Both the old and new rules state that cropping is allowed, so have no fear there.

Cool- my concern stemmed from the simplification, “just don’t allow removing…” without the full rules context, I was worried that was taking something currently quite clear, and muddying up it a bit.

The old rules allowed for brightness/contrast…

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I’m for the spirit of the changes, wholeheartedly. I think they do clear up a lot of ambiguity. I’ve voted yes, because I think on the…Read more

I think you’re fine; they’re both different compositions. And his last one wasn’t vote enabled, just showing he has a shot from nearly the same position.

Oh! Lookit that~~~ – I hadn’t seen his last post, and was scratching my head (but wait, when I re-scrolled…. it WAS enabled… OH!!!)

Cool- Glad it’s ok- it certainly barely is a road any…Read more

Between me rushing to put pix up ’cause I got home late, and there being soo many tonight, I didn’t notice it until my pix were up.

How about make them legal for both digital and film? That way, Farktography gets a little polish.

yeah, yeah, I hear the concerns about recreating the 35mm-threaded-in-Holga effect digitally, but… we could try it until we get a bunch of drop-shadow, torn-edge entries and then re-address.

I tend to see the outside of a negative as part of the…Read more

Good ! I am glad not to fail two times in just one month of contest !

Here is different angle to show is really utility pole. The zoom and low angle make entry image seem as much smaller pole.

Must. Resist. Urge. To. Not. Photoshop. In. TeenyTiny. Stopsign. At. Intersection!!!

I like that shot, too, FutherMucker, it’s a fun shot on its own!

I don’t like giving up the EXIF, so I solve the problem by putting my pix up on flickr, and then making a smaller inline image that links back to the image page, as found on the “show all sizes” link…Read more

U-man I love all your shots, I should’ve figured out at first glance the aqua-leaper was a toy, but I didn’t! My fave, however, is still the one with the paint-covered kid. The water’s so crisp, but it still manages to be invisible in the original…Read more

Looking for patterns in results after the fact is always interesting… In this case all the entries with text, with the exception of Marley’s “Sunoco” photo, got 4 votes or less. It looks like people weren’t responding to things you had to read this time. I wouldn’t have predicted that, but the numbers speak for themselves. 🙂

In terms of…Read more

Hmmmmmmmmmm

Ok, so I finish my class (which kept me from paying attention to any thing else photo- compressed summer schedule!) then scramble to get ready for half a week with my kid at scout camp. Get back last night, and this morning, I notice, whoa. So many flickr buds with bug pix. Whyzzat? Um..er…

The dragonfly pix on my CF card from…Read more

What’s even more interesting about that is that the original description of the theme included the word “lonliness” 😉

You mean it changed, and I never noticed?

I blame sunspots.

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Not that there aren’t any brilliant shots – there’s an abundance- but they seem to hit closer to desolation,isolation and alienation than solitude….

This week’s theme was more open to interpretation than some themes, and especially with a word like “solitude”, you get people’s connotations and interpretations wrapped up in things even if…

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:hangs head in shame for not knowing:

It fits the theme,…Read more

Thanks Curious and Monkeybort.

//By fans I mean the ones in the storage area at home 😛

They wouldn’t fit on the escalator, would they? 😉

I love the gnome.

A friend had for several years (may still, for all I know) passed around a little wooden chicken from family member to family member, each Christmas, as a reminder of who was going to…Read more

Postings will come in a bit late…Read more

Well it looks like my three highest-rated shots are the three shots I entered in… Last week’s contest. Now what? :O

Now you are glad that your highest rated shot is not *my* highest rated shot, i.e. a scan of an old, damaged print of mutant sewer poodles from heck.

🙄

At high school games, a big tele *is* your press pass. Srsly.

