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Re: Tucson 2010 Panoramic Exhibition rules
Gavin Farrell 2010-Mar-19 17:02:00
Hey Scott,
Amazing points, and insight into this.
This will be my first IVRPA & IAPP event. It did wonder: how the heck
is anyone going to have time to mount these, and sending large mounted
prints is very expensive indeed -- with no incentive and then to
figure a way to get it home?
There a a track mounting system that sort of emulates an old projector
screen it consist of two very thin metal bars that fold up and are
easy to carry on the plane. You can then put these little plastic
clamps on the top of the Panorama print and the whole thing slides
into the bars. The top bar hangs to the wall. It's incredible for
portability and setting up large prints on the fly. It's well balanced
so you don't get dimples or wrinkles in the print as it hangs.
All that said it does seem that it would be better served, for all the
photographers submitting work, to present their work digitally. Much
of the groundbreaking Panoramic photography, like Gigapixel Panos,
loose a lot of their punch when confined to small dimensions,
especially a 43" constraint. I know with much of my work, unless I
make wall size prints, they loose some of their gusto, translating
from the 16 bit monitor master file to a 8 bit print. The organizers
of the conference seem like nice enough people and I would imagine
they're still open to suggestions.
Cheers,
Gavin D Farrell
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Panoramic Fine Artist
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On Mar 19, 2010, at 9:39 AM, Scott Highton wrote:
> Gentlemen,
>
> Unfortunately, I have to take issue with your rules for this
> exhibition, as cited below.
>
> First of all, you are asking photographers to incur the expense of
> preparing (and presumably mounting) panoramic prints for your
> exhibition.
>
> Second, there is no potential return for the expense(s) incurred by
> photographers in preparing such prints (such as prizes or any value
> other perhaps than bragging rights).
>
> Third, the images have to be delivered to the conference location two
> days prior to the start of the main conference, therefore incurring
> additional travel/lodging for attendees and/or shipping costs for said
> prints in order to make the deadline.
>
> And fourth, Tucson2010 then claims ownership of these prints if
> photographers submitting them do not pick them up after the exhibition
> for any reason. It is unclear what entity Tucson2010 actually is (is
> it the IVRPA, the IAPP, or some individual's company?). Certainly
> Tucson2010, as an event, will not be happening again -- a similar even
> organized by the same entities will likely be in a different location
> and/or different year, so it is strange that the Tucson2010 entity is
> claiming ownership of such prints for future exhibitions.
>
> Perhaps this Exhibition would be better modeled after previous IQTVRA
> and IVRPA exhibitions, wherein photographers submit digital files of
> their panoramas for printing by the Exhibition, and photographers
> retain full ownership of the works/prints resulting, although these
> remain on loan to the organization for its display until return is
> requested (costs for said return could be negotiated or the
> responsibility of the photographer).
>
> As we speak about this, I am in the process of trying to secure the
> return of a print of mine on loan to a previous IVRPA conference
> exhibition, and am dismayed to find that its whereabouts are
> undefined, and there's a possibility that it was simply discarded or
> destroyed.
>
> These are not mistakes that should be made again. We need to have a
> high level of respect for the work and intellectual property of the
> authors and creators that both IVRPA and IAPP serve. That level of
> respect should be maintained through efforts such as an Exhibition of
> Work at a collaborative conference.
>
> Unfortunately, if the rules persist as currently written, I will be
> unwilling to participate in the Exhibition, and would strongly
> discourage others from doing so, as well.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Scott
>
> Scott Highton
> Author, Virtual Reality Photography
> Phone: (650) 592-5277
> E-mail: #removed#
> Web: http://www.vrphotography.com
>
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> -----------------------
>
> * All submissions should be made trough the Tucson 2010 website
> using this form: http://tucson2010.com/panoramic-exhibition-form/
> * We will only accept images captured from January 1, 2009 until
> March 28, 2010.
> * The image needs to be exceptionally interesting artistically or
> technically.
> * The maximum dimension of the prints we will accept is 110cm or 43
> inches.
> * The original photographs will have to be delivered in the Hilton
> Tucson East Hotel no later than April 12, 2010.
> * All prints not picked up after the exhibit will become the
> property of Tucson2010 and retained for future exhibitions.
>
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