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Vendetta wrote:Richard Gatling was a pioneer in US national healthcare. On discovering that most soldiers during the American Civil War were dying of disease rather than gunshots, he turned his mind to, rather than providing better sanitary conditions and medical care for troops, creating a machine to make sure they got shot faster.
Considering that it's a photo and not a photoshop challenge, I hope Simplicius limits it to resizing and minor colour balance work... else where's the fun?How much photo-editing is allowed? Or rather, is this a photo contest or a presentation contest?
This rounds ends at the end of July, so hopefully there is time enough for the weather to cooperate. If not, well, that's some mighty boring weather you've got, but you'll be able to roll for a new theme at that point.Bounty wrote:What's the deadline for this set of themes, or is it perpetual? Depending on the forecast this picture might take a while.
The challenge is specifically to communicate using the medium of photography, so I'm going to leave it up to each of us to decide exactly where 'digital darkroom' ends and 'graphic art' begins. To keep this on-track, here's a rule of thumb: for multiple exposures or composite photos, use photographs that you took for the purposes of this challenge. When applying postprocessing, limit it to darkroom-type effects - the end result should be recognizably produced (or originated) by a camera.Considering that it's a photo and not a photoshop challenge, I hope Simplicius limits it to resizing and minor colour balance work... else where's the fun?How much photo-editing is allowed? Or rather, is this a photo contest or a presentation contest?
Flowers are common enough that photographs of them can be readily attempted, so I don't think an exception is necessary. But I'm curious to see this one, if you'd care to put it in the Photo-A-Day thread.Hawkwings wrote:Wow, for a lark, I rolled and got 96, Flowers, and I have the perfect picture for it. Unfortunately it's an already taken photo (but it was really recent!). Please please please?
Perfectly acceptable. Cameras are just recording devices; it's the photographer who has to select a meaningful image and guide the camera to record it.Havok wrote:I have to ask though... I only have a Canon digital camera or my Sony Cybershot cell phone... Is that acceptable equipment?
Definitions are up to your own interpretation, so you have ample space not only to decide what to shoot, but how.Akumz Razor wrote:16, live industry. This category seems to give a lot of options, depending on the definition of "live and "industry."
If there's no challenge for you to direct a tableau or recreate specific lighting conditions or present a scene known around the world in a fresh and original way, feel free to sit this one out. I mean, the whole point is to go outside your photographic comfort zone, but if you're such a master of the craft that everything is old hat, well, I'd sure hate for you to waste your time on my little project.aerius wrote:#73, Recreate a famous photograph. Oh joy, I get to be a copycat hack.
Well, there's a week of scattered showers coming up, so I'm goodIf not, well, that's some mighty boring weather you've got, but you'll be able to roll for a new theme at that point.
Simplicius wrote:If there's no challenge for you to direct a tableau or recreate specific lighting conditions or present a scene known around the world in a fresh and original way, feel free to sit this one out. I mean, the whole point is to go outside your photographic comfort zone, but if you're such a master of the craft that everything is old hat, well, I'd sure hate for you to waste your time on my little project.aerius wrote:#73, Recreate a famous photograph. Oh joy, I get to be a copycat hack.
Single examples of new work only, please, as per the rules. There exist (or can be made easily enough) other threads for showcasing photos.The Grim Squeaker wrote: some backup flower pictures
These are new photosSimplicius wrote:Single examples of new work only, please, as per the rules. There exist (or can be made easily enough) other threads for showcasing photos.The Grim Squeaker wrote: some backup flower pictures