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10/05/2014 05:50:37 PM · #1
The former 3rd-place winner in "Organic Geometry" has been disqualified for overenthusiastic background removal: the leaf was resting on a textured dark-gray carpet and throwing a distinct shadow. Congratulations to our new Yellow Ribbon image and our new HM image.

Message edited by author 2014-10-05 21:40:22.
10/05/2014 07:21:39 PM · #2
We'll I guess it was bound to happen eventually, got my first dq.. Don't quite understand why, but I got it.. Lol.. I didn't remove any bg other than clone out about three tiny light spots after I edited.. Oh we'll now I know that's not allowed. Congrats to the new third place winner..

Message edited by author 2014-10-05 19:23:11.
10/05/2014 08:38:32 PM · #3
Originally posted by Rmac:

.. I didn't remove any bg other than clone out about three tiny light spots after I edited.. Oh we'll now I know that's not allowed. Congrats to the new third place winner..


Since I haven't seen the original, I'm just guessing here, but I suspect that in the original shot the background was clearly visible. When you say that all you did was clone out a few tiny light spots after editing, I expect that you used selective editing to suppress most of the background, then the clone tool to expunge the remaining spots.
If this is the case, remember that removal is removal, no matter how it is accomplished. You would have likely been DQ'd even if you'd not used the clone tool at all.
10/05/2014 09:40:04 PM · #4
Originally posted by kirbic:

Remember that removal is removal, no matter how it is accomplished. You would have likely been DQ'd even if you'd not used the clone tool at all.

Correct.
10/05/2014 09:51:36 PM · #5
I understand, but didn't realize that if it basically left in the editing process that it wasn't legal.. Honestly didn't even cross my mind.. Oh well I am now a card carrying member of the Dq club.. It's only taken 5 or 6 years to get there.. lol
10/05/2014 10:20:24 PM · #6
Don't sweat it, I got a couple of those and although I did sweat the second one (the exact photo was printed in the newspaper I shot it for, but it was shot with their camera and I didn't think to check the date/time so the EXIF were invalid - I get it now after almost 6 years working for Uncle Sam, it's black and white) and it put me off the site for a couple years, but I came back (and then life got in the way for several more years, and I came back again).
10/05/2014 10:37:46 PM · #7
Oh how ironic, "the texture was too strong to obliterate", but under the new rules you could have added texture....
10/05/2014 11:02:37 PM · #8
Originally posted by PapaBob:

Oh how ironic, "the texture was too strong to obliterate", but under the new rules you could have added texture....
.

It's a mixed up, crazy world we live in, Bob..
10/05/2014 11:21:17 PM · #9
Originally posted by PapaBob:

Oh how ironic, "the texture was too strong to obliterate", but under the new rules you could have added texture....

That IS ironic, yes. Don't think for a minute we're not aware of it.
10/06/2014 12:14:17 AM · #10
Originally posted by Bear_Music:

That IS ironic, yes. Don't think for a minute we're not aware of it.


SC is aware of everything

Message edited by author 2014-10-06 00:15:04.
10/06/2014 07:01:30 AM · #11
except how to avoid hyperbole ;-)
10/06/2014 05:05:50 PM · #12
ha
10/06/2014 08:59:07 PM · #13
personally, I avoid all superboles.
10/06/2014 09:21:00 PM · #14
superbole; hyperbole, etc. etc.
If one looks up 'bole' this is what
Merriam Webster says (among other things):
What made you want to look up bole? Please tell us where you read or heard it (including the quote, if possible).
Dictionary.com tells us
noun
1.
any of a variety of soft, unctuous clays of various colors, used as pigments.
2.
a medium red-brown color made from such clay.
Also, bolus.
Origin
1350-1400; Middle English bol < Late Latin bōlus lump; see bolus
...I don't wanna see 'bolus' I wanna see how "bole" got to be superbole(s) and/or hyperbole(s)!

enlighten me, oh please?
:)
10/06/2014 09:40:47 PM · #15
I don't know… if this place is full of ebole, we need to call in the CDC!

No wonder our numbers are dwindling….
10/06/2014 09:53:54 PM · #16
Originally posted by Rmac:

I understand, but didn't realize that if it basically left in the editing process that it wasn't legal.. Honestly didn't even cross my mind.. Oh well I am now a card carrying member of the Dq club.. It's only taken 5 or 6 years to get there.. lol


Welcome...your in good company...
10/06/2014 10:13:27 PM · #17
This being the "geometry" thread it should be more clear that the root is not "bole" in the senses given previously (or even the trunk of a tree), but from a form of the Greek word "to throw", as in the geometric term "hyperbola" ...
Originally posted by Dictionary.com:

... from Greek huperbolē, literally: excess, extravagance, from hyper- + ballein to throw
10/06/2014 10:34:36 PM · #18
Alice! Hyper not Terlit.

Originally posted by sfalice:

superbole; hyperbole, etc. etc.
If one looks up 'bole' this is what
Merriam Webster says (among other things):
What made you want to look up bole? Please tell us where you read or heard it (including the quote, if possible).
Dictionary.com tells us
noun
1.
any of a variety of soft, unctuous clays of various colors, used as pigments.
2.
a medium red-brown color made from such clay.
Also, bolus.
Origin
1350-1400; Middle English bol < Late Latin bōlus lump; see bolus
...I don't wanna see 'bolus' I wanna see how "bole" got to be superbole(s) and/or hyperbole(s)!

enlighten me, oh please?
:)
10/06/2014 10:42:49 PM · #19
No, no, no. I am NOT going to look up the definition of "terlit".
NO.
:)

Originally posted by skewsme:

Alice! Hyper not Terlit.

Originally posted by sfalice:

superbole; hyperbole, etc. etc.
If one looks up 'bole' this is what
Merriam Webster says (among other things):
What made you want to look up bole? Please tell us where you read or heard it (including the quote, if possible).
Dictionary.com tells us
noun
1.
any of a variety of soft, unctuous clays of various colors, used as pigments.
2.
a medium red-brown color made from such clay.
Also, bolus.
Origin
1350-1400; Middle English bol < Late Latin bōlus lump; see bolus
...I don't wanna see 'bolus' I wanna see how "bole" got to be superbole(s) and/or hyperbole(s)!

enlighten me, oh please?
:)
10/06/2014 10:50:56 PM · #20
surely we have the Greeks to thank for the genesis of the superbole and all that bolus.
10/06/2014 10:57:29 PM · #21
Did you say Boli? Someone fetch Strom.

Thank you Alice, very rewarding.
10/06/2014 11:06:19 PM · #22
And here I thought you were talking about Terlingua... Yum, Chili!

Message edited by author 2014-10-07 08:00:19.
10/06/2014 11:25:20 PM · #23
You're bad. Now I know where the bolus goes.

Originally posted by skewsme:

Did you say Boli? Someone fetch Strom.

Thank you Alice, very rewarding.
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