Photo competition december 08

[Deleted Member D]

Originally Posted by iandouglas

hi tony wasnt sure how many entries we were going to get and wanted to give every one a chance of a placing .
still learning what comp catagorys folks would like .will have more time for next months (January 09)
if anyone has any ideas for next months catagorys please speak up.
rgds.iandouglas

No probs Ian sorry I dint get any in this time but this is a great comp and Im sure it'll grow.

[NNMan]

Must admit I found it easyer to post one pic of each and and then chose my one favorite of each. But its nice to see the pics all the same.

Graham, I also have an Issy to choose pics now, but she really isnt into this stuff!!

[Toolbox]

Dydh da & Gorthewer da.

Here is the Kernewek vote.

1st 21
2nd 15
3rd 3
4th 1
5th 23

[iandouglas]

well good job there is some nice pictures for issy will vote for.
rgds.iandouglas

[floyd500b]

My votes are;

1st - no 13
2nd - no 22 (it's the Boss's Missus innit)
3rd - no 21
4th - no 2
5th - no 10

I think they all deserve points though.

Just a thought - if we had a gallery page like before, you could create a folder for each comp. Then everyone could just bung their photos in there - make it easier on the judges

Cheers

Graham

[wolf]

Originally Posted by floyd500b

Just a thought - if we had a gallery page like before, you could create a folder for each comp. Then everyone could just bung their photos in there - make it easier on the judges

Cheers

Graham

good idea mate

[iandouglas]

Hi
If it was hosted in gallery how would you post comments .
The whole point of it being in a forum is to invite comments directly after the photos are posted. if it was in gallery it would it kill the thread.
It would be a good idea to put the winning photos in there.
rgds.iandouglas

[NNMan]

I like the monthly threads!

Its gna be time to submit Jans pics soon!

[andrewk]

Maybe we need to clarify the rules a bit. I think everyone agrees that the photos should be "all your own work" - but ......

* Are the photos supposed to be recently taken or can they be older? (I've got about 30 years worth of negatives salted away )

* Obviously the photos will need cropping or resizing. What other post processing are folks allowed to do?

My suggestion would be that photos should have been taken within the last say 12 months. Post processing should be limited to stuff like cropping, adjusting exposure, brightness, contrast, saturation, sharpness and so on but the photo should be basically as taken - no tricky stuff like grafting in an impressive looking sky from a different photo.

Whaddya think?

Cheers
Andrew

[NEDDY]

there is no point in having a competition If there Is a need to cheat, or a wish to deceive.
Cath and I have a (Samsung NV30 with a varioplan ZOOM6.2-18.6mm whatever that is that we bought in a sale at asda,s in november

[Bat21]

Originally Posted by andrewk

Maybe we need to clarify the rules a bit. I think everyone agrees that the photos should be "all your own work" - but ......

* Are the photos supposed to be recently taken or can they be older? (I've got about 30 years worth of negatives salted away )

* Obviously the photos will need cropping or resizing. What other post processing are folks allowed to do?

My suggestion would be that photos should have been taken within the last say 12 months. Post processing should be limited to stuff like cropping, adjusting exposure, brightness, contrast, saturation, sharpness and so on but the photo should be basically as taken - no tricky stuff like grafting in an impressive looking sky from a different photo.

Whaddya think?

Cheers
Andrew

+1 sounds like a good plan to me.

How about:-

• A themed photo comp... sunsets shots or sea shots or lake shots mountains etc
• One thread for the photos to be posted in, and any comments/banter etc left in the thread.
• Then once the closing date has been reached, another thread created by the organiser with all the photos copied into post one for the voting.

Just my 2p's worth

[zippy656]

Originally Posted by Bat21

+1 sounds like a good plan to me.

How about:-

• A themed photo comp... sunsets shots or sea shots or lake shots mountains etc
• One thread for the photos to be posted in, and any comments/banter etc left in the thread.
• Then once the closing date has been reached, another thread created by the organiser with all the photos copied into post one for the voting.

Just my 2p's worth

sounds good to me.... but i think pics should be sent to the organiser, the week before voteing put into a therad for voting, so early ones arnt seen for longer, just an idea

[andrewk]

Originally Posted by NEDDY

there is no point in having a competition If there Is a need to cheat, or a wish to deceive.
Cath and I have a (Samsung NV30 with a varioplan ZOOM6.2-18.6mm whatever that is that we bought in a sale at asda,s in november

I don't think there's anything in my post that implies that anyone might cheat or intend to deceive - certainly no implication of that kind was intended. Photographers quite often extensively post process photographs in the name of art. You only need to pickup and glance through any of the photographic mags on the shelves at WH Smiths to see the kinds of techniques that are commonly used to make silk purses out of sows ears.

I was merely suggesting what I think is a common-sense boundary. Feel free to disagree.

Cheers
Andrew

[iandouglas]

HI PLEASE DONT MAKE THINGS TO COMPLICATED .
IF ANYONE HAS ANY IDEAS OF HOW TO MAKE IT EASY /QUICK AS POSSIBLE TO ORGANISE THEN THAT WOULD BE APPRECIATED OR IF ANYONE WANS TO RUN IT THATS OK AS WELL.

REMEMBER I AM NOT VERY GOOD WITH COMPUTORS

AFTER ALL ITS ONLY A BIT OF FUN.
I THINK AS REGARDS ALTERING PICTURES WHATS THE POINT .
AS LONG AS PICTURES ARE YOUR OWN EFFORTS TAKEN WHEN EVER ,
IT DONT MATTER.
AFTER ALL THE IDEA IS TO TAKE PICTURES AS AND WHEN THE OPPERTUNITYS ARISE
rgds.iandouglas

[iandouglas]

winner announced tomorrow