09-26-12 – Faux Panoramics

Bunch of B-sides starting here:
https://picasaweb.google.com/102637182371352471338/FarktographyB_sides#5792584730512417202
to end of album.

Width restrictions are driving me crazy! I only have one or two verticals, still working on it though. I like all of those Barracuda, especially the purple flowers.
Now I’m just getting looney from mirroring images.

Can we get an update on the FArQ?
http://www.fark.com/farq/farktography/#How_do_I_enter_Farktography_contests.3F
It still says 640 wide maximum. 🙁

Uh, weird, cause I changed that a couple weeks ago when you guys flagged me on it. Not sure why it didn’t save–can you clear your cache and make sure it’s not just an old copy of the page?

I’m posting the Boobies tonight, but I’m only just now getting to play with images for the contest, so I’ll be entering late. Lots of fun, though–wish I’d had time to play with it before tonight!

I’m on a new laptop that has never been to the page before and I’m seeing 640×1100.

b’s:

http://fossilspringsaz.com/pics/2012/sep/26/dammirror.jpg

http://fossilspringsaz.com/pics/2012/sep/26/mirrorimage2.jpg

http://fossilspringsaz.com/pics/2012/sep/26/rammirror.jpg

http://fossilspringsaz.com/pics/2012/sep/26/treemirrorsml.jpg

Elsinore please delete my first “The River.” I decided it was more important to have everything centered than to hold the place. 😳

Because I have been a Farktographer for (checks Bibliostats) three years now I have sort of become…constrained…but in a good way by the rules of Farktography. I’ve almost given up HDR entirely, though this is probably just the natural evolution of a digital photographer, and NEVER open an image in Photoshop, doing my editing in Lightroom. Then along comes a theme like this and I remember how extraordinary digital art can be. We are 15 minutes into Live and I see gorgeous pieces of work done simply by looking at a shot and saying “What If?” instead of “What Is This?”

I think I am a far better photographer because of the rules of Farktography, because I think “in camera” like I did in my film days. But, damn have I forgotten how much fun and what beautiful things one can do when one opens up Photoshop and just goes for it.

I said it in the thread, I will repeat it here: I think this will be a stellar theme.

I didn’t use photoshop for any of these–canon’s native software (with new 64-bit features I didn’t have available) and additionally the new lappytop fixered all my irfanview edit problems (spec. ‘save for web). Still, I was thinking outside of the box to upend my cloud/nuke image and mirror it; I thought there’d be more shots like it (i.e., not traditional wide-scope panos); if there’s a problem please say so; I’ll sub in the ‘tree’ image, which may play better with the voters since mine seems to be the only non-wide view image there. :o(