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08/19/2021 07:08:25 PM · #26 |
| I didn’t mean to strike a nerve nor propose reworking the rule set. I didn’t mean to complain. I was merely suggesting more Minimal with crop as we have done in the past. I’ll put you in the “no thanks” column, Jeb. |
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08/19/2021 07:52:44 PM · #27 |
Since I've been an advocate for Minimal challenges for quite some time, I'd like to weigh in with a thought here.
Most of the time the challenge subject selected for a Minimal challenge is one that is more static than dynamic; meaning it's not 'Sports Action' or 'Birds in Flight', etc. That should help reduce the angst for needing to crop for the most part. I think selecting the right challenge subject is key to having a worthy Minimal challenge. |
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08/19/2021 08:52:10 PM · #28 |
Originally posted by glad2badad:
Since I've been an advocate for Minimal challenges for quite some time, I'd like to weigh in with a thought here.
Most of the time the challenge subject selected for a Minimal challenge is one that is more static than dynamic; meaning it's not 'Sports Action' or 'Birds in Flight', etc. That should help reduce the angst for needing to crop for the most part. I think selecting the right challenge subject is key to having a worthy Minimal challenge. |
Spot-on... |
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08/19/2021 10:21:17 PM · #29 |
+1
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Originally posted by glad2badad:
Since I've been an advocate for Minimal challenges for quite some time, I'd like to weigh in with a thought here.
Most of the time the challenge subject selected for a Minimal challenge is one that is more static than dynamic; meaning it's not 'Sports Action' or 'Birds in Flight', etc. That should help reduce the angst for needing to crop for the most part. I think selecting the right challenge subject is key to having a worthy Minimal challenge. |
Spot-on... |
the only thing I may want in minimal is straighten. not much... couple of degrees for those pics when I can't see clearly through the viewfinder or on the telephone screen. |
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08/20/2021 01:39:03 PM · #30 |
Originally posted by NikonJeb:
One last thought..... From all these circuitous threads over the years of modifying and/or jettisoning the Minimal ruleset, has there ever been any genuinely good reasoning for doing so? |
Yes, but IMO they don't outweigh the reasons for keeping it. |
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08/20/2021 02:22:27 PM · #31 |
Originally posted by Lydia:
... I don't see the point in it ... |
I hope you would agree that a photo captured with a good exposure and focus and well-composed will be easier to edit into a "good" picture than one with poor exposure and needing significant straightening and/or cropping to "rescue" it.
This is just a challenge to see who does the best at that ...
There is nothing preventing anyone from then further editing their picture to whatever extent they want,just don't enter that version in the challenge.
Posting the before/after versions later is fine, of course, and possibly educational -- perhaps it would help to think of a Minimal challenge as posting the "before" shot in a tutorial you're working on -- every photo starts off with an initial capture after all ... |
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08/20/2021 02:45:22 PM · #32 |
| This thread went way off the rails, folks, and it's serving no useful purpose as it evolves. I have expunged the whole can-of-worms-pointed-salvos-of-angst part and kept the rest. I'm locking the thread down now. All the salient arguments pro and con are still visible. I'd have done this sooner but I was out. GeneralE is a lot gentler than I am :-) |
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