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01/03/2009 10:41:28 AM · #1
APAW - "Archive Photo a Week - Go through your photo archive, and find a photo that you have not yet processed, and process it! Turn that diamond in the rough into a gem that you can post here for comment, as well as print or resell. Note: you may post a copy of your unpolished photo at the start of your week, and get some advice--then post the polished one!)"


A Few Rules

1) One a week
2) Photos not eligible for any current challenge (best of 2008 excluded)
3) Please take time to look at others photos, and comment
4) If you are a member, it would be helpful to create a single gallery with your images from this side challenge. Then members can easily browse the gallery without returning to this thread in between each. As I see the galleries, I'll also add links to them beside your names below.

Members:

ajschel
ancientimages
bamartin
Budya
bvy
cgino
cryan
colorcarnival
doyle
generalE
gregoryB
HawkeyeLonewolf
Hot_Pixel
iamwoman
joynim
jomari
justamistere
Kelli
Ken
lynnesite
maximz2005
melethia
salmiakki
nshapiro
pamelasue
PGerst
Pug-H
roz
RKT
sher
Snowflakejen
SteveJ
tinky2
undieyatch
VitaminB
yospiff

The Signup Thread Here (though we have 35 members now and can't take any more):
//www.dpchallenge.com/forum.php?action=read&FORUM_THREAD_ID=858900&page=1#5167001

Here's the Posting Schedule compliments of HawkeyeLonewolf

Week #01 : January 3 to January 9
Week #02 : January 10 to January 16
Week #03 : January 17 to January 23
Week #04 : January 24 to January 30
Week #05 : January 31 to February 6
Week #06 : February 7 to February 13
Week #07 : February 14 to February 20
Week #08 : February 21 to February 27
Week #09 : February 28 to March 6
Week #10 : March 7 to March 13
Week #11 : March 14 to March 20
Week #12 : March 21 to March 27
Week #13 : March 28 to April 3
Week #14 : April 4 to April 10
Week #15 : April 11 to April 17
Week #16 : April 18 to April 24
Week #17 : April 25 to May 1
Week #18 : May 2 to May 8
Week #19 : May 9 to May 15
Week #20 : May 16 to May 22
Week #21 : May 23 to May 29
Week #22 : May 30 to June 5
Week #23 : June 6 to June 12
Week #24 : June 13 to June 19
Week #25 : June 20 to June 26
Week #26 : June 27 to July 3
Week #27 : July 4 to July 10
Week #28 : July 11 to July 17
Week #29 : July 18 to July 24
Week #30 : July 25 to July 31
Week #31 : August 1 to August 7
Week #32 : August 8 to August 14
Week #33 : August 15 to August 21
Week #34 : August 22 to August 28
Week #35 : August 29 to September 4
Week #36 : September 5 to September 11
Week #37 : September 12 to September 18
Week #38 : September 19 to September 25
Week #39 : September 26 to October 2
Week #40 : October 3 to October 9
Week #41 : October 10 to October 16
Week #42 : October 17 to October 23
Week #43 : October 24 to October 30
Week #44 : October 31 to November 6
Week #45 : November 7 to November 13
Week #46 : November 14 to November 20
Week #47 : November 21 to November 27
Week #48 : November 28 to December 4
Week #49 : December 5 to December 11
Week #50 : December 12 to December 18
Week #51 : December 19 to December 25
Week #52 : December 26 to December 31

Message edited by author 2009-02-23 23:46:09.
01/03/2009 02:11:09 PM · #2
This seemed to provide an appropriate first topic ... :-)
... from January, 2004.

Edited: Resized Original:

BTW: Most of these oldies will be shot with my vintage year-2000 Olympus D490Z P&S -- 2MP/3x zoom ... a camera I still use almost every day.

Message edited by author 2009-01-03 14:16:54.
01/03/2009 02:27:01 PM · #3


I didn't post an original since I really didn't do anything to this except add clarity in Topaz. If you have suggestions, they'd be appreciated.

OK, following some suggestions...



