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 Post subject: Photography Contests: Yay or Nay?
PostPosted: January 6th, 2008, 1:11 am 
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Would you like.. or would you not like?

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You're rather eager to start more contests, aren't you? xD Not a bad thing of course.

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I was actually hoping to barter this off to someone else, to admit, because I don't know what scheduling will be like for the last semester of of senior year (woot!).

And, I know that there are a lot of people out there that would love to run a contest.

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Hmm... erm...

I'm on the fence on this one.

I LOVE photography, and I'm pretty proud of some of the pictures I have taken... but... eh... when they get made into graphics you hardly see the original picture anymore, it's all textures or super-duper ways to enhance the colour, the lighting etc. So if you're on about contests that you have to make graphics out of pictures, then I think there should be some rules about how you can edit them.

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If you mean simply "take a picture of this subject" then yeah baby! :D I'm all for those kind, as long as again, there are certain rules as to what you do with them.

The only editing my photo's get is sometimes if they are too dark I brighten them or if they're too light I darken them. (And that's only because I put them on my graphics site for other people to use, otherwise I'd leave them as they are).

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I think it sounds cool! I bet it would be pretty popular, so it could be a good idea to put a limit on number of participants, to make it easier on the voters. lol


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I'd be interested!

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Hmm... erm...

I'm on the fence on this one.

I LOVE photography, and I'm pretty proud of some of the pictures I have taken... but... eh... when they get made into graphics you hardly see the original picture anymore, it's all textures or super-duper ways to enhance the colour, the lighting etc. So if you're on about contests that you have to make graphics out of pictures, then I think there should be some rules about how you can edit them.

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If you mean simply "take a picture of this subject" then yeah baby! :D I'm all for those kind, as long as again, there are certain rules as to what you do with them.

The only editing my photo's get is sometimes if they are too dark I brighten them or if they're too light I darken them. (And that's only because I put them on my graphics site for other people to use, otherwise I'd leave them as they are).


I agree with JF :)

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However....

If you mean simply "take a picture of this subject" then yeah baby! :D I'm all for those kind, as long as again, there are certain rules as to what you do with them.

The only editing my photo's get is sometimes if they are too dark I brighten them or if they're too light I darken them. (And that's only because I put them on my graphics site for other people to use, otherwise I'd leave them as they are).


That is just what I was taking about, because I would love to take more photos also.. and we would have to allow some Photoshopping... with lighting and such.

Should the contests be of certain objects, or themes?

And.. should I run it? Or would someone else like to?

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PostPosted: January 6th, 2008, 2:21 pm 
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Well perhaps then, just so we know exactly what's been done to the photo, there could be posted and before and after? Slight tweaking of colours I think is OK, and adjusting the brightness, but now shiny glows and things like that.

I think themes would be good as it might give more people a chance to take part. If the object were say... $10 note... that might limit people.... :P

And there could be TONS of themes; trees, flowers, sunset, clouds, town scenes, buildings etc.

I could do it if you want. ;)

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I do like the before and after idea.

Very awesome.

Do you have a contest? That would be so sweet if you have one...

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Welll I don't have a contest right at the moment, but I've handled a couple of my own in the past and a fair few of other people's. :teehee:

Also I think the size of the photo would be important. Having them their original 3000+ size would be a bit too much, as even the best photo's don't look as nice whe they're huge.

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I would say wallpaper size.

I believe a photo is best viewed when the entire photo can be viewed on the screen.

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Yes, I agree with you there. When they're massive you can see all the fuzzyness that otherwise is not there. ;)

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They probably should be a size range... 600x400 to 800x600.

Just because of the different cameras.

Are you going to take on the contest?

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If we give people a choice of the two, then I think that should be Ok.

Yes, if you want me to. :-)

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That would be awesome. Thank you.

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