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I thought digital crossprocessing was OK because either traditional or digital, it’s done to the image in the course of developing it for final. With film, you’re processing it in the wrong type of chemicals for a certain look, with digital, you’re doing the same thing equally across the photo for the same sort of look. I can’t see why one would be ok and the other wouldn’t.

That’s my take, too (ala A. Adams quote “Great pictures are not taken, they’re made” or some such.)

Hence the improvement in my submissions, though *still* not up to yours, or U-mans, or SMFs, or others. But I’m working toward it, I think. On my FB account, people say I should submit to Nat’l Geo’s pic contest–I keep telling them “but you should see what photography “REALLY” looks like.

You people astound me weekly. In 5 years, maybe I’ll be as good. But in 5 years, you all will be even better.

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Are childish things we’ve started enjoying as adults okay?
What about childish things that aren’t toys, like Count Chocula or ballerina styled pajamas or waiting to the last minute to do things that I had literally months to do like ask this question?

Your staples are showing. That’s how I can tell when a costume was put together in the last possible moment. Staples glitter under flash. Just saying.

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Hey, it turns out that all my favorite toys from when I was a kid aren’t really toys at all. Laser, magnets, and microscopes. (Look, when I say I was/am a geek, I’m not kidding). I hope this is okay?

It’s a kid’s microscope (ala radio shack), magnets are…well, magnets, and while I now use a $5 laser pointer, my original laser was one I *ahem* ‘borrowed’ from my jr. high science room and used until it died. (I can say this as the statute of lim’s is long past, but I feel guilty as it was a $600 piece of science equipment and not designed as a toy for a stoner kid to steal and use for his personal laser light show while smoking a bong and listening to Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon”. But it was a toy to me, and sans doobage, a laser still is.)

Yeah or nay? If nay, I got nothin. I wasn’t a tiddly wink kind of guy, and the only marbles I have left are steel ball bearings.

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congrats staplermofo. That was the picture I figured would win when I saw how many votes it got in the first hour or so.

Hellsbells, I thought it was a shoe-in when he asked here if it would be okay to use. According to the stat mgr, in contests he’s won, it’s his highest vote-getter yet.

I would have never thought staples and staplers could be useful in so many photographic ways until I traipsed into farktography and ‘met’ Staplermofo. Buckybacon chided me with a ‘ravnostic’ themed contest, but I seriously think the concept of a ‘Staplermofo’ theme would do very well.

“Emulate Staplermofo with your own staple-themed image.”

Except, of course, that idea was already used, too. And suggested by SMF himself (herself?)

I swear, there are no original themes left in this world.

*piffle*

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Thanks, now I have beer spittles on my ‘puter screen. I should not drink before bedtime and read replies upon farktography forums.

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I’m 2 pictures into the contest; have one more to take (and have the idea, just have fold things up to completion first.)

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God only knows my ideas go over like farts in quiet churches (hey, THERE’s a theme idea!).

I know one of my thoughts on your theme suggestions is that a lot of them are so very narrow…maybe broaden your ideas a bit but keep suggesting.

Thanks for the tip!

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Speaking of which, though, I need to get more themes into the queue…

Indeed; you’ve only 10 or 11 days to spare! But by that same token, and with due respect to ‘community driven’, wouldn’t it be fun to have a moderator’s theme? You’ve seen (I presume) all the contests (I’ve perused here and there, but really I’m only familiar with the last 10 or so). I’d think you and the other mods would be bestest at coming up with a really unusual, or unique, or just plain creative theme that would inspire the minions.

God only knows my ideas go over like farts in quiet churches (hey, THERE’s a theme idea!).

Anywho, whatever they are, it is time to replenish the dilithium crystals–it takes time to be creative, from this vantage point, and poor my best efforts may be, it helps to have the heads-up.

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Great minds think alike, eh, Leica? Of course, either way means the dog was behind the wheel…

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I have to disqualify my lightning shot with the Pleides picture; I was poking around this site (wow, there’s all sorts of cool stat’s available; U-man; you should be ashamed of yourself for hogging all the glory!) and I found that I used a cropped image of the same shot in ‘Let there be light’. Not fair. Disenvotentate it.

Such is life. Poop.

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Staplermofo: you lost me after ‘superglue in place’.

Elsinore and swampa–oh, for petes sake, and you haven’t +1’d my ‘These foolish games’ theme suggestion yet? Do I h&ve to Draw you a picture? 😯

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Hey if you H-flip it, maybe you can claim your kid took it from the passenger seat…

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Well what a surprise. Mofo’s staples have taken an early lead. Gee…never saw that coming. *coughcoughbullsh!tcough*.

I believe I mentioned it would be the winner? I stand by that. I only wish I had such creative bones in my body.

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Oh, well; I’ll save it for another contest; I love that fence. Thanks for getting back to me before the contest starts!

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Buildings? Does it have to be buildings? What about broadcast towers and wrought iron fences? Elsewise, I’m short one photo and have to go digging again…

I quoth:

There should be something man made in the picture that is composing the skyline.

Read through further postings; just lemme know, can I use this:

In the full version, the towers on the mountain stand out more.

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