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03/01/2007 05:01:44 PM · #51 |
Originally posted by xxrozxx:
Originally posted by Melethia:
Here's another idea - let's make it a 14 day challenge like this:
- The first seven days are minimal editing. If you want a theme or a technical objective, pick one of your own or copy someone else's. :-)
- Next seven days - edit your first seven pictures using advanced editing rules. Then post them side by side along with some information on what processing you used.
This way it can really be a good learning challenge - first in "seeing" and framing a picture in-camera, then developing that picture further. |
wot an excellent idea deb ... i dont think i'd do any theme, coz its often difficult to keep to it ... like if i chose clouds or the sky, which i'd be tempted to do, but then had no clouds for 7 days!!! ...
just love this idea ... ITS THE BEST ... great to learn more about my camera and great to learn photoshop from each other ...
you are definitely a creative thinker!!! ... |
Now if only I were a creative photographer!
 xianart - go for it. Just remember to share a magic trick or two as you go. (Christian has lots of cool magic tricks!) |
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03/01/2007 05:35:06 PM · #52 |
I'm not interested in the photoshop part, I think I'll stick to minimal editing for all. I don't do a lot of pp on my photos anyway.
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03/01/2007 05:40:16 PM · #53 |
| I'm in. Whenever it starts. |
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03/01/2007 05:48:19 PM · #54 |
| Never done one of these before, but I'm going to try this one with Melethia's twist. My post processing skills are pretty minimal at best, so its going to be a double minimal challenge for me. |
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03/01/2007 05:57:04 PM · #55 |
Originally posted by xianart:
great idea! i'm in! can i do one minimal, then next day pp it, then a new minimal, etc. etc.? that way i'll keep myself a bit more organised. i'll get distracted otherwise... |
yeah christian .. i think that's a much better idea than the one week of minimal and then processing them the next week ...
so how do we decide????????? |
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03/01/2007 06:01:12 PM · #56 |
we have some pretty good tips at the team suck tips and tricks forum
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03/01/2007 06:32:26 PM · #57 |
Originally posted by xxrozxx:
Originally posted by xianart:
great idea! i'm in! can i do one minimal, then next day pp it, then a new minimal, etc. etc.? that way i'll keep myself a bit more organised. i'll get distracted otherwise... |
yeah christian .. i think that's a much better idea than the one week of minimal and then processing them the next week ...
so how do we decide????????? |
Ummmmm, shouldn't we leave it up to Ware?? It was her idea :) |
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03/01/2007 06:58:40 PM · #58 |
Sorry I've been MIA! This thread barely got any attention when I first started it, so I got in the habbit of rarely checking...oops, my bad.
I really like the idea of doing half post-processing, half minimal editing...seems like we could all really learn a lot from each other...GREAT idea, by the way.
But I do encourage everyone to remember the challenge is about trying to fix everything before you shoot...not thinking, "oh, we're going to be photoshoping it later, so it's cool." I know that I might get stuck in that mindset...but I'm going to try hard not to!
I myself kind of want to focus on shooting in the minimal editing challenge, so my vote is for 14 days of minimal editing and 14 days of post processing those images after the first 14 days. But it's up to everyone and what would work well for them.
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03/01/2007 07:57:52 PM · #59 |
Originally posted by Ware3927:
Sorry I've been MIA! This thread barely got any attention when I first started it, so I got in the habbit of rarely checking...oops, my bad.
I really like the idea of doing half post-processing, half minimal editing...seems like we could all really learn a lot from each other...GREAT idea, by the way.
But I do encourage everyone to remember the challenge is about trying to fix everything before you shoot...not thinking, "oh, we're going to be photoshoping it later, so it's cool." I know that I might get stuck in that mindset...but I'm going to try hard not to!
I myself kind of want to focus on shooting in the minimal editing challenge, so my vote is for 14 days of minimal editing and 14 days of post processing those images after the first 14 days. But it's up to everyone and what would work well for them. |
Okie dokie! I like that idea... may I add?? Let's try to make improvements on the by-days according to the suggestions of others :)
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03/01/2007 08:06:56 PM · #60 |
To apply pp ideas to minimal editing could be nice. I will set out to comment on your minimal settings (please post everything so we can figure out if your settings could be better) and then for every comment I make I will add one pp note. In that way I won't be going crazy trying to suggest pp the entire image.
I will opt to do just minimal editing and if I have time, maybe adjust my images later, but I won't be doing much of that for the first 7 or 14 days, depending on how things shake down. |
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03/02/2007 12:15:48 AM · #61 |
yay this will be fun! I think I need to come up with some ideas before this starts so I don't spend all of my time thinking about stuff to do... or use that as an excuse to skip a day...