Message edited by author 2009-01-03 15:10:26.
01/03/2009 02:43:51 PM · #4
This was taken in December 2001, using my Fujifilm DX10, my first digital camera. I have adjusted levels and sharpened slightly:



Generale suggested perhaps a crop would work better. Only having limited pixels to work with, here is a cropped version.



Message edited by author 2009-01-03 16:36:57.
01/03/2009 03:44:56 PM · #5
Took this in July 08. Loved the picture then, but did the re-edit this afternoon. I didnt know how to do any RAW processing at the time, and since have learned a bunch.

Hope you like Speedy the Snail.

Edited


Original


Message edited by author 2009-01-11 18:27:32.
01/03/2009 03:50:33 PM · #6

This is the original I'll work on. I want to do it in B&W and try to get a feeling of depth - hard to describe, exactly, but I know it when I see it, and I rarely get it from my own work. :-) I'll post the edited one when I get it edited.

Neil, my folder is here.

I suspect most of my archive selections will be shots I want to process for personal reasons - family, friends, etc - so don't expect marketable end products. :-)

Not quite what I'd planned, and Kelli, I was uploading these when I saw yours - great minds think alike! :-)

Two Three versions - do you prefer one over the other(s)? Added the B&W based on a comment from SteveJ



Also, using shadows/highlights tends to give me a problem with halos from time to time, even if I temper the amounts I use. Is this inevitable?

Message edited by author 2009-01-03 17:01:10.
01/03/2009 04:04:33 PM · #7
Just a quick note, sometimes in order for me to offer advice (not that I'm any good at it) I need to actually play with your photo. I will always post them in my "other people's stuff" folder and label them with your name and let you know. If you'd prefer that I not do that, could you please send me a pm and let me know. And on that note, you all have my permission to play with any of my photo's. Thanks!!
01/03/2009 04:26:55 PM · #8
.....Here's my first original - you'll probably see a lot of bugs - I want to make this dragonfly pop out of the fairly bland background....

and thanks Kelli I'll do the same and everyone else can go for their lives with mine

Edit No.1...

....Nik Efex - Indian Summer, Iridium filter 30%, Crop 5x4, Levels, Lucis 1/50, Sharpen (little) - erase iridium on dragonfly and plants.

Edit No.2...



Message edited by author 2009-01-05 01:25:09.
01/03/2009 04:43:04 PM · #9
Here's the one I'll be working on this first week. It was shot late at night on a lakefront, with strong artificial lighting coming from the side. Not sure if I can get the colors to work with me or not. I'll probably do it in b/w, but I'm open to suggestions.


Added: Here's my results after playing around with it for a while:


Message edited by author 2009-01-03 18:23:52.
01/03/2009 05:14:37 PM · #10
Here's my first week pic. This was taken 1/3/2008 and never processed from the raw...



I did a little to it, mostly cloning out some of the muck on the ground.


Message edited by author 2009-01-04 19:10:18.
01/03/2009 06:12:45 PM · #11
My first week picture is below.
It's not really a "gem", I just saw it while browsing my collection. I submitted this image because I don't have much time this week to go through my archive, find a good image, and process it. I promise that next week's image will be better. Whatever.

YAY!

01/03/2009 08:14:33 PM · #12
This is the origional shot of a strawberry moon I shot back in 6/2005, Didnt really have any post processing skills back then and it was really blurry and had many dust spots and distractions to it.

This is the newly post processed image, hopefully not my best gem that we find this week, but I thought the processing was good.


Message edited by author 2009-01-03 20:17:00.
01/03/2009 09:57:38 PM · #13
I'm not totally following the rules but this challenge gave me a great opportunity to edit something I did for a challenge a couple of years ago. This edit is far from perfect but it does allow me to see that I've learned quite a bit from DPC :)

challenge entry



edit

01/04/2009 12:07:10 AM · #14
I'm going back to May 2004 (sorry!) so that means 10D and JPG at least till August. For animal fans only, really. There will be gems along the way but this one is just to set the stage, how could I leave out her birthday?
01/04/2009 10:16:39 AM · #15
Here's my Week 1... this is in essence an "outtake" for my "Nature's Palette" picture (though it was never used in a challenge--I don't know why I didn't think to use it in Best of 2007!) It's mainly an outtake to a master for a print I am selling now as a print or canvas in my online galleries.

