>>> challenge 83 information <<<

[Andi Buchner]

Hello!

I'm so sorry but I enjoyed a weekend without internet ;-)
So please let me say sorry for the delay!

Since this is my first challenge I hope I don't do anything wrong.

Before starting just visit the results-thread from challenge 82:
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1009&message=11293920

So here is the topic for challege 83: blurred and/or out-of-focus

Blurred and/or out-of-focus does not (necessarily) mean a failed image. Long-time-expose with moving objects or holding the camera where usually a tripod would be applicable can cause fascinating effects. Also out-of-focus could be very interesting. Use your flash if you like to freeze some parts of the image while others are blurred. Just a few hints for the beginning.

Due to my "internetlessness "during the past two days the challenge starts at December 5, 12am EST. And the deadline for submissions will be like suggested by Mike on Tuesday the 21st of December, Midnight EST.

O.K.? I hope you all can live with that - and again hope you'll forgive the delay! I will get my Nokia Communicator tomorrow so I'll never be again without my beloved STF again ;-)

GUIDELINES

These guidelines are meant to help things run smoothly for all... and to serve as a handy reference to answer common questions. Thanks for reading all this stuff again:

• Up to three(3) images are allowed in each of the two galleries (Eligible and Exhibition). Each photographer can choose whether to enter one or more photos per gallery. This should generally accomodate everyone's personal style and approach to the challenges...whatever works best to make the challenge more fun for you.

• You can enter photos anonymously if you want to. If you do, I'm asking you to send me an email indicating your identity for any anonymous entries. My address is in my forum profile.

• Those who prefer to have critiques of their photos be more "critical", feel free to mark the image title with an asterisk ( ).

• Please put your name(identity choice) and a unique title on each of your image thumbnails. It really helps to keep voting problem issues to a minimum.

• Please resize your images to no larger than 800 pixels on the longest side before uploading to pBase... can be larger if a panoramic image. This cuts down on too much usage, and it helps to preserve the quality of your image upload for best viewing.

• Please keep your questions and concerns posted in this thread for best response. One of us will address them as soon as possible.

• as indicated, challenge time period will run from 12AM EST (New York time) Sunday, December 5, 2004, thru Tuesday, December 21, 2004, at midnight EST. Time tables will be posted in the galleries. A separate voting thread will be posted shortly after the end of the Challenge period.

• Eligible images must be taken with a Sony digital camera...& within the challenge time period. The winner of this gallery will host the next Challenge. All entries should include a date indicating when the photo was taken..."exif" data attached would be ideal(if available). "Exif" data is a big help to a lot of viewers for a variety of reasons. If the "exif" data is not preserved, try writing it into your caption (by referring to the original photo's "exif" data that should be available before doing any photo processing). At the least, please include the date the photo was taken on all the eligible photos. This is a popular request...so I'm passing along your requests here. THANKS, everybody, for your friendly cooperation.

• Exhibition images can be obtained with any camera at any time. If you do not want to host the next Challenge, this is the gallery you should post your images to.
• Here’s a link to the stfchallenge galleries page:

http://www.pbase.com/stfchallenge/root

Due to vandal problems, the STF Challenge's galleries are no longer public

• If you have your own personal PBase account, you should be able to post, edit, and, if you wish, replace your own individual images. You simply need to be logged in to your own Pbase account and click the "edit this gallery" link at the top of the relevant gallery screen. If you find that you can't do this, then you will need to send us your PBase Username (the one you use to login) to [email protected]. Do NOT send your personal password.

• If you don't have your own PBase account then you can still manage your entries via the same "edit this gallery" link. In this case, you will need to enter the password "stfpost". This will give exclusive access to your own images, and cookies must be enabled.
• To see fully illustrated upload instructions, visit:

http://www.PBase.com/stfchallenge/how_to_post

I hope you all will enjoy participating in this challenge 83 and soon forget how it started.

Since this is my first time hosting any challenges help and suggestions are welcome!

