*ENTRY* Thread DSS #60 (Lace or Leather - Monotone only) CLOSED

sherstone

Dgrin Sharp Shooters Challenge #60

Welcome to Round #60 of the Dgrin Sharp Shooters Challenges. This challenge is open to any Dgrin member.
It will run from Monday, September 20, 8:00am PST time (GMT -7) on through Monday, October 4, 7:00pm PST time (GMT -7). NOTE: the ending time change.

The topic ready for your interpretation: Lace or Leather - Monotone only
Your image must be either Black and White or Monotone

Your Judges:
ilbcnu (Winner of Round 56)
Guest Judge: 23 hour (Public Vote)

IMPORTANT NOTE: Your entry is to be submitted directly into a SmugMug gallery. It's pretty simple, just go to the gallery link below, and follow the upload instructions at the top of the page:

DSS#60 Entry Gallery

Remember, the basics stay the same: 1 entry per person, and the photo must be fresh, taken during this contest period. Do not use a minimal save method (such as "save for web"), and your EXIF will be embedded in your image, no worries!

To avoid disqualification, read, in full, the Dgrin Sharp Shooters Challenge Rules, there have been some slight modifications

pyroPrints.com

Oh boy, this can get R-Rated =c)

On an unrelated note, can you define Monotone for us?

sherstone

pyroPrints.com wrote: »

Oh boy, this can get R-Rated =c)

On an unrelated note, can you define Monotone for us?

:nono If it belongs in the "Go Figure" Forum it does not belong in DSS. Please read the rules if your at all in doubt.


Monotone = Consisting of a single tone with variations of shade from 0% - 100%. What this means is instead of Black and white only, sepia tones, blue tones, or even red tones will be all allowed. Monotone can also be considered Monochrome.

Angela Davis

Sweet Challenge

misterb

This should be cool..

SeascapeS

I like this one! So many possibilities!

WhatSheSaw

I already have a bunch of ideas. This should be fun!

Now to see if I can stretch my imagination like Sean did in the mini.

racer

sherstone wrote: »

:nono If it belongs in the "Go Figure" Forum it does not belong in DSS.

I keep seeing "if it belongs in the go figure forum", but I dont have a clue were this forum is or what kind of photos are allowed there
It is pretty confusing when there is a rule that says to go by another rule that says to go by yet another rule that you are not allowed to see

I have some ideas, but I am not sure if PG is okay (no nudity), or if this all has to be rated G/family friendly. There will be a biker festival in town, so plenty of leather and lace

sherstone

The Go Figure forum is a sub forum of the people forum.
Not really that confusing if you take the time to read the rules. The part that is important in this case is number 11.
No Nudity: Nudity may not be entered into the challenges. Use discretion for implied shots, but if it belongs in the Go Figure forum, it does not belong in the challenges.

There is even a link to the GF forum in number 11.

racer

sherstone wrote: »

The Go Figure forum is a sub forum of the people forum.
Not really that confusing if you take the time to read the rules. The part that is important in this case is number 11.
No Nudity: Nudity may not be entered into the challenges. Use discretion for implied shots, but if it belongs in the Go Figure forum, it does not belong in the challenges.

There is even a link to the GF forum in number 11.

YES, I read the rules, that is what I am saying!!! I totally understood the no nudity, but when I go to the rules, it says to go to the "Go Figure" forum, and it pops up asking for a password I am not trying to make this hard or try to challenge the rules or anything, I was just lost (and still am) when I read a rule, that pointed me to another rule, that I cant read
Really, it is not that big of deal, I was just asking for clarification at to what the rest of the rule was/were it was located (since I am not allowed to see it at the link)

Llywellyn

The password is in the description of the Go Figure forum. Look on the main forum page (People) and read the description under the Go Figure forum at the top.

Just a little more reading required.

racer

Llywellyn wrote: »

The password is in the description of the Go Figure forum. Look on the main forum page (People) and read the description under the Go Figure forum at the top.

Thanks

Its a bit harsh being a newb here :hide

sherstone

racer wrote: »

Its a bit harsh being a newb here :hide

Sorry that you feel treated harshly, that certainly was not my intention nor anyone else's. Once you get used to the surroundings you will find we are all pretty friendly. Hopefully now that you have been told about where to find the password you have had a chance to see what "Go Figure" is all about.

Honestly though "No nudity" is pretty much all you need to know about #11 in the rules.
Your idea of shooting at a bikers festival sounds like it will work perfectly fine for the theme

Llywellyn

No harshness intended! I should have added an extra smiley in there.

Hope you got the answers you needed.

Kronk

SeascapeS wrote: »

I like this one! So many possibilities!

I wish I had one thought . I am really stumped so far.

WhatSheSaw

Kronk wrote: »

I wish I had one thought . I am really stumped so far.

Think of things made of leather or lace or that have the appearance of leather or lace or things that leather or lace can be made from. I am full of ideas (of course my husband says I am just plain full of it. ) I am still working on execution.

DonRicklin

I finally got a concept I hope I work out and shoot in time!

