Photo Challenge - October 2011 - Night

[DannyBoy]

As a quick question do the have to be straight out the camera or can we edit/process them in photoshop or similar?

They really shouldn't be photoshopped as it's a photography challenge rather than a drawing one. It is however difficult to tell sometimes if something is photoshopped. For that reason I'll leave it up to people to hopefully leave them un photoshopped, if however there is obvious evidence it's photoshopped i'll fire a request back for the unprocessed original

 

I'm guessing any level of HDR-ing is out of the question then?

 

DB

[Chris`I]

Dont see why they shouldnt be PS'd myself. Not really sure you can make a crap photo good using it, you can just make it better. And if you have the skills then why not

[Husky]

ok lets go half way and say that general effects etc (eg. black and white, HDR, sepia) are ok but as you can imagine i'm trying to steer away from entries that don't even look real.

 

Just be sensible, it's your call what you do with the picture and it's everyones vote who wins it

 

 

 

example PS that would get rejected

 

[rodgeevans]

could always do 2 threads/comps one where we can use photoshop/effects etc and one where nothing is allowed so its a true test of the person taking the photo not how efficent you are with editing programes

[DannyBoy]

ok lets go half way and say that general effects etc (eg. black and white, HDR, sepia) are ok but as you can imagine i'm trying to steer away from entries that don't even look real.

 

Just be sensible, it's your call what you do with the picture and it's everyones vote who wins it

 

Good call, TBH I think most people have grown out of using HDR for the uber-saturated comic-book look anyway. I only really use it as a way of shooting backlit or very shiney (car) objects to capture light levels accurately.

 

DB

[Husky]

No sumbissions as yet

[rodgeevans]

i do have some to choose from but i have actually been waiting for certain conditions to capture the actual shot i wanted and so far haven't had them so i was waiting to see if i got said conditions before closing date otherwise i will submit one i already have

[Husky]

awesome

[LRF4N]

I took a few 2 weeks ago for this but didn't get the conditions I hoped for either and didn't come out anywhere near what I wanted

 

Surprised no1 else submitted anything tho

[rodgeevans]

take it there wasn't many submissions, sods law since the closing date passed i have had a few nights with the conditions i was after.

[Husky]

nope no submissions. feel free to post the pictures up though

[rodgeevans]

did you not get mine

[Ekona]

Here's my belated submission:

 

 

 

It's a sleeping black cat laying next to a Kuro 350Z with black wheels outside a barn painted black in the middle of the countryside on a cloudy night. I think I captured the essence of the blissful innocence of the feline contrasting nicely with the angry masculinity of the car, and all set to the simple elegance of a working farm that embodies the quintessential Britishness.

[Husky]

a--mazing!

[Chris`I]

Sorry Dan, thats clearly been photoshopped

[Ekona]

I can categorically state for the record that the image in question has never been Photoshopped.

 

 

It may, however, have been altered slightly with GIMP as I don't have PS at work. All I did though was alter the levels a bit, as the LED 'On' light on the camera caught a slight reflection of the cat's whiskers which totally killed the entire shot.

[Husky]

you needed to turn the wheels inwards to show them off more.