Comp 26 Weekly Photo Contest

[henk4]

rt13 pic looks edited, background looks like it was put into black and white, while leaving the color. If it isn't, sorry.

you may have a point there but the Ukraine still looks very grey at this time of the year

[SPHFerrari]

people have done it before. i see no problem with it.

[Wouter Melissen]

people have done it before. i see no problem with it.

It is a photography contest right?

[SPHFerrari]

if a black and white photograph is acceptable i see nothing wrong with half black and white and half color.
would you say these arent photographs?

http://www.pbase.com/image/41392246/original.jpg

and also, do you think there is a single picture in a car magazine that doesnt get post processed in photoshop? maybe a few arent but most are.

[Wouter Melissen]

Thanks for the great examples of photo editing.

[SPHFerrari]

so what do you think? no?

EDIT: i dont see what makes this any different than doing something such as cloning out specks of dirt on your sensor or playing with levels and sharpening. those are all important parts of digital photography, why not let him make the background b/w and keep the car in color? doing that is simply chosing the best presentation form, same as it would be choosing full color or full b/w.

[Wouter Melissen]

I'm not in charge of this competition, but IIRC no tampering was one of the rules.

[Speedracer38]

Lamborghini Gallardo, Porsche GT3, Ferrari 360 Modena
Connecticut
04/09/2005
Panasonic FZ20

[RacingManiac]

I believe there is actually an editing contest elsewhere....

Lighting, color and whatnot are all part of a photographer's skill set isn't it? If stuff can be made better after the fact then whats the point of having a good shot in the first place?

[SPHFerrari]

good editing in no way makes up for good photography.

if i shoot RAW, then is that cheating?

[nopassn]

my contirbution... the first one is 800x600, the 2nd one is 1280x10xx

EDIT: The car is a Lamborghini Gallardo. Taken with my Nikon D100 on The Plaza in Kansas City on Thursday, April 21st.

and FWIW - tonal correction, brightness, contrast, USM, etc. should be allowed. However altering the pic so that the car is color and everything else is B&W should not, as you can take a mediocre pic that has a "busy" or "distracting" background and can allow you to change the dominant elemnt of the photo, so that the composition itself is how it was shot... just my $ .02

[Rebirth of Xar]

Ok heres the deal. If you change the rules and accept to allow changes like saturation and color-editing we have to set a limit. In previous situations we had all agreed to only limit ourselves to slight saturation and brightness/contrast changes. But nothing incredibly altering of the picture.
I feel like once this is accepted things like cleaning up rigs/small imperfections that may slightly fix shots will also become issues but I guess that only time will tell. The only reason that I say this is because we have clearly seen how the overall quality of the images submited has slowly improved as many of us have practised so I wouldent doubt that more creative unusual shots would arise.

[CHEESE-TACULAR]

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okay rebirth, i gave this a try...
EDIT:WOOO it worked, thanks, is it good now?

[Rebirth of Xar]

I took out the [img] [/img] that were in your post.

you dont need to put the img tags when using the link provided by imageshack

[CHEESE-TACULAR]

oh, but otherwise its good right?