Photo Competition

[Jez]

Originally Posted by StuartDH

I'd been planning to look at running a competition from January, but need to check that the software can do it easily and that it won't create to much extra work. As said in some of the other posts, we've had a competition in the past and like everything it usually takes a lot more to set up and run than it first appears.

We'll hopefully have something setup by January, but there's still a ton of other jobs to get through first

Stu

Any further development on this sensitive topic?

[Kayleigh]

They have competitions on other forums like this..

[tufftie]

Ummm - sounds interesting and fun. Maybe now there seem to be more WAB volunteers around there could be the time to start one at some point?

[Purplepixii]

How about this:

1) To give the current mods and Stu a break give one person the title of "Competition Secretary".

2) Create a forum section called "WAB Members Monthly Photo Competition". There will be one thread per month within this forum section.

3) The Competition Secretary role is the only account (except Mods) who can post to this new forum section.

4) Members who want to enter have to email their image to the Competition Secretary. The email should contain the image and the entrants' forum name.

5) The Competition Secretary posts each image to the new forum. This way all images will be posted under one name with no userID.

6) Once the winner is chosen their name is revealed!

Idea could prob do with a little tweaking - it's just as I thought of it.

I'd be happy to volunteer as the competition secretary, as I'm sure would others, and we could rotate this task monthly around volunteers

Purplepixii

[tufftie]

Now that sounds a great idea Purplepixii and I think you'd make a very good secretary - you'd certainly get my vote

[Bub-les]

Sounds really good. Awaiting developments with keen interest.
I vote for Purplepixii as well.
Barbara

[glsammy]

Purplepixii, Personally I like the idea. It sounds reasonable enough to me and not to onerous to run. Only my initial opinion of course. Others with a wider view may well see problems I can't.
Can I offer a bit of advice to anyone who would like to volunteer to do something like this?
Firstly register as a WAB Volunteer!
It's easy to do, go to control look down the options on the left hand side and select Group memberships. There you can click in the WAB Volunteer section and you'll get the lovely green WAB Volunteer by your name!

[mrs fish]

I would be interested in helping to run a photo competition, I run one on another site and thoroughly enjoy it

[matt_xyz]

I like the idea in principle, but how would the winner be chosen? That's normally the tricky bit.

Matt

[tufftie]

Originally Posted by matt_xyz

I like the idea in principle, but how would the winner be chosen? That's normally the tricky bit.

Matt

seen something similar done on another forum where they set it out in groups - a bit like the footie world cup system...

[Purplepixii]

Originally Posted by matt_xyz

I like the idea in principle, but how would the winner be chosen? That's normally the tricky bit.

Matt

Oooooh I missed that vital part out!!

Simplest way I think would be a voting system. If there is a limit on the "radio buttons" that can be used on a post then just one word answers (number of pic of your choice) - easy enough to count them up afterwards.

Pixii
(hanging head in shame hehe)

[Dae]

I think pixii's idea for a competition secretary would be great. Also the voting idea she suggested would make voting the absolute easiest, not only on the people participating, but for the mods & programmers behind the site. Simply have the people voting just place the winner number of their choice into the comment box and hit enter. Then they're easy to count up afterwards AND it's no work for the programmers.

I also think it'd be a good idea to require entries to the competition to vote as well. The secretary can keep an eye to make sure all entries vote, and that may ensure a good voting success rate as well.

[mrs fish]

You could have different catergorys each month , where you get the same people winning each month you could have it where winners don't get to submit for the next two months.

On a place this size you may have to limit the number of entries to say 10 per competition otherwise you could end up with 50 entries

Here is one of the catergorys I do each month

http://oscarfish.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=74788

I do three per month and have voting via a poll.

[mrs fish]

The other thing is that the pics have to be saved to your comp and renamed before they are uploaded for the comp otherwise you can right click/ properties and see whose they are

[tufftie]

So that's two of you'd I'd be happy to vote for now...oh no choices.. One of you with the idea and the other with the experience... Any other volunteers out there - just to add to things?!

Glad it looks like it's going to get off the ground - should be really good

[Jez]

Originally Posted by Purplepixii

How about this:

1) To give the current mods and Stu a break give one person the title of "Competition Secretary".

2) Create a forum section called "WAB Members Monthly Photo Competition". There will be one thread per month within this forum section.

3) The Competition Secretary role is the only account (except Mods) who can post to this new forum section.

4) Members who want to enter have to email their image to the Competition Secretary. The email should contain the image and the entrants' forum name.

5) The Competition Secretary posts each image to the new forum. This way all images will be posted under one name with no userID.

6) Once the winner is chosen their name is revealed!

Idea could prob do with a little tweaking - it's just as I thought of it.

I'd be happy to volunteer as the competition secretary, as I'm sure would others, and we could rotate this task monthly around volunteers

Purplepixii

with such few reply's to Pixii's proposals & Mrs.Fishs experience and enthusiam to et a WAB photo competition up and running it's leaves me wondering if the interest has flagged or are members just waiting on an outcome?! Where does a WAB friendly now competition stand

Cheers-Jez

[big bill]

I think its a great idea it can only help improve members photography and there recognition of all things wild.
The purplepixii`s ideas are sound and I would be happy to take part in anyway that I can

[tufftie]

Originally Posted by big bill

I think its a great idea it can only help improve members photography and there recognition of all things wild.
The purplepixii`s ideas are sound and I would be happy to take part in anyway that I can

I hadn't looked at it like that before and it only give more reason to have the competition Surely with Purplepixii and Mrs Fish to organise it the comp. would be possible now?!

[zan]

I think it's a great idea. It could also be run (if it was monthly), that the photos entered had to be taken in that month (a quick look at the exif data is dead easy as long as it's still there). That could help folk who are starting out and don't have huge banks of images. ...But I appreciate that might end up too much of a hassle to enforce

[nightshade]

I did suggest a theme to follow once which was quite sucessful.Rather than a competition it gives all types of photographer( DSLR's to Mobile Phone images) a chance to show what they had seen rather than sheer skill

[Dae]

I think we're all perhaps waiting for the go-ahead from the mods, etc. Then perhaps whoever's chosen (or accepts) secretary position can get things moving?

[Bub-les]

Originally Posted by Dae

I think we're all perhaps waiting for the go-ahead from the mods, etc. Then perhaps whoever's chosen (or accepts) secretary position can get things moving?

Any idea when it might start?
Barbara

[Purplepixii]

* bump *

* waves at Stu *

[tufftie]

New month starts on wednesday Stu

[glsammy]

Stu is away on business at the moment, so we'll all have to be patient.