How BLONDE can I be?!?! - DPChallenge Forums

Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G IF-ED

03/02/2007 10:07:17 PM · #1

ARG.

Just got my first validation request...so I was submitting my original...and went back to reread the minimal editing rules...DUH. NO CROPPING. I totally cropped it. I'm so stuuuuuuupid!!!

Looks like I'm gonna get my first DQ. :(

BOoooooooooo.

adeldegan

Nikon D300

03/02/2007 10:09:09 PM · #2

Ya, I pulled a stupid on the tree entry... I did some brightness and contrast. I guess we need to learn to read more carefully ;)

Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 USM

03/02/2007 10:10:36 PM · #3

Originally posted by adeldegan:

Ya, I pulled a stupid on the tree entry... I did some brightness and contrast. I guess we need to learn to read more carefully ;)

NO kidding. ARG. I'm so annoyed at myself.
*gulping my wine*

Blue Moon

Canon EOS-40D

03/02/2007 10:36:01 PM · #4

How blonde you ask?? This blonde:

:) jk, that does suck...been there done that, all you can do is learn from it.

TechnoShroom

Canon EOS-30D

Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro

03/02/2007 11:14:01 PM · #5

Don't feel bad, everyone does something dumb once in awhile. My SO just tried to order a Cheesy Bites pizza.... from Quiznos.

MelonMusketeer

Nikon D7000

Nikon MF 50mm f/1.4

03/02/2007 11:50:17 PM · #6

Got my DQ and got it over with on my second image submitted. Wouldn't you know it has more than double the views of any other image in my portfolio, 1,190 LOL : )
Gotta pay attention to all the rules when submitting. I do now.
I say " Blonde is a state of mind, but how can it be?"

muckpond

Nikon D200

Sigma 15mm f/2.8 EX Diagonal Fisheye for Nikon

03/02/2007 11:59:04 PM · #7

i just processed the DQ. :( sorry.

777STAN

Pentax K10D

Pentax DA 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 AF

03/03/2007 12:10:32 AM · #8

Never fear...There's more than one way to "tank" your photo! I decided to try out my new Pentax K10D on the Tree Challenge. (Feeling rather generous, I even let my wife help me to choose the photo to use.) IMHO I still think she chose well.

What do you think?

Yet, the Title I chose seem to have "flushed" the photo "down the toilet" because apparently no one could understand why it was called, "Leaning on a Relative."

Therefore, I went back after the contest and editted the "back story" on the photo,...

"Interesting! The one time I lob a 'softball' at the environmentalists in the crowd & nobody 'gets' it. At least no comments proved that they did...
Leaning On a Relative points to the fact that the ladder in the photo is made of wood. The tree (also, wood) was a yet-living 'relative' to the once-living ladder/tree..."

P.S. Thank the LORD, I did catch the Minimal edit. Frankly, I was too tired right then to want to edit anythin anyway. :)

Message edited by author 2007-03-03 00:12:02.

03/03/2007 12:16:06 AM · #9

Originally posted by muckpond:

i just processed the DQ. :( sorry.

Well, the pink gives my profile some color. ;) ha.

03/03/2007 12:19:40 AM · #10

777STAN, left you a comment. ;)

03/03/2007 12:20:22 AM · #11

Originally posted by Blue Moon:

How blonde you ask?? This blonde:
:) jk, that does suck...been there done that, all you can do is learn from it.

Hehheh! I like this shot! I'm not quite that blonde (in the literal sense of the word)...but close. :)

03/03/2007 12:21:41 AM · #12

Originally posted by TechnoShroom:

Don't feel bad, everyone does something dumb once in awhile. My SO just tried to order a Cheesy Bites pizza.... from Quiznos.

LOL!

Tonight my dad had a blonde moment too. Now at least I know where to get it. I was telling him he should look into Miami Ink...they are looking for customers for their upcoming season I guess...and I said to him... "Miami Ink is casting" and he goes...where is that? Florida? HAHAHA.

03/03/2007 12:22:58 AM · #13

Originally posted by MelonMusketeer:

blonde is my state of ~~mind~~ being.

ha.

Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G VR

03/03/2007 12:24:28 AM · #14

EDIT: ok, being blonde again.
must be time for me to go to bed.

Message edited by author 2007-03-03 00:25:44.

RainMotorsports

Nikon D60

03/03/2007 12:26:51 AM · #15

Well i was about to over process the crap out of myne because it purposley sucked so bad i wanted it a little better.

I figured the work i was doing was Advanced and this would end up being like Basic so i at the last moment went and checked... was like oh....

Resize
Save for web
submit..... sucks dont it.

TCGuru

Canon EOS-40D

Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM

03/03/2007 12:28:18 AM · #16

I am so sorry to hear that :(

Sendin some love your way :)

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Canon 12x IS USM (S3 IS built-in Lens) -- 36-432mm (35mm EQ)

03/03/2007 12:29:39 AM · #17

Originally posted by TCGuru:

I am so sorry to hear that :(

Sendin some love your way :)

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GeneralE

Canon PowerShot S3 IS

03/03/2007 01:11:38 AM · #18

Then, as if that wasn't bad enough, Langdon compounded the punishment by asking me to help out with this new "Site Council" thing he'd formed to help decide on DQing photos and such ...

SandyP

Carl Zeiss 50mm ZE f/1.4 Planar T for Canon

Canon EF 200mm f/2.8 USM

03/03/2007 01:48:01 AM · #19

Sorry Magen!!! I feel your pain. I had one DQ because I was out of town and couldn't get to my pictures when someone requested a validation and still don't know why it was requested. And then. . .the oh-so-painful one AFTER winning a yellow ribbon for unknowing editing no-no's. Sigh. Still hurts to talk about that one. . .sniffle sniffle. (Just kidding. I'm healed now)

Tha minimal editing. TOUGH! But they sure turned out some spectacular photos in that tree challenge.

yanko

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

03/03/2007 01:52:26 AM · #20

Originally posted by GeneralE:

I had this DQ'd because when I cropped it I accidentally dragged the crop tool a couple of pixels outside of the image area, which added that tiny strip of dark pixels across the very top -- adding any kind of a border or "padding" was not allowed under the rules at the time.

Then, as if that wasn't bad enough, Langdon compounded the punishment by asking me to help out with this new "Site Council" thing he'd formed to help decide on DQing photos and such ...

So basically you're still serving time for that DQ? :P

Message edited by author 2007-03-03 01:52:44.

GeneralE

Canon PowerShot S3 IS

Canon 12x IS USM (S3 IS built-in Lens) -- 36-432mm (35mm EQ)

03/03/2007 02:33:50 AM · #21

Originally posted by yanko:

So basically you're still serving time for that DQ? :P

And you folks think a one-week suspension is bad!

UrfaK

Canon EOS-650/T4i Rebel

Canon EF-S 15-85mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM

03/03/2007 02:41:56 AM · #22

Originally posted by GeneralE:

Originally posted by yanko:
So basically you're still serving time for that DQ? :P

And you folks think a one-week suspension is bad!

ROFL!

UrfaK

Canon EOS-650/T4i Rebel

Canon EF-S 15-85mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM

03/03/2007 02:51:20 AM · #23

I actually haven't Dq'd yet.. but I'm waiting for that stupid gene to hit me.. ****jinx me not**** I do things like that all the time..

Getting a Dq sounds horrible *wince*.. especially over something that's avoidable.. but it's a lesson well worth remembering.. Imagine winning a ribbon like

SandyP and then getting dqed.. At least now you'll be very very careful

03/03/2007 10:22:49 AM · #24

Originally posted by GeneralE:

UGH!
Double whammie!
LOL!