Regards,
Andi

--
http://www.pbase.com/anbuccos
pbase supporter

 

[Markjay]

you do NOT have to apologize just because you needed a two day break from the internet. Next time, you might want to make a quickie post that states you'll be away for a few day and not to worry, challenge will go on as planned.

Great subject / theme...... hope all is well with you.

Markjay

Hello!

I'm so sorry but I enjoyed a weekend without internet ;-)
So please let me say sorry for the delay!

Since this is my first challenge I hope I don't do anything wrong.

Before starting just visit the results-thread from challenge 82:
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1009&message=11293920

So here is the topic for challege 83: blurred and/or out-of-focus

Blurred and/or out-of-focus does not (necessarily) mean a failed
image. Long-time-expose with moving objects or holding the camera
where usually a tripod would be applicable can cause fascinating
effects. Also out-of-focus could be very interesting. Use your
flash if you like to freeze some parts of the image while others
are blurred. Just a few hints for the beginning.

Due to my "internetlessness "during the past two days the challenge
starts at December 5, 12am EST. And the deadline for submissions
will be like suggested by Mike on Tuesday the 21st of December,
Midnight EST.

O.K.? I hope you all can live with that - and again hope you'll
forgive the delay! I will get my Nokia Communicator tomorrow so
I'll never be again without my beloved STF again ;-)

GUIDELINES

These guidelines are meant to help things run smoothly for all...
and to serve as a handy reference to answer common questions.
Thanks for reading all this stuff again:

• Up to three(3) images are allowed in each of the two galleries

(Eligible and Exhibition). Each photographer can choose whether to
enter one or more photos per gallery. This should generally
accomodate everyone's personal style and approach to the
challenges...whatever works best to make the challenge more fun for
you.

• You can enter photos anonymously if you want to. If you do, I'm

asking you to send me an email indicating your identity for any
anonymous entries. My address is in my forum profile.

• Those who prefer to have critiques of their photos be more

"critical", feel free to mark the image title with an asterisk ( ).

• Please put your name(identity choice) and a unique title on each

of your image thumbnails. It really helps to keep voting problem
issues to a minimum.

• Please resize your images to no larger than 800 pixels on the

longest side before uploading to pBase... can be larger if a
panoramic image. This cuts down on too much usage, and it helps to
preserve the quality of your image upload for best viewing.

• Please keep your questions and concerns posted in this thread for

best response. One of us will address them as soon as possible.

• as indicated, challenge time period will run from 12AM EST (New

York time) Sunday, December 5, 2004, thru Tuesday, December 21,
2004, at midnight EST. Time tables will be posted in the galleries.
A separate voting thread will be posted shortly after the end of
the Challenge period.

• Eligible images must be taken with a Sony digital camera...&

within the challenge time period. The winner of this gallery will
host the next Challenge. All entries should include a date
indicating when the photo was taken..."exif" data attached would be
ideal(if available). "Exif" data is a big help to a lot of viewers
for a variety of reasons. If the "exif" data is not preserved, try
writing it into your caption (by referring to the original photo's
"exif" data that should be available before doing any photo
processing). At the least, please include the date the photo was
taken on all the eligible photos. This is a popular request...so
I'm passing along your requests here. THANKS, everybody, for your
friendly cooperation.

• Exhibition images can be obtained with any camera at any time. If

you do not want to host the next Challenge, this is the gallery you
should post your images to.

• Here’s a link to the stfchallenge galleries page:

http://www.pbase.com/stfchallenge/root

Due to vandal problems, the STF Challenge's galleries are no
longer public

• If you have your own personal PBase account, you should be able

to post, edit, and, if you wish, replace your own individual
images. You simply need to be logged in to your own Pbase account
and click the "edit this gallery" link at the top of the relevant
gallery screen. If you find that you can't do this, then you will
need to send us your PBase Username (the one you use to login) to
[email protected]. Do NOT send your personal password.

• If you don't have your own PBase account then you can still

manage your entries via the same "edit this gallery" link. In this
case, you will need to enter the password "stfpost". This will give
exclusive access to your own images, and cookies must be enabled.

