[GregScott]

I would like you to help me understand why this is necessary, please.
Thinking as an engineer, if you are shooting landscape pano, why would this be helpful? Surely any distortion from being not quite on the center of rotation is “microscopic”, a matter of inches, in relationship to hundreds of meters from your subject. Also, the actual distortion of a lens focused at infinity is essentially constant, right? Why would such a small offset be useful when stitching panoramas?

Thank you.

[GregScott]

With regard to avoiding editing your original, this is one of the reasons I shoot raw whenever possible. Since you don’t edit a raw image, it functions as your original, unedited archive image. It takes more space, but the other advantages make it worth the effort. It can slow down the burst rate of your camera, but that’s rarely an issue for me.

[GregScott]

Going to a full frame sensor and more megapixels is the main step, but really not necessary in most cases unless you like very large prints. I’m perhaps an exception since I do hummingbird photograph with a “static” prefocused setup on a tripod. Since I can’t frame the photo live, it really helps to get more shots at a good resolution without half a bird in the frame to have a larger sensor.

A full frame sensor will also allow your wide angle lenses to function as if they were “wider”.

If you do flash photography it’s good to have several flashes so you can have slaves, and get better lighting.

A lot of photographers like to buy prime lenses when they can afford it.

Pehaps most important of all is to spend time taking photos, keeping notes, and evaluating your work. Taking a laptop into the field with you so you can evaluate your work is very helpful.

[GregScott]

The contests are on fark.com. So if you don’t have an account there you will need to create one to be able to post. The contest starts for totalfarkers at 8PM eastern time and at midnight for the regular farkers. One of us will put up a link to the specific thread on fark in this thread and a link will also show up at the top of the farktography website or you will find it as the first Thursday link on fark.

So entries can be posted in totalfark after midnight wednesday night, and after it goes green on normalfark. When does voting begin and photo submissions get locked off? does it ever move from normalfark?

Enquiring minds want to know. Or at least foggy ones.

[GregScott]

Mercy for a newbie for whom all moments are elder momennts:
I can’t find in any of the Faqs or informative threads
A. Where and when to submit photos. (What thread, what forum, what website.
B. Same question as above, but with reference to voting.
I’ve actually spent quite a bit of time looking, so perhaps the info could be modified. The “How to Participate” page was where I particularly expected to find it, but didn’t.
Thanks.

[GregScott]

You can check out my website, http://www.gregscott.com.
You can email me with a request for any specific photo to:
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[GregScott]

When submitting to contests on various websites, be sure to read the fine print. Often you are giving them extensive rights to use the photo. Be sure to protect your copyright, if you’re concerned about it.’

[GregScott]

Almost any snarky term is a euphemism at some point in it’s origin/evolution, right? So mine qualify, right?

[GregScott]

Dibs on woodpecker (twofer) and hummer.

[GregScott]

Is this the same as selectively desaturating a photo, or similar technique, or is it more a topic regarding hand-coloring particular portions of a photo?

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