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RHP Photo Competition: MOVEMENT/MOTION

RHP Photo Competition: MOVEMENT/MOTION

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Originally posted by Nordlys
I never even considered the possibility that the water might come from a shower head until pinkthunder asked. Then I saw that some of the water did look like it could come from a shower head, but I figured you probably wouldn't turn on the shower if half of the water would land outside the tub. 🙂
The result is the same though, a very wet bathroom and two wet parents. It's funny how many people ask me "but, didn't your bathroom become wet while she was splashing?" after they saw this picture. Well, yes, of course, we were just having too much fun wathching her have fun to stop her 🙂

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Originally posted by DdV
The result is the same though, a very wet bathroom and two wet parents.
I am sure the shower would do more damage. And it would be in addition to her splashing. 🙂

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Originally posted by DdV
You're right about the water pipe. I tried rotating the picture so the pipe is vertical, but that doesn't work either, so I kept my original composition. I don't think I would be able to clone out the pipe myself, I'm not very good at that kind of processing, but I agree the picture would be better without it.

David
That's one of the easiest cloning jobs you could get seeing as the background is practically black.

I did this in under a minute...
http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/4305/bathingdh1.jpg

Let me know if you need a hand doing the original.

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Originally posted by Ragnorak
That's one of the easiest cloning jobs you could get seeing as the background is practically black.

I did this in under a minute...
http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/4305/bathingdh1.jpg

Let me know if you need a hand doing the original.

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That's a very good result, I thought it would be more difficult to do a proper job. I'll give it a try and let you know how that works out.

David

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Nice pics, everyone.

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Originally posted by Ragnorak
That's one of the easiest cloning jobs you could get seeing as the background is practically black.

I did this in under a minute...
http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/4305/bathingdh1.jpg

Let me know if you need a hand doing the original.

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You still using "Gimp" for all your photo editing?

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Originally posted by DdV
I'll stop my spamming after this message, I hope I didn't miss any questions about my entries, and I would have liked to be able to participate in the discussions about the topic, but I haven't been home much the last two weeks.

I hope the competitions continue too, I would certainly try to participate in them. This was, again, a very good round, with insight ...[text shortened]... nor modifications to entice more people to participate or to stimulate discussion?

David
Thanks for the update on "Shadow". For me it was top image but I can certainly see how it isn't to everybodies taste. I think the noise is great in the shot, it adds some punch.

With regards to the competition itself. I have been thinking of a few things that might help increase the voting and comments. Personally I think the simplest thing would be to have the voting widgets and comment space on the web page that we use to view the images. That way, even casual viewers could vote and comments could be added alongside the picture. Should be easy to do too.

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Originally posted by Nordlys
I know. I have followed several discussions about cameras in a German aurora forum. There are even big differences between individual cameras that are supposedly the same. However, I don't think it's that much of a problem for aurora photography anymore. 15 seconds would be an extremely long exposure time for an aurora picture with a f1.8 lens, most of the times I use something between 4 and 8 seconds.
Missed one point in this post Nordles. Buying in Japan may end up cheaper but prices in Norway are not that bad surprisingly plus you get a five year warranty.

If you have an issue with a camera you bought in Japan you'll battle to get it fixed under warranty. The new Sony A700 is looking pretty good.

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Originally posted by Wheely
You still using "Gimp" for all your photo editing?
Nope, am using Photoshop 7.0 now. It's amazing how much easier it is to do stuff in it than in GIMP.

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Originally posted by Ragnorak
Nope, am using Photoshop 7.0 now. It's amazing how much easier it is to do stuff in it than in GIMP.

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Agreed. I have CS2. Things are just simpler. Slower but simpler.

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Originally posted by Wheely
With regards to the competition itself. I have been thinking of a few things that might help increase the voting and comments. Personally I think the simplest thing would be to have the voting widgets and comment space on the web page that we use to view the images. That way, even casual viewers could vote and comments could be added alongside the picture. Should be easy to do too.
http://www.4homepages.de/ provide free gallery functionality.

There are a few drawbacks to using an offsite system though. Will post more later.

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Originally posted by Ragnorak
http://www.4homepages.de/ provide free gallery functionality.

There are a few drawbacks to using an offsite system though. Will post more later.

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The development of a site is no problem. I have been a systems programmer for many years and have developed many tools for automatically spitting out HTML code of varying complexity. I have to admit I'm impressed with that link though but think we'd probably need something far simpler.

The main problems are 1) wether people think it's a good idea and 2) hosting.

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Originally posted by Wheely
The main problems are 1) wether people think it's a good idea and 2) hosting.
It is a good idea. I could provide Linux hosting. But we also need to keep threads alive and buzzing on the RHP forum, otherwise things could become quite isolated.

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Originally posted by Gatecrasher
It is a good idea. I could provide Linux hosting. But we also need to keep threads alive and buzzing on the RHP forum, otherwise things could become quite isolated.
I could arrange for automatic posts to the threads containing random phrases from previous posts 🙂

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Originally posted by Wheely
The development of a site is no problem. I have been a systems programmer for many years and have developed many tools for automatically spitting out HTML code of varying complexity. I have to admit I'm impressed with that link though but think we'd probably need something far simpler.

The main problems are 1) wether people think it's a good idea and 2) hosting.
There are a couple of factors...
1. Do we require people to register, or do we allow anonymous voting? How do we police that?
2. How do we ensure that there is an active thread here?

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