• To see fully illustrated upload instructions, visit:

http://www.PBase.com/stfchallenge/how_to_post

I hope you all will enjoy participating in this challenge 83 and
soon forget how it started.

Since this is my first time hosting any challenges help and
suggestions are welcome!

Regards,
Andi

--
http://www.pbase.com/anbuccos
pbase supporter

--

Photography allows me the opportunity to share what I see through my viewfinder, with those who can apprecaite the beauty of the world around us.

 

[A.D.Haney]

Hello!

I'm so sorry but I enjoyed a weekend without internet ;-)
So please let me say sorry for the delay!

Since this is my first challenge I hope I don't do anything wrong.

Before starting just visit the results-thread from challenge 82:
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1009&message=11293920

So here is the topic for challege 83: blurred and/or out-of-focus

Blurred and/or out-of-focus does not (necessarily) mean a failed
image. Long-time-expose with moving objects or holding the camera
where usually a tripod would be applicable can cause fascinating
effects. Also out-of-focus could be very interesting. Use your
flash if you like to freeze some parts of the image while others
are blurred. Just a few hints for the beginning.

Due to my "internetlessness "during the past two days the challenge
starts at December 5, 12am EST. And the deadline for submissions
will be like suggested by Mike on Tuesday the 21st of December,
Midnight EST.

O.K.? I hope you all can live with that - and again hope you'll
forgive the delay! I will get my Nokia Communicator tomorrow so
I'll never be again without my beloved STF again ;-)

GUIDELINES

These guidelines are meant to help things run smoothly for all...
and to serve as a handy reference to answer common questions.
Thanks for reading all this stuff again:

• Up to three(3) images are allowed in each of the two galleries

(Eligible and Exhibition). Each photographer can choose whether to
enter one or more photos per gallery. This should generally
accomodate everyone's personal style and approach to the
challenges...whatever works best to make the challenge more fun for
you.

• You can enter photos anonymously if you want to. If you do, I'm

asking you to send me an email indicating your identity for any
anonymous entries. My address is in my forum profile.

• Those who prefer to have critiques of their photos be more

"critical", feel free to mark the image title with an asterisk ( ).

• Please put your name(identity choice) and a unique title on each

of your image thumbnails. It really helps to keep voting problem
issues to a minimum.

• Please resize your images to no larger than 800 pixels on the

longest side before uploading to pBase... can be larger if a
panoramic image. This cuts down on too much usage, and it helps to
preserve the quality of your image upload for best viewing.

• Please keep your questions and concerns posted in this thread for

best response. One of us will address them as soon as possible.

• as indicated, challenge time period will run from 12AM EST (New

York time) Sunday, December 5, 2004, thru Tuesday, December 21,
2004, at midnight EST. Time tables will be posted in the galleries.
A separate voting thread will be posted shortly after the end of
the Challenge period.

• Eligible images must be taken with a Sony digital camera...&

within the challenge time period. The winner of this gallery will
host the next Challenge. All entries should include a date
indicating when the photo was taken..."exif" data attached would be
ideal(if available). "Exif" data is a big help to a lot of viewers
for a variety of reasons. If the "exif" data is not preserved, try
writing it into your caption (by referring to the original photo's
"exif" data that should be available before doing any photo
processing). At the least, please include the date the photo was
taken on all the eligible photos. This is a popular request...so
I'm passing along your requests here. THANKS, everybody, for your
friendly cooperation.

• Exhibition images can be obtained with any camera at any time. If

you do not want to host the next Challenge, this is the gallery you
should post your images to.

• Here’s a link to the stfchallenge galleries page:

http://www.pbase.com/stfchallenge/root

Due to vandal problems, the STF Challenge's galleries are no
longer public

• If you have your own personal PBase account, you should be able

to post, edit, and, if you wish, replace your own individual
images. You simply need to be logged in to your own Pbase account
and click the "edit this gallery" link at the top of the relevant
gallery screen. If you find that you can't do this, then you will
need to send us your PBase Username (the one you use to login) to
[email protected]. Do NOT send your personal password.

