DSS #35 Unofficial Feedback Thread - Blue

hawkeye978 · October 19, 2009

Here is the official gallery to give your C&C for DSS#35

Gallery Found Here...

Once more into the fray. This unofficial feedback thread is a catch-all of sorts, lets make it happen:thumb

Anyway, let's start feedback on DSS #35!!

This thread is:

a place to post a list of your top ten favorites. (be heard, and let everyone know what images moved you.)
a place to post your "the making of my image"
a place to ask someone "how did they do that?"(for us all to see:D )

Feedback is an important part of the photographic process. While those selected as finalists get feedback from the judges and those who vote, others are never quite sure where they stand. So share your thoughts both in this thread and with comments in the actual gallery. Constructive criticism should always be welcome.

It's easy to post thumbnails (with help from our Moderator).

With the image selected in the gallery, copy its URL from your browser, add "-Th.jpg" to the end, delete the jumble of numbers and letters preceding the hashtag (#), change "gallery" to "photos" and that's it.

Example

Change this url

http://challenges.smugmug.com/Other/DSS-33/9546126_UcMnF#646702914_YfHpk

To this

[IMG ]http://challenges.smugmug.com/photos/646702914_YfHpk-Th.jpg[/IMG ]

Happy Feedbacking :scratch

eoren1 · October 19, 2009

hawkeye978 wrote:
With the image selected in the gallery, copy its URL from your browser, add "-Th.jpg" to the end, delete the jumble of numbers and letters preceding the hashtag (#), change "gallery" to "photos" and that's it.
Example
Change this url
http://challenges.smugmug.com/Other/DSS-33/9546126_UcMnF#646702914_YfHpk
To this
[IMG ]http://challenges.smugmug.com/photos/646702914_YfHpk-Th.jpg[/IMG ]

Hey Tom,
It's actually MUCH easier

Click 'Share - Get a Link' at top of gallery and then on the 'Embeddable links' tab. Run through the images to the ones you like and select small images. You can change those to thumbs if you want.
E

hawkeye978 · October 19, 2009

E is absolutely right.

SmugMug recently changed the Share function from the galleries. I hadn't noticed the embeddable links section. I will update the feedback thread to reflect the change. I ran a test and it's much simpler. Just go to the gallery, and in the upper right corner there is a pull-down menu named 'Share'. When you click that there is a selection called 'Get a Link'. On the new page there is a tab labeled 'Embeddable Links'. Click on the tab and you can then select the picture you want to link. At the 'Forums' section at the bottom click on the copy button for 'Small'. When you copy this into your post it will show up as a picture. You will need to do a 'Preview Post' to see the actual picture before posting.

sepplett · October 19, 2009

As a former lurker, I am jumping in........great job!

My top ten in no particular order........

Loved them all though.....

lizzard_nyc · October 19, 2009

So far this is the biggest round I've ever participated in. Great entries all! Lovin' the creativity and the different entries. Lots of luck to the Judges.
My faves:

Oooppps--I posted these incorrectly...Will do better next time.

eoren1 · October 19, 2009

Top 10 - in order posted.
Great job everyone!

Aspecto5 · October 19, 2009

My Top Ten!

Here's my Fav 10. This many entries takes a bit to narrow down. Great job everyone!

bf2015 · October 19, 2009

hawkeye978 · October 19, 2009

Top Ten
Standard disclaimers apply..

Netter · October 19, 2009

HoofClix · October 19, 2009

Not a loser in the field! Impressive job by everyone!

adbsgicom · October 19, 2009

I could have picked another 10 and not exhausted pictures I really loved here for a wide variety of reasons. There were natural blues, and blue lighting, and synthesized blues that all worked in so many good ways.

Kinkajou · October 19, 2009

There were a TON of great images this round - I felt like I couldn't even compete! Wonderful job, guys!!!

Here's my top... um, 15

Llywellyn · October 19, 2009

hawkeye978 wrote:

E is absolutely right.

SmugMug recently changed the Share function from the galleries. I hadn't noticed the embeddable links section. I will update the feedback thread to reflect the change. I ran a test and it's much simpler. Just go to the gallery, and in the upper right corner there is a pull-down menu named 'Share'. When you click that there is a selection called 'Get a Link'. On the new page there is a tab labeled 'Embeddable Links'. Click on the tab and you can then select the picture you want to link. At the 'Forums' section at the bottom click on the copy button for 'Small'. When you copy this into your post it will show up as a picture. You will need to do a 'Preview Post' to see the actual picture before posting.

Ack, no, sorry! That share button is supposed to be disabled. My bad. Sorry, folks. :cry

sherstone · October 19, 2009

This was a really "Cool" round!
I'm not a judge so I get to make up the rules and choose as many as I like for my list of images that made me stop, click, think, and stop again the next time I looked.

