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Alfie

Congratulations to Just_me for winning the previous photo comp!



Rules:
1. The entered picture must be taken by YOU and not just found on the net.
2. Only one photograph per person and per weekly contest allowed
3. You may NOT change your photograph once it has been entered.
4. There are 5 days to submit your photograph, a poll will be created after five days for people to vote on. (Voting from Saturday-Sunday then new thread on Monday with results)
5. Your image must be a resolution of 800*600 or lower. If it is not, your picture will not be in the voting thread.
6. Each photographer cannot vote for their own photo, they must vote for others
7. The picture should get submitted with: the subject matter, the date, and the type of camera.
8. Levels, Curves, Colour Balance, Brightness/Contrast, Hue/Saturation, cropping, or anything else capable in the development process or with filters and common special lenses are allowed to use in Photoshop or other image editing softwares. Other adjustments and effects are not allowed to use in your picture.

Good luck!

Rob

Well done Just_me ...it was a tough competition, there really were some excellent images last week. Your photograph has a lot of visual impact -- congratulations.

Just_me

I won? Cool

thanks to everyone whom voted for me and for those who didnt vote on me, I just put a spell on you guys

MikeJ

Here's one more of my nature-themed pics. I promise I'll come up with something else for next week's competition.

Kuusamo/Salla, Finland
July 30, 2006
Canon Digital Ixus 430

klier

Why don't you take out rule number 8. Using PS on your image is silly. That shouldn't be allowed.

NevadaJack

When you shoot images in RAW format somekind of RAW editor is necessary to process the images properly. PS is one of those. If this was film competion would you rule out the darkroom...?

This is a photo competition and as such demands the best that the entrants can produce...post processing is an integral part of digital photography today.

NevadaJack

Here's mine:



Spring Mountains,
Las Vegas, Nevada
February 2005
Canon 20D

klier

Sorry I didn't realise that. I have a 5.0 megapixel digital cam and simply upload the pics I take with them to the internet. But I guess you have to do something more with them to make them as pretty as the ones you make. I was thinking more about enhancing the photo with photoshop, that would be wrong

Rob

Great pictures MikeJ and NevadaJack ...a great start to this weeks competition.

I think I'll skip it this week .....try and restore my ego a bit

NevadaJack

No problem klier...but even with your 5 MP camera, the settings can be adjusted in the camera to alter the outcome or you can have neutral settings and fix the image in an editor. Enhancement is a tough term...by using an editor you try to enhance the elements the camera captured and you attempt to have the image reflect what you saw.

If you shoot jpg (which your camera does) then the image is enhanced in the camera, again by selecting settings for the exposure, etc. When you shoot RAW, the image is a dump of all the data the camera captures and then you enhance that data to come up with a finished image. You can adjust the camera settings in RAW also so the picture looks good when you download it but that defeats the advantage of shooting in RAW format. File size for jpg may be 3-5 megabytes, whereas RAW file size may be 7-10 megabytes.

Rightfully so, ZONDA has ruled out special effects.