On August 3, 2023, our chapter held the second meeting of the year 2023 to align some goals and plans for the year. The meeting took place in the classroom of the laboratory and on the occasion ideas such as the competition for experiments, the photo competition and introducing the chapter to new members were agendas of the meeting.
As announced at the last meeting, we are promoting a photography challenge.
The idea is to promote learning and interaction among members by capturing photos. The proposed challenge is that each member must capture (with a smartphone) a photo of some optical effect (diffraction, refraction, reflection, among others) with the best characteristics they can. See the photos from the last edition as an example
For this competition not to be so dependent on the quality of the smartphone’s camera, we are going to propose some rules for capturing the photo:
1° The photo must be taken with a maximum resolution of 12 Mpx.
2° Photos must be captured in JPG or PNG format. Many cell phones already come with the PRO mode where it is possible to change the photography parameters. If you don’t have native pro mode, we recommend one of the following apps: ProCam X Lite or Manual Camera Lite – Professional Camera DSLR.
3° Explore all the options to take a good photo. Mess with aperture, exposure time, ISO, among other things. A good combination of these parameters will definitely lead to good photos. We know it’s not easy to find a perfect match for photography parameters. But to help with this task, we strongly recommend that you test your skills in advance on the website below:
https://dofsimulator.net/en/
The evaluation criteria will be:
25 points – Creativity.
25 points – Difficulty.
25 points – technical parameters.
25 points – Photo-description.
The photos must be sent to the e-mail of the spie. Submit your photo and photo description together. Also send the parameters used to take the picture (ISO, focal length, shutter and others).
Do not send via whatsapp or any other app that compresses the photos. The sending of photos is valid until the 31/08.
Prize : the prize will be for the first three places in the challenge and will be:
1st – BRL 250.00
2nd – BRL 150.00
3rd – BRL 100.00
Challenge launched! We count on everyone’s participation and loyalty.