• If you don't have your own PBase account then you can still

manage your entries via the same "edit this gallery" link. In this
case, you will need to enter the password "stfpost". This will give
exclusive access to your own images, and cookies must be enabled.

• To see fully illustrated upload instructions, visit:

http://www.PBase.com/stfchallenge/how_to_post

I hope you all will enjoy participating in this challenge 83 and
soon forget how it started.

Since this is my first time hosting any challenges help and
suggestions are welcome!

Regards,
Andi

--
http://www.pbase.com/anbuccos
pbase supporter

--
Dani H
My galleries : http://public.fotki.com/adhaney/

 

[Mike Fitzgerald]

Thinly disguised sound effect pretending not to be a bump ;-)

Hello!

I'm so sorry but I enjoyed a weekend without internet ;-)
So please let me say sorry for the delay!

Since this is my first challenge I hope I don't do anything wrong.

Before starting just visit the results-thread from challenge 82:
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1009&message=11293920

So here is the topic for challege 83: blurred and/or out-of-focus

Blurred and/or out-of-focus does not (necessarily) mean a failed
image. Long-time-expose with moving objects or holding the camera
where usually a tripod would be applicable can cause fascinating
effects. Also out-of-focus could be very interesting. Use your
flash if you like to freeze some parts of the image while others
are blurred. Just a few hints for the beginning.

Due to my "internetlessness "during the past two days the challenge
starts at December 5, 12am EST. And the deadline for submissions
will be like suggested by Mike on Tuesday the 21st of December,
Midnight EST.

O.K.? I hope you all can live with that - and again hope you'll
forgive the delay! I will get my Nokia Communicator tomorrow so
I'll never be again without my beloved STF again ;-)

GUIDELINES

These guidelines are meant to help things run smoothly for all...
and to serve as a handy reference to answer common questions.
Thanks for reading all this stuff again:

• Up to three(3) images are allowed in each of the two galleries

(Eligible and Exhibition). Each photographer can choose whether to
enter one or more photos per gallery. This should generally
accomodate everyone's personal style and approach to the
challenges...whatever works best to make the challenge more fun for
you.

• You can enter photos anonymously if you want to. If you do, I'm

asking you to send me an email indicating your identity for any
anonymous entries. My address is in my forum profile.

• Those who prefer to have critiques of their photos be more

"critical", feel free to mark the image title with an asterisk ( ).

• Please put your name(identity choice) and a unique title on each

of your image thumbnails. It really helps to keep voting problem
issues to a minimum.

• Please resize your images to no larger than 800 pixels on the

longest side before uploading to pBase... can be larger if a
panoramic image. This cuts down on too much usage, and it helps to
preserve the quality of your image upload for best viewing.

• Please keep your questions and concerns posted in this thread for

best response. One of us will address them as soon as possible.

• as indicated, challenge time period will run from 12AM EST (New

York time) Sunday, December 5, 2004, thru Tuesday, December 21,
2004, at midnight EST. Time tables will be posted in the galleries.
A separate voting thread will be posted shortly after the end of
the Challenge period.

• Eligible images must be taken with a Sony digital camera...&

within the challenge time period. The winner of this gallery will
host the next Challenge. All entries should include a date
indicating when the photo was taken..."exif" data attached would be
ideal(if available). "Exif" data is a big help to a lot of viewers
for a variety of reasons. If the "exif" data is not preserved, try
writing it into your caption (by referring to the original photo's
"exif" data that should be available before doing any photo
processing). At the least, please include the date the photo was
taken on all the eligible photos. This is a popular request...so
I'm passing along your requests here. THANKS, everybody, for your
friendly cooperation.

• Exhibition images can be obtained with any camera at any time. If

you do not want to host the next Challenge, this is the gallery you
should post your images to.

