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05/05/2006 06:13:11 PM · #1 |
UNDER ADVANCED RULES:
At what point does adding lens flare with the lens flare filter become a "major element"? Or, is it even legal at all.
How about similating star burst filters?
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05/05/2006 06:19:06 PM · #2 |
For that matter, what about other lighting effects, like spotlight, omni, etc? I would vote legal on these as long as it's not completely obscuring any other photo element since they're not adding or removing anything in the photo and really isn't any different than dodge/burn, but I'm not sure about the lens flare filter..?
Message edited by author 2006-05-05 18:19:44.
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05/05/2006 06:31:03 PM · #3 |
From the rules... but the major element part is what I'm not sure about.
Filters: At your discretion, you may apply filters to your photo, in whole or part. (Be aware that extensively altering the "look" of your photograph with an "effects" filter is often not well received by voters.)
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05/05/2006 07:06:17 PM · #4 |
| I am curious too. i unsubmited my DPC cinema entry and replaced it without the spotlight filter for fear of DQ. the wife sys it looks better without it but i would like to use it in the future. |
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05/05/2006 07:36:14 PM · #5 |
It is most definitely illegal under the basic editing rules. With those filters you are actually editing a handful of pixels, not the entire image. Under advanced editing, I am told by a member of the SC that it has to be very minor in order for it not to become a major element and be allowed. If I was you, I would not risk it.
June
Edit: typo
Message edited by author 2006-05-05 19:37:06.
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05/05/2006 07:49:04 PM · #6 |
The application of a lens flare filter is almost always going to violate the major elements rule. If it doesn't add anything significant to the photo, why use it? If it does, then what's added is almost certainly major.
Same goes for star filters. The effect they add surely becomes a significant element in the final image.
Bottom line, if a filter actually adds features to a shot, or changes the shape, size or relative position of the exisiting features to any great degree, it's going to be in violation of the major elements rule.
I hope that helps clarify what admittedly is a difficult area of the rules.
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05/05/2006 07:52:45 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by kirbic:
... If it doesn't add anything significant to the photo, why use it? If it does, then what's added is almost certainly major.
I hope that helps clarify what admittedly is a difficult area of the rules. |
Just think of the Filters menu as the DPC equivalent of Eve's apple ... : ) |
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05/05/2006 07:54:16 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Originally posted by kirbic:
... If it doesn't add anything significant to the photo, why use it? If it does, then what's added is almost certainly major.
I hope that helps clarify what admittedly is a difficult area of the rules. |
Just think of the Filters menu as the DPC equivalent of Eve's apple ... : ) |
Nice! |
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05/05/2006 08:03:57 PM · #9 |
Those answers work for me... thanks.
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