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 10/17/2005 12:06:09 AM · #1
I'm going to win this one. If I shoot one more high school football game at night my pictures will have enough grain in them to feed third world countries into the next century.
 10/17/2005 12:06:31 AM · #2
ISO 3200 here i come!
 10/17/2005 12:08:01 AM · #3
Originally posted by Fetor:
ISO 3200 here i come!


Me too :)
 10/17/2005 12:09:50 AM · #4
I don't think the SC meant film grain. I think they meant grain as in wheat, rice, cereals, etc. You know? ;-)
 10/17/2005 12:12:02 AM · #5
Originally posted by rgo:
I don't think the SC meant film grain. I think they meant grain as in wheat, rice, cereals, etc. You know? ;-)


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 10/17/2005 12:12:04 AM · #6
That's the way I took it. I was joking about the film grain. But of course as with any challenge, if you try to tell someone they didn't mean for them to screw up their photo with a lot of noise you will labeled as an in-the-box non-creative thinker.
 10/17/2005 12:14:12 AM · #7
Good example faidoi. Grain to me = 1. wheat, barley, oats, etc. 2. grain texture as found in a rock or wood or sand etc.
 10/17/2005 12:16:25 AM · #8
Clarification is going to be needed.
 10/17/2005 12:19:15 AM · #9
The SC don't make the challenge topics...Drew and Langdon choose them from suggestions made by us and from their own noggins. What you see in the description is the only clarification we will get. Grain...make it important to the message. I think with as often as people discuss grain/noise and the lack thereof or the want thereof, it is referring to film grain. No one has ever suggested a rice and oats challenge that I'm aware of.

Why do we go through this every week? Just interpret it how you want...take a pic...submit and let the voters sort them out.
 10/17/2005 12:19:46 AM · #10
Seems like they are deliberately choosing difficult titles!! My first thought was what kind of grain wheat etc or a grainy photo maybe a grainy photo of wheat!!
 10/17/2005 12:23:47 AM · #11
We've had clarifications in the past.
 10/17/2005 12:24:08 AM · #12
When I think of grain it makes me think of wheat, which makes me think of a wheat penny, which makes me think of money, which makes me think of evil, which makes me think of halloween. Since it's October I think the SC are trying to get us to do a halloween challenge! Everyone submit your best pumpkin!
 10/17/2005 12:25:21 AM · #13
Back in May we had the challenge granular; I really, really doubt that "they" had in mind repeating this challenge, so I suspect that "they" are encouraging "grainy" pictures. If "grain" (as in wheat, barley, oats, whatever) were what "they" had in mind, why would "they" have said "integral part of the message of" instead of "subject of"?

Of course, that's neither here nor there at this point; the challenge belongs to us now, and it will be what we make of it.

Robt.
 10/17/2005 12:26:31 AM · #14
haha, everybody knows that the 20D doesn't have enough grain on it's own... you guys better add some in in PS!
 10/17/2005 12:28:31 AM · #15
Originally posted by kyebosh:
haha, everybody knows that the 20D doesn't have enough grain on it's own... you guys better add some in in PS!


Or crop like crazy; my 200mm lens just became a 3200mm extreme tele for this challenge :-)

R.
 10/17/2005 12:29:43 AM · #16
Originally posted by rgo:
I don't think the SC meant film grain. I think they meant grain as in wheat, rice, cereals, etc. You know? ;-)


Please tell me you are joking.
this is the anti-noise ninja challenge.
Forecast: #1 comment " too grainy"

Message edited by author 2005-10-17 00:31:38.
 10/17/2005 12:31:51 AM · #17
it seems like this sounds like a free study with film grain in mind.... hmmm... am i off base here?
 10/17/2005 12:32:29 AM · #18
woohoo... no NI and NN :) Sweet!

Message edited by author 2005-10-17 00:32:42.
 10/17/2005 12:43:06 AM · #19
Originally posted by BrennanOB:
Originally posted by rgo:
I don't think the SC meant film grain. I think they meant grain as in wheat, rice, cereals, etc. You know? ;-)


Please tell me you are joking.
this is the anti-noise ninja challenge.
Forecast: #1 comment " too grainy"


I am joking. Fully intending to do a GRAINY, NOISY and oversharpened portrait of an oriental girl who is vacuously staring straight at my lens whilst wearing a head scarf.
 10/17/2005 12:46:03 AM · #20
Hey, farmers are in the fields harvesting this time of year. Take a grainy photo of grain and cover yourself both ways
 10/17/2005 12:46:53 AM · #21
Originally posted by rgo:
I am joking. Fully intending to do a GRAINY, NOISY and oversharpened portrait of an oriental girl who is vacuously staring straight at my lens whilst wearing a head scarf.




Hey that was my idea! This seems to win a lot of shots around here.
 10/17/2005 12:49:03 AM · #22
Hmmm, maybe I'll cover both bases and take a high iso shot of a bowl of cereal :-P
10/17/2005 12:49:55 AM · #23
OK, next question...is "Add noise" legal in PS?
 10/17/2005 12:51:55 AM · #24
Originally posted by DrAchoo:
OK, next question...is "Add noise" legal in PS?

i hope so... i've done it before!


Message edited by author 2005-10-17 00:52:46.
 10/17/2005 12:52:04 AM · #25
Originally posted by DrAchoo:
OK, next question...is "Add noise" legal in PS?


Yup. Even in basic, I believe. "However, no effects filters may be applied to your image, with the exception of Noise and Gaussian Blur, which are allowed."

R.
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