There’s a couple factors at play here. I shoot prep sports/community events for $SMALL_LOCAL_WEEKLY, and I shoot a D70 and D70s. Some of the “team moms” for visiting teams are out there shooting with better gear than *I* have- D200s and pretty fancy lenses and flash. But the…Read more

could someone who “gets it” please explain to me, BTW, why you don’t see it at wider apertures, given that it is on the sensor directly? Or, rather, as close to the sensor as it can get, vs. on the other side of the focusing mechanism (past the lens). I always have thought of it as analogous…Read more

Well I can’t see a guy armed with a huge tele lens aiming it at high school cheerleaders coming across as un-creepy, so I try to avoid it. =D

True. And in reality, all you’d get is just the zit on the end of one of their noses, with that tight a zoom. Better swap out lenses (:

My prediction is that some hot cheerleader or fan in the stands is going to get more votes than most of the shots of actual sports. People vote for boobies. But you can exploit that by posting a pic of a hot cheerleader I guess. I mostly shoot high school sports though, so no go for me. =(

Analogy, why not? Here, the local schools have…Read more

Here’s an opposing view. It’s the terms and conditions for submitting something to the BBC news site:

In contributing to BBC News you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way that we want, and…Read more

damn it, why didnt I think of taking a shot of a light poll during the day and titling in behind the scenes ufo hunting

I thought of submitting http://www.flickr.com/photos/annebphoto/421649060/ with the caption, “NASA workers prepare UFOs to hang above street” but figured I’d hold it in case we really DO do streetlights as a theme. Or…Read more

thanks for the article anneb. BTW you link is missing one of theses “H” at the very beginning.

Urk- fixed!

When I was in college, I did several “Great scenes from literature” in Lego. Hamlet, Macbeth, Tale of Two cities (guillotine was awesome!) But the pix I shot were horrible, I didn’t have anything but an on-board totally manual flash, and…Read more

Are you sure you want to make it that broad? And by broad, I’m talking about my sister…seeing a picture of somebody hold the door for her as she heads into the local Burger King might be good manners, but I don’t think it would make a compelling shot. The heroic shot would be somebody blocking it actually. 🙂

Occasionally, though, there…Read more

i just ordered a canon 30d, and they were trying to sell me an extended warranty with the promise that the yearly cleanings would more than make up for it.

for those with dslr cameras, how often do you get it cleaned/clean it? do you take it somewhere, or do it yourself? what do you recommend?

I’ve only had my D70 sent out for cleaning, once. I…Read more

Along with my flickr, I have some other shots up on a friend’s gallery site, go poke around if you’re curious, and I suspect he won’t mind fielding the…Read more

I find the side-by-side in “and read about” really helpful, since flash is one of those things I’m constantly strugglng with. How were you flashing them?

Miller, the straws didn’t come out at all like I expected they would. I’m not complaining, I’m actually kind of fascinated, myself. I think if I’d gotten it earlier in the…Read more

[beat head on wall]

[back to ignoring votes]

The silver car is just going to be a harder candidate- if you don’t have really intense daylight, the metallic color has more trouble differentiating itself from the background. Especially this time of year, when the plants and…Read more

I often wonder what characteristics/criteria people look for when voting.

Looks like the douch-nozzle buzz-kills are out in force this week. I have a new idea; let’s just submit our most popular photo every week, regardless of the theme.

That’s a great idea! I’ll put it up again next week!
So… before people vote, how will I know they’re…Read more

I’m not doing well with getting a holga plugin to download and load up, so I must be doing something wrong. If I can, I’ll try to pull the gimp plugins down later on this evening.

Meanwhile: We’re looking at square formats, 3n x 3n in…Read more

well i may have to eat some humble pie ………. yum pie ………. regarding in camera effects. bought a Samsung D53 for a friend for Christmas.

Agreed. Mmmmmmm, pie!

black friday sale at wal-mart, camera and 1 GB SD card for just over a hundred dollars. it is similar in features to this one…

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It is time for me to head up to MD and get a better (read: non-rushed) shot of this sign:

(My gallery page for that is at http://www.ooblick.com/gallery/v/anneb/loose_ends/Signs/WTFCU_3104.jpg.html, if there are image loading access probs from my friend’s site)