04-29-09 – Farkstronomy – Page 3 – Its not photography, its Farktography

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April 3, 2009 at 8:53 pm #21828

nobigdeal
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But japanese riverdancing? really?

That’s liveldancing, right?

Ooooo Thats lacist!!!

April 7, 2009 at 3:34 pm #21829

justkat
Participant

i know we just had lunacy, but is there anything about this contest that rules out moon shots? now that i have a DSLR i can take pix of the actual moon (as opposed to my toy moon entries in lunacy lol) and it’s in the daytime sky just just now to make things a little easier for me … and also different from many other submissions, most likely.

April 7, 2009 at 4:50 pm #21830

linguine
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i know we just had lunacy, but is there anything about this contest that rules out moon shots? now that i have a DSLR i can take pix of the actual moon (as opposed to my toy moon entries in lunacy lol) and it’s in the daytime sky just just now to make things a little easier for me … and also different from many other submissions, most likely.

The moon should be fair game again.

April 18, 2009 at 9:32 am #21831

corsec67
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Would something like this work for the theme?

If not, then due to the haze and light pollution you can see there, I am either going to have to dig in my archives, or try to get a picture of the moon.

April 18, 2009 at 1:26 pm #21832

Elsinore
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That looks more like a sunset to me than a photograph of the sun itself.

April 19, 2009 at 10:53 am #21833

bucky_bacon
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I would go further than that and agree with Orionid‘s original idea that the sun itself needs to be the central subject, not the beautifully lit-up foreground objects.

Would overexposing the moon to get the same effect would also be frowned upon? Something like this:

I’m really struggling here. Had a field trip planned to a moon-related museum, but looks like it isn’t going to happen now. I suppose this is a good excuse to finally buy a remote though.

April 19, 2009 at 5:38 pm #21834

orionid
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I would go further than that and agree with Orionid‘s original idea that the sun itself needs to be the central subject, not the beautifully lit-up foreground objects.

Would overexposing the moon to get the same effect would also be frowned upon? Something like this:

[img]I’m really struggling here. Had a field trip planned to a moon-related museum, but looks like it isn’t going to happen now. I suppose this is a good excuse to finally buy a remote though.

Overexposure, by itself as a photographic technique would be fine (for example if you wanted to do a moon trail instead of star trails), but the composition of this specific photo draws too much to the moon’s effect on the clouds and puts it nearly the same as a sunset, IMHO. That being said, the general public, reading the theme description and not the pages of comments and discussions will probably sumbit a number of photos like this, so for ease of policing the thread by the modmins, I’d be inclined to allow it.

April 19, 2009 at 6:10 pm #21835

Elsinore
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We can always tweak the wording a bit to make it even more clear that that kind of shot isn’t allowed. Something along the lines of Miller’s mention of the celestial object being the subject, not foreground stuff.

April 19, 2009 at 6:11 pm #21836

orionid
Participant

We can always tweak the wording a bit to make it even more clear that that kind of shot isn’t allowed. Something along the lines of Miller’s mention of the celestial object being the subject, not foreground stuff.

I’m good with that.

April 19, 2009 at 9:21 pm #21837

bucky_bacon
Participant

Thanks for the replies. I really don’t mean to seem ignorant. I understand the intention of the contest and figured that both of my examples were no good, but just reading the description we definitely could have had a situation like there was with “Bang.” Thankfully this is all getting cleaned up ahead of time and we will have a stellar contest.

/pun not intended, but I’m glad that it happened

April 21, 2009 at 8:18 pm #21838

U-Man
Participant

MSNBC trying to butt into our gig – http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30249678/displaymode/1107/s/2/framenumber/1/

April 21, 2009 at 11:47 pm #21839

orionid
Participant

You were talking about number 5, right?

April 22, 2009 at 12:26 am #21840

olavf
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Number 5 would be Sunday, or so, after the votes are all tallied…

April 23, 2009 at 12:30 am #21841

Elsinore
Keymaster

Ok I added cloudy sun/moon shots to the difficulty. Hopefully that will help keep things clear.

April 23, 2009 at 12:35 am #21842

orionid
Participant

Looks good, thanks.
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