Thanks to all who included "untied" in your picks.

and now to the list:

Sean

AndMan · October 19, 2009

First off thanks to all those who included "Ignition" in their top ten, given the standard of entries this round I feel like a winner already.

Here are the ten (in submission order) that made me feel most blue.

Peter

Netter · October 19, 2009

Thanks to everyone who selected my photo as one of their favorites. My grandpa would have been proud. He wanted to be remembered as a simple farmer who loved the life that he lived, not for the war that he fought in. He was known in town (of 2000 people) as Grandpa, only he was mine. He was my last grandparent that passed away, so he was very special to me. I couldn't go anywhere with him without him bragging about me, or even my sisters or cousins. So a very simple thank you.

tinamarie52 · October 19, 2009

how to get images?
First, thanks to everyone who welcomed me to Dgrin, gave me feedback and included "Reflections on Empty Wine Glasses" in their list.

I can' quite figure out how to embed my top 10 picks here. I don't see a share button on the gallery page. Do I need to be logged in as me or as challenges? Do I try to grab the image from the reply page?

anyway, here are my favorites in no order:
Nevada- Corvette Relections
Angela- Across the Universe
eoren1- Dawn of a New Day
Smithy- Blue Flame
Divamum- Singin' the Washday Blues
MikeK- Americana
Sherstone- untied
danilohegg- Blue Hour
nightpixels- Gentle
lilmomma- Aquatic

Congrats to all and thanks.

Chris

Aspecto5 · October 19, 2009

Llywellyn wrote:

Ack, no, sorry! That share button is supposed to be disabled. My bad. Sorry, folks. :cry

K, so will the original instructions work now that the share button's not there anymore? or would it have worked all along and I just wasn't getting it right? That share button instructions was sooooo easy!! Lol!

Kinkajou · October 19, 2009

tinamarie52 wrote:

I can' quite figure out how to embed my top 10 picks here. I don't see a share button on the gallery page. Do I need to be logged in as me or as challenges? Do I try to grab the image from the reply page?

The first post on this page shows you how to do it...

when looking at the gallery, click on the image you want, copy the url from the address bar and paste it in your post (for the sake of example, I put a space in the url. obviously, that shouldn't be there if you actually want a usable url).

add and

to the beginning and end of the url like you normally do to display an image in your post

then delete the part of the url after Other/ and up through the # and replace it with Photos/

so it goes from:
http:// challenges.smugmug.com/Other/DSS-35/9858187_qWpDc#672170513_DigVs

to:
http:// challenges.smugmug.com/Other/Photos/672170513_DigVs

then add -Th.jpg to the end of the url before [/IMG] and you should be set

so the final url will look like this inside your [IMG][/IMG] brackets:

http:// challenges.smugmug.com/Other/Photos/672170513_DigVs-Th.jpg

complicated, but after a few tries it's not so bad

sherstone · October 19, 2009

Another easy way (at least for me). Go to the gallery and do a screen capture. On a PC or Windows machine press the Print Scrn button on your keyboard, located just to the right of your function keys (F1-F12). On a Mac OSX machine, press Command-Control-Shift-3. In both cases the screen shot will be placed on your clipboard for you to paste into another program. If your using Photoshop then just create a new image choosing File New and the new image dimensions will automatically be correct for the image you captured. Next paste and a new layer will show up with all the thumbnail images you just copied. Do this for each page of Thumbs, in my case 3 pages and you can then have 3 layers to copy and paste the thumbs from into a new document.

After all that typing I wonder how easy it actually is, but that is how I do it.

MarkR · October 19, 2009

Thanks to those (Andman, Lizzard_NYC, and anyone I missed) who professed a love for my ugly mug.

My computer time has been greatly curtailed, but I will try to comment on as many images as I can in the gallery.

TEWMOM · October 19, 2009

My 10.....
Wow, so many fantastic shots! It was hard to choose only 10. Thanks to those that selected my "Forever in Blue Jeans". This is only my second entry into a dgrin challenge. There are so many talented individuals that submitted entries to this challenge. Good luck everyone!

dlscott56 · October 19, 2009

Wonderful photography from everyone. It was hard to pick. Good luck to all of you!

adbsgicom · October 19, 2009

Thanks to Shawn, Liz, Kinkajou, Sean and Peter for the nod in your top-10.

tinamarie52 · October 19, 2009

thanks for help on embedding images
Kinkajou and sherstone...thanks for the coaching. I did get the images to embed using Kinkajou's detailed instructions.

I'm not actually gonna post it because I've already listed my favorites.

Now I'll know for next time.

I appreciate the help.

chris

fotomom · October 19, 2009

Thank You
Thanks to those of you that included my Blue Bubbles photo in your top ten. Shooting those glass shots is a real passion of mine, and I was quite excited to have a challenge theme that would allow me to enter one.

Blue is my favorite color, and I'm just in love with all the wonderful photos that were entered for this challenge.

Best of luck to the finalists.

Maryann (fotomom)