Chat: weekend competition - 29/03 - 31/03 theme: Relaxing

[brendan1980]

Hi everyone, thank you for my votes. WOW! Two entires have won in a row for me now (I skipped a week due to work), very humbled!


This weeks theme has come from my wife. She has chosen a theme of "Relaxing/relaxation"

As for processing, my wife doesn't like photoshop work, so she has decide all images should be straight from the camera!! (I'm taking the liberty of allowing a touch of levels adjustment, but thats it. No cloning, cropping, layers etc)

Goodl uck everyone!

[wil59]

Congrats on the win, and well done for posting the new topic so quick as it gives plenty of time to think of a way forward. I think the theme will need plenty of thought to interpret this one and may suffer in entries due to the lack of pp allowed, but we will see.

Congrats again.

[wil59]

Well despite my earlier negative thoughts above, I got thinking and then saw an opportunity, so acted quickly. I may use one of the images below as my entry, but as stated there is no pp on them other than using Photoshop to re-size so I could upload them and applying an auto adjust on the levels which was mentioned as allowable.

[Chris14B]

Good theme and I like the idea of straight from the camera,

Love the first one John, will have to if my cats will allow me to photograph them as they usually get up as soon as you point a camera at them in case it's food.

[DigiDiva]

Straight from the camera has caused major uproar on here before so don't be surprised if questions are asked of what is/isn't allowed. Im happy with it but others may not be keen. Hope there's no 'spitting out of the dummies' like last time. It was a disgrace how people went on, I was appalled.

[wil59]

Originally Posted by Chris14B

Good theme and I like the idea of straight from the camera,

Love the first one John, will have to if my cats will allow me to photograph them as they usually get up as soon as you point a camera at them in case it's food.

Thanks, my daughter has just picked out the first one to. Good luck with the cat shots, I know exactly what you mean, my cat is the same.

[Sabrina_De_Winter]

This will be a hard one for me, relaxing and 2 kids are opposites

I'm always shooting in RAW, using photoshop elements to convert to jpg.
Also have some dust on the mirror, not able to clean it (don't want to leave the camera somewhere to clean now just before Easter) So those spots will be visible if cloning is not allowed.

Just a technical question, how can you see what has been done in photoshop on a photo that is posted as a jpg?

[alexharrison101]

Yeah I was going to ask about raw conversion...fine with straight from camera, but wanted to know if I need to shoot jpeg.

[brendan1980]

if you shoot raw then just do a simple levels adjustment to correct any slight exposure issues, then save as a Jpeg. job done. ;-)

assentially that is all that is allowed, levels. nothing else at all. the idea being that those who don't have the best editting tools, or indeed any editing software at all, can compete on the same level playing field.A lack of options will make us think more about composition, and lighting.

Sorry guys, I like to make things challenging! lol

[alexharrison101]

Thanks for clarification should be good!