[kashari]

Congrats kashari I’m going to post your winning photo on the Farktography G+ page (attributed of course). Please let me know if that’s not ok.

That would be cool, thanks Kestrana! (I don’t have a G+ account but I have looked at the link when you’ve posted it before.)

gambitsgirl Thanks & I’m glad you’re back in the game, love your pics & sense of humor!

(wth? now I don’t see Kes’s msg I was replying to & I think a couple others are gone?)

[kashari]

Thanks you guys, it was a great theme and there were so many terrific entries, it’s an honor!

The horse’s back is ranking as one of my favorite images right now. I did a black/white conversion which I really like also as it’s more abstract and takes a minute to click-in as to what it is. Think I’m going to use my Canvas on Demand groupon today. 🙂

[kashari]

K – Thanks. I have a biased opinion, but I agree with you.

Yoyo – Yeah, we all go through the awkward, zit-face, out-of-proportion-features features stage. You just have to hope it doesn’t last. 🙂

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While I always like a win, I would ‘lose’ gracefully when the competition is as good as kashari’s horse.

Thanks U-Man! I had a hard time deciding on the right corner image, but decided to stay with my first instinct.

As usual, I love all three of yours, but the snow angel & Hot would make great x-mas cards!

[kashari]

+2

[kashari]

I thought I was going to stick with mine too but I reworked one and made another today.

😡 I swore I was going to stop, then noticed I’d messed up some borders by a pixel or two…ugh. So then I started messing around with a panel I didn’t like after looking at it today…DAMN IT!! I’m so behind on everything else and haven’t even grocery shopped yet. I’ll be glad once my entries are in so I quit fussing! 😆

As for the Mayan temple, you can’t trust us kids left to their our own devices! 😈

[kashari]

It could be worse, though. Imagine your job is sitting at your computer all day and then try saying you’re going back down to the computer to “play” with your photos after dinner and see the look that gets you! 🙂

Hell. My job entails looking at and manipulating images all day on a computer. Then I come home and play the same way. I find that I sometimes try using a Photoshop shortcut at work or a McKesson shortcut at home. 🙂

Got another one done…

I thought I was going to stick with what I had last night. Then started monkeying around with another idea, for HOURS, now I’m back to where I started this morning and am not changing anymore! 😆

[kashari]

Even those are OK – as far as I’m concerned.

Any objections?

ok, sounds good, thanks!

[kashari]

My question wasn’t regarding basic borders, but those downloadable frames linked earlier that have effects baked in.

[kashari]

Also here

http://www.photoradar.com/techniques/technique/25-free-triptych-photo-frames-for-photoshop

are some very convenient frames for those using the GIMP, P-shop (full or elements) any editing program that allows layers and layer modes. Open the original file, then paste you image as a new layer, scale and center on the frame then set your layer mode to Screen and voila, easy Trips!

Oh crap, are we allowed to use these types of frames? I just did ‘stroke borders’, nothing fancy or creative like that. Good link, thanks!

[kashari]

Rav; I disagree about the (non-participating) voters knowing what’s best for fitting in the theme, especially if there’s a certain difficulty and there are many entries. A lot probably just vote for what they like, without really thinking about the theme details. But, they do get the final say, so there’s that. 😉 I think it’s more important, as part of the challenge, to make sure we fit the theme, rather than a voter who only read ‘Triptych’ and moved on to start looking at the (sure to be) awesome pictures.

The reason I play is so I can improve my skills by being given a subject, and going after it, and comparing my own results with those of others given the same subject so I can grow as a photographer. The only way to compare is by the votes, most of the time. It’s not a ‘ruling’–audience is the major consideration.

So I ‘shoot’ to learn and grow, but I select to ‘post’ what I hope will do well with an audience such as we have here. Lately, it’s been working out for me, but I don’t plan on taking that for granted–it’s a mad, mad world.

As a voter, however, I’m compelled to consider the theme suggestor’s intentions, which is what we go into in this forum. Depending on the theme, either the base farktography community will determine the victor, or the teeming masses of GFarkers will. Usually it seems it’s a composite of both–so I long ago gave up on predicting how such things will go.

