The results for the 'Off-Centered Subject II' challenge have been recalculated, due to the image formerly in 139th place has been disqualified under the 'major elements' rule.
The results for the 'Off-Centered Subject II' challenge have been recalculated, due to the image formerly in 139th place has been disqualified under the 'major elements' rule.
I'm sorry, but you will have to explain the Major Elements thing to me again. Was it the little bird or the tips of the power poles. Everything else was cropped out.
This gets stricter by the challenge !!
Its about time we had a definitive rule on this.
There is a definitive rule ! the problem begins with the SC interpretation of the rule and the fact that it is not always the same SC members who vote on the DQ request.
I think it may often depend on WHO is doing the blurring.
I don't think its who is doing the blur, just that interpretation is changing and not consistent. My image has just as much blur as some of the later ones, but was less strictly enforced. I do think its about time we knew once and for all just where the line is drawn and that there is no more interpretation of a very indistinct rule.
One more question - if motion blur is to be the cause of DQ, what about gaussian blur and other very widely used filters? - disallow the use of one and you must disallow the use of all.
My thought is that the rules are being much to strictly enforced, but then I would say that wouldn't I ;-)
So what Is "major element"? The added blur (that was not there before editing) constitutes more then 2/3 on both images. The blur in the image below constitutes less the 5%. Major element? Please explain this again.
I'm not really complaining because this image actually came in fairly low, but just for reference on what I can and cannot do in the future.
Filters: At your discretion, you may apply filters to your photo, in whole or part. (Be aware that extensively altering the "look" of your photograph with an "effects" filter is often not well received by voters.)
As the main part of the blur was added with the Wind filter in Photoshop how does the editing of this image not fall under this rule?
One thing, each rule is not a stand alone. It is interpreted/applied in conjunction with all the other rules.
So explain it to me.
Explain what? How all the rules are linked together?
edit: BTW, I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with the SC decision.
Just stating that the rules are a set and can't be taken one at a time at the discretion of the photographer while ignoring the rest of the set.
Filters: At your discretion, you may apply filters to your photo, in whole or part. (Be aware that extensively altering the "look" of your photograph with an "effects" filter is often not well received by voters.)
As the main part of the blur was added with the Wind filter in Photoshop how does the editing of this image not fall under this rule?
Several layers of the jet were overlapped to insure I would still be able to retrieve detail in the jet where I wanted it after the I added the Wind filter. Following the application of the Wind filter blur was added the areas distorted by that action. These areas were selected and smoothed with Glausien Blur and the Cloning tool.
