06-24-09 – Homeless Images, Free to a Good PS’er

Huh, a themeless PS-crossover contest?
THIS is going to be an odd contest. I don’t know if I should go for a cool image, or something that could be ‘shopped nicely….

Greetings all,

I?d like to start by thanking you all for the lack of torches and pitchforks. Special thanks to Elsinore and Curious for getting it back on track.

I did have some thoughts to run by everyone to see what you think. A good set of rules for the PS community should help keep this as a fun project for everyone

1. The original idea was a true mash-up of just the photos in the thread even though I didn?t explicitly state it. I?d vote for specifying it as part of the contest.
2. I?d like to see each source photo given proper credit. In the first attempt, the submitters were posting thumbnails of their source photos. This is a great idea but I?m not sure that everyone who would want to participate has an image server that can stand up to this. Would a link to their sources be acceptable?
3. It probably shouldn?t have to be said, but I think that it should be declared as SFW in the rules. I?m constantly amazed (and amused) to see Rule 34 in play in some PS threads, but this probably isn?t the best place to apply it.

Thanks for the participation in this. I really think that it will a lot of fun. The more variety that you provide, the more interesting the outcome.

laz-long,

#1 and #2 work well for me. Something along the lines of millera9‘s suggestion might be best, with maybe referencing multiple sources if there are a couple of primary elements? Not sure how you guys normally do that.

#3, I’d certainly hate to stifle anyone PS creativity. I figure if we’re opting-in by posting photos in the thread, they should be fair-game for whatever y’all come up with, SFW or not 😉

(and for the record, I don’t think any of us are opposed to the idea at all, just first time around no one told us it was gonna happen. The pic that created the fuss was one I took of my wife and it upset her to see it altered. Water under the bridge though. I’m looking forward to this 🙂 )

-edited ’cause I can’t speel.

As for the question of Farktographers participating in the PS thread, I’d like to see that option remain open, but the issue of having a head start when PSing your own photos is a valid one. If it’s a mash-up contest, though, maybe require at least two different Farktographer’s photos to be included in the final result? Then any Farktographers would still have to wait for the Farktography thread to get source material other than their own. The other option would be disallowing use of your own source photos, but I’m not that concerned as long as there’s a requirement for it to not only be one’s own photos.

That seems like a reasonable solution to me. What say you, other pensively pontificating potentially participating photophiliacs?

/Penis

As for the question of Farktographers participating in the PS thread, I’d like to see that option remain open, but the issue of having a head start when PSing your own photos is a valid one. If it’s a mash-up contest, though, maybe require at least two different Farktographer’s photos to be included in the final result? Then any Farktographers would still have to wait for the Farktography thread to get source material other than their own. The other option would be disallowing use of your own source photos, but I’m not that concerned as long as there’s a requirement for it to not only be one’s own photos.

That seems like a reasonable solution to me. What say you, other pensively pontificating potentially participating photophiliacs?

/Penis

I enter both PS contests and Farktography contest for what it’s worth… I’ve used my own photos to make shops in the past and it’s a nice change of pace. If we want to ask people not to shop their own entries for this contest, or to require more than one photo be used that’s fine with me. But I don’t think it’s necessary since I don’t think we’re solving a problem that needs to be solved. 🙂 Getting inspiration for a PS entry is pretty random so having your own photos to work with well in advance doesn’t mean you’ll have a better chance of coming up with an idea. In fact, new images could very well spark something that never would have occurred to the PS’er from trolling their own archives for weeks.

The mash-up idea sounds like a lot for fun though, even though I can’t articulate why! So maybe we should encourage using multiple photos in the associated PS contest? I’m note sure we should require it though.

Also keep in mind that we need to arrange for a companion PS contest to go live after the Farktography contest. I’d suggest something like a week afterwards to give people (even liters) time to work on their entries. The suggestion to mash-up photos or other rules should be indicated in the PS contest. This one doesn’t need to concern itself with those details, other then to make sure the people posting entries to the Farktography contest are clear on what’s going to happen with their submissions.

Entering the photo contest, then using only your photos for the PS – just for the sake of getting a head start or some sort of artistic advantage would be so crazy lame that I can’t even wrap my head around it. I’d be inclined to think that you’d have be a pretty badass photog and shopper – not to mention have some huge brass ones (or whatever chicks have) – to try to pull that one off. And I would certainly be inclined to refuse to vote for such a d-bag. So long story short I would hope we could pass that off as an unwritten rule. I can’t imagine that someone would actually do it. Then again this is the Fark that we all know and love…

And I would certainly HOPE that some of my entries get the Rule 34 treatment, although the material doesn’t exactly lend itself to it. Yeah, I already picked out my shots…

This thread has already lead to great amounts of typing.

As for the question of Farktographers participating in the PS thread, I’d like to see that option remain open, but the issue of having a head start when PSing your own photos is a valid one. If it’s a mash-up contest, though, maybe require at least two different Farktographer’s photos to be included in the final result? Then any Farktographers would still have to wait for the Farktography thread to get source material other than their own. The other option would be disallowing use of your own source photos, but I’m not that concerned as long as there’s a requirement for it to not only be one’s own photos.

That seems like a reasonable solution to me. What say you, other pensively pontificating potentially participating photophiliacs?

/Penis

I am cool with all of the points discussed here. nsfw even although I have nothing that really fits that description.

Sounds like the majority opinion is to not worry about what photos are used in the PS’ing as long as they are from the farktography thread. Anything goes, including PS’ing your own photos; so no changes to the description there.