Re: [AGA-Contest] [104] usual beefs -- need to write up

["S. Hieber" <shieber@yahoo.com>]

A "Top Ten techy things to make your photos look better in
the contest" sounds like a good idea. I think most of those
that know will comply if they can.

Can't wait to see what you have propped up for us.

sh

--- Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com> wrote:

> I need to make one page on the site just to list the top
> ten 
> beefs I have with some of the entries.  Here are the two
> I am correcting 
> today:
> 
> 1. lack of cropping.  People take a photo of 8-foot long,
> 12" high tank, 
> and it gets uploaded as a 4:3 photo.  Ends up looking
> like watching a 
> letterboxed movie from hell.  And to make things worse,
> in the new "mega 
> monitor" mode I added last year, the main photo is
> resized based on the 
> number of pixels in it, not its width...so those black
> bars count.  So I 
> have probably gone in and re-cropped about 25-40 photos
> in the past day.
> 
> 1a. adding frames photos.  Leaving photos uncropped is
> one thing.  But 
> there are people who decide there needs to be a big black
> frame around 
> their photo.  Why?  I don't know.  But their photos only
> end up looking 
> smaller in the show.  And I have to go in and re-crop
> them all anyway.
> 
> 2. planting plans with the text in the photos.  This one
> drives me 
> absolutely bonkers.  The entrant HAD to have typed in all
> that stuff in 
> photoshop.  And half of the texts are unreadable at 400
> width, the others 
> look ridiculously huge at higher resolution.  Worse,
> there's a place to do 
> it all -- in the caption for the photo, or the plant
> description.  One 
> would think that the way all the previous years' entries
> look once edited, 
> folks might get the hint.  But I have probably re-typed
> 10-20 planting 
> plan contents -- and cropped the names off the plan
> itself.
> 
> 2a. planting plans that aren't really planting plans at
> all.  A lot of 
> people have now interpreted "planting plan" to mean
> "legend".  It's not. 
> It's supposed to show how you planted the tank.  But
> instead now we're 
> getting desaturated copies of the main photo with numbers
> added.  That's 
> OK, but I can't help but thinking it'd be nice if we had
> more simple 
> drawings showing what the planter intended.
> 
> 
> Our little prop worked, and the photo shoot last night
> was a success.  Now 
> I have 5 hours of photoshopping to do.  Ah well. :)
> 
>    - Erik
> 
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