Note: A few more tweaks to the image submission procedure.
If you plan to attend a meeting, and would like to get some input on your work, please submit 1 or 2 images. Image parameters are:
● JPG format
● 80% quality or better
○ Lightroom uses a percentage value
○ Photoshop uses a "Quality" value: "10" is more than adequate
Please retain the EXIF data! If your are using Lightroom, please include "All Metadata" when exporting your images.
We are happy to accept full size images, because sometimes we pixel-peep. Images should be between 2000 and 3840 pixels on the horizontal edge, or at least 2000 pixels vertical.
You may need to experiment with quality setting (which greatly affects file size). The above suggestions work well for most images.
Please rename your images before sending using this format (with either a hyphen or underscore between parts):
● Last Name - First Name
● -Date or Theme (MonYY, YYYYMMDD, etc, or this month's theme)
● -Title (spaces, hyphens or underscores between words)
Please be consistent in your file naming. It can be confusing when the first image title starts with "Last-First-..." and the second image title starts with "First-Last-...". It is very helpful to us when you do this.
We strongly encourage a title, to help direct the viewer. As an example, if I were to submit a photo of "who knows what?" for April, I would use "Hook_Gary-Apr2025-Who_Knows_What.jpg".
Finally, if you're new to the group, welcome! We do like to acknowledge receipt of images with a confirmation email, which is usually sent out early on the day of the meeting. But if you are new, we may not yet know you, nor have your email. It turns out Dropbox knows who you are, but we don't. If this is your first submission, please include your email address in the image title.
All of this saves us time and energy, and we appreciate your attention to these details.
Discussion images should be uploaded to this Dropbox folder:
When you upload your image, you will get a confirmation that the uploaded completed, but you will not have access to the folder. This link should work from a desktop/laptop, or phone.
The deadline for submissions is Sunday evening (midnight) the day before the meeting.
Bill will send out a summary confirmation on Monday morning. Any late arrivals may or may not be accommodated.
We will start using a timer during discussions to ensure that each image receives comparable attention. Running out of time before we run out of images is not our intention.