petemillis Posted March 29, 2008 Share Posted March 29, 2008 Remember this time - note it in your diary - and have your cameras at the ready. I'm without PC access for a few days now so just wanted to post this reminder to encourage as many people as possible to take part. Be there or be square! Details are in the latest Photo.net news letter and also here in the casual conversations forum archive. Cheers all. Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geoff_foale Posted March 29, 2008 Share Posted March 29, 2008 Somehow I had missed this suggestion, thanks for the reminder. Just over a year ago the UK BBC Radio 4 PM programme had a similar idea. They asked listeners to photograph exactly what they were looking at 5pm when the programme started. They expected to get around a couple of hundred photos but actually received over 4,000 so had to take on extra staff to put all the images onto their website. As such, I wonder if a few basic rules might help here. Maybe something about size of images and slightly narrowing down the scope; like the PM programme did. Anyway, I did send in an image to the BBC so, if I remember, I will give it a go here as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petemillis Posted March 29, 2008 Author Share Posted March 29, 2008 Geoff, I think it's best to leave scope wide open so that the photog can photograph whatever they feel is of some significance at the moment they take the photograph. I agree about image size for submission and wonder how a max file size of 100k with dimensions of say 1024x768 or smaller - that displays on most screens easily and is fast to load. Perhaps Josh has some other suggestions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shots worth sharing Posted March 29, 2008 Share Posted March 29, 2008 I figure that's 11am here (EDT) but I'm an idiot. Maybe we should identify an "official" on-line, GMT conversion site? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike l Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 Dave, Just to confuse things further we have just gone to BST in UK, which I think is GMT+1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bueh Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 Uh, is there a solution to where and how big we should post our result? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keith_leonin Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 5 April 2008 15.00UTC/GMT = 0800 PST... ... ON A SATURDAY I guess I won't be sleeping in that morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colin carron Posted April 1, 2008 Share Posted April 1, 2008 A world time map : http://www3.shastacollege.edu/dscollon/images/time_zone_map.JPG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenPapai Posted April 2, 2008 Share Posted April 2, 2008 I suspect the hjighest number of people who post here are from west coast USA. So are we 7, 8, or 9 hours off of GMT now? Posting at 11:25 a.m. pdt (and stamped by PN then as EDT, so 2:25 p.m.), so what time is it "there"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lex_jenkins Posted April 3, 2008 Share Posted April 3, 2008 If posted to the No Words Forum image dimensions will automagically be resized (to 500 pixels wide, I think). Dunno if it also compresses file sizes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rogerjporter Posted April 3, 2008 Share Posted April 3, 2008 argh, 7 am on a saturday morning, i am working that day, but not until 9... still though, it will hurt. here is a good reference website... http://www.spacearchive.info/utc.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darius.tulbure Posted April 4, 2008 Share Posted April 4, 2008 I think they've chosen this hour so that as many PN members as possible catch the daylight. At 7 o'clock in West USA is still light, whilst at 8 PM is still light in the Middle East. Americas and Europe are privileged, but I think we're going to be surprised by the night shots made in Asia and Australia. Good luck and have fun! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lorilafs Posted April 4, 2008 Share Posted April 4, 2008 This is gonna be BIG! Major statement of what people with one idea, perhaps ideal, can accomplish. Can't wait to see the results! Best Wishes, ALL.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maria_di_liegro Posted April 4, 2008 Share Posted April 4, 2008 Do we have one space on PN where we are posting it, or simply in our gallery, then posting it for critique? I like Lex's idea of posting it to the no words forum. Lori, are you set for 11:00 tomorrow? :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samn Posted April 4, 2008 Share Posted April 4, 2008 I would like to see them posted to someplace with a larger format (posting size) than No Words. Even though I post there frequently, it really can't do justice to the images that may be produced. I haven't heard anything definite on this as yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lorilafs Posted April 4, 2008 Share Posted April 4, 2008 11? AM? I thought it was 3pm! Thanks, Maria, I would've been way off the mark! (yeah, yeah--I usually am?!) Gotta go reset my alarms, kids.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charles_stobbs3 Posted April 4, 2008 Share Posted April 4, 2008 See Roger's chart above for clearest time translation. Thanks Roger. (Although I can't figure out where Roger lives. Alaska maybe?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bueh Posted April 4, 2008 Share Posted April 4, 2008 Uh, this means 4 p.m. for us non-UK European shooters, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seismiccwave Posted April 4, 2008 Share Posted April 4, 2008 Just about 12 more hours to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maria_di_liegro Posted April 5, 2008 Share Posted April 5, 2008 Lori, sorry ... I had that wrong by one hour. Duh! Alright, 15:00 GMT means 3:00 pm in Greenwich, England. If you look at the time zone map provided by Colin, it gives an example of England @ 7:00 pm. If you scan over to the left for Eastern time, you will see it says 2:00 pm, which makes sense because we are five hours earlier. So, our moment on the east coast comes @ 10:00 am exactly. So, it's 10:00 am! You can verify it at this site also. Scroll down to where it says "west of Greenwich": http://time.securesites.com/ Regards, Maria Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seismiccwave Posted April 5, 2008 Share Posted April 5, 2008 I am getting up really early here in Hawaii since I have to hit the shutter at 5:00 am Hawaii Standard Time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maria_di_liegro Posted April 5, 2008 Share Posted April 5, 2008 That's early, Hansen! Oh, well. It's for the cause. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shots worth sharing Posted April 5, 2008 Share Posted April 5, 2008 Maria, But you have to add an hour for Daylight Savings Time which makes it 11am. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lorilafs Posted April 5, 2008 Share Posted April 5, 2008 FOR ANYONE ELSE WHO IS CONFUSED ABOUT WHAT TIME...JUST GO TO "GREENWICH MEAN TIME"...it ;ays out all time zones w/and w/o DST, etc. gotta go get the cameras ready and steady to post to WHAT thready? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jan.das Posted April 5, 2008 Share Posted April 5, 2008 The moment has passed.... Where should we post the pictures? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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