Photo Challenge 11: Still Life

rymus

Nothing much to say on this one, except I hope I haven't used it already

Entries are being taken from now until the 20th of March or thereabouts. Same story, use your existing account on http://photos.hotshotireland.com to upload into the appropriate section. If you don't already have an account, create one!

Progen

Yey! Time to put the thinking cap on..

1 Entry per person isn't it Rymus? Ye entering?

rymus

1 entry indeed. I dunno if I'm going to enter, I'll see what the weekend brings and/or what I have 'in stock'

Shrimp

nice and easy.. i hope.. think i've got a couple i could chose from..

rymus

nice & easy was the idea alright, I'd say everyone has at least one shot they could enter. Think of all the hugely complicated admin work though; two damn rounds of voting :rolleyes:

pclancy

Its okay for anyone to enter this i presume? Must kindle interest in photography.

leche solara

Will someone define what is meant by "still life" for the purpose of this competition.

Wikipedia defines it as "A still life is a work of art which represents a subject composed of inanimate objects. Still life paintings, such as of flowers or fruit, give the artist more leeway in the arrangement of design elements within a composition than do paintings of other types of subjects such as landscape or portraiture."

Most of the entries so far wouldn't be still lifes going by that definition.

Shrimp

yeah, not exactly still life... ur sig is still life solara..

rymus

pclancy wrote:

Its okay for anyone to enter this i presume? Must kindle interest in photography.

Yep, register yourself an account over on http://photos.hotshotireland.com and upload your photo there.

As for the definition of Still Life, make of it what you will, I'm not about to start censoring anyone's representation. If a photo blatantly isn't in the month's subject it'll very likely end up with very few or no votes. It all works itself out in the end

MartMax

wuhoo, i uploaded my first entry.

Shrimp

done.

slumped

Nice one there Shrimp - pity the music used is for Piano and not Violin.

Just a technicality I suppose.

S

el tel

I've had a look at the entries for the latest photo challenge and going by the pictures up there so far, the 'still life' subject matter submitted seems to fall within a very broad scope so I might have a picture that I can use.

My question is this: can a picture submitted have text indicating copyright?
I have placed a few pictures (cars) on boards before and have sudsequently seen them posted on other websites with people falsely claiming credit.

Shrimp

Sometimes things like that are done on purpose to get the view to actually look at the photo.

slumped

Shrimp wrote:

Sometimes things like that are done on purpose to get the view to actually look at the photo.

And sometimes the photographer made a woopsie

Shrimp

The viewer will prolly wonder if I even knew it was piano music.. I was well aware it was as I play the piano. I did it to give the picture an edge. It'll arouse questions in the viewers head when they look at it (it did with you). It'll make them think about the arrangement and how I may have done it by accident, or on purpose.

They may not think of either, but instead just start humming that song? Who knows..

Thanks for the feedback.

roo_photo

Have uploaded a pic too!

el tel wrote:

I have placed a few pictures (cars) on boards before and have sudsequently seen them posted on other websites with people falsely claiming credit.

Similar has happened to me too, discovered a postcard with a strangely familiar picture on it. Somebody had grabbed one of our images off the net (not from boards.ie though), and removed the copyright details.:mad:
Even after that I still dont believe destroying the photo by smacking a big watermark over it. Instead people get to see the pics in all their glory, and there is the satisfaction of HAMMERING the gits who nick any stuff!:p

Rojo

Shrimp wrote:

The viewer will prolly wonder if I even knew it was piano music.. I was well aware it was as I play the piano. I did it to give the picture an edge. It'll arouse questions in the viewers head when they look at it (it did with you). It'll make them think about the arrangement and how I may have done it by accident, or on purpose.

They may not think of either, but instead just start humming that song? Who knows..

Thanks for the feedback.

hahaha

Shrimp

yep... that ones always a hit at parties.. good joke isn't it!

turd..

slumped

Shrimp wrote:

yep... that ones always a hit at parties.. good joke isn't it!

turd..

The violin player could just be dyslexic

440Hz

Ohh things are getting nasty in here!!

Uploaded too, sticking to the 'traditional' still life, more interesting anyway.

Oriel

My laptop is on the blink at the moment, and I'm waiting on my MacBook Pro to ship. Until then, the only images I have access to are in my deviantart page.
I'm looking to use this one:



could somebody help me by resizing the image please? A straight 50% crop should be all that's needed.

PM me if you're able to help, I'll e-mail you the file

Cheers,
S.

Oriel

Thanks for the PM Progen.

Rojo

Shrimp wrote:

yep... that ones always a hit at parties.. good joke isn't it!

turd..

ohhh errr

CoolBoardr

Are we allowed to use duotones on our photos?

Shrimp

Well of course... I mean it was a still life comp, but ppl still submitted sunsets etc.. sure go for it!

CoolBoardr

Was just wondering whether it broke the basic editing rules or not... Have submitted my photo already now anyway so it doesnt really matter either way.