I've tried, I really have, but I still don't get the point of no PP months. If a finished image requires selective dodging and burning to reach its full potential then why wouldn't you do it?
What are those particular rules trying to achieve though? To see who can produce the best half finished image?:shrug:
From reading through all the posts it seems th sponsor for this year has a somewhat narrow view of post production and so the team are stuck. There is a quite old fashioned school of primarily amateur photographers who seem to zealously believe that the ultimate skill of a photographer is in the production of pictures with no input in the light/darkroom, including the no cropping brigade.
It's not a school is subscribe to, being as one of the fundamental benefits of our medium is that it's a two stage process, capture and then print, but it is a surprisingly widely held "belief system" (for want of a better phrase). You can see it in F&C quite often too, with people posting pictures and revelling in their having done no post work to their flat, narrow tonal range picture, or posting the native 3:2 ratio images when small crops can fundamentally improve the composition.
Having said all that the rules are the rules, and it does at least stop most months being full of hideous HDRs and highly polished turds. I do think the no PP months are over the top, but as Darren says it's only for a couple of rounds
It only applies for a few months of the year. It is to fit in with rules for the digital section which avoids bad images being made much better with lots of photoshop. It tests the skill of the photographer in getting the image right from the start in the camera.
From reading through all the posts it seems th sponsor for this year has a somewhat narrow view of post production and so the team are stuck. There is a quite old fashioned school of primarily amateur photographers who seem to zealously believe that the ultimate skill of a photographer is in the production of pictures with no input in the light/darkroom, including the no cropping brigade.
It's not a school is subscribe to, being as one of the fundamental benefits of our medium is that it's a two stage process, capture and then print, but it is a surprisingly widely held "belief system" (for want of a better phrase). You can see it in F&C quite often too, with people posting pictures and revelling in their having done no post work to their flat, narrow tonal range picture, or posting the native 3:2 ratio images when small crops can fundamentally improve the composition.
Having said all that the rules are the rules, and it does at least stop most months being full of hideous HDRs and highly polished turds. I do think the no PP months are over the top, but as Darren says it's only for a couple of rounds
my darkroom is currently doubling up as a bee keeping storage area
my darkroom is currently doubling up as a bee keeping storage area
Just shot 2 rolls of potential entries for month 2 using sheets of paper and pillowcases as backdrops and light diffusers. Is there a separate award for frugal photographer of the year?
I'm now worried how you'd recognise Rob's pillowcases
I used the one with your face on as the backdrop
Except you can cross process in a no pp month because it's a global adjustment through choice of developer.
Thanks for the help and advice.
Now how do I get rid of those scratch marks....
Sent in my entry just now, lets see what happens, it was good fun thinking about what to send in to meet the theme of the month.
Was there ever an option to submit a film and a digital entry?
oh well - if the standards that high, it's just as well I can't enter then - I'd only sulk when I failed dismally