November Monthly photo competion .

[Alcyone]

Graham> I like your photo. It's of one of the best bits of the Bristol Channel!

I guess we don't need to get into rules and regulations about this, but I think there should be a category of "best November photo taken in November" etc.

Fir enough. Mine was October.

 

[ash12]

Autumn Evening at Watchet. (With help from Photoshop (Is this allowed?)
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No really, well it shouldn't be it's like saying you painted a picture and sold it for a lot of money but it wasn't painted by you, it was photoshoped.

 

[PCUK]

I'll have to think about that!!!

 

[Cardiffcruiser]

No really, well it shouldn't be it's like saying you painted a picture and sold it for a lot of money but it wasn't painted by you, it was photoshoped.

In the days before digital photography professional photographers and keen amateurs would routinely retouch and adjust colours whilst developing photographs. This was always totally allowed for photography competitions.

Surely Photoshop is just the modern digital technique employed to do this. All club and professional photography competition permit it. Surely it is just another part of the skill of producing the final product. I bet you won't find many photos in YBW's magazines that haven't been retouched, and I'm sure PCUK isn't the only one who has utilised Photoshop or similar software here.

 

[graham]

I only started it as a bit of fun during the winter months.Lets not get too bogged down with rules.I think if you took the photo and you photoshopped it then its still your work.

Re pics to be taken during the month thats a fair one as it will encourage us to get out with our cameras.

My pic was taken in October so is disqualified,I wouldnt have picked my own anyway.

Keep the pictures coming in ,look forward to seeing them, Cheers Graham

 

[Mymobo]

En route pass Barry

 

[Matt341]

Taken early evening at Dale, Pembrokeshire. Hard to believe we woke up the following morning to a Gale 8!

 

[mrbloto]

this is the first photo since they changed the forum hope it works

 

[PCUK]

A bit on the side!

It's particularly good as you were obviously laying drunk on the pier at the time.

 

[buster3]

how do you get the sail on that one

 

[snooty fox]

Final Cruise back to Sharpie

 

[Runna]

Dont know if this counts but this is the lovely view from my house.

 

[graham]

What an amazing view to wake up to every morning.must be from near Weston somewhere?


Keep the pics coming .I have 2 or 3 favourites to chose from . Winner gets to judge next months comp.

I had a thought. If we kept this going for a year and selected 12 photos taken 1 per month as winners they could be used as a BC calendar .Out in time for Xmas 2010.

 

[ash12]

One order please. No really that is a good idea.

 

[graham]

Calendars

Nice one Ash.That makes at least two of us then .I think Photobox doesnt hav e a miniumum order so provided we can keep the photo comp going for a whole year theres nothing to stop it being a success.

To get good quality pictures we would need the full size file though so will have to get the winners to email me the full size picture file I will load them onto photobox each month as insurance against the computer crashing.

 

[Csail]

Which are 1st 2nd and 3rd at the moment?

 

[graham]

That would be telling

 

[Matt341]

That is a brilliant idea

I always go for nautical calendars and to have one with local pics (BC) would be brilliant.

Ian.

 

[Runna]

What an amazing view to wake up to every morning.must be from near Weston somewhere?

Nope im from barry, taking with a fujifilm finepix s5800 bridge camera

 

[hrchivers]

Waiting for the Tide

See attached,
some great picures here, thanks

Howard

(you can click on this for a larger version)