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Weekly Comp 283 'The Crop has it!' Qs & As

drofmit
Posted 10/12/2012 - 13:51 Link
If you want to ask a question about the subject, please use this topic thread...
I will answer as quickly as possible...
I'm currently running heating cables along our supply pipes...
hopefully to avoid freezing solid as we did this last February!!
I will check this thread as I pass the machine.
Never be afraid to talk about your techniques...
"Give a thousand photographers...
the same camera, lens and scene...
and you'll always get a thousand different takes!!"
Anon.
DrOrloff
Posted 10/12/2012 - 16:31 Link
I'm probably being a bit thick but I don't really understand the brief. I'm guessing that an unusual image ratio is required? Or at least not a 35mm (ie: 6 by 4) crop?
Edited by DrOrloff: 10/12/2012 - 16:32
geordie01
Posted 10/12/2012 - 16:45 Link
DrOrloff wrote:
I'm probably being a bit thick but I don't really understand the brief. I'm guessing that an unusual image ratio is required? Or at least not a 35mm (ie: 6 by 4) crop?

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drofmit
Posted 10/12/2012 - 16:58 Link
Not necessarily...
if a 6 by 4 crop works with the title you've chosen for the picture, then fine.

But don't forget I'm looking for a picture that has been cropped to show an image that wasn't thought about when composing "in camera"...
it certainly doesn't have to be an outlandish, or unusual, image crop...
a picture that when looked at again, can go from a good picture to being a cracker by getting rid of a thin slice off the side...
or a chunk off the bottom, or both...
and ends up more or less 6 x 4...
is fine.

Don't forget, most cameras don't show the whole picture through the viewfinder, so often the picture on screen is more than you imagined when you composed the photograph.

Hope that clears it up...

Bonne chance
Never be afraid to talk about your techniques...
"Give a thousand photographers...
the same camera, lens and scene...
and you'll always get a thousand different takes!!"
Anon.
Edited by drofmit: 10/12/2012 - 17:01
drofmit
Posted 17/12/2012 - 18:00 Link
This is a selection of the entered images... but re-cropped as I mentioned in the comments:

Ponte Vecchio by GaryJohn

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Batman and Robin by geordie01

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Sunrise by kosh

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Raspberry Pi Clock by GlynM

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Curves by bforbes

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Mia by arrondee

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Crop within a crop by stopher

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This is the only one I've touched the image on... two pairs of molehills are flipped which complements the line of the path in the last [original] 'frame' of the picture




Hopeless or just homeless by dannyh

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On the lookout for an escape route by Noelcmn

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Nanga Parbat by aliengrove

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Reflections by bassman

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Once I am happy that these have loaded, I am deleting your work from my machine.
Never be afraid to talk about your techniques...
"Give a thousand photographers...
the same camera, lens and scene...
and you'll always get a thousand different takes!!"
Anon.
Edited by drofmit: 17/12/2012 - 18:17
drofmit
Posted 17/12/2012 - 18:16 Link
Your work is now deleted
Never be afraid to talk about your techniques...
"Give a thousand photographers...
the same camera, lens and scene...
and you'll always get a thousand different takes!!"
Anon.
bforbes
Posted 17/12/2012 - 19:40 Link
I'd not noticed the "lens", thanks for that, I'll have to revisit it.
Blythman
Posted 17/12/2012 - 22:51 Link
Doesn't impact me but as I didn't enter. But seems a bit odd. Was permission sought from the photographers (copyright holders) to edit their images.
Alan


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tyronet2000
Posted 17/12/2012 - 23:17 Link
I see what was wanted now, but then it's not the winning, it's the taking part
Regards
Stan

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Blythman
Posted 17/12/2012 - 23:20 Link
Pentaxophile wrote:
Blythman wrote:
Doesn't impact me but as I didn't enter. But seems a bit odd. Was permission sought from the photographers (copyright holders) to edit their images.

I presume the images were their own to crop!

They didn't crop them in this thread. The judge did
Alan


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Pentaxophile
Posted 17/12/2012 - 23:46 Link
Oh I understand now . I would hope people don't get too hung up on it but it does seem a bit presumptious!
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johnriley
Posted 18/12/2012 - 00:21 Link
If anyone objects then it's easy enough for the image to be removed, but no complaints so far.
Best regards, John
Sean282
Posted 18/12/2012 - 09:50 Link
For 99.9% of people I can't see a problem with someone else (who is trying to provide a different perspective) seeing something different or achievable within someone elses uploaded images. All good AFAIC. We all learn surely
bforbes
Posted 18/12/2012 - 09:53 Link
"A picture paints a thousand words"
tyronet2000
Posted 18/12/2012 - 10:17 Link
A couple of Demo images (before and after) may have been more useful at the start of the competition so thickies like me could see exactly what was wanted rather than a "look what you you missed and this is what I meant after images"
Regards
Stan

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