• Here’s a link to the stfchallenge galleries page:

http://www.pbase.com/stfchallenge/root

Due to vandal problems, the STF Challenge's galleries are no
longer public

• If you have your own personal PBase account, you should be able

to post, edit, and, if you wish, replace your own individual
images. You simply need to be logged in to your own Pbase account
and click the "edit this gallery" link at the top of the relevant
gallery screen. If you find that you can't do this, then you will
need to send us your PBase Username (the one you use to login) to
[email protected]. Do NOT send your personal password.

• If you don't have your own PBase account then you can still

manage your entries via the same "edit this gallery" link. In this
case, you will need to enter the password "stfpost". This will give
exclusive access to your own images, and cookies must be enabled.

• To see fully illustrated upload instructions, visit:

http://www.PBase.com/stfchallenge/how_to_post

I hope you all will enjoy participating in this challenge 83 and
soon forget how it started.

Since this is my first time hosting any challenges help and
suggestions are welcome!

Regards,
Andi

--
http://www.pbase.com/anbuccos
pbase supporter

 

[kt]

Blurred and/or out-of-focus.

I have lots of those.

 

[Jose Noway]

Mike got them all ready for us. Thanks Mike!

 

[Mike Fitzgerald]

Well Andi had done most of the text as it turned out, but there was this little thing with gallery invisibility so I pinched some of Andi's images for the occasion ;-)

M

Mike got them all ready for us. Thanks Mike!

 

[Mike Fitzgerald]

I'm so sorry but I enjoyed a weekend without internet ;-)
So please let me say sorry for the delay!

...

O.K.? I hope you all can live with that - and again hope you'll
forgive the delay! I will get my Nokia Communicator tomorrow so
I'll never be again without my beloved STF again ;-)

Welcome back Andi. I guess we can take "enjoyed" as being rather tongue-in-cheek?

Out of curiosity, what was the Internet problem? Was it just your ISP or was there a large slice of the country down? I guess that Internet cafés must be few and far between over there...

If there is a risk of another blackout (or whatever), then you may want to deputise some of us to wind up the entries and voting for you if the worst happens. Do let us know!

Cheers,

Mike

 

[Penelope]

Blurred and/or out-of-focus.

I have lots of those.

--
.....Penelope

http://www.pennypics.com

 

[gk08]

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[gk08]

i just uploaded an image to the exhibition gallery but the thumbnail doesnt seem to be working - can anyone else see it? If not how do I fix this??

thanks

gk

 

[mlynn]

I can't see it either gk, and for some reason the little block area that shows image size is saying it has been recompressed. I don't know what that means. You might want to try to upload it again separately.

Melanie

 

[Jose Noway]

I'm playing with your images now-- got one thumb to generate, but the other one refused. I downloaded your image to my computer, then replaced what was on my computer with what was in the pbase database.... and now nothing is there. So..... either something is screwy with your original or pbase is moving the furniture around.

What I'm going to do is to replace your image again, with one of my own images. If that's wonky too, then we can be almost sure that it's a pbase problem.

I'll update you in a second.

Nancy

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i just uploaded an image to the exhibition gallery but the
thumbnail doesnt seem to be working - can anyone else see it? If
not how do I fix this??

thanks

gk

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[HelenPB]

I think there may be a problem with Pbase. I can't get images to load properly in my own gallery. Now I can't even delete them although I know they are there.

Helen

What I'm going to do is to replace your image again, with one of my
own images. If that's wonky too, then we can be almost sure that
it's a pbase problem.

I'll update you in a second.

Nancy

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i just uploaded an image to the exhibition gallery but the
thumbnail doesnt seem to be working - can anyone else see it? If
not how do I fix this??

thanks

gk

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[Jose Noway]

I know that they are playing catchup after some junk that happened last week. I'm sure this will get fixed pretty soon.

I replaced that one image with one of my own and it uploaded just fine. The thumb wasn't created, though, so I tried uploading a fresh image (rather than another replacement). The image was fine here, too..... but still no thumb.

I re-saved gk's image on my computer, then re-uploaded it and now it's working just fine.... except for the thumb.

Conclusion? Heh.... just wait the sucker out. Things'll get fixed ;-)

Nancy

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Helen

What I'm going to do is to replace your image again, with one of my
own images. If that's wonky too, then we can be almost sure that
it's a pbase problem.

