12-08-10 – Optimus Prime – Page 3 – Its not photography, its Farktography

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December 5, 2010 at 5:16 am #35404

Elsinore
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Yes, a fixed focal length macro will be fine.

December 5, 2010 at 10:07 pm #35405

U-Man
Participant

Hey Mopsy, obviously, the macro is good for macro pics. But I like using mine for portraits, too. It has a nice narrow depth of field which make the background nice and fuzzy. Maybe you can get Popsy out on the deck and take some portraits.

(yes, people, that really is his nickname. 🙂 )

December 5, 2010 at 10:12 pm #35406

U-Man
Participant

I’ve been shooting with my 50 mm yesterday and today. I really don’t like being restricted with my lens choices. I understand the purpose of the theme – I just don’t like it. 🙁

December 5, 2010 at 10:36 pm #35407

ravnostic
Participant

I’ve been shooting with my 50 mm yesterday and today. I really don’t like being restricted with my lens choices. I understand the purpose of the theme – I just don’t like it. 🙁

I hear this. You’d think this would be easy, but I’m having a difficult time, and I’m only in the planning stages.

December 5, 2010 at 11:23 pm #35408

Choc-Ful-A
Participant

I shot photos for this contest yesterday and yeah, it was a challenge not to change the zoom. But I expected that when I read the theme description so I chalked it up to learning from the contest. What I didn’t expect happened later. While working on the photos I took to check the contrast, color balance, etc… I found I needed to crop the images. That’s allowed in general, but is it for this contest? I hope so, but with a high enough resolution camera, it’s entirely possible to crop a tightly zoomed shot out of a very wide angle original.

So I thought I’d at least pose the question here. Do normal cropping rules apply to this contest?

December 5, 2010 at 11:45 pm #35409

U-Man
Participant

It was discussed but I didn’t see a firm ruling. My $0.02 is to use restraint with the crop tool but not outlaw it. I might want to do a square crop or an elongated portrait or landscape type crop.

December 5, 2010 at 11:52 pm #35410

SilverStag
Participant

I guess everything I took before 2000 is eligible for this contest, since that’s when I got my first zoom lens.

December 6, 2010 at 12:13 am #35411

ennuipoet
Participant

I’ve been shooting with my 50 mm yesterday and today. I really don’t like being restricted with my lens choices. I understand the purpose of the theme – I just don’t like it. 🙁

I hear this. You’d think this would be easy, but I’m having a difficult time, and I’m only in the planning stages.

Shoe leather zoom! Run up to the subject for close up, run away from the subject for wide angle! 😉

One of the reasons I am using the TLR is lens options are pretty much what is on the camera. I DO have a bayonet telephoto, but the image quality is terrible.

December 6, 2010 at 12:14 am #35412

Elsinore
Keymaster

In the long long ago before zoom lenses were around, you zoomed with your feet 😉

Also, I’m not sleeping, and he can chime in on this, but in my mind, cropping completely defeats the purpose of this theme. It serves as a digital zoom, and it exactly the way digital in-camera zoom functions. Personally, I’d support a “no cropping” difficulty on this one.

December 6, 2010 at 12:24 am #35413

lokisbong
Participant

What if you are as close as the lens will focus but there is just a bit o distracting stuff at one edge of the picture? Please tell me a me a small amount of cropping is ok. just 10% is all I want removed. other wise I will have to chose one new picture for this. I have all three picked out but a no cropping ruling would kill my favorite of the three.

December 6, 2010 at 12:43 am #35414

Elsinore
Keymaster

I’ll defer to sleeping on that one.

December 6, 2010 at 1:16 am #35415

sleeping
Participant

I don’t think it’s worth adding that (no cropping) as a difficulty – I know I have some older stuff on the “maybe” list and I couldn’t tell you if it has been cropped or not at this point. But I would discourage people from going overboard with it….

December 6, 2010 at 1:21 am #35416

U-Man
Participant

Els, I respectfully disagree that cropping completely defeats the purpose. The description states, “Go shooting with a single prime lens.” In my opinion, minor cropping doesn’t negate the fact that I used a prime.

Again, I’m not talking about only using 25% of the initial frame. I’m talking about a square crop or skinny crop. Perhaps something like this –>

Original – http://photos.imageevent.com/ulle17/farkphotoshop/a_2397.jpg

Skinny – http://photos.imageevent.com/ulle17/farkphotoshop/a_2397-skinny.jpg

I consider a no-crop rule a pretty late change in the description/difficulty.

But really, that’s just my opinion. I’m not married to it and won’t even be miffed (Miffed! I say!) if we elect to not crop. 🙂

December 6, 2010 at 1:22 am #35417

sleeping
Participant

I understand the purpose of the theme

You mean gratuitous Transformers references? 😀

December 6, 2010 at 1:23 am #35418

U-Man
Participant

Damn. I coulda just been quiet. 🙄
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