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DSS round #118- Scenic
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Welcome to Round #118 of the Dgrin Sharp Shooters Challenges.
This challenge is for all dgrin members.
It will run from Monday, December 10th, 2012 8:00pm PST time (GMT -8) on through Monday, December 24th, 2012 8:00pm PST time (GMT -8).
The theme this round for your interpretation will be: Scenic
Lets see your best Scenic picture you can take! The scene has to have nature in some form in it and its needs to be wide angle as much as your equipment can provide!
Don't let bad weather keep you indoors! You can find ways around the rain and find awesome scenic images in rain and snow too! A lot of dramatic skies come out of bad weather. It can be any type of scene, even a city scene, as long as it has some nature somewhere in it, like a tree or flower or something of nature in it.
Please keep titles short!
There are no editing restrictions this round except what is written above!
Your Judge:
1 round 72 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 #118 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!
[URL="http://http://challenges.smugmug.com/Other/DSS-118-Scenic/27022162_JXbV2G"[/B][/URL]</p><p> </p><p>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!</p><p> </p><p>[URL="http://http://challenges.smugmug.com/Other/DSS-118-Scenic/27022162_JXbV2G"[/B][/URL]</p><p> </p><p>Remember, the basics stay the same: 1 entry per person, and the photo must be fresh, taken during this contest </p><p>period. Do not use a minimal save method (such as "save for web"), and your EXIF will be embedded in your image, no </p><p>worries!</p><p> </p><p>To avoid disqualification, read, in full, the Dgrin Sharp Shooters Challenge </p><p>[URL="[URL]http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=162657"]RULES[/URL]
Please note that there has been a rules wording change, so be sure you have re- read the rules!
This challenge is for all dgrin members.
It will run from Monday, December 10th, 2012 8:00pm PST time (GMT -8) on through Monday, December 24th, 2012 8:00pm PST time (GMT -8).
The theme this round for your interpretation will be: Scenic
Lets see your best Scenic picture you can take! The scene has to have nature in some form in it and its needs to be wide angle as much as your equipment can provide!
Don't let bad weather keep you indoors! You can find ways around the rain and find awesome scenic images in rain and snow too! A lot of dramatic skies come out of bad weather. It can be any type of scene, even a city scene, as long as it has some nature somewhere in it, like a tree or flower or something of nature in it.
Please keep titles short!
There are no editing restrictions this round except what is written above!
Your Judge:
1 round 72 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 #118 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!
[URL="http://http://challenges.smugmug.com/Other/DSS-118-Scenic/27022162_JXbV2G"[/B][/URL]</p><p> </p><p>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!</p><p> </p><p>[URL="http://http://challenges.smugmug.com/Other/DSS-118-Scenic/27022162_JXbV2G"[/B][/URL]</p><p> </p><p>Remember, the basics stay the same: 1 entry per person, and the photo must be fresh, taken during this contest </p><p>period. Do not use a minimal save method (such as "save for web"), and your EXIF will be embedded in your image, no </p><p>worries!</p><p> </p><p>To avoid disqualification, read, in full, the Dgrin Sharp Shooters Challenge </p><p>[URL="[URL]http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=162657"]RULES[/URL]
Please note that there has been a rules wording change, so be sure you have re- read the rules!
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When you say as wide as your equipment can provide, must the scene be one picture only, or can I take a number of shots and use eg photostitch to combine to make a large panoramic shot?
Thanks
Judy
As long as you use the widest angle you have. The point is to use wide angle shots and capture as much as possible. Panoramic images are fine, but in the past they really do not show the image very large because of the perimeters of the gallery settings. Thus the full effect doesn't always show through. JMO
I really like the shot! I think you misspelled your screen name.
I admire your determination to get the shot. I fear I will be similarly limited in a few years.
THanks for letting me know. That isn't the shot I set out to get. This was where I thought I would go and I was going to call it Winter Sky,
and then I tried turning around and taking one the other way, but there was more blue in the sky on that side and I liked the one I used better.
I was on the way to do errands - deposit checks in the bank, mail Xmas presents, and go to respiratory therapy at the hospital. I was thinking I could use this tree, but it had to be vertical and I wasn't sure if that would fill the Landscape challenge
And then I came home and took this photo of my house
but that's more house and less landscape.
18mm is fine if that is all you have! That is all I have for a wide angle too.
Are there digital cameras that don't go below 100 mm? Is there any upper limit beyond which a photo doesn't meet the criteria?
If someone posts a landscape shot that is - say 150 mm but in all other respects looks like an appropriate photo (within the time limit etc) will that disqualify them?
"... needs to be wide angle as much as your equipment can provide!"
Pretty self explanitory. The what ifs will be desided at voting time. I do not dq for images that do not fit the theme or the gerneralized description of the individual challenge. Its up to those who vote to decide whether the image meets the qualifications of the challenges parameters. That is why we have the statement "Your Judge: 1 round 72 Hour Public Vote".
I only dq for images that are not following the standard set rules of entering into the competition found on the RULES page.