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02/26/2005 08:40:46 AM · #26 |
| I vote against text. I'm not fond of titles saving a photo either. I think the challenge is to take a photo that fits the challenge without the need for words. Just my 2 cents worth :) |
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02/26/2005 08:48:54 AM · #27 |
Originally posted by Artan:
it would be A bit harsh to add text to the rules now. There are different time zones so some will have see this and gone out for the day, with a view to taking photographs.. It the weekend after all.
its 9:30 in the UK and we are the latest European time, so other will be thinking about lunch soon..... |
But not unprecedented... I believe it was the motivational poster challenge where the rules were amended to allow text after the challenge started (I know that one wasn't a speed challenge though). And it wouldn't be too out of bounds. After all, a shot truly intended for a billboard would still have negative space for the text to be added to it.
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02/26/2005 08:52:04 AM · #28 |
| Maybe add your text during shooting. There's many ways to add it to the scene prior to shooting :) |
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02/26/2005 08:55:20 AM · #29 |
Originally posted by Shiiizzzam:
Maybe add your text during shooting. There's many ways to add it to the scene prior to shooting :) |
Don't think that's how they make billboards... ;-)
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02/26/2005 09:04:19 AM · #30 |
If you're on assignment to shoot for a billboard, the art director will tell you what text he wants and where it is to go, perhaps, but you will not be asked to provide a "layout" to him. In fact, he'd be annoyed if you even offered a sample layout with your image.
Think of DPC as the "client/art director" that has asked you to shoot a billboard shot for a specific product; your job is to give the art director an image he can work with. Use the title to replicate the text message you are shooting to illustrate. This is a realisitc 'assingment". Adding text to create an actual billboard would be a graphic design challenge, not a photography challenge.
It would be unfair to members who have no graphic design skills. Presumably we all have photography skills.
Robt.
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02/26/2005 09:08:08 AM · #31 |
I vote NO TEXT
This is, afterall a photography challenge, not a graphics design challenge.
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02/26/2005 09:10:22 AM · #32 |
Originally posted by bear_music:
If you're on assignment to shoot for a billboard, the art director will tell you what text he wants and where it is to go, perhaps, but you will not be asked to provide a "layout" to him. In fact, he'd be annoyed if you even offered a sample layout with your image.
Think of DPC as the "client/art director" that has asked you to shoot a billboard shot for a specific product; your job is to give the art director an image he can work with. Use the title to replicate the text message you are shooting to illustrate. This is a realisitc 'assingment". Adding text to create an actual billboard would be a graphic design challenge, not a photography challenge.
It would be unfair to members who have no graphic design skills. Presumably we all have photography skills.
Robt. |
But once again, not unprecedented. We are not graphics designers or writers supposedly but were asked to create Motivational Posters.
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02/26/2005 09:14:25 AM · #33 |
Yeah, but this is nevertheless a "realistic" assignment as it stands. I se e no need to monkey with it. I'd love it if it had text, but I was a professional graphic designer and I'd naturally be happy with that...
Robt.
Message edited by author 2005-02-26 10:04:29.
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02/26/2005 09:29:47 AM · #34 |
| so can we take a picture of anything as long as it doesnt have words and it's shot in landscape format? or does it have to be a landscape? |
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02/26/2005 09:42:56 AM · #35 |
"Take a photograph that might grace a highway billboard (those large signs you see on the side of the road). Your submission should be in landscape orientation, and should be twice as wide as it is tall to simulate a common billboard aspect ratio (recommended submission size is 640x320 pixels). Title your entry with what the billboard would be promoting."
That's all you need to know. Nuf said.
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02/26/2005 10:03:27 AM · #36 |
"Landscape Orientation" means it must be wider than it is tall. "Portrait Orientation" would be taller than it is wide. In this aprticular case, they actually give us a specific aspect ratio (2:1) meaning it should measure exactly 640 wide by 320 tall in its finished form. This is traditional bilbboard proportions.
Robt.
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02/27/2005 04:18:36 PM · #37 |
How about you put text in your shot (in camera) and you decide you want to remove it. Is it legal to clone it out?
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02/27/2005 04:48:18 PM · #38 |
My entire composition is based around the space left for the text.
I assume it's too late the change the rules but what Billboard doesn't have text? Since they gave a 640x320 suggestion wouldn't that be a size alottment for the text?
My title is the text, I'm sure that it will come through clearly but as I see it, it might as well have been put on the canvas.
So for those of you who NEVER read the titles, as a rule, please be kind and make your way around.
Message edited by author 2005-02-27 16:54:03. |
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