07-14-10 – Black, White, & Grey All Over

Orionid thats exactly the sort of thing I had in mind.

ElseIf I took a picture of the picture, and made it obviously so, would it be eligible for a future contest? Elsewise, I’m going to have to borrow my youngest niece or a cousin, recompose, and de-saturate (I think it’s a cute shot at a cute angle; kids are only 2 once.)

Kestrana and Else I think perhaps my monitor settings aren’t as saturated as yours. In my example pic, the dust/dirt looks pretty grey to me, not brown. Under ‘monitor’ settings I’m at 32bit, under color management I’m using sRGB. Are there better setting to choose?

I ask as perhaps my other ‘good candidates’ aren’t so good as I suppose. Don’t want to blow my entries with stuff other people see that I don’t. Example, I was planning to use a bigger version of this:

http://fossilspringsaz.com/pics/2010/jun/20/IMG_4091websmall.jpg

(one of my b-sides from ‘Pan’; even when I kick up the saturation I don’t see much color; leaves go olive green at best.)

Nope, just a cloudy day on Feb 28th before spring colors hit. There is color there–just not much (which is why I didn’t use it in ‘Pan’)

Time to hunt down a neice or cousin’s kid. One must be prepared…

The second one is fine but the first one is not at all what I was thinking, sorry. Neat picture though.

KestranaAt work viewing on a different monitor; see what you mean about the car engine shot. Great, now I want a better monitor

1 – fine
2 – out
3 – would be fine if it wasn’t for the pink on the top of the Tribune Tower
4 – borderline but ok by me
5 – fine
6 – out
7 – fine
8 – out

Very tough contest. Query: I understand messing with saturation goes against the grain of the theme. But what about overall adjustments in color temperature? I have a very nice shot of monsoon clouds nearing sunset that, when adjusted to 3100K, might work for this contest (I think it’s a close call, but then the theme is ‘could be mistaken for b/w’; but I’ll leave that up to you. Along with some other ‘please yeay or nay these’)

1. http://fossilspringsaz.com/pics/2010/jul/14/oceanbirdswebsm.jpg *
2. http://fossilspringsaz.com/pics/2010/jul/14/camerabagsm.jpg
3. http://fossilspringsaz.com/pics/2010/jul/14/cloudswebsm.jpg

*note–taken with p+s; no ‘temp setting’ controls to use.

The part about saturation is just that I don’t want someone taking a color photo of say, a scarlet macaw and sucking all the saturation out of it and thinking that’s the point of the theme. You can do it if it’s reasonable like any other contest. I gotta run to church but I’ll check out your pics later.