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Why is it important to properly tag photos and all that?
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I think that I must deny almost as many submissions for the group as I let through. I'm doing that based on the group rules (eg. must be available at 1024px wide or greater, must be tagged with image ratio, etc). You can see a lot of the ones that don't meet that in the Near Misses thread. I include images there if they only miss on one or two of the requirements, which does allow people in the group to see them and also communicates with the original poster if they are taking the time to try and participate in the group rather than just seeing us as another place they can splurge their images.
Why are the rules in place through? Surely you can make your own decisions about what you want to use at your church?
There are two main reasons:
1. It improves the quality of the resource, providing a pool of images that are ready to use with projection systems at church. When images are tagged you can pick them up by searching the pool - for example, try searching for 4:3 red in the group pool (search box in top right of screen). If your system runs at a 4:3 ratio, that would net you a range of images that should fit (certainly if you aren't using a resolution above 1024x768) and which have red as a strong colour.
2. Observing the rules that are easy to measure suggests that you have thought about the more intangible ones, like the permission for others to make unrestricted use of your image as a background for Christian worship. They don't have to credit you (although that would be nice) and they can remix your images with others as they want (although only for the specific end of a worship background - it doesn't change the image licence for any other purpose).
If you want to post things that don't fit the rules or where you don't feel comfortable giving that much freedom, then please don't post them to the pool. However, you are welcome to start a discussion thread to highlight the images - that's not quite the same as sharing them in the pool but look on that as a positive thing.
By the way, the rules aren't absolutely fixed in stone. However, the way to change them is to start a discussion, not to ignore them!
Thanks,
Wulf
Posted at 12:57AM, 10 March 2010 PDT
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I'd like to be more accomadating because I do want to share the pictures I take but am not sure that specific settings on my camera change the ratio. I have a nikkon d-40.
Posted 23 months ago.
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If we don't have some order, we end up with a huge pool of photos, most of which need work before they can be used for projecting as a worship background. There wouldn't be anything wrong with that but it isn't the aim of this group.
Tagging a photo with the ratio is a simple step which allows you to search the group pool and pick out images that match the ratio you use with your projection system. For example, look at the pool and plug in "yellow 4:3". That will bring back images suitable for a 4:3 projector that include a lot of yellow.
You can include images in a 3:2 ratio (the way they come out from the D40 - same camera I have) but you must tag them to allow people to filter them in or out. The other advantage of the tagging rule is that, because it is relatively unusual, it serves as your signature to the effect that you agree with all the other rules, such as granting unrestricted use of your image as a background for Christian worship (so, if you see it used in that way at a large conference you can't expect to claim royalties).
Wulf
ps. you can easily crop your D40 images into a 4:3 format, including with the image editing options available on Flickr.
Posted 23 months ago.
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