I do agree about the growing part & I’m REALLY liking do this one, because it is challenging! I finally figured out the PS side of it, but boy it sure isn’t going to turn out how I first envisioned it while selecting the images. After cropping to make things fit, it’s quite different, to say the least! 😆 Now I’m having a hard time finding my third for my first entry because I’m not liking them next to each other, when actually *seeing* it.

Thanks U-Man, you made me learn something new & I’d wanted to learn how to do these someday anyway!

And thanks Kestrana for your tips, they were a big help! Even though I was told there would be no math. 🙁

[kashari]

Mopsy, don’t feel bad.I’m struggling with it too. 🙁

Yikes, if you and Mopsy are having problems, that does not bode well for me. I’m going to give it my first shot shortly…

Rav; I disagree about the (non-participating) voters knowing what’s best for fitting in the theme, especially if there’s a certain difficulty and there are many entries. A lot probably just vote for what they like, without really thinking about the theme details. But, they do get the final say, so there’s that. 😉 I think it’s more important, as part of the challenge, to make sure we fit the theme, rather than a voter who only read ‘Triptych’ and moved on to start looking at the (sure to be) awesome pictures.

[kashari]

We’ll let U-Man call it, but to me, that doesn’t fit the ‘parts’ of a subject description. I was thinking it meant not seeing the entire subject in a panel, just a portion.

[kashari]

Ok I’m so confused now. My understanding had been that each triptych was to be whole or parts of the same subject, and said subject had to be alive. Are they to be separate parts of the whole? Some parts don’t actually have to be alive?

😆 Me too! In U-Man’s examples, I’d say 1 is out, 2 good & 3 ends up showing different parts I guess as the flower opened.

I took some horse pictures a little while ago with this theme in mind and have been wondering if a partial torso shot, which includes the face, along with a close-up of his eye would work, since the eye and a little bit of his face, is in both images.

[kashari]

I posted some ladybug pics on G+. ravnostic made a comment that he wants to see them as a triptych this week. I had not planned on doing that because this theme specifies ‘three parts of the subject”. If I used the ladybug pics I already have I would simply be arranging three different poses or settings of the same whole subject. IMO, it comes close to the spirit of the theme but doesn’t quite make it. A similar question arises with QueenBee’s banana shots over on Facebook. Looking past the ‘alive or not’ question, they are not really different parts of the whole.

So, am I getting too hung up on details? If I arranged three of these into some sort of triptych would it be OK in your opinions? I have plenty of live subjects around and all weekend to shoot them so don’t hold back if you think I should do something else. I am really using my own situation to try and define how closely this will be called.

As usual, I don’t want to have Elsinore be the bad cop, pull somebody’s pics and piss them off. I am OK going with a broad interpretation of the theme to inspire creativity. But the game should be played within some sort of boundaries.

http://photos.imageevent.com/ulle17/fark/lb_0647.jpg
http://photos.imageevent.com/ulle17/fark/LB_0382.jpg
http://photos.imageevent.com/ulle17/fark/LB_0372.jpg

I was wondering all the same things. Even kashari’s link showed three photos of the same person in different shots. I think the interpretation is going to be really broad since some people don’t come up here and are going to google the definition and get a lot of varied answers.

Those ladybug shots are awesome.

I love QueenBee (she’s the one who got me here) but fruit isn’t alive.

Oops, I didn’t even pay attention to the images in that link, I was just wanting to see how to do the canvas/border process.

[kashari]

Ok, thanks U-Man. I went back and read the Theme thread & the first part of this one. To clarify, this should be one LIVING subject, rather than inanimates or scenes?

Yep. Difficulty = Subject must be alive.

I won’t quibble the “alive subject must be in each fame” thing. The soccer player with Sambas isn’t in each frame (and the ball could actually be considered the subject) but the overall triptych fits the spirit of the theme.

😳 LMAO I totally missed the ‘alive difficulty’ in post #1, even though I ‘read’ it when reviewing. Nice comprehension skills…

And you answered my next question too, thanks! 🙂

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