gordonpritchard

When I enter or host a challenge, my intent is to try and rise to the challenge by going outside my photography comfort zone and thereby possibly learn new things/techniques. It's not so much ...

Rodger, I thought the OP was talking about doing a one-off print rather than a print run of hundreds/thousand. I could be wrong. When you talk about 300dpi - I assume that the 300 dpi is the image ...

Welcome to the club. :-p

Have you tried London Drugs? Yeah I know. Maybe my expectations aren't as high as yours though. I've only had good experiences with them when giving them an sRGB image and telling them not to ...

That’s kind of you to say. Thank you.

Thanks

That challenge winner prompted me to start this thread: https://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/65561521 ———————————————————————------ "View their gallery before accepting their comments." ——————————— ...

It was just an observation. I wasn't thinking that the issue could/should be addressed. I do think it might be one of the reasons that some people don't enter a challenge as well as why some ...

Aesthetically pleasing of the image seems to be the #1 criteria. Which is my point. How well the images meets the rules of the channel is #2. I.e. If the rule is B&W and you enter a color image ...

It's between artistic where the photographer has put some effort into the shot (chose an interesting viewpoint, lighting, focus etc) vs simply pointing the camera and snapping a photo of a pretty ...

It seems that in many challenges folks give high scores (even challenge winning scores) based on the subject rather than any artistic merit the photo may exhibit. Shouldn't photos entered into ...

A nice series indeed.

Like so? Sharpened the subject and opened up the shadows a tad and added some saturation. Desaturated and blurred the background a bit to let the subject stand out a bit better. Always difficult to ...

IMHO that is debatable. One could argue that you want the cleanest base image to work with in post - which means that you do noise reduction before, rather than after, edits.

Don't get your hopes up. This inability to recognize some faces is also an ongoing problem with PhotoShop CC.

This image would make a great contribution to this dpreview challenge: https://www.dpreview.com/challenges/Challenge.aspx?ID=15290

There is a challenge you should consider entering: https://www.dpreview.com/challenges/Challenge.aspx?ID=15290

A bit of duct tape and a lick of paint and they're good as new.