This one has a nice wide perspective which I like. However, I am not sure about the viewing area on the bottom right. Does it ruin the pic? And how's the processing here, compared to my original "Nature's Palette", or the reworked canvas version? (Links are in the pic description.)

Thanks in advance for any feedback!



01/04/2009 08:31:06 PM · #16
hey neil nshapiro
i've been looking thru my older photographs .. opened a couple in photoshop and got a bit carried away .. you say 'find a photo', well i've found a four that i've combined into one image .. you didnt specify if that would be ok or not .. could you please let me know .. :)
i'm going to post it soon anyway coz i've almost finished but if its not ok then i wont do anymore for this thread .. :)
01/04/2009 08:41:40 PM · #17
Originally posted by roz:

hey neil nshapiro
i've been looking thru my older photographs .. opened a couple in photoshop and got a bit carried away .. you say 'find a photo', well i've found a four that i've combined into one image .. you didnt specify if that would be ok or not .. could you please let me know .. :)
i'm going to post it soon anyway coz i've almost finished but if its not ok then i wont do anymore for this thread .. :)


I don't think editing rules apply at all for side challenges. Anything goes, IMO, for whatever it's worth. I'd like to see your 4-up.
01/04/2009 08:44:37 PM · #18
Yep, no editing rules whatsoever--other than copyright type rules (you are editing an image You own rights to).
01/04/2009 09:01:58 PM · #19
thankyou ..
here's #1


and the original photographs all taken mid-2007 ..

01/04/2009 11:08:03 PM · #20
Not sure if I am out of place here, but I have a suggestion.

This thread is going to get incredibly long by then end of the year. Any chance we could have a separate thread each week? I would find that easier to keep track of when photos were taken, and which ones to comment on.

If this creates a bunch of work for someone though, I will just shut up :)
01/04/2009 11:16:27 PM · #21
Originally posted by VitaminB:

Not sure if I am out of place here, but I have a suggestion.

This thread is going to get incredibly long by then end of the year. Any chance we could have a separate thread each week? I would find that easier to keep track of when photos were taken, and which ones to comment on.

If this creates a bunch of work for someone though, I will just shut up :)


That wouldn't be a lot of work, but it's probably impractical anyway, because we all will have different start/end of weeks, so people will be confused where to post. In any case, if you want to mark where you are, just post to the thread!

Also, I've encouraged people to put all the photos in one gallery in their profile. I should have added that it's helpful to include any questions discussion in the image description--since that way, you can read it, comment on the image, and then go directly to the next image in their gallery if you are behind in your commenting.

ETA: One thing worth mentioning--do you all know that we're not limited to 640/720 in our portfolios? So if you want us to see a bit more detail, feel free to use a bit larger size!) In fact, that's what I did: just click the "View full-sized image" in the image details area for a larger view. (Obviously, for image theft reasons, you won't want to actually post the full sized image, just as large as you think important)

Message edited by author 2009-01-04 23:24:47.
01/04/2009 11:40:10 PM · #22

definitely not a gem but it has some nice lines. and it's an Edsel! :-)
01/05/2009 03:14:45 AM · #23

Posters are a subject which often attracts my interest, I have many pictures of them, on film, transparencies, & digital.
It is a two dimensional subject and somewhat difficult to work with. I consider images of posters a form of
documentary street photography. There are few examples on dpc.

One which I especially like is this one

by Imagineer

Here is a little mini series from Mexico City from 1978:



01/05/2009 05:45:51 AM · #24
1. Chefs



Took this on Daydream Island whilst on vacation in 2007 - I've always wanted to have a reason to process it - but it never seemed to 'fit'.

01/05/2009 09:41:08 AM · #25
Originally posted by nshapiro:

ETA: One thing worth mentioning--do you all know that we're not limited to 640/720 in our portfolios?


I've actually been finding 720 is a good size for the web, and I've been postng my Flickr images at the same size. There are some really detailed images that deserve a lot more size though, and don't have the same impact at a smaller size.

I do think if someone requests editing help, they should post a larger one to provide more to work with.

Message edited by author 2009-01-05 09:41:20.
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