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January 17, 2012 at 11:04 am #43249
staplermofo
ParticipantEvery so often I try to talk myself into a newer, fancier camera. I look at the resolution and think “nah, I’ve never needed a couple million more pixels” or “Another 15 AF points? Psh, if I was that picky I’d just do it manually” or “pentaprisms are nice, but not $300 nice”…
At the end of the day, I’m happy with what I have.But this cock-biting fruit of a shit-fucking whore’s Crohn’s-ravaged prolapsed anus’s 95% viewfinder coverage has dusted my doilies this contest.
January 17, 2012 at 4:47 pm #43250ennuipoet
ParticipantAfter thinking long and hard (heh heh) on this, I decided to go back to digital. My question is, other than honor, how can one tell if a shot is straight out of the camera? All three of mine are unedited RAW but I chose them because they look as though they were edited.
It’s more of an academic question than actually asking about enforcement. How do you spot a subtly edited digital still?
January 17, 2012 at 4:58 pm #43251Kestrana
ParticipantThis is too easy ennuipoet.
I CAN TELL BY THE PIXELS
January 17, 2012 at 5:21 pm #43202CauseISaidSo
ParticipantThis is too easy ennuipoet.
I CAN TELL BY THE PIXELS
Well, that and having seen quite a few photos in your time, right?
ennuipoet, I think it’s all going to have to be on the honor system. I don’t think we have to worry about any of us regulars (at least I hope not), and we can’t have Elsinore doing forensic analysis on every entry, so unless it’s just in-your-face blatant, we’ll have to take everybody’s word for it.
January 17, 2012 at 6:01 pm #43201kashari
ParticipantBut this cock-biting fruit of a shit-fucking whore’s Crohn’s-ravaged prolapsed anus’s 95% viewfinder coverage has dusted my doilies this contest.
That sentence is a thing of beauty! 😆
And then I’ll just leave this here….”The D7000 has an excellent viewfinder for its class – offering 100% coverage”.
(so now I can see all the crap in my shot instead of just some…)
January 17, 2012 at 6:03 pm #43200ParticipantAs for the in-camera RAW processing, are our default shooting settings kosher, like if contrast or sharpening is bumped +1? I’m taking this to mean no tweaking afterwards, is that right?
January 17, 2012 at 6:07 pm #43199ParticipantThis is too easy ennuipoet.
I CAN TELL BY THE PIXELS
And from seeing quite a few in my time!
I went ahead and included in link to the EXIF data in my pre-posting just to demonstrate I’ve nothing to hide 🙂
January 17, 2012 at 6:08 pm #43198ParticipantYeah kashari, post processing is right out.
January 17, 2012 at 11:14 pm #43195linguine
ParticipantAre we allowed to do any sharpening when scaling down to fark sized or should we not do that for this contest?
January 18, 2012 at 4:25 am #43252U-Man
ParticipantAre we allowed to do any sharpening when scaling down to fark sized or should we not do that for this contest?
As for the in-camera RAW processing, are our default shooting settings kosher, like if contrast or sharpening is bumped +1? I’m taking this to mean no tweaking afterwards, is that right?
My take on this is that any sharpening is not OK. So, kashari, if you have your default RAW settings at a +1 they should be set back to ‘0’ for this theme.
But that’s just my $0.02. I’m using virgin jpegs so it’s a no-brainer. (No-brainer virgin jpegs somehow sounds dirty. Doesn’t it?)
I have a love/hate relationship with these completely open themes. My OCD-perfectionist tendencies cannot leave farking well enough alone. I have to keep looking and searching the archives and going “OH!” what about….” Then I wind up using my first three ideas.
Then again, I keep finding whole sets of photos that I forgot about. 🙂
January 18, 2012 at 4:34 am #43253
orionidParticipantThen again, I keep finding whole sets of photos that I forgot about. 🙂
I know this pain. I’m processing all the “I didn’t know what processing was” sets.
January 18, 2012 at 5:16 am #43254sleeping
ParticipantMy take on this is that any sharpening is not OK. So, kashari, if you have your default RAW settings at a +1 they should be set back to ‘0’ for this theme.
It seems pretty clear from what ZE posted earlier:
I don’t see why not? Play with the white balance, use your in-camera “film simulator”, whatever “presets” or “styles” you may have … its all good.
That he was pretty much open to any use of camera settings (set before taking the photo) for this theme, and I don’t see why that wouldn’t include sharpen settings.
But doing it afterwards is pretty clearly Right Out…
January 18, 2012 at 5:27 am #43255ParticipantMy take on this is that any sharpening is not OK. So, kashari, if you have your default RAW settings at a +1 they should be set back to ‘0’ for this theme.
It seems pretty clear from what ZE posted earlier:
I don’t see why not? Play with the white balance, use your in-camera “film simulator”, whatever “presets” or “styles” you may have … its all good.
That he was pretty much open to any use of camera settings (set before taking the photo) for this theme, and I don’t see why that wouldn’t include sharpen settings.
But doing it afterwards is pretty clearly Right Out…
Aaaahhh. I missed the ‘in-camera’ part. I thought kash meant the +1 would be done in the open-RAW-image thingie on a computer.
January 18, 2012 at 5:43 am #43256ParticipantHey, apparently Drew & Co. have something planned for SOPA protest day. If Fark is down, what are we gonna do?
January 18, 2012 at 7:17 am #43257ravnostic
ParticipantI, personally, am not posting any online images or (other than this) forum posts till 10:08pm tomorrow. 24 hours. g’bye.
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