ENTRY Thread DSS #47 (Beginning or Ending)

sherstone · March 22, 2010

Dgrin Sharp Shooters Challenge #47

Welcome to Round #47 of the Dgrin Sharp Shooters Challenges. This challenge is open to any Dgrin member. It will run from Monday, March 22, 05:00am, PST time (GMT -7) to Monday, April 5, 08:00am, PST time (GMT -7).

Please be aware that as of this round, the Ending Time has been changed to 8:00am PST (GMT -7)

The topic ready for your interpretation: Beginning or Ending

This round marks the ending of Kerry's awesomeness and the beginning of new territory for myself. It is up to you to interpret how you see beginning or ending. Please remember that using both challenge themes in an image usually weakens the message. You are welcome to use any idea that you see fit but try and be creative by thinking outside of the normal images that come to mind like birth or dead end roads. Show us your vision!

Your Judges:
jwear (Winner of Round 44)
Guest Judge: sherstone

IMPORTANT NOTE: Your entry is to be submitted directly into a SmugMug gallery. It's pretty simple, just go to the gallery link below, and follow the upload instructions at the top of the page:

DSS#47 Entry Gallery

Remember, the basics stay the same: 1 entry per person, and the photo must be fresh, taken during this contest period. Do not use a minimal save method (such as "save for web"), and your EXIF will be embedded in your image, no worries!

To avoid disqualification, read, in full, the Dgrin Sharp Shooters Challenge Rules, there have been some slight modifications

The Curious Camel · March 22, 2010

This sounds like fun.

The theme is really appropriate for the ending of one and beginning of another.
I'm sure that was your intent.

Thanks, Kerry, good luck Sean.

peace, gail

It feels good to be in the challenges again.:D

pemmett · March 22, 2010

Why am I not surprised that it's not something simpler. I fear it is a sign of things to come

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Thanks Kerry for all your time and effort you put into this

. Sean, I'm really looking forward to the challenges

travelways · March 22, 2010

The Curious Camel wrote:

This sounds like fun.

The theme is really appropriate for the ending of one and beginning of another.
I'm sure that was your intent.

Thanks, Kerry, good luck Sean.

- very well said Gail

Greensquared · March 22, 2010

So, you're saying I shouldn't shoot someone giving birth on a dead end road? Dang...guess I'll have to come up with another idea!

sherstone · March 22, 2010

Greensquared wrote:

So, you're saying I shouldn't shoot someone giving birth on a dead end road? Dang...guess I'll have to come up with another idea!

That would be immensely funny if several people did that exact interpretation.

Llywellyn · March 22, 2010

Just to reassure folks, my awesomeness is still around. Somewhere.

Great theme, Sean! Can't wait to see what people come up with.

sherstone · March 22, 2010

Llywellyn wrote:

Just to reassure folks, my awesomeness is still around. Somewhere.

Great theme, Sean! Can't wait to see what people come up with.

When you put it like that {cough} your right it does sound kind of negative.
Of course you still exude awesomeness!

Froch · March 22, 2010

From a newbie perspective, this is such great fun!!
Kerry, thanks for your hard work and great Challenges.
Sean, thank you in advance for managing this now. Looking forward to shooting to your Challenges
The challenges have inspired me to keep thinking of (hopefully) creative ways to tell a story within the confines of subject!

Great fun!
P

travelways · March 22, 2010

Please remember that using both challenge themes in an image usually weakens the message.

In this case I think that logically speaking, the 2 themes "Beginning" and "Ending" cannot exist separately

- Just a thought...

sherstone · March 22, 2010

photo-bug wrote:

In this case I think that logically speaking, the 2 themes "Beginning" and "Ending" cannot exist separately

- Just a thought...

Something cannot not end without a beginning, this is true. But it is in theory possible for a beginning to have an infinite existence and therefore have no end. There are always exceptions and I would love to see an entry that pulls it off perfectly.

I imagine we could put many dual themes to a chicken or the egg debate, that is what makes the challenges so much fun and mentally stimulating.

Kinkajou · March 22, 2010

Hmm... this is going to require some though! I think you're definitely starting out on the right path.

travelways · March 22, 2010

:slurp

sherstone · March 22, 2010

photo-bug wrote:

:slurp

Nikonic1 · March 22, 2010

this one should offer a ton of great interpretations. Nice choice of topic for your first one! Have fun moderating the natives

clap

rofl

Greensquared · March 22, 2010

sherstone wrote:

Something cannot not end without a beginning, this is true. But it is in theory possible for a beginning to have an infinite existence and therefore have no end. There are always exceptions and I would love to see an entry that pulls it off perfectly.
I imagine we could put many dual themes to a chicken or the egg debate, that is what makes the challenges so much fun and mentally stimulating.

Dang...there's goes my chicken and egg idea as well!

travelways · March 22, 2010

Greensquared wrote:

Dang...there's goes my chicken and egg idea as well!

You may find a steril chiken or an orphan egg...

The_Fat_Zebra · March 24, 2010

You know what has a beginning and an ending?

A sausage.

/silly humor.

Mad Cat · March 24, 2010

Big Changes
Wow, I step away for a couple months and when I return .... big changes. I haven't been with Dgrin very long or participated as much as I wish I had time to, but for what it's worth Kerry I want you to know you ARE awesome. As for you Sean, I can't think of a better choice to fill her shoes. You really bit it off this time buddy! Best wishes to you both, and to the rest of you all grinners - Hi Everybody! w/mc

TLVoDra · March 30, 2010

exif help
I wonder if someone could point me in the right direction for how to post exifs of the images I used in my composite image for this challenge. I tried a search and it wasn't fruitful.

