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06/22/2007 12:21:01 AM · #1
Absolutely ... I'll be in the CPSW Monday and Tuesday, and then back to the USPNW. I am confusing myself ... acronyms are no place for dyslectics.
06/20/2007 11:50:13 AM · #2
Originally posted by landcamera:

Originally posted by Dr.Confuser:

Originally posted by ursula:

What's "PNW"?


US Pacific Northwest.


Wouldn't that be USPNW, DPC is global? For ursula's location that would be CPSW.

No matter how you spell it, this is a great place to live...


So it is! The best. And the best voters too. :)
06/20/2007 08:28:58 AM · #3
well that sounds stupid, screw the voters!

Originally posted by craigester:

Well I am being nailed because I stumped the voters. Damn annoying as it is an attractive design with good colours.
06/20/2007 07:52:05 AM · #4
Well I am being nailed because I stumped the voters. Damn annoying as it is an attractive design with good colours.
06/20/2007 06:05:49 AM · #5
Originally posted by Dr.Confuser:

Originally posted by ursula:

What's "PNW"?


US Pacific Northwest.


Wouldn't that be USPNW, DPC is global? For ursula's location that would be CPSW.

No matter how you spell it, this is a great place to live...
06/19/2007 08:17:39 PM · #6
Originally posted by ursula:

What's "PNW"?


US Pacific Northwest.

Message edited by author 2007-06-19 20:20:01.
06/19/2007 06:12:10 PM · #7
Originally posted by DrAchoo:

Originally posted by Dr.Confuser:

Photo's subject doesn't stump me ... 1 - 5 for a poor to a great photo. This is essentially a DNMC with a heart.


Here's my beef with this challenge (and I'm not pointing at you because your voting seems reasonable per the challenge description)...how do you know you are right? What if it's a macro designed to look like one thing but in reality it is another (I think of the shot of someone's husband's shaved butt in a corset that looked like cleavage). So you vote 1-5 thinking you knew what it was, but in reality you were wrong. It will be too late to change your vote when you find out.

I predict a low scoring challenge.


Yeah. Mine's a dead giveaway for something that it isn't :( It'll be a "5" in Dr.Confuser's book. Unless I can make friends with him really, really quick. Hmmmmmmm.
06/19/2007 06:08:43 PM · #8
I've submitted now though almost didn't. I'm guessing a 4 won't harm my average too much but maybe it will work and score a 6 :)

I'm relying quite a lot on my title (I changed the composition to fit it better) but hoping the shot will stump most people for at least 5 seconds!
06/19/2007 06:08:13 PM · #9
What's "PNW"?
06/19/2007 06:01:06 PM · #10
Originally posted by DrAchoo:

Originally posted by Dr.Confuser:

Photo's subject doesn't stump me ... 1 - 5 for a poor to a great photo. This is essentially a DNMC with a heart.


Here's my beef with this challenge (and I'm not pointing at you because your voting seems reasonable per the challenge description)...how do you know you are right? What if it's a macro designed to look like one thing but in reality it is another (I think of the shot of someone's husband's shaved butt in a corset that looked like cleavage). So you vote 1-5 thinking you knew what it was, but in reality you were wrong. It will be too late to change your vote when you find out.

I predict a low scoring challenge.


Good point. It's like how I buy stocks. Buy low, sell when they go up. If they don't go up, don't buy.

Guess I'll have to fall back on the "I'm not always right, but I'm never in doubt" defense.

Agree, expecting a low scoring challenge, except from the PNW crowd.

Message edited by author 2007-06-19 18:02:00.
06/19/2007 05:56:32 PM · #11
Originally posted by Dr.Confuser:

Photo's subject doesn't stump me ... 1 - 5 for a poor to a great photo. This is essentially a DNMC with a heart.


Here's my beef with this challenge (and I'm not pointing at you because your voting seems reasonable per the challenge description)...how do you know you are right? What if it's a macro designed to look like one thing but in reality it is another (I think of the shot of someone's husband's shaved butt in a corset that looked like cleavage). So you vote 1-5 thinking you knew what it was, but in reality you were wrong. It will be too late to change your vote when you find out.

I predict a low scoring challenge.
06/19/2007 05:52:53 PM · #12
So I'm thinking how I might vote on this challenge ...

Title gives the subject away ... 1. Essentially this is a DNMC.

Photo's subject doesn't stump me ... 1 - 5 for a poor to a great photo. This is essentially a DNMC with a heart.

Photo's subject stumps me ... 6 - 10 for a poor to a great photo.

