Thread: 5000th Post Contest - Photo Exhibit

OK - for Post 5000 lets make a little museum art. Competition for one smal 1.10th ounce raw coin AGE, not much but perhaps enough to generate some lasting fun and worthwhile exhibits:

Here are the rules:

Post in a single thread anywhere on cointalk an exhibit of photographs with annotation of any coin of your choice. The exhibit which best meets Aesthetic, Educational and Numismatics goals laid forth will win. Three judges will rule, myself and I'll need two more volunteers. Ribbons will be awarded for 1,2md and 3rd place prizes.

Subject Lines should say exactly:

Exhibit: Coin Type - Coin Date - Photographed Date - Artist

for example

Exhibit: Standing Liberty Quarter Type I- 1917 - Photographed March 2008 - Ruben Safir

you can use your handle if you want.

Judge points:
____________

10 Points: Numismatics:
It has to be a coin and the subject of the exhibit must be coin related. The right up should discuss details of the coin as they pertain to your photos and how your photoed your coins to display their character.

10 Points: Art:
Your photographs should be beautiful and unique. The aesthetic quality of the photographs is the purpose of the contest. The exhibit of photo's, arrangement, theme and photographic technique will all me considered

10 Points Educational:
Your exhibit must have genuine educational merit. Historical, artistic, and numismatic education all count equally .

Extra information: An extra 10 points will be given for using only Free Software to manipulate your images and design your exhibit. The Gimp, Inkscape and Openoffice are examples of good software to work with, and work on a vareity of platforms. YOu should discuss this in your wirte up or in a message in your thread.

http://pythonide.blogspot.com/2008/1...-software.html


Questions relating to your entry in order to help judge it will be put in your thread and responding can be nice


Things not considered: The rarity and the value of the subject coin...I don't care although beautiful coin designs make interesting subjects !

Ruben Safir
http://www.nylxs.com

So are we supposed to start a thread?
Or can we post it here.

Originally Posted by FreakyGarrettC

So are we supposed to start a thread?
Or can we post it here.

New threads in the regular cointalk areas(coin chat, us coins, ancients etc)

In the Title of the Thread

Exhibit: Coin type: Date: Photo Date: Artist

Searching for the word Exhibit should pull them all up

Ruben

Originally Posted by kevcoins

is it supposed to be a picture of a real coin or one we draw like the link

picture of a real coin

when is winner to be decided? Thanks for the contest!

Originally Posted by TheNoost

when is winner to be decided? Thanks for the contest!

Yeah - I've been thinking about this. Let me get my graders and we'll all three decide together but I'm thinking maybe like a month because this can be an ambitious project. Also, I was thinking of giving each person a max of three entries.

What do you think?

Ruben

I like the longer timeframe (might take me awhile to learn the new software) and the 3 entries gives a better chance to show more style. Also like the graders doing the deciding as a whole.

Originally Posted by TheNoost

I like the longer timeframe (might take me awhile to learn the new software) and the 3 entries gives a better chance to show more style. Also like the graders doing the deciding as a whole.

I tried to give this some thought. I don't have much of prize, but the contest itself should be a lot of fun and intellectually satisfying for the participants, the observers and the judges.

I'm trying to also emphasis that presentation is important. The construction of your whole thread can give you a lot of flexibility on making the presentation and remember that these boxes can take in a lot of HTML in the advanced mode so that should help you even more.

I'm a bit of an overreacher but in a month I'd like to see a lot of outsiders dropping in on coin talk to see all the splendid presentations that have been done, maybe even some coin press.


Ruben

I will work on this contest. Just to see what will happen . Cheryl

well i think you should give me the prize ill go get pics of a coin

Originally Posted by cherylkubucko

I will work on this contest. Just to see what will happen . Cheryl

Looking forward to it. Welcome back!

Ruben

Here are some resources

http://www.gimp.org/
http://www.gimp.org/windows/
http://www.gimp.org/macintosh/
http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/

http://www.inkscape.org/
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/FAQ
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inkscape


http://www.scribus.net/ -excellent
http://www.scribus.net/?q=downloads

http://www.openoffice.org/

http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
http://gnuwin.epfl.ch/en/index.html
http://www.gnu.org/software/for-windows.html

Originally Posted by spock1k

well i think you should give me the prize ill go get pics of a coin

what do you need my trinket for?

Ruben

its a coin not a trinket. perhaps you can give me an ounce of gold for not participating in the contest

Originally Posted by spock1k

its a coin not a trinket. perhaps you can give me an ounce of gold for not participating in the contest

Sure - you just pay for my daughters $9,000 tution bill for high school. Just send the check to Merkaz HS at 1400 West 6th St. Brooklyn, NY 11204
http://www.merkaz.org/

and i will IMMEDIATELY send you an ounce of gold

Ruben