The Untitled RAW Stills - submission deadline - Sunday July 25th

so I talked about doing something where we, denizens of ILP, could pass around pictures from our collection for each other to interpret and postprocess. it would be interesting and instructive, I think, to see how others view our own work! so far I've been thinking about the logistics of it and this is what I've come up:

-photo should be provided in both a RAW file (perhaps we should specify DNG?) and a JPEG file.
-the JPEG file would, ideally, be straight from the camera - if not possible, then should be from a straight conversion using a RAW program of your choice, without any changes to any settings.
-for collecting the files, I've opened a google account. I'm still not sure what the best way to go about collecting everybody's files is, but I thought we could all maybe e-mail our files to this account, and then I would provide the password to everybody and everybody could login and access the files. if there's a better way to do this (Google Docs?) I'd love to know!
-if anybody has any issues with intellectual property/copyright, please let me know! hopefully we can find a workaround.
-for displaying the final images - maybe a Flickr group?

that's it for now - putting this out there to get some feedback from all of you. if we all reach consensus, hopefully we can get started in a few days time.

yesssssss

was hoping this was something to do with eddie murphy

maybe it is :)

re: copyright/IP - let's just say that the images offered up are not to be displayed elsewhere without the permission of the original photographer and are otherwise under some kind of Creative Commons non-commercial license?

All sounds good to me

count me in.

was hoping this was something to do with eddie murphy

― les yeux sans aerosmith (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Thursday, July 15, 2010 10:46 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

if you're good enough at photoshop...

re: copyright/IP - let's just say that the images offered up are not to be displayed elsewhere without the permission of the original photographer and are otherwise under some kind of Creative Commons non-commercial license?

― a cross between lily allen and fetal alcohol syndrome (milo z), Friday, July 16, 2010 12:01 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

yeah I'm fine with this, the paranoid in me worries that some lurker may login and steal all the photos, so I'm trying to figure out what the best way would be to distribute the password

This is good. I'm in the midst of processing my first solo wedding shoot (i.e. in those scant few hours of non-work/non-family time) but give me a few days and I'll have something for yous.

missed a golden opportunity to start this with 'just a bit of fun' etc

but this is a great idea (even if i won't be participating or anything)

i'm in, even with danger of being massively outclassed.

Count me in too.

yeah I'm fine with this, the paranoid in me worries that some lurker may login and steal all the photos, so I'm trying to figure out what the best way would be to distribute the password

If we put them on Flickr (or even here for discussion), that's also a possibility. Just one of the things that goes along with photography in this era.

Best protection method is for everyone to not put up any images that we might want to sell/publish/etc. at a later date.

sooooo

okay! send all submissions to ilp✧✧✧@gm✧✧✧.c✧✧

deadline is this upcoming Sunday, July 25th.

after all submissions are in, I'll email everybody the account password, and then we'll figure out a timeline for the display of the final pictures

uh that should be ilpilx at google mail

i'll have to sit this one out as my mac's in storage while i'm between homes. but would definitely have a go at it later.

Sent mine in. Fair warning, I'm a pretty crap photographer. Still, looking forward to seeing what everyone's up to and trying my hand at the processing.

I haven't logged in to the account yet - hope there will be lots of stuff waiting!

oh crap i guess i need to upload something

i don't understand what RAW means, I'm sorry to bring the thread down. all my pics are jpg

jpg's fine too!

ok well i won't be submitting anything top class or anything but would be cool to see what could be done with any of my snaps. i'll try to dig something out.

remember, submissions end this Sunday!

for the postprocessing period, I'm thinking about two weeks - how does that sound to everybody?

Sounds fine. If uploading RAW, what is the purpose of the jpg and can I make it small/low quality?

I also apologize in advance for lack of post-processing skills. I'll set an evening aside and read up.

no purpose - not everybody on the forum shoots RAW, so I wanted to give non-RAW shooters a chance to participate as well

I just remembered - I think I asked for a JPG because I don't think everybody here is using a program capable of handling RAW files? Is there anybody who will be postprocessing with something other than Lightroom/Aperture/Photoshop?

I'd also be open to extending the submission deadline, if people need more time!

Couldn't seem to choose from old photos so just picked one fairly randomly from a handful of snaps I took today in the local park. CR2/DNG/JPEG - on its way to that gmail address now.

Away for a few days now but interested to see what we have next week...

oh shit i need to get on this huh

so I count 6 submissions so far: myself, sciolism, MJ, lukas, milo, and treefell

gbx, you still in? perhaps we should extend the deadline another week to accomodate anybody else?

yah i forgot, will pop something up tonight.

