I think it would be cool to get a SOOC photo from one source, and let everyone put their own touch to it. it would have to be something generic, not someone's kids or something. We could do it as a theme for one given day, or post in a thread like the browse and pick threads. Would anyone else be interested in doing this? I love all of the different processing styles that everyone uses, and thought this would be cool since it's such a big part of digital photography these days..
We do this on another forum I belong to. We have great fun with it, every week we post one photo, everyone edits it, that person judges the best 'treatment' and the winner posts next weeks photo. We post good photos, bad photos, some that work and some that are so wrong there is no saving them... until we get a bunch of replies on fixes that work.
This is the best idea I've seen on here in flippin' months. Let's Do It (Nike)
It'd need to be in a RAW format, I think, which means it could be quite a large file, but we could arrange something for storage without too much trouble...
I think this is a great idea :D However I think it needs to be accessible to all users, so uploading in RAW might not work, as not everyone has the tools to use RAW images. Sounds like fun though!
@sdpace@barrymikhal Yes the plan would be to take it in RAW and to generate a JPG version too. If it was done in purely JPG that'd exclude a fair few too...
As for how to transfer them around... we could use something like dropbox.com so whoever's taking/uploading the photo has an account, and uploads easily from their computer desktop, and anyone else can grab it. Next person in the queue does the same... so we'd all access the same files in the same dropbox.
I know it sounds a tad more technical there, but it's pretty simple... an alternate option would be to zip and upload to rapidshare or something of its ilk.
@dmortega has nothing to do with what on the camera.. it's what you do to the photo afterwards :) picasa, photoshop, whatever :).. heck I've even done it with scaned photos before...
@eyebrows +1 to dropbox @sdpace why don't you pick the first photo, judge the first winner and the winner does that next week. Say give people 7 days, you judge on day seven, declare the winner and they have one day to post the next photo...
@icywarm@eyebrows I have dropbox set up -- my RAW files are .NEF - I think that is Nikon specific?? I have Lightroom 3, which is letting me either export as TIFF or PSD, and I use Capture NX2 usually to open my RAW files.
If Lightroom'll natively open the .NEF then that's file for us LR users, then... not sure if a PSD would keep more bits per pixel than would go into a JPG or not. I'm guessing not so might be best to just export a JPG from LR? Could do with some a bit more up on the PSD format...
Nice. Weird that it doesn't work from the site, but you can do it from the link. let me know when you've got it downloaded and can view it, then I will post my "contest" @eyebrows
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It'd need to be in a RAW format, I think, which means it could be quite a large file, but we could arrange something for storage without too much trouble...
@kylapalin Pile ups - cool name. I don't use (or like) Flickr because the browser back button never works - stupid, I know. hehe
As for how to transfer them around... we could use something like dropbox.com so whoever's taking/uploading the photo has an account, and uploads easily from their computer desktop, and anyone else can grab it. Next person in the queue does the same... so we'd all access the same files in the same dropbox.
I know it sounds a tad more technical there, but it's pretty simple... an alternate option would be to zip and upload to rapidshare or something of its ilk.
any suggestions?
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/18847616/DSC_0095.NEF
Downloading it myself now...
I thought I needed to take the picture in RAW. I understand it is to take a copy and then edit it in our own way. Sounds like fun.