David1961

Yes, some very nice photos there. After just a quick look through the entries so far I can see 3 or 4 that would get my top score. I'll definitely vote in this one :-)

From my understanding, this is basically a reaffirmation of your General Guidance thread about 1 month ago now :-) So I am not sure why some people are disappointed or surprised at what has ...

The background could have been a solid colour and the blurring and various shades could be created in post processing using a combination of blurring, gradients and masks.

Thank you again for firstly donating your time, willingness and interest in moderating our forum and for following up with admin to establish an official position on how to handle allegations of ...

Thank you for confirming the anonymous ID's are constant for members when they vote in different challenges. But why not communicate your finding to just the other hosts in a pm? For honest voters ...

There are many different definitions of what a macro is. The host accepted even a complete dining table and setting as a macro in a recent challenge. I vote according to what I see as a macro.

Most of the entries are not macros or even close to macro and so received a 1/2 star from me.

You should avoid using a faster shutter speed than needed to meet your motion blur requirements - eliminate camera shake, freeze motion etc. The reason being that even on a bright sunny day with ...

Stunning shot!! Thank you for sharing :-)

I have the P600 so I assume the P800 will be similar. Have you checked that you have the correct paper source set in your printer settings? You might have accidentally set Roll Paper as the paper ...

Yes, totally correct but am just adding a bit for clarification to anyone interested. When shooting raw, the in-camera white balance setting is not applied to the raw data in camera. The WB setting ...

For me, sharing the edited version without telling the recipients that it is fake is at least unethical because I see it as the same as sharing someone else's "postcard" you could have bought at a ...

Your raw images are all pretty good given the lighting. You can still do quite a lot with these to make the house pop at least to some extent given the lighting while still maintaining reality to a ...

I bought my first camera in 2007, a compact point and shoot. I upgraded to my first DSLR in 2012 and upgraded again in 2020. My high school maths tells me that so far I have upgraded every 5-8 ...

It looks like running actions on one file at a time is a Photoshop Elements limitation then. Using Javascript instead, I can loop through all the image files in the photo bin when I run a script.

The only presets I use are my own scripts that I have written in Javascript to make my workflow more efficient. Both Photoshop Elements and Photoshop support Javascript. Typically, I use my scripts ...

The issue here isn't that entrants are not following the rules. The issue is that hosts will have their own individual limits on post processing and not all hosts define what they mean to be ...

BIF is not a major part of my photography but I certainly enjoy the challenge.

Absolutely awesome......as always. Thank you for sharing :-)

How can they compete since they can't be voted on and so won't be ranked at all? What prize do you see that can be won by the actual entries in a challenge?