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Pic of the week game

Saturday,
Vote Tally day.

As I make my tally here, I see that the Voting was interesting in that the first 6 votes were each for separate entries, so a six way tie with one vote each at that point.

Then after 9 votes was a 3 way tie of 2 votes each.
THen after 12 votes was a 3 way tie again of 3 votes each.
Then came in the tiebreaker vote. (and that was in mid afternoon, plenty of time for another vote to come in.)

My tally (anyone is welcome to check)
Sandy 3, Gustov 3, Trevor 4, Burque 1, SteveMurdock 1, Redman 1.

I would say that makes Trevor not only a repeat winner, but also the first successive week winner. THe first time the sample picture is the winner.

Congrats Trevor. What you got for us again this week?
 
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I watched the voting with similar fascination, Dave, and came to the same conclusion. A nearly three-way tie ending in the first consecutive-weeks win.
Thirteen pictures, thirteen votes. Congrats Trevor!
 
If there were 13 pics and 13 votes, that means that (because I voted but did not submit a pic) someone who submitted a pic did not vote. Anyone care to check who? I'm too lazy and have no horse in the race.:stung:
 
Rich82GS750TZ said:
If there were 13 pics and 13 votes, that means that (because I voted but did not submit a pic) someone who submitted a pic did not vote. Anyone care to check who? I'm too lazy and have no horse in the race.:stung:
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I suppose we could check, but it's happened before. Sometimes people miss the Friday vote. They usually stop in over the weekend and say, "Oops!"
 
There have been times when I simply can't decide who to vote for, spent the day waffling and wind up not voting at all. Then times when I didn't vote for the one I had in mind, but made a last minute change and thought later on, why did I change my mind. Sort of like walking up to a food joint craving a burger, looking at all the burger options on the menu, then when they ask what I'd like, I say I'll take a hot dog. Not sure what just happened in that last second, but I eat my hot dog and move on.

This week was real hard to choose one. Really great dusk photos.
 
Well, I will try and get out do this, somehow...depending on the weather, of course.

I've done a few panoramas, but not being a fan, it's not something I am real experienced with.

I'll have to find the instructions for my camera and see how to do it....

Of course the development time for the film really cramps my timeline here....



 
trevor said:
Hey guys,
wouls everyone be ok with a panoramic photo?
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Okay? With the sample pic being a pano? Sure.
Okay? With the subject-theme-catagory being a pano? Ah, that pretty much assumes smart phone or fairly good digital camera. But I suppose that doesnt eliminate too many folks.
I have done a few pano shots to include all of a scene, and was not happy with the distortion, didnt really show what I was seeing, so havent done it much. Have found other ways to show the scene. So I have only a few pano shots. But can be fun to see what others have done.



bccap said:
Trevor is in Ontario right now and asked me to post up his panorama for him......
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But we dont have clairifcation of of what is the subject-catagory-theme.
 
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Redman said:
With the sample pic being a pano? Sure.
With the subject-theme-catagory being a pano? Ah, that pretty much assumes smart phone or fairly good digital camera. But I suppose that doesnt eliminate too many folks.





But we dont have clairifcation of of what is the subject-catagory-theme.
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show us a cool panoramic shot. I don?t think it needs to anything other than that.
 
Redman said:
With the sample pic being a pano? Sure.
With the subject-theme-catagory being a pano? Ah, that pretty much assumes smart phone or fairly good digital camera. But I suppose that doesnt eliminate too many folks.
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Well anything that can take a picture will work, (and yes, even my 1955 camera would work), but you need the software to put it together. Windows paint won't do it.

And I agree we need a little clarification on the theme....:)
 
Redman said:
With the sample pic being a pano? Sure.
With the subject-theme-catagory being a pano? Ah, that pretty much assumes smart phone or fairly good digital camera. But I suppose that doesnt eliminate too many folks.

But we dont have clairifcation of of what is the subject-catagory-theme.
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A panorama is stitched together photos as far as I know but I'm sure an extreme wide angle will do as well. Good chance for me to try out the 20mm lens I bought a few years ago and still haven't taken out of the box.....
 
My grandfather showed me (when I was a young teenager) a panographic photo of his boot camp (or something) from World War 1 (The Great War, before knew had to number them), and he showed me his buddy in the picture twice. Apparently this guy knew that when they had them line up along the circle on the field for the picture what was going to happen, so after the camera went past him he ducked down and ran to the other end and stood up on that end, so he showed up in the picture twice. I did not understand that at all when my grandpa told me that, I didnt know if he was joking or what. So I dis some study of panographic photos (you know, look up the subject on the cards in the file in the libary, dewey decimal, then go find a book an a shelf).
In those old camears that turned on a tripod, the film would be pulled thru the camera while it turned. It didnt have a round aperture opening/shutter, but had a slit for a aperture to expose just a narrow vertical slit.
Okay. Now I am a boring old guy, yacking about some fact nobody asked about.
But anyway, with that undeerstanding, it made it easier to understand how a digital camera can produce the pano image.
 
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Baatfam said:
Well anything that can take a picture will work, (and yes, even my 1955 camera would work), but you need the software to put it together. Windows paint won't do it.

And I agree we need a little clarification on the theme....:)
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I use PTGui. There is a trial version you can try for free { or download the full version off Piratebay if you don't care like me } I'm pretty sure Canon's Photostitch is free as well though it isn't as sophisticated as PTGui. Just make sure you switch the camera to manual so the photos you stitch together have the same exposure settings........
 
bccap said:
I use PTGui. There is a trial version you can try for free { or download the full version off Piratebay if you don't care like me } I'm pretty sure Canon's Photostitch is free as well though it isn't as sophisticated as PTGui. Just make sure you switch the camera to manual so the photos you stitch together have the same exposure settings........
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I've got one camera that will do them internally, and several programs that will do it. Lightroom, Photoshop Elements, and Affinity Photo (I think).
But, I don't have anything on hand, because they don't interest me. Hopefully I can get out this week. If I do, I know where I will go.
 
To further clarify, "panoramic" is a wider field of vision that you would get from a "normal" shot, and is NOT 'just' a picture that is very wide.

This is not a panoramic, correct?


it's just a "normal" picture cropped:
 
kerrfunk said:
To further clarify, "panoramic" is a wider field of vision that you would get from a "normal" shot, and is NOT 'just' a picture that is very wide.

This is not a panoramic, correct?


it's just a "normal" picture cropped:
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Sure my friend....take away my bad weather option...;)
 
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