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  • in reply to: 07-30-08 – I Tawt I Taw a Puddytat! #17448
    schnee
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    in reply to: Proposed Modifications to the Farktography Rules #18060
    schnee
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    To take a recent example, here’s a wonderful photo from corsec67

    the green oval contains a sensor spot – removing that would be within the rules as they now stand.

    the green polygon contains a shadow (or something) which when removed would help the image. the image’s finish in the theme probably would not have changed, but the overall quality would go up. (I’m not picking on corsec67 – it is a good image). i have an image in the Everything for a Dollar theme that has the issue – an almost white background with some gradients creeping in. oh how I would have like to have been able to correct those (which I did when I made a print)

    I’d like to include corrections like in the green polygon.

    in reply to: 07-30-08 – I Tawt I Taw a Puddytat! #17435
    schnee
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    Actually, I was wondering if the Farktographers over time graph could be improved, perhaps by making the boobies and weeners 5 contest moving averages or something…. it’s awfully hard to read as is right now.

    I also added a 10 contest MA to the boobies and weeners lines and spread it out a bit.

    Let me know what you think.

    (btw – this is the go-to report that I use to judge the health of the Farktography Program. It is also the one report that I take the most pride in)

    (btbtw – 2nd best contest evar, by prit near every measure)

    in reply to: about unfairness, imho, in the rules #18010
    schnee
    Participant

    +1

    in reply to: about unfairness, imho, in the rules #18006
    schnee
    Participant

    write’em up, please. my head is not in it right now.

    in reply to: about unfairness, imho, in the rules #18002
    schnee
    Participant

    sure, run with a time-limited poll for one week.

    in reply to: about unfairness, imho, in the rules #17996
    schnee
    Participant

    The “DO NOT divide by zero” makes it. I think we might have a winnar.

    inspiration

    in reply to: 07-30-08 – I Tawt I Taw a Puddytat! #17421
    schnee
    Participant

    Do we have a metric in the FSM that will tell us the contests which had the most boobies/most entries in say a top ten format?

    Not really. The green line in the Farktographer’s over time show’s the boobies, and you can scroll through the tabular data. The most entries can be gleamed from the Distinct by theme report, but it doesn’t sort like you want.

    in reply to: about unfairness, imho, in the rules #17994
    schnee
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    * What are acceptable and unacceptable modifications?

    ** These are the Submission Guidelines for all Farktography Contests,
    unless otherwise stated in a theme description.

    * Submissions must be photographs. Screen captures do not count as
    photographs.
    * You must be the original photographer of your entry. Do not
    submit anyone else's photography as your own.
    * You are only allowed to enter a photograph once. Do not submit
    the same photo to another contest later.
    * Up to 3 photos can be entered into each contest, as long as each
    photo is of a different composition. Please post each photo
    separately so they can be voted for individually.

    ** General Photographic Guidelines:
    * Compositional changes, particularly those that involve adding or
    removing elements of the photo, are bad. No adding Elvis, no erasing
    utility lines.

    * Image corrections are accepted. Color or value correction?
    Perspective? Pin cushion? Unsightly blemishes? Stray hairs
    falling over your model's alabaster face? Fix these. That's cool.

    ** Unacceptable Modifications:

    * Combining exposures in post-processing is not allowed (e.g. HDR,
    stitching, stacking negative, &c - not allowed). However,
    multiple exposures produced in-camera are always acceptable.

    * Removing or adding compositional objects or textures via cloning
    or copying. Cropping is fine, but no removing the branch that
    seems to be growing out of Aunt Edna's head.

    * DO NOT divide by zero

    If you have any questions about the acceptable modifications, or if
    you'd just like to chat and learn more about photography, feel free to
    drop by the forums at Farktography.net or email
    questions@farktography.net.
    in reply to: 07-30-08 – I Tawt I Taw a Puddytat! #17418
    schnee
    Participant

    I’m really pleased to see all the boobies from the new Farktographers.

    We have to go back almost two years to the Photograph your favorite places theme to get more boobies than this, and the day is still early. Success? I should think so.

    in reply to: about unfairness, imho, in the rules #17992
    schnee
    Participant

    OK, together again for the first time, here is the new The Rules proposal:


    * What are acceptable and unacceptable modifications?