[sarcasm] Photo by a friend ... 10. [/sarcasm] Not seriously suggesting this, I just threw it in to see if anyone was paying attention. We don't need to go round that horn again.
06/19/2007 05:05:06 PM · #13
In honor of the challenge at hand!!! :D

Picture Puzzle Piece by Shel Silverstein
One picture puzzle piece
Lyin' on the sidewalk,
One picture puzzle piece
Soakin' in the rain.
It might be a button of blue
On the coat of the woman
Who lived in a shoe.
It might be a magical bean,
Or a fold in the red
Velvet robe of a queen.
It might be the one little bite
Of the apple her stepmother
Gave to Snow White.
It might be the veil of a bride
Or a bottle with some evil genie inside.
It might be a small tuft of hair
On the big bouncy belly
Of Bobo the Bear.
It might be a bit of the cloak
Of the Witch of the West
As she melted to smoke.
It might be a shadowy trace
Of a tear that runs down an angel's face.
Nothing has more possibilities
Than one old wet picture puzzle piece.
06/18/2007 10:55:45 PM · #14
I'll hold that to ya :P

Originally posted by ursula:

Originally posted by LanndonKane:

Just a question about the rules- to get my subject to be unrecognizable, i've applied extremely strong layers of contrast and levels- nearly posterized it. I know this may not sound appealing, but it works for this particular image.

My question- can i get DQed for this? I know i didn't use any spot editing or anything, but with recent outbreaks of unfair disqualification, i wanna make sure in advance.


Of course it will be disqualified, after all, unfair disqualifications are SC's specialty nowadays!

;-)

Seriously. For the most part, images like the one you describe are penalized by the voters much more than by anybody else.
06/18/2007 09:28:17 PM · #15
There is no requirement that you report aperture.
06/18/2007 07:56:01 PM · #16
IF that technique is not allowed, I will get DQ'd as well. As long as the file info is unadulterated, you should be fine. Remember, old MF lenses don't transfer F-stop info.

Originally posted by Evil-Chihuahua:

What about detaching your lens and turning it around to get in closer? I am worried that I might get DQ'd for not having F-stop info. I have (what I think hehe) a cool idea,and I can get it with regular zoom+crop, but it would look better much closer up.

Evan
06/18/2007 07:46:42 PM · #17
What about detaching your lens and turning it around to get in closer? I am worried that I might get DQ'd for not having F-stop info. I have (what I think hehe) a cool idea,and I can get it with regular zoom+crop, but it would look better much closer up.

Evan
06/18/2007 04:59:04 PM · #18
I use the close-up filters that you are talking about and I think you should be able to get a good enough macro. Its not just about how macro but also about your subject.

Originally posted by sabphoto:

Originally posted by Wildcard:

I'd love to be in this one but how macro is macro, my Tamron says it's a macro but 2 feet is as close as I can get so would that class as a macro shot? I end up with things like this but it doesn't look very macro.



I know how you feel, I don't own a macro lens per say but a couple months ago I bought 3 close up filter lenses that have different magnification. I can't get extremely close but it does work ok when you crop in on it.
06/18/2007 04:19:54 PM · #19
Just as a general warning to people which should be obvious. While the goal of the theme is to stump people, the shot better have thought put into it for composition, lighting, contrast, color and other basics of photographs. Otherwise you are looking at a quick, but definitive trip to foursville.

Abstract challenges are lower scoring as a whole on DPC. I'm anticipating a boatload of crapola as people rush to get as zoomed as possible on their subject while forgetting everything about the elements mentioned above...
06/18/2007 03:43:54 PM · #20
Originally posted by citymars:

Will the edge go to photographers with electron microscopes? :-p


I thought about an extreme macro shot but will be doing a 1:1 as I have an idea ;) (probably a 5.75 idea though)
06/18/2007 03:15:09 PM · #21
Will the edge go to photographers with electron microscopes? :-p

06/15/2007 08:35:44 PM · #22
Nevermind

Message edited by author 2007-06-15 22:10:39.
06/15/2007 08:19:14 PM · #23
Originally posted by LanndonKane:

Just a question about the rules- to get my subject to be unrecognizable, i've applied extremely strong layers of contrast and levels- nearly posterized it. I know this may not sound appealing, but it works for this particular image.

My question- can i get DQed for this? I know i didn't use any spot editing or anything, but with recent outbreaks of unfair disqualification, i wanna make sure in advance.


Of course it will be disqualified, after all, unfair disqualifications are SC's specialty nowadays!

;-)

Seriously. For the most part, images like the one you describe are penalized by the voters much more than by anybody else.

06/15/2007 08:09:48 PM · #24
No.
06/15/2007 08:08:43 PM · #25
sabphotoI've thought about those but if I buy them I know I'll never get around to getting a decent macro lens so I'm trying to save for the lens.
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