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Monthly Photo Comp???

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  • 09-01-2020 4:43pm
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    irishejit
    Registered Users Posts: 657 ✭✭✭


    Would there be any appetite for a monthly photo comp?

    We could pick a theme for each month via a poll, run it for three weeks and then post the pics the final week....most thanks gets all the internet kudos they deserve?


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    ScrubsfanChris
    Registered Users Posts: 8,599 ✭✭✭ScrubsfanChris


    I'd be up for that

    Could start with an easy one like Irish History (A ruin / castle /church / etc: )


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    Top Dog
    Registered Users Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭Top Dog


    ScrubsfanChris wrote: »
    I'd be up for that

    Could start with an easy one like Irish History (A ruin / castle /church / etc: )
    Isn't it illegal to fly a drone over the majority of heritage sites in Ireland?


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    ScrubsfanChris
    Registered Users Posts: 8,599 ✭✭✭ScrubsfanChris


    Top Dog wrote: »
    Isn't it illegal to fly a drone over the majority of heritage sites in Ireland?
    It varies place to place.
    Also not all old ruins and castles are heritage sites.


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    irishejit
    Registered Users Posts: 657 ✭✭✭irishejit


    Top Dog wrote: »
    Isn't it illegal to fly a drone over the majority of heritage sites in Ireland?

    That causes a few misunderstandings in the North anyway, especially with the National Trust. They try and ban all flights over their property, but in reality all they can do is stop you from taking off on their land, you can overfly it if you want as long as you adhere to the CAA drone code.

    A few Facebook groups I'm in have queried this with the CAA direct and they confirm they can't actually stop you provided you aren't on their land at the start.

    It may be different with the IAA but as they are all following basically the same ICAO rules I can't see there being too much difference.


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    stuff.hunter
    Registered Users Posts: 915 ✭✭✭stuff.hunter


    good idea, I'm up for it :)


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    irishejit
    Registered Users Posts: 657 ✭✭✭irishejit


    I will put one up for the start of February, and if it generates some interest then we can see whether or not we should keep it going,


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    stuff.hunter
    Registered Users Posts: 915 ✭✭✭stuff.hunter


    irishejit wrote: »
    I will put one up for the start of February, and if it generates some interest then we can see whether or not we should keep it going,

    top man!


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    tusk
    Registered Users Posts: 5,882 ✭✭✭tusk


    Great idea, might push me to actually get mine back out after a looong hiatus!


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    drunkmonkey
    Registered Users Posts: 28,101 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    It would be nice to get one going for the 1st of the month, what could be really useful is if people named their drone and camera settings for the picture (iso, wb etc), that doesn't happen in the normal photo thread.
    No touchups/Photoshop etc allowed, maybe have a separate thread for that like the random photo thread.


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    Eire-Dearg
    Registered Users Posts: 8,900 ✭✭✭Eire-Dearg


    If not a competition, a general thread for people's drone footage/pics is needed in here!


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    irishejit
    Registered Users Posts: 657 ✭✭✭irishejit


    drunkmonkey wrote: »
    It would be nice to get one going for the 1st of the month, what could be really useful is if people named their drone and camera settings for the picture (iso, wb etc), that doesn't happen in the normal photo thread.
    No touchups/Photoshop etc allowed, maybe have a separate thread for that like the random photo thread.

    I'm going to post one up tomorrow and see how it goes from there, and if there is enough interest I'd intend to keep it running after that.

    Telling settings could be difficult as i'd be planning to ask people to host their images on imgur or similar and then embed them from it into a thread, though if people wanted to put it somewhere I'm not against it.

    Touchups and photoshop would be allowed though. An awful lot of people, myself included, shoot in d-log, d-cinelike, raw or similar, resulting in some work in lightroom or whatever software used being necessary.

    No harm if you don't shoot in these modes, but its not fair to the people who do to omit that from any contest.


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    drunkmonkey
    Registered Users Posts: 28,101 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    I can't shoot raw on the mini, it's a bit of work blending a few jpegs and taking multiple iso shots to get one good shot. It's creativity I'd like to see most, hence I was suggesting keeping it unmodified.
    Suppose Lightroom/Photoshop are no harm for those who want to, we probably should provide some links to free software at the start of the thread for people just starting with camera drones. The drone videography/photography is new to me but I'm well used to my dslr.


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    irishejit
    Registered Users Posts: 657 ✭✭✭irishejit


    drunkmonkey wrote: »
    I can't shoot raw on the mini, it's a bit of work blending a few jpegs and taking multiple iso shots to get one good shot.

    That's one of the drawbacks of the mini, having Auto Exposure Bracketing is so useful on the larger drones and I've seen a lot of people on other forums requesting it added in future firmware updates.


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    drunkmonkey
    Registered Users Posts: 28,101 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    The weather's not really playing ball for the competition.


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    irishejit
    Registered Users Posts: 657 ✭✭✭irishejit


    drunkmonkey wrote: »
    The weather's not really playing ball for the competition.

    Feckin typical....still plenty of time though, and if all fails you could always use something you took previously if you had it


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