Hexus Photo Challenge: "Industry"

[shiato storm]

you need to take the photo in the week of the challenge, thems be the rules.

I'm hoping to get one or 2 taken today as, so far, it's a nice day so hopefully the rain will hold off till I can get it done!

yup, everyone has upto midnight sunday to take the photos, after which they must submit the location of the uploaded file (not the file itself...mr. 5lab...) before monday 7.30pm...(well, monday evening is when the voting will start so thats when they must be in by!)

[Elmo]

wheeeeee! got my photos taken and chosen one!

*sends*

[Elmo]

ahh poo, i did it wrong lol, shall send again and do it right this time

[shiato storm]

jolly good...

[jamena]

when you say no editing does that include no cropping?

[Matt1eD]

farming?

these things are all about individual interpretation, im sure with a bit of thought you can find a subject.

Just submitted my entry. From a farm.

[Funkstar]

ok, thats cool. Picked up my 350D yesterday so now i just need to get playing with it. Looks liek it's going to be a nice day up here so i'll see what i can find.

[shiato storm]

cropping is fine. just don't crop it to b*ggery...you may chop off something that adds to the picture...

[noah]

well... i didnt get a chance to get the pic i wanted, soi think i'll give you one i took on wednesday instead. im reasonably happy with it but its a shame i didnt get the planned one. hope everyone else mangaed to get something they're happy with and send it in

[Funkstar]

Jut sent off my one. Not completely happy with it, was hoping to get something a bit more original, but didn't have as much time as I had hoped this weekend. There is always something that comes up...

Neil

[Elmo]

my major issue this week was the crap weather, but i have submitted the photo that i'm happiest with. It's hardly original, but it's still a damn good photo, i've had loads of compliments about it already! (mainly from family members and people i've paid )

[Bob Crabtree]

cropping is fine. just don't crop it to b*ggery...you may chop off something that adds to the picture...

Surely, it's better to leave in the stuff that adds to the picture!



Sorry - couldn't resist that.

Oh, and I don't see any mention of prizes - does it make sense for me to scrounge some up - if not for this compo, then for the next one?

And, I'm happy to do that, and more than confident I'll be able to get in some software as prizes.


Bob (ever the pedant)

[shiato storm]

Bob if you can wangle some prizes in I'm sure everyone will be up for that! that would be great. Thanks!

[noah]

Oh, and I don't see any mention of prizes - does it make sense for me to scrounge some up - if not for this compo, then for the next one?

now he says that

lol, only joking. would be lovely to have a prize, might entice more of our fellow hexites in here!

[Bob Crabtree]

Bob if you can wangle some prizes in I'm sure everyone will be up for that! that would be great. Thanks!

Then I absolutely will arrange something for the next compo - as long as you can keep me in the loop on what you're planning and when.

I'm now thinking aloud - so nothing below is cast in stone - but these are the things I'm thinking and none is un-doable, in my view.

First, depending on how successful the next compo and subsequent compos turn out to be, will depend on how big and wonderful the prizes can grow to be in future.

For the next one, though, I'll try to get multiple prizes of software - though, initially, these probably wouldn't be something REALLY fancy such as copies of the full Photoshop.

However, having multiple prizes rather than one grand prizes would, I'd like to think, encourage more entrants - and, of course, the person who's pic is voted No.1 still gets the top-dog accolade (and maybe some likkle extra or extras - I'll have a word with David and see if something like a HEXUS T-shirt might be possible and/or other goodies).

Also, although I appreciate the ethos of not massively editing pics, I think it might be a positive thing to include sometime down the line a compo where people have to find an existing shot and rescue it - in the sort of way I described doing with that New York skyline shot in my news story about Photoshop Elements 4.0

If we do do something like that then we may well find that it's a bit easier to get really good prize sponsorship especially if, say, we stipulate what software has to be used.

Lots of companies offer trial downloads of their programs and for those people without broadband, we could maybe organise a CD chain where we send out, say, five trial CDs and people just mail those one.

But, like I said, all this is just me thinking aloud - the only thing I'll guarantee is that I'll be able to get multiple prizes of software for the next competition.

Bob

[shiato storm]

cheers Bob, yes I agree on the prizes, if they can be sorted out then a 1st, 2nd, 3rd type arrangement would be favourable.
and on the editing front again I agree, one round I had planned to set in the future is one solely based on massive editing. so although the photo taken might not be that inspiring it will be up to the 'editee' to create a master piece.
at this early stage though I appreciate not everyone has editing software - or knows how to use it fully if they do - so decided to concentrate on photographic skill but certainly in later compo's once everyone has seen a few go by smoothly then I can see an editing one going rather well
great idea!

p.s. there's a list of editing software in my sticky