The rules for this challenge indicate that NO POST PROCESSING and only RESIZING will be allowed.
Should I assume that if I used the INTERNAL GRAYSCALE setting on my camera, that many voters would assume/consider it post-processed and score it lower? (or even suggest it for DQ).
The rules for this challenge indicate that NO POST PROCESSING and only RESIZING will be allowed.
Should I assume that if I used the INTERNAL GRAYSCALE setting on my camera, that many voters would assume/consider it post-processed and score it lower? (or even suggest it for DQ).
If they read the rules, they'll vote as if it were legal, then request a DQ if they don't believe it. When it doesn't get DQd, they'll know. *he says, knowing full-well that many don't actually read the rules, despite clicking the check box that says they did*
I am sure there will be so many B&W and sepia photos in the "past" challenge that people won't put in a DQ request for all of them. I know for sure that the Sony 707/717 and Olympus C-5050Z both do in-camera B&W and sepia shots. The Fuji S602 does B&W (not sure about sepia), and I guess a whole lot of other cameras also do the same. So I don't think worrying about DQ requests will be a big issue in this challenge.
Actually I would be interested in knowing how many cameras do in-camera B&W and sepia pics.
I am sure there will be so many B&W and sepia photos in the "past" challenge that people won't put in a DQ request for all of them. I know for sure that the Sony 707/717 and Olympus C-5050Z both do in-camera B&W and sepia shots. The Fuji S602 does B&W (not sure about sepia), and I guess a whole lot of other cameras also do the same. So I don't think worrying about DQ requests will be a big issue in this challenge.
Actually I would be interested in knowing how many cameras do in-camera B&W and sepia pics.
I know some of the Nikon Coolpix cameras will do B&W, my 995 does it, I am pretty sure the 990 did, not so sure about the others. I agree there are many cameras that will do at least B&W, fewer that do sepia though.
Sony Mavica CD400 does Sepia, B/W, and it also does some weird stuff like Solarize and Negative (color inversion). I've never used those last two - the results don't seem very appealing to me, but the sepia and B/W work great! I'll likely be using one of those as well for this challenge.
Switch your camera to SP (scene position)... one of the options is BW (black and white).
Thanks! I've never noticed the B&W setting because I never use SP at all. When I first bought the camera almost a year ago, I looked at SP and figured that I would never use it since it seems to just make simple adjustments to aprature and shutter speed based on the "scene" you choose, which are obvious to me.
I wonder if there's any quality difference between the B&W built into the camera and doing it from photoshop (but not for this challenge)? Have you done any experimenting at all with this?
The F7x7 doesn't have a black and white mode...only sepia.
Originally posted by kiwiness:
I am sure there will be so many B&W and sepia photos in the "past" challenge that people won't put in a DQ request for all of them. I know for sure that the Sony 707/717 and Olympus C-5050Z both do in-camera B&W and sepia shots. The Fuji S602 does B&W (not sure about sepia), and I guess a whole lot of other cameras also do the same. So I don't think worrying about DQ requests will be a big issue in this challenge.
Actually I would be interested in knowing how many cameras do in-camera B&W and sepia pics.
I have a 602 too and it's also got this "Multi-exposure" thingy. I explored with it in black and white making people appear 'ghost-like". But now I have found a better candidate for this comp [At least I think it is!]
I only have one thing to tell you, read the manual ; ) 602 is a great little beast.
Try a simple black and white conversion and then try splitting a full-colour RGB image into the red, green and blue channels. There's really no comparison. The simple conversion produces a flat, low-contrast image whereas the three channels each have very different tonalities and they can be used on their own or swapped into different channels to create unique effects. One of my best shots using just the green colour channel is here:
Skin tone is vastly improved. Also, my 'Future' shot was done using just the green channel.
The key is that you're using a camera with a fairly clean image. It's one of the reasons I switched from my DSC-S50. The image channels were unusable. You can really tell the difference when a polariser is used when using this method. The images are much moisier.
Originally posted by ChrisW123:
Originally posted by casualguy:
Switch your camera to SP (scene position)... one of the options is BW (black and white).
Thanks! I've never noticed the B&W setting because I never use SP at all. When I first bought the camera almost a year ago, I looked at SP and figured that I would never use it since it seems to just make simple adjustments to aprature and shutter speed based on the "scene" you choose, which are obvious to me.
I wonder if there's any quality difference between the B&W built into the camera and doing it from photoshop (but not for this challenge)? Have you done any experimenting at all with this?
So just to check- no rotating or cropping are allowed either? Just the resize?
i rotated mine. if it gets DQ'd, so be it. some shots you just can't take without rotating your camera.
i don't consider rotating to be post-processing. it's akin to hanging a photo on a wall differently. cropping, however, is post-processing, so be sure to capture only what you want in the frame.
I think rotating the image to take into account holding the camera in portrait versus landscape is in the spirit. I think rotating the image to fix a crooked horizon is not in the spirit.
As someone always says, "I am not a lawyer, ..." so use the advice at your own risk.
