Thread: Photography challenge

For the keen photographer here is an initeresting site: http://www.passionforpixels.com/

Originally Posted by bitingmidge

consider them to be Helpful Suggestions.



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Thanks for that Midge

and I will be the only judge and my words are final.

will you be accepting bribes too Wongo ?

So is this a snapshot competition, a workshop fashion show or creating a picture/photograph using tools and imagination of all kinds?

Originally Posted by jow104

So is this a snapshot competition, a workshop fashion show or creating a picture/photograph using tools and imagination of all kinds?

All of the above

Thats good, Marquis of Queensbury rules apply then.

The last man standing wins.(or lady )

Originally Posted by masoth

For the keen photographer here is an initeresting site: http://www.passionforpixels.com/

I''ve put in favourites and will have a look later.

Thanks for the link.

Cheers Fred

I'll put my hat in too, if there's room. Look fwd to more on when and where.
BTW I like the calendar idea too.

Cheers

Originally Posted by Wongo

...and I will be the only judge and my words are final.

Sez he who won't even enter

Shed/Workshop based, (or an interpretation of that)

I think you will see how far left field I can take that!

Hi

Originally Posted by echnidna

n.b. camera lens quality is far more important than mp

Not really.

Most consumer camera lenses would be capable of resolving an image to a greater/finer resolution that that of the sensor being used to capture the image.

Certainly the quality of a lens does influence the image quality. However, given the same lens used for a 6-8mp image and a 12mp image the 12mp image will be better as the larger number of pixels improves the resolution.

This is analogous to using a fine grain film in a 35mm camera.

There are always trade-off though. The size of the pixels that are capturing the image also affect the resultant image. So it could be that a smaller sensor with a higher pixel count may not produce as good a result as that of a larger sensor that actually has less pixels.

There are many factors that affect the captured image...

lens distortion,
chromatic aberation,
purple fringing,
sensor "noise"
digital to analog conversion ciecuits, etc, etc...

...but in general, with the reasonably good lenses avialable on most consumer cameras these days, the higher pixel count still has an advantage and is generally more important than the lense quality.

Originally Posted by bitingmidge

So what is important, the end result, or how it was produced?

Why not just get on with it and see what comes out of it? It's hardly the sort of thing that sheep stations are going to be lost over.

If it's photography I might be interested. If it's likely the best shopper will win, I'm not interested.

I've taken some decent photos over time, but I cannot draw to save myself, and even something allegedly simple such as Google Sketchup confounds me, not all my 40 years' computing can help me.

I don't really care what the prize is, but I do think a photography competition should be a fair test of photographic skills.

When I was a member of the Waverley Camera club, there was but one member who took paints to her photos (but rarely), Now, with post production in computers , it's perfectly possible for the image to bear little, if any, resemblance to reality.. I recall some years ago a front-page image of a naked Jeff Kennett in The Age. The image did not reflect reality in any reasonable sense.

Jeff was not amused.

Originally Posted by Johncs

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Jeff was not amused.

I should mention, for the sake of the younger readers, and the ruriners, that at the time Jeff Kennett was Member for Ashburton and Premier of Victoria.

Originally Posted by MrFixIt

HiNot really.

Most consumer camera lenses would be capable of resolving an image to a greater/finer resolution that that of the sensor being used to capture the image.

Certainly the quality of a lens does influence the image quality. However, given the same lens used for a 6-8mp image and a 12mp image the 12mp image will be better as the larger number of pixels improves the resolution.

This is analogous to using a fine grain film in a 35mm camera.

There are always trade-off though. The size of the pixels that are capturing the image also affect the resultant image. So it could be that a smaller sensor with a higher pixel count may not produce as good a result as that of a larger sensor that actually has less pixels.

There are many factors that affect the captured image...

lens distortion,
chromatic aberation,
purple fringing,
sensor "noise"
digital to analog conversion ciecuits, etc, etc...

...but in general, with the reasonably good lenses avialable on most consumer cameras these days, the higher pixel count still has an advantage and is generally more important than the lense quality.

For viewing on-screen, the number of pixels is almost irrelevant. My aging 3.2 Mp compact camera can produce perfectly acceptable prints up to A4. The newer cameras with more pixels can produce larger acceptable prints, and at about 15 Mpixels apparently the resolution of 35 mm film camera.

But, there's an enormous difference between what a cheap compact film camera and something of the quality of the Canon EOS 10 can do. Lenses are part of it, but there are also metering and focussing systems. A good photographer can take good photos (maybe with some difficulty) with a modest camera, but a good camera with good lenses makes it easier.

There's a reason wedding (and other professional) photographers have huge lumps of glass hanging on the front of their camera, in some cases, they have their camera hanging off a huge lump of glass.

Some of my best photos were taken with a Mamiya C330 TLR - good fixed lenses, a 2.25" negative - and no metering.

A photograph doesnt have to be sharp to win a competition, they have soft focus lenses these days, and photoshop has a blur tool, so using software is no different than using hardware.