Ground Rules
1.Type of Cameras?
All cameras allowed; not just for dSLRs. This group is about the photos and not about the type of camera you have. Every camera is capable of taking a good shot. It's up to the photographer to compose that shot and to know their camera well enough to do so. But that's a learning process that we can go through as a group.
2. Monthly Challenges:
Every month two challenges are announced via e-mail and posted on the website. For each challenge members can submit two photos per challenge for a total of 4 photos per month. To submit your photos, just e-mail them into nirvana.shutter@gmail.com where our magic fairies upload them to the website.
Challenges are "Flexible". It is not mandatory to complete every challenge, but you'll benefit the most by doing your best to complete as many challenges as possible; even when you are on vacation and assuming you have internet access to check the blog.
3. Post production Explained
It's up to the member to be as creative as they want.
Minimal post production is allowed. When I say minimal, I'm putting a time limit on it. 5 minutes is the maximum a member is allowed to work on a weekly challenge photo in a post production program (not including resizing). Once again no artificial artifacts are allowed. Levels/Curves modifications are ok if you can do them in ten minutes. The idea behind this is to force a member to try and take better pictures right from the start. This way they'll be employing more photography techniques into their pics rather than rely on a program to do all the tweaking.
Again what are the basics?
1) Cropping
2) Resizing
3) Contrast
4) Slight Exposure modification
5) Sharpening
6) Saturation
7) Black and White Conversion
4. Submission Guidelines
Resize your photos to 1600 pixels max on the longest edge of your photo and e-mail into nirvana.shutter@gmail.com. If you can't resize no worries, we'll do it for you!
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whats the ruling for photos we've taken before? i.e. can photos taken prior to the challenge be submitted?
ReplyDeleteGood question. The answer is a simple no. You're allotted the time frame from when the challenge is announced to when the picture has to be submitted. Granted, the server is still down. However, we do have a temporary site to upload them to for the weekly challenges of plants, insects, and the upcoming ones. E-mail Vic your pictures and he'll post them up to his site and we'll use that link for now. Because you are new, I will allow the next two weeks for you to catch up on past challenges if you wish. I.e. from today till two weeks from now for all past challenges and the upcoming ones.
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