one:

www.photodo.com

which is all about lenses.

All competitions assume that the work of the entrant is their own. Otherwise, what's the point in entering? If an image is taken by a partner/spouse or anyone else they can register to log in as themselves, or if there is some particular reason why not then use the member's log in and simply explain who is entering. If the picture is taken by a wife, then effectively it is the wife who has entered the competition.

As regards someone else's image that we have worked on, it still isn't our image, is it? A competition subject such as "My Family History" might however mean that you could ressurect and renovate an old image that was relevant, so it's not set in stone.

As regards Pentax cameras, it's a PU Forum so it's probable that the image will be a Pentax one. However, as you are a forum member it doesn't preclude an image you might have taken with something else.

This is one of the reasons why I want to avoid too many rules - the more we define the rules, the more "What if..." situations arise.

The guidance is there, but nobody is criticising or trying to be proscriptive and common sense will prevail.

I have changed the spec to read a maximum of 800 pixels on the longest side.

Let's see how the next competition goes.

My feeling is that if the image is 800 pixels wide that takes care of a landscape format automatically. It's very unlikely that the portrait format would produce anything much longer than 1000 pixels, but in any event it would scroll without distorting the side to side dimension of the forum, which is what we are trying to avoid.

If it becomes necessary to make it 800 pixels on the longest side we should know pretty soon, in which case it can always be clarified and altered as necessary.

I have made some alterations to the Competitions thread, bearing in mind all the comments made.

There is now an Announcement with the general rules & guidance. The current week only is a Sticky.

In addition to the 800 pixel rule I have added one that an image should be posted and then left unchanged. It seemed potentially unfair if someone kept changing an image in the light of other entries posted. So one shot only at it.

The exception to that is that if an image is deleted because it's disqualified then it can be corrected and re-posted.

Has anything been missed out or is that about right?

There's little advantage to posting huge pictures because they can't be viewed properly....

800 pixels wide it is then, and I'll post a reminder of that in the next competition thread. Anyone who posts wider, will be deleted, maximum delete....

The 800 pixel limit was to ensure that scrolling of the image was kept to a minimum.

If we can all keep to that it will be helpful, although if we can't then it could be made one of the few rules if we so wish.

It's great. I'd try cropping at the top, even cutting the top of the head to really concentrate our eyes where it counts.

Well done Lilly.

Can we put the chat about the images in the appropriate thread please?

Thanks!

Tyldesley. Pentax MX, SMC Pentax 24mm f2.8 lens, Tri-X in FX-39. Printed in register with photocopy of 1911 image of the same street. We can't see the other image, but it left a spooky smear to the dark building on the right.