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The Mrs and I went with another couple for dinner and saw the musical ‘Rock of Ages’ tonight. It was a freaking blast! I graduated HS in ’85 so this music (cheesy as it is) is in my blood. If you’re able to relax and enjoy it – this show is really, really fun. I mean, really fun. I was grinning through a lot of it. I highly recommend it.

And geeky me, I set up my posts and made a Word file. Then I brought a laptop with me. We got to the Civic Center at 7:10. I used their WiFi to post and then made it in for the 7:30 show. 🙂

Here are some Bees – (big size)

http://photos.imageevent.com/ulle17/fark/S_6624b.jpg
http://photos.imageevent.com/ulle17/fark/h_5510b.jpg
http://photos.imageevent.com/ulle17/fark/G_5988b.jpg
http://photos.imageevent.com/ulle17/fark/horse_5697b.jpg
http://photos.imageevent.com/ulle17/fark/pole_7641b.jpg
http://photos.imageevent.com/ulle17/fark/f_7309b.jpg
http://photos.imageevent.com/ulle17/fark/IMG_5698b.jpg
http://photos.imageevent.com/ulle17/fark/IMG_0514b.jpg

[U-Man]

My take on this is that any sharpening is not OK. So, kashari, if you have your default RAW settings at a +1 they should be set back to ‘0’ for this theme.

It seems pretty clear from what ZE posted earlier:

I don’t see why not? Play with the white balance, use your in-camera “film simulator”, whatever “presets” or “styles” you may have … its all good.

That he was pretty much open to any use of camera settings (set before taking the photo) for this theme, and I don’t see why that wouldn’t include sharpen settings.

But doing it afterwards is pretty clearly Right Out…

Aaaahhh. I missed the ‘in-camera’ part. I thought kash meant the +1 would be done in the open-RAW-image thingie on a computer.

[U-Man]

Are we allowed to do any sharpening when scaling down to fark sized or should we not do that for this contest?

As for the in-camera RAW processing, are our default shooting settings kosher, like if contrast or sharpening is bumped +1? I’m taking this to mean no tweaking afterwards, is that right?

My take on this is that any sharpening is not OK. So, kashari, if you have your default RAW settings at a +1 they should be set back to ‘0’ for this theme.

But that’s just my $0.02. I’m using virgin jpegs so it’s a no-brainer. (No-brainer virgin jpegs somehow sounds dirty. Doesn’t it?)

I have a love/hate relationship with these completely open themes. My OCD-perfectionist tendencies cannot leave farking well enough alone. I have to keep looking and searching the archives and going “OH!” what about….” Then I wind up using my first three ideas.

Then again, I keep finding whole sets of photos that I forgot about. 🙂

[U-Man]

This theme is killing me. For me, part of the fun and creativity is in post processing. I so want to tweak these pics just a little bit…

/but I promise I’ll just open a jpeg, resize it for Fark and post.
//and my wife and I tease and jokingly fib so much that we had to develop the “I promise” thing while we were dating. You can’t lie even a little if you promise. 🙂
///like Elsinore, I shoot in jpeg/RAW double-save.

[U-Man]

Like that? 🙂

/just having fun.
//I just burned my finger tip.
///I have a round blister right on my shutter finger. 🙁

[U-Man]

It’s better you either vote, or don’t vote. If you have a criticism, be constructive about it.

This is the dumbest thing I have ever seen in print. I think maybe you’re an idiot.

[U-Man]

Agreed. And Done. Well executed, where’d you get the pro-looking sticker? I might have to buy a crate of those to keep in my truck.

http://foodbeast.com/content/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/push-button-receive-bacon.png

I printed several sizes and just used Scotch tape on the one that fit best. Bada-bing.

[U-Man]

I mean, I have much better vote whoring shots than that 😆

Els, useless without pictures.

Orionid, your #5 idea is farking awesome. I think we should all vote for that if somebody did it.

[U-Man]

Okay, now I’m hungry!

Absolutely starving now! It all looks so tasty except the hand dryer bacon. You just wouldn’t know where it had been. lol! Great picture though!

I know! I hit my maximum weight ever after this year’s holidays and I have been eating responsibly and exercising every day. The ‘easy’ pounds are coming off. But I’ll tell you, I ate a piece of that bacon when I was cooking it and it tasted like salty, fatty ambrosia!

I didn’t eat the hand drier bacon.

[U-Man]

U-man already made me laugh out loud with his first entry. This is going to be an awesome theme.

Thank you. Thank you verra much.

[U-Man]

Hey ZE, I asked a question over on the sleeve-faced thread but it looks like there’s more action here.

Could I print an album cover from the internets and use that in my photo? As I said there, if the answer is “no”, I’m cool with that.

[U-Man]

Love that tree bee, U-Man.

Thanks (Be)CISS. My wife ruled it as “too happy” to be desolate.

[U-Man]

1 – I’m pretty sure that my moonlight on snow is new (and I think I have one more in reserve)

2 – Here are some Bees that are just too happy to be desolate –

http://photos.imageevent.com/ulle17/fark/tree_4227b.jpg
http://photos.imageevent.com/ulle17/fark/Farm_4048b.jpg (I can almost feel how HOT is was that evening…)
http://photos.imageevent.com/ulle17/fark/field_5216b.jpg

[U-Man]

I’m glad I came back here. I was thinking about using something like these –

http://photos.imageevent.com/ulle17/fark/door_9713b.jpg
http://photos.imageevent.com/ulle17/fark/abandoned_4623b.jpg
http://photos.imageevent.com/ulle17/fark/punkin_3919b.jpg

Now just consider them as good bad-examples. 🙂

[U-Man]

A tangent to this topic…is there any way to keep the Fark names hidden until voting is complete?

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