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11/17/2004 12:01:00 AM · #1
646 Pictures... OMG. New record. Let us all hope that we achieve more than a brown bag award. Commenting on all of them? What do you all think of this momentous occasion? Limits on challenges? Now is the time to decide.
11/17/2004 12:02:54 AM · #2
thats ridiculous.
11/17/2004 12:04:13 AM · #3
nope
11/17/2004 12:07:07 AM · #4
Yup and 298 peeps are logged in right now. What was that about bandwidth...sites a dogging, even on broadband.
11/17/2004 12:08:16 AM · #5
647 photos but the answer is still no. Good thing half of them are showing up as red x's.
11/17/2004 12:12:58 AM · #6
Done, I have voted on all 100%, or was that 1%. Damnit.
11/17/2004 12:15:06 AM · #7
How should I vote on sepia tone? I don't call brown black or white, it is not even gray.
I need some input.
11/17/2004 12:17:02 AM · #8
Originally posted by ajschmidt:

How should I vote on sepia tone? I don't call brown black or white, it is not even gray.
I need some input.


Regardless of how much I'd like to dismiss some entries from 647 I think any sepia or duotone image qualifies as B/W.
11/17/2004 12:18:13 AM · #9
Originally posted by ajschmidt:

How should I vote on sepia tone? I don't call brown black or white, it is not even gray.
I need some input.


Most would say it falls into the B&W category. However, vote however you wish. If you don't think it fits the challenge, vote accordingly.
11/17/2004 12:19:20 AM · #10
Originally posted by ajschmidt:

How should I vote on sepia tone? I don't call brown black or white, it is not even gray.
I need some input.


People like you are the reason that I decided not to go sepia even though it is a much more powerful tool for getting your emotion across in a b/w image...
11/17/2004 12:19:57 AM · #11
Site is slow--200 users hitting their update button every minute. ;)
11/17/2004 12:21:07 AM · #12
Originally posted by TooCool:

Originally posted by ajschmidt:

How should I vote on sepia tone? I don't call brown black or white, it is not even gray.
I need some input.


People like you are the reason that I decided not to go sepia even though it is a much more powerful tool for getting your emotion across in a b/w image...


same here!
11/17/2004 12:24:32 AM · #13
My first vote was a 5... im not sure if thats good or bad

Originally posted by nshapiro:

Site is slow--200 users hitting their update button every minute. ;)
11/17/2004 12:25:07 AM · #14
Originally posted by TooCool:

Originally posted by ajschmidt:

How should I vote on sepia tone? I don't call brown black or white, it is not even gray.
I need some input.


People like you are the reason that I decided not to go sepia even though it is a much more powerful tool for getting your emotion across in a b/w image...


Hey, settle down. Just asking for input. And I saw the first load of the site at 9pm pst. How did one picture slip in? 646-647? Just a question. 4 minutes elapsed until the number changed.
11/17/2004 12:26:53 AM · #15
Originally posted by ajschmidt:

Hey, settle down. Just asking for input. And I saw the first load of the site at 9pm pst. How did one picture slip in? 646-647? Just a question. 4 minutes elapsed until the number changed.


Not meant as a jab at you, just a reality of the site. There is a certain faction of voters that are so anal about the wording of the Challenge theme/description that they don't see the photos...

Message edited by author 2004-11-17 00:28:26.
11/17/2004 12:29:03 AM · #16
Anyone have an idea on the number change? Sys Admin?
11/17/2004 12:34:14 AM · #17
Originally posted by ajschmidt:

How should I vote on sepia tone? I don't call brown black or white, it is not even gray.
I need some input.


This is the best way IMO to define B&W photography taken from “thefreedictionary.com”

Black-and-White
3.a. Rendered in black and white or in achromatic colors.

NOW achromatic means:
1. Designating color perceived to have zero saturation and therefore no hue, such as neutral grays, white, or black.

11/17/2004 12:34:57 AM · #18
Sepia is a normal usage..for B & W Photography....DPC has always considered this as acceptable...now with 647 entries...you are getting a too literal view..of a Challenge description...lol
11/17/2004 12:53:04 AM · #19
From the title: "Black and White"
From the description: "palette of greys"

I just don't understand how this is difficult to understand, or why those who read it as 'duotone' feel the need to get insulting to those who can read -- and comprehend what they read.

The challenge is what it is -- why try to make it into something other than what it is. If it was was a duotone challenge, it would have said so -- just like the previous one did.

David
11/17/2004 01:01:45 AM · #20
4.667 with 3 votes... Looking bad... LOL..
Adam
11/17/2004 01:12:32 AM · #21
Originally posted by SDW65:

Originally posted by ajschmidt:

How should I vote on sepia tone? I don't call brown black or white, it is not even gray.
I need some input.


This is the best way IMO to define B&W photography taken from “thefreedictionary.com”

Black-and-White
3.a. Rendered in black and white or in achromatic colors.

NOW achromatic means:
1. Designating color perceived to have zero saturation and therefore no hue, such as neutral grays, white, or black.


Just had to add this:
Sepia definition [and I know most of you know this]:
1.c. A photograph in a brown tint.
[For those that want to look it up]

If your employer said you are only allowed to wear black shoes, would you wear brown and tell him/her their black? NO!

So I say Sepia is not a black and white photo despite some call it acceptable.


11/17/2004 01:13:51 AM · #22
Originally posted by tfarrell23:

Sepia is a normal usage..for B & W Photography....DPC has always considered this as acceptable...now with 647 entries...you are getting a too literal view..of a Challenge description...lol


Look //www.dpchallenge.com/forum.php?action=read&FORUM_THREAD_ID=143314

I don't now how it can be anything other then greyscale.
11/17/2004 01:15:06 AM · #23
Let the threads bitchin about scores BEGIN! (you know it's coming)
"Mine is sepia, why do I have a 3.4?" "Mine IS black and white, my score is 4! What's up?"
It's just because your photo SUCKS! Get it! There I said it. Get used to the idea that you may love your photo, but obviously thousands of others don't.
I feel better now.

Message edited by author 2004-11-17 01:16:20.
11/17/2004 01:20:11 AM · #24
OK... I'll repeat myself:

Originally posted by toocool:

People like you are the reason that I decided not to go sepia even though it is a much more powerful tool for getting your emotion across in a b/w image...


Be anal if you wish! :-P
11/17/2004 01:23:01 AM · #25
I'm with TooCool, and against using a magnifier to look at every letter in the rules. Sepia, duotones, tritones,... are B/W since photography exists, but as anything else DPC is reinventing it just because someone who probably didn't thought much about it, put the words "pallete of greys" in the rules.
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