Forum competition

admin

Hi guys - have a couple of great prizes to give away - 2x dvd's of Black Coffee, a very interesting and well-researched [& not always flattering] doco on some of the countries of origin... have two to give away; we're just considering a few options for a competition - probably not roasting-related however... probably one dvd per week for two consecutive weeks.

in the meantime, any ideas please feel free to list below!

Brett_H

Hmmm, how about the first person to reply to this thread wins... Failing that how about a photo competition with the title Black Coffee?

Dry_bean

Brett H wrote:

Failing that how about a photo competition with the title Black Coffee?

Sounds like a good concept. 😉

Koffee_Kosmo

I would like it better if that photo has an accompanying short story This is a great prize and contributors need to work for it KK

mycuppa

And for Week 3 & 4, mycuppa.com.au will give away 500g of roasted Honduras Cup Of Excellence - delivered to your door.

admin

great, thanks guys and thanks Jeff for your kind offer for weeks 3 & 4 OK so let's make Week 1 as follows: Best shot of a short black, as judged by mod team and myself. I guess it's worth noting that we're looking more at the artistic merit of the pic, rather than the quality of the actual espresso [although a nice shot of espresso will make a better shot, if you know what I mean]... A couple of tips:

you can either make it a shot pouring or just the shot in the cup
one thing I've learnt from experience is that flash never works - if you've got a point-and-shoot camera, that will be fine, but make sure you turn the auto-flash off!

We'll load all shots into the gallery as well, which means everyone gets to see your work. Closing time midnight Friday [this Friday 10/9]. Email jpgs [pref between around 300Kb - 1Mb] to info@cremamagazine.com.au with Forum comp in Subject line... Happy shooting!! A 😉

Dry_bean

"as judged by mod team and myself." Hmmmm, does this mean the mod team are excluded from the comp? 😉

shape_shifter

Just another idea for the judging side of things. Could it be set up as a poll and everyone gets to vote. No names on the photos so there can be no 'name' judging??? Oh a bit more, since there are 2 prizes, each for 2 weeks, that if you win the first week you can't win the second week but can still put your photo up??? If you understand what I mean. Everyone can enter for both prizes though. That way everyone gets to contribute including mods, who I feel shouldn't be left out.

Muscles

Wow! Thanks A and thanks Jeff for the great prizes, you may have just motivated me to bring the decent camera home from work 😉

RichardM

I think excluding mods would be great, because it would increase my chances significantly 😛

Brett_H

Wow Jeff... that is a fantastic prize! Thank you for your generosity also. I love Nicole's idea ofba pollmbecause it allows some of our talented Mods to get clickin'. Sorry Richard but I think the more the merrier. 😉

RichardM

Brett H wrote:

Wow Jeff... that is a fantastic prize! Thank you for your generosity also. I love Nicole's idea ofba pollmbecause it allows some of our talented Mods to get clickin'. Sorry Richard but I think the more the merrier. 😉

You're probably right 🙁 - I guess I'll lose then 😢 I'll take a photo and do my best, but only once I get my new tamper base tomorrow (did I mention I was excited 🙂 ).

Muscles

RichardM wrote:

You're probably right 🙁 - I guess I'll lose then 😢 I'll take a photo and do my best, but only once I get my new tamper base tomorrow (did I mention I was excited 🙂 ).

New tamper base... you're already winning! What base are you getting?

admin

shape_shifter wrote:

Just another idea for the judging side of things. Could it be set up as a poll and everyone gets to vote. No names on the photos so there can be no 'name' judging??? Oh a bit more, since there are 2 prizes, each for 2 weeks, that if you win the first week you can't win the second week but can still put your photo up??? If you understand what I mean. Everyone can enter for both prizes though. That way everyone gets to contribute including mods, who I feel shouldn't be left out.

great idea S_S - just need to check if our poll capacity is up to it [as it's fairly basic] - eg is there a max number of entries that it would limit us to, etc?? Once I've found this out from my IT guys in the am will advise; by the way, since we're starting a day into the week [ie a day late] will extend deadline till midnight Sat... anyway will confirm judging process tomorrow am, but agree mods should be free to enter. A PS agree that it would be good to run into a second week, but am thinking of having a different photographic subject for Week 2; again will advise shortly

admin

Ok seems to be no reason why it shouldn't work... so here's the 'ducks' guts' as Attilio would say: Members send pics in by email and we will load pics anonymously on the forum [will create a new gallery specially for comp]. Each pic will be given a letter and we will simultaneously create a poll where people can vote - ie tick A, B, C, D ... etc depending on the number of entries. One last thing: so as to give people plenty of time, have decided to extend original Short Black comp by a week - Friday 16th Sept [ie a total of 10 days from now]. We will then have two prizes - a member choice [as voted by the poll] and an Admin's choice, as voted by me - each will get a copy of the DVD!! so, get shooting!! A 🙂

askthecoffeeguy

mycuppa wrote:

And for Week 3 & 4, mycuppa.com.au will give away 500g of roasted Honduras Cup Of Excellence - delivered to your door.

ohhh pick me pick me!

admin

Ok guys - have had the first couple of shots; will put up the gallery on Sat, when we've got enough to make it up. Reminder - send them in by email to info@cremamagazine.com.au with subject: 'pics for forum comp'; Keep 'em coming!! A

admin

Ok guys - we had a small 'vulnerability' in the Gallery section of the site [which is where I was going to put up the pics] and Muscles very kindly offered to fix it over the weekend... Unfortunately, it turned out to be a little more involved than we thought and in fact the best solution turned out to be to restore to Friday's version of the whole site, which meant losing a few posts - it was actually pretty quiet over weekend, but apologies if yours was one of the posts missing.... if you remember roughly what it was, feel free to knock it back up [in more or less the same words] today! From my point-of-view [ie as Admin] there wasn't too much, except for me hassling everybody on this thread to get their pics in, and from memory there were responses from several members [Shape_shifter, Richard and Lacehim] saying they were onto it - can't wait to see your pics!! A

madpierre

That's funny, just logged in and thought I had drifted back in time and lost about 3 or 4 days ;D

admin

there you go - and you just thought you were losing your marbles... A 😉