** NEWSFLASH: BAD WEATHER ALERT, RULE 23 INVOKED**
Rule 23:
If the overall weather condition for the duration of the competition is deemed by the judges to be
“ ‘kin ‘orrible “ you may also use your handheld devices (phone, mirrorless, DSLR. OSMO etc) BUT… 1 extra vote will be awarded for the use of your drone. A valid dronescene addition also gets a bonus vote.
Scope
The requirement is to submit an image, either a photo or video, to illustrate the subject of the competition.
The subject for the competition running from 00:01 Sunday May 23rd to 23:59 Saturday 5th June is: CONSTRUCTION
The image must be captured during the time that the competition is open and obviously be taken by a drone in flight. An exception for ground based photography may be granted by invoking rule 23 at the commencement of the competition.
Editing is confined to colour and exposure adjustments and crop only (still) plus zoom and frame rate (video) There must be no removal or pasting of an object.
Voting
Images will be judged by the members of GADC who may vote for any number of images by means of an anonymous poll open for five days after the closing date for competition entries.
Voting in the poll is open to all GADC members, whether they have entered the competition or not. You may vote for all, some or none of the entries
Any image that is correctly added to the Dronescene map with details including the Drone Code compliant take-off and landing point will be awarded one bonus vote.
In the event of a tie a guest judge will decide the winner
• The original media may be requested by the judges in case of a dispute.
Schedule:
• The competition subject will be announced every second Saturday. The subject will be chosen by a poll of GADC members.
• The competition will run from Sunday 00.01 to Saturday 23.59 fourteen days later.
• Voting by poll will be open for a further five days until Thursday 23:59.
• The winner will be announced on Friday, around 19:00
Sorry. It’s been so long since the last competition and the rules got lost during our recent hurried move after that it of unpleasantness with the Fraud Office. We had to recreate them from memory.
Videos may be a maximum of thirty seconds on screen. Timelapse, hyperlapse and Ken Burns effects are all allowed.
Right fellas, I’m here. Huge fank yoo to Sir Robert of the McMac team for kicking this off whilst I bask in the Somerset sun pffft! Sod off! It raining here too but…. I have been busy.
Anyway welcome back guys and great first topic. Looking forward to seeing the entry’s
Seriously, though, I’m still waiting for that bolt of inspiration to strike else it’s going to be a pretty standard shot of the housing estate going up in the village along the road.