Don

Bell Ringer

Wow, I haven't done this in a while. Glad I came back. These challenges really require those creative juices to crank up. Thanks for the challenge.

travelways

Question for Sean
Hi Sean,

Please tell me if the image #2 from my post:
http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?p=1471944#post1471944

can be accepted, or it will be considered as having a frame.

Thank you,

sherstone

photo-bug wrote: »

Hi Sean,

Please tell me if the image #2 from my post:
http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?p=1471944#post1471944

can be accepted, or it will be considered as having a frame.

Thank you,

The image has a natural frame; in my mind a frame that is created after the capture, is ouside of the rules.
This is fine and would not be disqualified.

travelways

sherstone wrote: »

The image has a natural frame; in my mind a frame that is created after the capture, is ouside of the rules.
This is fine and would not be disqualified.

I thought the same, but just wanted to be sure - Thank you very much

travelways

Another question for Sean
Hi Sean,

Sorry, but now I have another question/problem...

After I worked on one of my shots, the exif info shows only the date taken.
The date when the photo has been modified doesn't appear:



Would this be OK?

sherstone

photo-bug wrote: »

Would this be OK?

Yes

It is the date taken that matters.

travelways

sherstone wrote: »

Yes

It is the date taken that matters.

Thank you - again it's what I thought, but wanted to be sure

travelways

Another question for Sean
Hi Sean I have a last minute question, please:

It's clear that a Black&White photo will contain blacks, whites and tones of each.

However, I couldn't find a definition of a monochrome/monotone image.

- I know that a duotone image can contain black (or white) and 1 color plus their shades.

Logically speaking, a monotone image should not contain pure black or white, but just
shades of 1 color - is that right?

Please clarify this for me.

Thank you,

richtersl

Tatiana, does this help?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monochrome_photography

travelways

richtersl wrote: »

Tatiana, does this help?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monochrome_photography

Hi Linda,

I think I found this one on my researches, but I'm still not clear...

" It includes all forms of black and white photography..."

Does it mean that black and white are permitted?

I learned in school (about 15 years ago - at the photoshop course), about duotone and tritone where
you can have black or/and white, but...

In other words, I had to change numerous times my entry, because the carboard I used as a background was black,
and trying to lighten it, I got all kind of irregulatities, which I had to work hard to remove.
Finally I arrived to have again a black (or almost) background - not sure what to do...

What I'd like to know is: should I leave my background black (or almost - the way it is now), or try harder to change it to a shade of the overall color I used for the main subject?

Thank you for trying to help

richtersl

OK. Now I see where you're coming from. I can understand you wanting to clarify that black background. Your subject does seem to have a different color cast from the black, as if you're applying a gold tone to it. If you made it "greyscale" (get rid of the gold color), then the black should be OK. At least according to what I understand from the definition it should be. But Sean will be able to give you a better answer.

If it's a no-no, then you do have some other fine options from which to choose.

travelways

richtersl wrote: »

OK. Now I see where you're coming from. I can understand you wanting to clarify that black background. Your subject does seem to have a different color cast from the black, as if you're applying a gold tone to it. If you made it "greyscale" (get rid of the gold color), then the black should be OK. At least according to what I understand from the definition it should be. But Sean will be able to give you a better answer.

If it's a no-no, then you do have some other fine options from which to choose.

Yes, sure if I make it B&W I don't have to worry about.

But I want it to be colored

Now, every screen is different, with different calibrations, and I also noticed that there is a slight difference between my smugmug gallery, where I preview first my images and the contest gallery (at least on my screen). This being said, I'm not very sure if the background of my (last ) entry is black or a shade of it.

- The fact that you see it as "a different color cast from the black" makes me happy - but is it? or it's just black?
... and if it's black, is it OK, or not? I guess not, and I'll have to re-upload it again with a modified bckgrd., as shown on the CC forum:

http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?p=1473646#post1473646

Just want to make sure

I am for sure ashamed that I had to change so many times my entry, but I think it's better to be ashamed
for changing it than to be ashamed of having a bad entry

richtersl

Don't blame you for just wanting to be sure.

While you're waiting for feedback from Sean, have you tried to make the photo monotone via PS just to see how it interprets the color information on the original shot?

Just for the heck of it, try (my apologies if you already tried this):

Image > Mode > Grayscale

Image > Mode > Duotone

Then from the Type drop down in the Duotone options dialog choose Monotone. Try different shades and see what it does to the background in comparison to the rest of the shot.

travelways

richtersl wrote: »

Don't blame you for just wanting to be sure.

While you're waiting for feedback from Sean, have you tried to make the photo monotone via PS just to see how it interprets the color information on the original shot?

Just for the heck of it, try (my apologies if you already tried this):

Image > Mode > Grayscale

Image > Mode > Duotone

Then from the Type drop down in the Duotone options dialog choose Monotone. Try different shades and see what it does to the background in comparison to the rest of the shot.

Linda, I tried something similar: image->adjustments->B&W->tint and then used different adjustment layers to increase the contrast.

-I'll still try different options, but I don't want to monopolize this thread, so I'll post my results into the CC forum,
the thread I opened for this contest. Thank you so much