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 03/17/2007 09:57:06 AM · #26
Originally posted by DrAchoo:
Originally posted by AlexSaberi:
so do you all think a full body enviromental photo would be ok for colour portrait?


Gonna try to get a few bucks in the background?


nah i thought maybe I would employ some children to paint! lol
 03/17/2007 10:40:40 AM · #27
Ah MAN am I frustrated!!!! Entirely my fault too. Went out to this dream location for portrait shoots this afternoon - shot on Auto for a while and then switched to Speed Priority. Filled the memory card. Left the location on a high, and had a look at the images. When switching to Speed Priority, the setting had been on manual white balance and set to Best Beloved's last shoot!!!! My pictures are BLUE BLUE BLUE!!! and nothing in all creation can change the fact.

Do entirely Blue shots count as Colour Portrait?? :-P

Will have to sift through the Auto cop-outs and find something useful. blaaaa!
 03/17/2007 10:41:34 AM · #28
Perhaps the "full body" is a Doe?

Originally posted by DrAchoo:
Originally posted by AlexSaberi:
so do you all think a full body enviromental photo would be ok for colour portrait?


Gonna try to get a few bucks in the background?
03/17/2007 11:04:02 AM · #29
Originally posted by AlexSaberi:
so do you all think a full body enviromental photo would be ok for colour portrait?

From the last one it looks like the blue was a full body environmental type shot. Not standing but full body none the less. Didnt seem to be too many others in the challenge though.
 03/18/2007 06:20:34 AM · #30
too bad for me, but the color version of this was horrible ;-)


btw, can you use the cloud filter to drop in a backdrop?
 03/18/2007 06:26:18 AM · #31
Originally posted by Skip:
too bad for me, but the color version of this was horrible ;-)


btw, can you use the cloud filter to drop in a backdrop?


Excellent shot of Lerher, Skip! And... no, you can't ;)
 03/18/2007 06:38:27 AM · #32
Originally posted by idnic:
Originally posted by Skip:
btw, can you use the cloud filter to drop in a backdrop?

Excellent shot of Lerher, Skip! And... no, you can't ;)

that's a bummer...
how i spent yesterday morning
03/18/2007 06:48:00 AM · #33
Originally posted by Skip:


That's some serious improvement! Looks great :)
 03/18/2007 07:12:54 AM · #34
grr...my model cancelled on me this weekend. SO I won't be able to enter this challenge. I think I would have had a great chance too....darn it. The one challenge i was really looking forward to and I can't enter.
 03/18/2007 07:13:53 AM · #35
Originally posted by albc28:
grr...my model cancelled on me this weekend. SO I won't be able to enter this challenge. I think I would have had a great chance too....darn it. The one challenge i was really looking forward to and I can't enter.


Sounds like time to practice self-portraiture. :D
 03/18/2007 08:06:08 AM · #36
was working 26 hours the past 2 days, so i hope i have enough inspiration or whatever to come up with something, now...lol
gotta go, my "model" is waiting!
 03/18/2007 09:13:19 AM · #37
I'm in on Color Portrait.... Look out Cindi, my picture is smokin'!!!!!
 03/18/2007 09:19:59 AM · #38
Originally posted by biteme:
portrait - a likeness of a person, esp. of the face, as a painting, drawing, or photograph: a gallery of family portraits.


In the Color Portrait I challenge, the highest placing entry of an animal was 64th.

What do you all think about a portrait shot of an animal instead of a person? Is this too out of the box thinking?

My out of the box thinking has gotten me into scoring trouble in both the Time challenge and the Image Grain challenge and my average score won't be able to survive a third assault.

It's not that I can't get somebody to model for me (there is always a first), it's just that I somehow manage to get good cooperation from animals and I've got what I THINK is a great shot.
 03/18/2007 09:23:24 AM · #39
Originally posted by yakatme:
Originally posted by biteme:
portrait - a likeness of a person, esp. of the face, as a painting, drawing, or photograph: a gallery of family portraits.


In the Color Portrait I challenge, the highest placing entry of an animal was 64th.

What do you all think about a portrait shot of an animal instead of a person? Is this too out of the box thinking?

17th place in Color Studio Portrait (the most recent one) was of a toy. I think if the shot is done right it can score well - toy, animal or whatever.
 03/18/2007 10:18:57 AM · #40
Thanks for the encourgement Yak and Tim, the only good looking member of my family is the dog.
 03/18/2007 10:52:05 AM · #41
if you choose to go 'out of the box', don't complain if you get smacked...
 03/18/2007 10:59:48 AM · #42
Noooo. I don't want to get smacked yet again. But I keep seeing encouraging suggestions to think out of the box and stop following what seems to be narrow DPC mentality.

Do you think that a colorful portrait of an animal instead of a person will be a "smackable", out of the box offense for this challenge?

edit for clarification

Message edited by author 2007-03-18 15:01:32.
 03/18/2007 11:13:08 AM · #43
[quote=yakatme] Noooo. I don't want to get smacked yet again. But I keep seeing encouraging suggestions to think out of the box and stop following what seems to be narrow DPC mentality.

Do you think that a colorful portrait of an animal instead of a person will be a "smackable", out of the box offense for this challenge?

I think you ARE messing with fire. With the very specific challenges of the past such as pet portrait and studio color portrait, the assumption with some will be that each case has it's own category and they don't like to see crossover. Not most mind you, but some. So although you can do well, be prepared for the odd extremely low vote based on content... Unfortunate really because the challenge dosn't specify the subject but history has shown that certain assumptions are made... :)
 03/18/2007 11:30:08 AM · #44
::Plucks at daisy...submit...unsubmit...submit...unsubmit...SUBMIT!::

Okay...mine is in! ::gulp::

Good Luck Everyone!
 03/18/2007 12:55:25 PM · #45
Hmmmmm...do you think a photo of a persons face might work for this challenge...lmao!!

Come on now...with all the bantering over the challenge details...someone had to ask this! Just relax folks....enter and have fun!
 03/18/2007 05:49:53 PM · #46
my entry of myself is SO bad, no amount of anything can fix it. I really can't imagine the pain, anguish and other bad stuff that I will put myself through if i enter it. Therefore, I just hit the unsubmit button.

Have fun everyone this week - I will vote but don't want to put anyone through having to vote on my entry!

Message edited by author 2007-03-18 21:50:24.
 03/18/2007 06:03:40 PM · #47
I'm in but I am already doomed as I didn't shoot a female. We need to break these challenges by gender just to make it fair! :P
 03/18/2007 06:38:23 PM · #48
Originally posted by yanko:
I'm in but I am already doomed as I didn't shoot a female. We need to break these challenges by gender just to make it fair! :P


Damn..you just confirmed what I was thinking!!
I don't care I like my shot, I think its the best Ive done in a while. I know this is a killer crowd in this one though, so my expectations are realistic :)

Message edited by author 2007-03-18 22:38:39.
 03/18/2007 06:48:23 PM · #49
*smiles*
03/18/2007 06:59:25 PM · #50
Originally posted by idnic:
*smiles*


ok...well that just makes me even more nervous!
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