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04/17/2006 10:42:15 PM · #26 |
Originally posted by MattO:
Originally posted by mandyturner:
I use VP all the time. You mean we can't use those filters for challenges? (!) |
Is that an oops? Or a question? I just checked them out and them are so cool filters, but they dont look very legal for basic editing at all. Would be cool if a few of them were though. I downloaded it and am going to install and play tonight when I get home.
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Matt, Mandy
I think as long as someone can create the steps (the hour or so fiddling with will levels and curves) in their editor then it should be legal. Don't create a mask and apply the filter to the masked area, then it would not be legal.
Don't know...
but most filters in VP adjust all pixels and not a mask, therefore can be recreated without the filter.
If I can recreate the steps once then I will use a VP filter from there on out saving a ton of time... |
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04/17/2006 10:50:08 PM · #27 |
Originally posted by awpollard:
but most filters in VP adjust all pixels and not a mask, therefore can be recreated without the filter.
If I can recreate the steps once then I will use a VP filter from there on out saving a ton of time... |
Just because something can be recreated without using a filter, or by using levels or curves, doesn't mean that it's legal. Technically, using a blending mode on a duplicate layer in soft light can be done in curves, but that doesn't make that method legal to use in basic editing.
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04/17/2006 11:42:06 PM · #28 |
I suggest that it isn't your photography (it is still as good as ever) but your dependence on the camera alone that is most responsible for your lower scores.
DPC is undergoing a general metamorphisis over what the group likes. More and more photographers are becoming sophisticated in the art of post processing and are applying those skills much moreso than they ever used to.
Now voters expect more than simply what comes out of the camera. They expect to see something spectacular, something amazing, something more surrealistic to score it higher. More and more photographers are using post processing to achieve that goal.
Message edited by author 2006-04-17 23:42:35.
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04/17/2006 11:54:16 PM · #29 |
I switched from a PC to I-mac and had a good slump in scores, took a break and got to learn the new system, now I'm trying it again. Let's see how it goes? As far as point and shoot to SLR - point and shoot has no dust problems - but I like everything else better about the SLR (maybe not the weight and cost). :) good luck, you do great work, I wish that I could get scores like that.
PS: let me know if you figure out this DPC thing, one day it is bug’s, next it is water drops or the zoo ???
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04/22/2006 11:01:16 AM · #30 |
| I would just like to say thank you for all of the great comments I am rec on my "30 in 30" photos. You guys have made me feel so good! You have also inspired me to go back to what i used to do (taking photos that are more creative). |
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04/22/2006 11:58:11 AM · #31 |
Originally posted by mandyturner:
I would just like to say thank you for all of the great comments I am rec on my "30 in 30" photos. You guys have made me feel so good! You have also inspired me to go back to what i used to do (taking photos that are more creative). |
I gotta say Mandy, I hadn't taken much note of your dpc work until you posted this thread last week. Since then, though, I've been running across your self portraits in that 30 day challenge, and holy smokes, you have nothing to be bummed about, your work is great! Of course it helps to have such a pretty "self portrait" model .. :) .. but the photography is very smart and indiviualistic too. So you've been on a dpc slump, so what. Now no more mopin', ya hear? |
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