I think I will be focusing on using my tungsten lights for this challenge, so I can work on my artificial lighting skills...it seems to me that perfecting that would help a lot. |
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03/02/2007 03:36:34 AM · #62 |
there's so much about my camera that i havent tried ... i'm so ignorant that i dont even know wot i dont know!! ..
i do know about aperture & shutter speed and more and more i'm adjusting both the aperture and shutter speed rather than letting the camera decide ... but the rest of my camera is like a book i havent opened .. well i've had a little peek but a lot of it seems to be written in a foreign language .. |
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03/02/2007 07:00:28 AM · #63 |
To help us keep track of who's doing what when, should we create a participation list? Or is that entirely too anal and organized? :-)
For instance, I plan to do 7 days of minimal editing, straight from the camera shots, then I plan to do 7 days of editing those shots, hopefully with suggestions from the masses. |
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03/02/2007 07:23:44 AM · #64 |
How to keep track of your settings:
Bring a small wire bound pocket notebook with you. Stick it in your bag and as you take your shots, record what you have done. I know my exif data will give me shutter, aperture, program used etc. but it doesn't tell me my white balance exactly, or what color management I might have done, or if I used manual focus or auto focus.
It is a trick I learned while taking a film photo course. You have to record your settings to help you to finally refine your sense of technical stuff. Of course, my problem is while I am recording the stuff, I am not so clear on composition, plus I miss that hawk that dives to the ground to catch a wiggly little chipmunk. |
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03/02/2007 08:34:11 AM · #65 |
| If varsity isn't too hectic I would be in for a 7 day starting on the 9th of March. |
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03/03/2007 01:46:18 AM · #66 |
| Well, I just sent my camera out to Nikon for a tune-up. I wonder what my chances are of getting it back in time for this? :P |
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03/03/2007 04:14:48 PM · #67 |
| I like the idea of 7 days of minimal then 7 days of advanced, it sounds like fun, when are we going to start? |
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03/03/2007 09:06:32 PM · #68 |
| i'd prefer to do a minimal edit one day and then edit it the next day, instead of a week of minimal and then editing them all the week after ... coz i reckon for some ppl its easier to take a photograph every two days rather than every day ... obviously taking the photograph so that it looks as good as it can in camera ... |
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03/05/2007 07:20:14 PM · #69 |
| Have to beg off. Just got involved in a design class which is taking a lot of my time up, so I can't do much camera work for the month. I will watch the thread when I can. Hope you all get some great shots and learn alot. |
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03/05/2007 07:58:13 PM · #70 |
| Love the idea of 7 days minimal and then the next 7 days fixing it up! I will start participating on March 11. |
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03/06/2007 10:31:02 AM · #71 |
When are we starting. I keep seeing different dates thrown around. Is it March 9?
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03/06/2007 01:23:31 PM · #72 |
Originally posted by Ware3927:
I myself kind of want to focus on shooting in the minimal editing challenge, so my vote is for 14 days of minimal editing and 14 days of post processing those images after the first 14 days. But it's up to everyone and what would work well for them. |
I like this idea best.
Oh, yeah. Count me in. I'm ready for a new side challenge. I had to recover from the Jan SP, but I think I'm ready to go again.
ps. I hate minimal editing, which is why I'm doing this. So much to learn!!!
Message edited by author 2007-03-06 13:25:18. |
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03/06/2007 01:48:21 PM · #73 |
Originally posted by bennettjamie:
When are we starting. I keep seeing different dates thrown around. Is it March 9? |
Yes |
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03/07/2007 06:24:24 AM · #74 |
it looks like different ways of approaching this are going to suit different ppl ... i'm more for doing a day on and then a day off ... like take a photograph on one day and then edit it the next, instead of 7 days of taking a photograph every day, and then 7 days of editing the ones you shot over the previous 7 days ...
if we all do it different is it going to be confusing?? ..
also, if we post an unedited photograph then we've gotta make it clear that it is unedited ... like in the title ... and if it is the edited version then that should be made clear in the title as well .... coz sometimes it's not obvious ...
also i think we should post the edited version when we do it with the unedited one so ppl can compare them easily ... rather than having to go find the unedited one in the person's portfolio ...
these are just my suggestions and if other ppl have better and different suggestions then great ... but i reckon this would work for me ... if enough ppl want to do it another way, then i'll go along with them ..
lisa Ware3927 is talking about 14 days of photographing and 14 days of processing them .. and then other ppl are talking about 14 days total ...
who is going to decide how we go about it, and for how long ...??? maybe lisa should make the ultimate decisions seeing this is her baby ...
its only one day to go till the 9th, here in australia, so we better decide soon!!! ... :)
also re minimal editing .. my understanding of this challenge was that we wouldnt be doing any editing except to resize for the unedited version .....
so thats something else that should be made really clear ... like no brightness/contrast, no hue/sat, no border, no ANYTHING ...
i think anyone who is doing this, its firstly to improve their photographic skills, and then to learn some editing techniques from other ppl ...
and re the edited version ... is that like advanced? .. coz there's expert ... ??????????
does everyone know about post processing challenge, where ppl edit someone else's photograph and get scored on their editing .. here's the link for anyone who didnt know about it ... Post Processing Challenge Link
SORRY I'VE GONE ON SO LONG ... but i dont think some of this stuff was clear, and other stuff might have been said but i havent seen it ... :) ...
Message edited by author 2007-03-07 08:24:56. |
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03/07/2007 06:39:35 AM · #75 |
| I'd certainly be up for either 14 or 28 days, 14 would probably suit me better as I'm off to Syria shortly and I'm not sure how much web access etc I'm going to have. |
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