Thanks a bunch! Tammy

KevXman · March 30, 2010

TLVoDra wrote:

I wonder if someone could point me in the right direction for how to post exifs of the images I used in my composite image for this challenge. I tried a search and it wasn't fruitful. Thanks a bunch! Tammy

That question came up in the last Mega Challenge. Here's what Sherstone says to do.

http://www.dgrin.com/showpost.php?p=1351224&postcount=30

and his entry

http://dgrin.smugmug.com/Dgrin-Challenges/Dgrin-Sharp-Shooters-Entries/Mega-Challenge-7/11443343_D7RSG#813128354_axjwv

You will probably have to login in challenge entry mode first (username: challenges, password: challenges).

Good luck.

—Kevin

TLVoDra · March 30, 2010

Thanks Kevin! I'm so new here...still trying to figure out the technical stuff...luckily there are a lot of helpful folks here. I couldn't get into the edit mode on the Mega Challenge (it's closed), so I just posted the URL for now and can change it later if I learn another way. Thanks again!
Tammy

sherstone · March 31, 2010

TLVoDra wrote:

I wonder if someone could point me in the right direction for how to post exifs of the images I used in my composite image for this challenge. I tried a search and it wasn't fruitful. Thanks a bunch! Tammy

First question is:

Where will the pictures that you want the EXIF information to be shown going to reside on the Internet?
A personal gallery?
A SmugMug Gallery?
or some other photosharing service?

If you could provide a link to the gallery that has the EXIF information then that should work fine.
You still should have EXIF info from the main image embedded in your final image.

Once I find out the answer to the question I can go further with trying to explain.

EDIT: Ok I should have read further - I see that you provided a link to the gallery that has the images with EXIF info. that works perfectly fine.

the code that you can use is shown here

TLVoDra · March 31, 2010

Thanks Sean! I saved the code for future use. Really appreciate your help!

Tammy

cj99si · March 31, 2010

Is my image fine as is with the exif? Or do I need to set up a gallery? Mine is the ski shot.

sherstone · March 31, 2010

cj99si wrote:

Is my image fine as is with the exif? Or do I need to set up a gallery? Mine is the ski shot.

To me it is obvious that all the frames were shot in the same sitting but since it is a composite of many frames, to be consistent with other entries that require EXIF for each element. Yes you need to link to the EXIF of each frame used or a gallery with small versions of all the frames, showing EXIF info, will work as well.

cj99si · March 31, 2010

sherstone wrote:

To me it is obvious that all the frames were shot in the same sitting but since it is a composite of many frames, to be consistent with other entries that require EXIF for each element. Yes you need to link to the EXIF of each frame used or a gallery with small versions of all the frames, showing EXIF info, will work as well.

Will do. Thanks.

Richard_G · March 31, 2010

#47 - Darn, this would have been a great entry.
So there I was, cruising in my time-spaceship just weeks before this challenge, when all of a sudden, there it was!

BinaryFx · April 1, 2010

sherstone wrote:

You are welcome to use any idea that you see fit but try and be creative by thinking outside of the normal images that come to mind like birth or dead end roads. Show us your vision!

Sean, this is a tough challenge!

"Ending"...does that mean that "end" and "extremity" are acceptable, I think so, however I just want to be sure...

Looking in the thesaurus, there are a few different possibilites once one considers the offerings...the same with beginning.

I presume that there is a lot of room for interpretation in this challenge, as you said to try to be creative.

Regards,

Stephen Marsh

sherstone · April 1, 2010

BinaryFx wrote:

Sean, this is a tough challenge!

First of all, I am glad that you feel it is tough, if it was easy then what kind of "challenge" would that be? One of the reasons why I personally like a two theme or opposites challenge is it gives the photographer a choice. If you are not feeling one you may get a vision on the other.

As I said, be creative and push the limits of what ending or beginning means. Using a thesaurus to find synonyms is always a perfect place to gain a better understanding of how a word or theme speaks to you.

The real challenge is finding within yourself a vision that when viewed by others immediately screams out the theme without even having to read the title. Titles in my mind, should be used to enhance the artistic statement not explain it. If an image can not stand on it's own and say the theme without a title then it may still be a great photo, but what does it say to the viewer?

Yes the final two people that you need to convince and entice into your image are the judges but the reality of these challenges is that you need to please yourself first. If all you do is struggle to please your audience and you personally dislike your creation, I believe you are doing yourself a disservice.

It is all about growth and pushing yourself to new heights of creativity. I know that many participants including myself, have been able to add images to their portfolio that never would have been possible without the creative push that these challenges offer.

I hope that helps instead of focusing you on how "hard" it seems.

BinaryFx · April 1, 2010

Thanks Sean, just wanted to be sure on the variations of meaning - that ending and end could both be used, the shades of meaning are different and important (ending-time, end-extremity etc)!

Yes, this is all a challenge! In my day job, I have dealt with images for years, however I am not a professional photographer. A few months ago I purchased my first DSLR, so I am using these challenges to learn more about photography as a hobby. It is hard for me to think of subjects/themes as a learning method - so being forced into shooting a subject via a challenge is a perfect way for me to learn.

Regards,

Stephen Marsh

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