Information Provided by John Stewart:
St Vincent’s Hospital is seeking to purchase photos from our members to display in their new Emergency Department. They’re looking for local landscapes, i.e. from the Toowoomba, Darling Downs and the Lockyer Valley area, and they can be in landscape or portrait format. In particular, for the Emergency Department, they are seeking very calming/soothing images (water, nature etc).
The hospital is fairly particular about the images they select. The photos need to have a certain wow factor and be technically excellent. If you need to get some ideas about what they are looking for you can visit the hospital, once the current restrictions are over, from 8am to 8pm and have a look at the framed photos on the walls that they’ve purchased from our members and professional photographers in the past. Please comply with COVID requirements which can be viewed on the St Vincent’s website: https://www.svpht.org.au/patients…/visiting/visiting-hours
Submitted images need only be of sufficient resolution for viewing on a monitor so they can be about the same size and resolution as required for TPS monthly competition entries, i.e. max 2MB with the long side 2000px. However, if you are lucky enough to have an image or images selected by the hospital, the files need to be of sufficient resolution so they can be printed to approximately A1 size, i.e. 59.4 x 84.1 com. These files should be jpegs of at least 8MB saved at high quality at 300 dpi in either sRGB or Adobe 1998 colour spaces.
The hospital will pay $250 for each selected photo.
You can send your photos to Cath Neill, who is an Executive Assistant at Vincent’s, at this email address: cath.neill@svha.org.au Cath will also answer any questions you may have about image requirements etc.
There’s no limit on the number of images you can submit but be aware that their email server can only handle a maximum of about 15MB per email so it will be necessary to send the files in batches if you have more than a total of 15MB.
*Additional information from John*
*Do not include dark / night / milky way photos
*Images should be landscapes / nature
*Images must be from around the Darling Downs
*Images must be happy / warm / uplifting
