Brown ribbon - DPChallenge Forums

02/16/2008 10:35:50 AM · #51

ok...so i think i understand better now. i've never seen the deja vu challenges before, so thanks for posting the link. i'll have a look, but i think i may sit this one out and concentrate on one of the other challenges this week. good luck to all of you.

Message edited by author 2008-02-16 13:22:38.

Tamron 16-300mm Di II VC PZD MACRO w/Canon Nikon mount

02/16/2008 01:35:33 PM · #52

Originally posted by total_novice:

You will be DNMCâ��d if your picture is totally unrelated to the brown e.g. they took a picture of a banana and you took one of a pear.

I think that depends on the voter and the interpretation of the photographer. Changing banana to pear may be totally appropriate. Anyhow, you won't get disqualified, so as with any challenge, the "DNMC" is up to the discretion of the voter.

I think this was not thought out very well. How do you reference the photo you are inspired by? Must your caption include the challenge name? Will those photographers who don't provide a clear "link" be at a disadvantage? There is no way to provide a link for the voter. So with over 800 challenges and therefore 800 possible last-place photos to choose from, is it up to the voter to find the original?

JulietNN

Canon EOS R7

02/16/2008 01:45:46 PM · #53

I think you just put the title of the challenge in the title, so CityLights II, then you can just look at the challenge and the brown and you have it

02/16/2008 01:51:51 PM · #54

Originally posted by JulietNN:

I think you just put the title of the challenge in the title, so CityLights II, then you can just look at the challenge and the brown and you have it

Yes, I think that makes sense, thanks. I'm just concerned for those who might not think to do this (the photographers who never visit the forums, for example). Oh, well. :-/

02/16/2008 01:52:54 PM · #55

This is loads of fun but I think the voting will be tedious unless site admin adds a place to add the photo number of the orig brown ribbon winner. It would be cool if both pics could appear on the screen side by side.

02/16/2008 02:07:21 PM · #56

Originally posted by photodude:

Yes, I found it the same ("tedious") with the last Deja Vu challenge. I think I quit voting in that one! I think the site leaders are too busy to do much coding, so the chances they'll do a coding change for one challenge seems unlikely. Still, it would be great to at least have an easy link to the original brown-ribboner. :-)

02/16/2008 02:28:42 PM · #57

Originally posted by citymars:

Originally posted by photodude:
This is loads of fun but I think the voting will be tedious unless site admin adds a place to add the photo number of the orig brown ribbon winner. It would be cool if both pics could appear on the screen side by side.

Yes, I found it the same ("tedious") with the last Deja Vu challenge. I think I quit voting in that one! I think the site leaders are too busy to do much coding, so the chances they'll do a coding change for one challenge seems unlikely. Still, it would be great to at least have an easy link to the original brown-ribboner. :-)

Don't confuse the site "leaders" with the "administrator(s)". The leaders are the site council - unpaid volunteers. The administrators own the business. This is a challenge for members - thats the group who pays the fee. To ask for what I would guess is not more than a few hours of code to make the process go so much easier and better for hundreds of us is not unreasonable. And once the code is written it can be used again for similar challenges

Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0L USM

02/16/2008 04:45:23 PM · #58

Right. Administrators, then. :-)

Quasimojo

Canon EOS-30D

02/16/2008 06:22:50 PM · #59

One solution would be for all entries to include the image number of the brown ribbon being reshot in the title. I know it won't be easy to click on, and makes the voting process a LOT longer, but it's better than nothing and doesn't require any coding effort...

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JulietNN

Canon EOS R7

Tamron 16-300mm Di II VC PZD MACRO w/Canon Nikon mount

02/16/2008 06:29:26 PM · #60

Its a brown ribbon or am I missing something.

There is only ONE brown ribbon per challenge??

One ribbon, one title of the challenge

Message edited by author 2008-02-16 18:29:57.

socalsteve

Nikon D300

02/16/2008 07:08:01 PM · #61

I've compiled a PDF of all challenges and the browns in them. About 2.5M. You can get it here:

Browns for Challenges 2 - 808

Note: these are all slightly enlarged thumbnails, so the quality isn't so great. If you want more detail on a particular image you'll have to go find it, but that should be pretty easy.

Note 2: these images are not censored/screened in any way, there *may* be some nudity in some images.

Note 3: these are all copyrighted by their original owners and I assume no responsibility for accuracy or anything like that.

Steve

02/16/2008 07:22:54 PM · #62

Go Steve!!!!

This must have taken you hours.

socalsteve

Nikon D300

02/16/2008 07:24:44 PM · #63

About 90 minutes actually - wasn't this supposed to be a programming challenge? :-)

Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 35-135mm f/3.5-4.5

02/16/2008 07:26:02 PM · #64

The voting end is going to suck unless the administrator steps up to the plate

C_Steve_G

Apple iPhone 12

02/16/2008 08:52:30 PM · #65

SO if I choose to reproduce a Tryptich, or other "multi-image composition", will it be legal?

Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS

02/16/2008 08:53:12 PM · #66

Originally posted by socalsteve:

I've compiled a PDF of all challenges and the browns in them. ....

That's awesome. Well done. Believe it or not, I worked on a compilation to share -- for about an hour last night. I quit when I realized at 800+ images I would be done about the time the challenge ended!

zclare

Canon EOS-30D

02/16/2008 08:53:47 PM · #67

Originally posted by socalsteve:

About 90 minutes actually - wasn't this supposed to be a programming challenge? :-)

Hi Steve,
thank you for your time & effort, much appreciated

socalsteve

Nikon D300

Tamron AF 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 XR Di II for Canon

02/17/2008 01:07:57 AM · #68

Thanks guys - hope it's useful.

k4ffy

02/17/2008 02:54:12 PM · #69

so i'm looking through the previous browns, and i'm a bit confused.
a lot of the browns were actually attained by DNMC, but the photo itself wasn't half bad (case in point:

)
now in this case, if we reshoot the photo and make it technically and compositionally better, but it still doesn't meet the original challenge, does that count? or is that a DNMC?

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Rino63

Canon EOS-50D

02/17/2008 03:02:29 PM · #70

Originally posted by k4ffy:

so i'm looking through the previous browns, and i'm a bit confused.
a lot of the browns were actually attained by DNMC, but the photo itself wasn't half bad (case in point:

)
now in this case, if we reshoot the photo and make it technically and compositionally better, but it still doesn't meet the original challenge, does that count? or is that a DNMC?

your photo meet the challenge if it reproduce, or better nearly repruduce, a brown ribbon.