How about doing it as a rolling thing? Go with what we've got, and another round next week?

how bout posting pics to thread? is there a reason that won't work?

too lol hueg, spare a thought for the poor server.

don't turn this into a tipping thread

oops i will also get something up tonight

rolling is a good idea tho.

yeah that's true - this one seems like kind of a massive undertaking, tbh.

anyway reminder, the e-mail is:

 ilpilx at gmail dawt com

boring pic sent

wait what format am i sending?

send the RAW or JPG or both

Would Google Buzz be a good way to share these files?

I have never used google buzz before! dunno. anyway looks like some people are still submitting so why not extend the deadline to this Sunday.

oh crap i guess i need to upload something

― be told and get high on coconut (gbx), Wednesday, July 21, 2010 9:36 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark

oh shit i need to get on this huh

― be told and get high on coconut (gbx), Saturday, July 24, 2010 6:56 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark

oops i will also get something up tonight

― pies. (gbx), Tuesday, July 27, 2010 12:30 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

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u shut up

lol ; )

cool dog video btw

uh, we still doing this, guys?

i'd be very interested in getting involved with this, just started shooting RAW...
please to advise...

yeah - I'm trying to figure out how to divvy up the postprocessing. thinking about randomly assigning everybody 3 photos to postprocess - that way, there won't be *that* much work. on the other hand, we have 9 entries right now (11 if we include not_goodwin and gbx, whenever he gets around to sending one in!) - so maybe the load won't be *that* great. thoughts?

I'll e-mail everybody who's sent one in the password tonight

(sorry, we probably should have chosen a more organized person to do this! heh heh)

not_goodwin - just send a photo you'd like to see postprocessed by others to ilp✧✧✧@gm✧✧✧.c✧✧ (pref. RAW)

I'm happy to have a bash at 8 (or 10) images by others. It's usually quick and dirty Lightroom work with me anyway.

oh wait i can't postprocess anything i just submitted a couple crappy pics.

8-10 isn't too many for me, either, and I think it would be interesting to see everyone's interpretations of all the images.

Perhaps one post on here with all the base JPGs, then each of us could post up our versions on Flickr/PBucket/etc. (with proper attributions, etc. - and maybe we could all take them down off Flickr in a couple of weeks?).

Is there an ILXor Flickr group? That might streamline the posting process.

no, but I could make one...

will download all the files tonight, compile them into a zip and upload to mediafire, and e-mail everybody the link.

I looked into giving everybody the password to either a dropbox or gmail account but it looks like it's against the ToS and the account could get shutdown if they detect too many logins at once. \(O_o)/

Sounds good. ILX Flickr pool also a good idea. Shall we all stick to sRGB, considering the difficulties most browsers have with colour management? Or maybe we don't need to worry about subtleties like that.

There is an ilxor group on Flickr http://www.flickr.com/groups/ilxor/
I kind of think this should still have it's own group, or maybe ILPhotography should have it's own group.

hey guys sorry i've been out of town at a wedding (where i got some good shots, i think)

still don't know how to send raw?

did you shoot them as RAW? if not you can juts send the JPG

I downloaded, zipped, and uploaded the files to mediafire, check your inboxes everybody

I'm done! That was a fun way to spend an hour. I've realised that I can't see a sky without graduating the flip out of it. Let me know where to put my processed JPEGs. Milo Z's was the real challenge, I think (I suspect deliberately so) - not sure I rose to it. I didn't process my own photo - was I supposed to?

Have just had a look, will have a go with them tomorrow.

I can't see a sky without graduating the flip out of it
Ha, even when i'm out shooting, i think about it, "oh i'll grad it later"

I didn't process my own photo - was I supposed to?
i wouldn't have thought so, but i'm not in charge so...?

Yeah, that's a photo of my grandfather in the worst possible lighting. Nothing I've done with it has made me happy.

it's not really a competition is it! let me see if I can create an ILX ILP flickr group, and if we can organize group submissions by sets

should we upload them as we finish, or set a deadline for a grand unveiling?

I vote upload as finished - that way no one feels hurried for the grand unveiling.

I, too, am done. I feel like this showed me some of my weaknesses as a post-processor - I'm fairly competent with curves, the histogram and how to work with the color sliders for B&W and a few technical bits, but when it comes to things like graduating skies without looking terrible I'm pretty weak. Lightroom has gotten so complicated and feature-packed, I should probably read a book or take an online course or something.

I've created a flickr group but apparently you can't divide group pool submissions by sets

oh wait - I think I can start topics/threads for each person and everybody can post that person's picture to that thread

http://www.flickr.com/groups/ilpilx/

yo gbx you should submit your pix whenever

got to be honest man,

without a polling/voting option here ur thread is looking v shabby next to the competition.

step it up

yr friend

darragh

Sorry guys know mine is corny, have never been satisfied with my results with it

Good stuff. My efforts are in the group but I have to dash to work so can't contribute to the discussion threads until tonight...I doubt I can remember precisely what I did to each image without Lightroom reminding me.

i guess we should do our own thang before checking out how others have done it, huh.

lol 'Saving Private Ryan' sheep OTM- good job whoever that was :)

I'm done, few crops here and there and some messing with colours and B&W's too.

