Digital BW, The Print

I am astonished about the negative vibes coming from out on this forum and others because of the horizontal orientation limitation of the ACP home page contest.

Some of the comments seem to imply some kind of artistic censorship is being imposed on the photographic community.

I wonder how many people doing the complaining have visited the ACP web site, seen the home page slide show, and read the submission guidelines, and clicked the "Why?" button for an explanation of this limitation.

C'mon people, ACP is looking for very specifically oriented  photographs for a specific role on the home page of the web site. It will be national and international exposure for five photographers.

If you have something to submit then please do so. If your best work doesn't meet the horizontal requirements then it is hardly the end of the world. There are other competitions, for crying out loud.

Dave. 




--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "nickskin0" <nick@...> wrote:
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> Only allowing a 'landscape' format is certainly an interesting decision to make, and judging by the reaction of some posts, probably not that well received. I wonder if the competition organisers aren't worried that this, in my view, rather ridiculous rule will only make a mockery of their competition. That is certainly my own personal initial reaction to hearing this.
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> To restrict the images aspect ratio for the benefit of viewing via a website seems, well, just plain silly. 
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> Nick Jardine.
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> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "ausdlk" <ausdlk@> wrote:
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> > The orientation of the ACP home page slide show is horizontal.
> > 
> > Vertical images this space turn out to be very small. Square images have large margins on either side.
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> > We want the flow of the slide show to be consistently horizontal -- both for photographs and for announcements.
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> > It's not that we think vertical or square photographs are in any way bad, they just don't fit our current format.
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> > We'll have other competitions in the future that do not have this restriction.
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> > 
> > 
> > 
> > --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Andrew Sharpe <asharpe@> wrote:
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> > > Dave,
> > > 
> > > The submission guidelines includes this statement: "Only horizontal
> > > (landscape) orientation photographs are accepted".
> > > 
> > > What an odd requirement! Many of my photographs are in portrait and
> > > square format. Is the format such an important consideration to
> > > *disallow* anything but landscape?
> > > 
> > > Please explain this strange restriction.
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > 
> > > Andrew
> > > 
> > > [ for those of you on the QTR email list, sorry for the crosspost ]
> > > 
> > > On 08/03/2009 10:15 AM, ausdlk wrote:
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> > > > 
> > > > TheAustin Center for Photography is pleased to issue a Call For
> > > > Entriesfor its Home Page Photo Contest No.2. This contest is free to
> > > > ACP members,is open to all photographers, amateur and pro, is not
> > > > themed, and isfor black & white photographs only.
> > > > 
> > > > To read the Official Call for Entries, click here
> > > > <http://www.visitacp.org/callforentries/
> > > > <http://www.visitacp.org/callforentries/>> .
> > > > 
> > > > This contest is made for black and white photographers! Get your entries
> > > > in soon.
> > > > .
> > > > Dave.
> > > > 
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