    ** These are the submission guidelines for all Farktography contests,
    unless otherwise stated in a theme description.

    * Submissions must be photographs. Screen captures do not count as
    photographs.
    * You must be the original photographer of your entry. Do not
    submit anyone else's photography as your own.
    * You are only allowed to enter a photograph once. Do not submit
    the same photo to another contest later.
    * Up to 3 photos can be entered into each contest, as long as each
    photo is of a different composition. Please post each photo
    separately so they can be voted for individually.

    ** General Guidelines:
    * Gross compositional changes are bad. No adding Elvis, no erasing
    utility lines

    * Image corrections are accepted. Color correction? Perspective? Pin
    cushion? Unsightly blemishes? Stray hairs falling over your
    model's alabaster face? Fix these. That's cool.

    ** Unacceptable Modifications:

    * Combining exposures in post-processing is not allowed (e.g. HDR,
    stitching, stacking negative, &c - not allowed). However,
    multiple exposures produced in-camera are always acceptable.

    * Removing or adding objects or textures via cloning or copying -
    no removing of utility wires, no inserting images of Elvis


    If you have any questions about the acceptable modifications, or if
    you'd just like to chat and learn more about photography, feel free to
    drop by the forums at Farktography.net or email
    questions@farktography.net.
    in reply to: about unfairness, imho, in the rules #17990
    schnee
    Participant

    * Combining exposures in post-processing is not allowed (e.g. HDR,
    stitching, stacking negative, &c – not allowed). However,
    multiple exposures produced in-camera are always acceptable.

    split the diff.

    in reply to: about unfairness, imho, in the rules #17986
    schnee
    Participant
        * Combining exposures in post-processing is not allowed.  HDR
    (High Dynamic Range), stitching, stacking negatives, use of
    similar techniques that blend either separate exposures or
    differently exposed single RAW images - all those are
    out. Multiple exposures produced in-camera are always
    acceptable, however.

    ?

    in reply to: about unfairness, imho, in the rules #17981
    schnee
    Participant

    Concentrating on the nots, we get:

    * What are acceptable and unacceptable modifications?

    ** These are the submission guidelines for all Farktography contests,
    unless otherwise stated in a theme description.

    * Submissions must be photographs. Screen captures do not count as
    photographs.
    * You must be the original photographer of your entry. Do not
    submit anyone else's photography as your own.
    * You are only allowed to enter a photograph once. Do not submit
    the same photo to another contest later.
    * Up to 3 photos can be entered into each contest, as long as each
    photo is of a different composition. Please post each photo
    separately so they can be voted for individually.

    ** General Guidelines:
    * Gross compositional changes are bad
    No adding Elvis, no erasing utility lines

    * Image corrections are accepted. Color correction? Perspective? Pin
    cushion? Unsightly blemishes? Fix these. That's cool.

    ** Unacceptable Modifications:

    * HDR (High Dynamic Range) images or use of similar techniques
    that blend either separate exposures or differently exposed
    single RAW images unless the individual contest specifically
    states that HDR is allowed. Multiple exposures produced
    in-camera are always acceptable, however.

    * Removing or adding objects or textures via cloning or copying -
    no removing of utility wires, no inserting images of Elvis


    If you have any questions about the acceptable modifications, or if
    you'd just like to chat and learn more about photography, feel free to
    drop by the forums at Farktography.net or email
    questions@farktography.net.

    More nicelyer concise, but not quite pithy. Is there a wordsmith in the house?

    (after getting the edits, I can work on the final copy and convert it to HTML for Fark consumption, unless you know org-mode in emacs – the above is just that (and by ‘you’, I mean the collective ‘you’))

    in reply to: about unfairness, imho, in the rules #17978
    schnee
    Participant

    Though why allow correction of blemishes and stray hairs but not power lines?

    I struggled with that as well. Scale, yeah, and I was combining photojournalist ethics with portrait photographer ethics – the portraitist knows that everyone wants to be presented at their best and removes blemishes automatically. The journalist wants to show the reality image.

    Now, if we had a “Show us your liver spots theme”, then keeping the blemishes in would be the right thing to do.

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