I'll update you in a second.

Nancy

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i just uploaded an image to the exhibition gallery but the
thumbnail doesnt seem to be working - can anyone else see it? If
not how do I fix this??

 

[nelraheb]

Hi everybody

since you seem so knowlegable about digital cameras and host sites ..etc. will you please help a new member on this forum I'm using photobucket anf all the urls I post here do not take the medium.jpg form so I'm stuck with a standard pic size !! also when I use irfanview it gives me bmp photos that take ages to load is there a way around those topics

Also will u plz give me your opinion about the pic posted in the topic "noise with W1"
Thankyou

 

[HelenPB]

Well, it's very bizarre, to say the least. I uploaded four images but also couldn't see the thumbs (with one exception). Every time I tried to view that page in the gallery, I got a "low memory" error message, which is absurd, and couldn't see three of the four thumbs. At first I could view the images individually, then not at all. In one instance, the "Edit image" option had disappeared, then the sizes got turned around. Then a picture of some woman appeared when I tried to view one of my pics. Then two of them disappeared on their own. Then one of them acquired numbers in the picture numbering that weren't really there. I reloaded a few times then finally managed to delete them all. I was going to put one of them in the Exhibition gallery, but I think I'll wait .

Helen

I replaced that one image with one of my own and it uploaded just
fine. The thumb wasn't created, though, so I tried uploading a
fresh image (rather than another replacement). The image was fine
here, too..... but still no thumb.

I re-saved gk's image on my computer, then re-uploaded it and now
it's working just fine.... except for the thumb.

Conclusion? Heh.... just wait the sucker out. Things'll get fixed ;-)

Nancy

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Helen

What I'm going to do is to replace your image again, with one of my
own images. If that's wonky too, then we can be almost sure that
it's a pbase problem.

I'll update you in a second.

Nancy

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i just uploaded an image to the exhibition gallery but the
thumbnail doesnt seem to be working - can anyone else see it? If
not how do I fix this??

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http://pbase.com/helenpb
http://community.webshots.com/user/helenpb_
D 70, F 717, V 1, PSCS, Epson 1280

 

[Jose Noway]

When that much stuff is going on in one session, it's a safe bet that the PTB (powers that be) are working on stuff behind the scenes, probably testing bit's o'script, changing things as fast as you are refreshing your monitor. Just give it some time.

Nancy

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Helen

I replaced that one image with one of my own and it uploaded just
fine. The thumb wasn't created, though, so I tried uploading a
fresh image (rather than another replacement). The image was fine
here, too..... but still no thumb.

I re-saved gk's image on my computer, then re-uploaded it and now
it's working just fine.... except for the thumb.

Conclusion? Heh.... just wait the sucker out. Things'll get fixed ;-)

Nancy

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Helen

What I'm going to do is to replace your image again, with one of my
own images. If that's wonky too, then we can be almost sure that
it's a pbase problem.

I'll update you in a second.

Nancy

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i just uploaded an image to the exhibition gallery but the
thumbnail doesnt seem to be working - can anyone else see it? If
not how do I fix this??

--
http://pbase.com/helenpb
http://community.webshots.com/user/helenpb_
D 70, F 717, V 1, PSCS, Epson 1280

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[Jose Noway]

Sorry, I wouldn't have a clue about Photobucket or the W1, but if you ask your question in the forum (rather than this Challenge thread), I bet you'd get some answers.

Nancy

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Hi everybody
since you seem so knowlegable about digital cameras and host sites
..etc. will you please help a new member on this forum I'm using
photobucket anf all the urls I post here do not take the
medium.jpg form so I'm stuck with a standard pic size !! also when
I use irfanview it gives me bmp photos that take ages to load is
there a way around those topics
Also will u plz give me your opinion about the pic posted in the
topic "noise with W1"
Thankyou

 

[gk08]

Glad to know it wasnt just me making some stooopid mistake. Thanks for poking around and hope all is well with you... long time no see

gk