Argh, gutted I missed this.

it's not too late? e-mail your pic to ilpilx at gmail

Will send something tonight when I get home.

job done. full confession - a fair bit of preset usage, albeit with further tweaking (except for one where i hit the button and it looked too good to mess with any more).

Like what you've done with mine ledge.

aye well that would be the one i can't take the credit for, just a preset.

I've added my quick attempts to the group pool. I think I want to try again with some of these when I've got more time to sit with each image individually.

just found the discussions! and added my tuppence.

:) feel bad that I

i) submitted such lo-res amateur efforts
ii) don't actually edit pics

but thanks for work on mine everyone

But the beach shot in particular was ideal! I've even had people favouriting it in my photostream! Had to explain that I didn't take it...

mine are up, added them to the discussions as well. Really delighted by the variety of processing techniques.

I've even had people favouriting it in my photostream! Had to explain that I didn't take it...

This is why i set up another account, didn't want to confuse people and myself.

Also, if someone said "this is the best shot you've ever taken, miles better than your usual stuff" i don't know what i'd do :(

Ha! I actually manually hacked the upload dates/times on my previous batch of photos so they'd move back to the top of the photostream, but the damage was done and I was getting plenty of love meant for darraghmac, sciolism and dyao!

:) mayne as long as my work is, y'know out there, mayne, y'know?

new a/c seems the way forward. impressive PS work, sciolism! definitely enjoyed this, would be up for it again.

Enjoyed it as well, has given me a kick up the bum to get my head around PS, i'm alright with LR, but PS is another level to me.

thanks, ledge. don't know what a proper retoucher would make of it, but it was fun.

and thank you dyao. this was a great idea and you did a fantastic job organizing it. A+ would do again. hope this can become a rolling thing.

yea kudos to dyao

Yeah, thanks to dyao for doing this.
My attempts last night were done as a batch in Lightroom - i.e., I came up with a preset of my own and applied to all the images. Which is how I tend to use Lightroom!
I spent a little while with a couple of images in Photoshop today, dealing with them individually, but they need a bit more time if I were going to put them up.

going to be a few days until i can get to this. not letting myself see the finals until then.

Who's not had a go at processing yet?

same boat as lukas; hope to be done by the weekend!

Cheers for putting this together dyao, hope it continues?

aw thanks for the kind words everyone but really it was all your participation that made it and tbrr all I did was set up a google account.

yeah this should definitely be rolling - need to set up a public shared space though, maybe a mediafire folder?

Damn, missed all this. Would be well up for some shopping of other folks' pictures.

We can also set up something here on ILX to make all this easier. Photo upload or FTP and then some kind of gallery app installed? Will look into it.

that would be totes awes.

would be dope, agreed

got mine done tonight, rushed a few but oh well..

definitely agree milo's was the hardest, am happy with the crop I made but still don't have a clue about how to get a good foreground/background dynamic going...

really liked what you did with mine, ledge! it's really got that warm afternoon glow

i also regret missing this thread.

Finished, then net died (on phone now.)

I can't think of anything I want to do to Michael's. It's lovely.

Also, am now much more comfortable with the Tone Curve tool. Thanks for putting this together dyao.

Doing them now. What do I do once I finished?

There's a Flickr pool for them: http://www.flickr.com/groups/ilpilx/

Also, if you feel like it, post a small version in the discussion thread attached to that pool and tell us what you did.

I've started taking a second bite at the cherry with the images, now that I have more time to look at each individual image.
I just uploaded my second attempt at milo's image. It turned out a bit more extreme than I intended, really.

really educational seeing what everyone else has done

just uploading mine to flickr, but probably wont have time until after the weekend to write about what I did....

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nik-hil/sets/72157624590890937/

kudos on sheep, i like

hey maybe it's time for a POLL

competition in art is a negative influence towards normalisation of creative urges imo

is it time for another?

if i can fix my problem with uploading any images to any site ever, then sure.

Having problems ledge?
i've just noticed i have a comment on one of the pics from our little project.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/not_goodwin/4856047245/
has anyone else had any comments?

ps i take full credit!

Just giving the thread a bump to see if it's time for another go.

don't really feel that my standard tourist digital camera pics are worth submission, but did enjoy the results of ppl playing around before tbh.

Happy to have a bash again. Same deal as last time? Send originals to gmail address, mediafire link to download everyone's submissions, upload processed versions to Flickr pool?

Sounds good to me, I've a few I can't make my mind up with, so you lot can have a go with 'em.

haha I gotta see if I remember the password to the account

v1k1ng

hello?

haha I think I seriously lost the password to that account. gotta think...

lololol my security question is "who is ned raggett?"

so do we want to do this? set a deadline?

yes, 1 week?