Photo Competitions - Expansion

I like photography for the feeling of achievement whenever I take what I think is a good shot and enjoy seeing the sometimes unexpected result. I hate it when people get all technical and start showing graphs of this and that, expounding on how this method is the only one to use, etc and you get that on some of the Photography Forums and also on some of the Astronomy Forums where they argue about a technical level that irrelevant to the normal person. To be honest, my Pentax K5, now superseded by several newer more advanced Pentax models, is technically and optically, above my own abilities to get the best out of it. It's the same with my Telescope, eyepieces, and CDD camera, they're at a technical level that goes above my reasonable eyesight and ability to differentiate between the new Super Duper, super expensive lenses and the fairly high quality kit I have now. I just enjoy the whole experience of taking images either with my Pentax or with the Telescope rather than the snobbishness of having the "best of the best" or demonstrating through scientific and technical graphs how one certain camera/lens is better than any other.

 

Yep, Tetters, it's looking a bit bleak to me too!!

 

Hi Woo,

I think that most of our members wouldn't understand what those terms mean . I know you explained them to me once but I've forgotten! Sorry!

I guess that 'file conversion' means reducing the size to 600 x 800 (don't know how to do that but assume that when I drag and drop my pictures the forum software does it for me).

Don't know what the others mean . Could it be explained simply in No. 6?

As I don't understand them I don't do anything

This is always a tricky one for me. I sometimes find the light levels are wrong for taking photos - so don't take them . Having said that, I've found a setting on my camera, although it's an old camera, that is for taking snow pictures. This stops the snow looking grey.

I'm able to enter that into a competition as the picture is 'as taken'. Similarly, the examples by @martin-f can be almost the same (I think) if taken on zoom. That way there's no manipulation of the photo.

So, all the photos I enter into the competition are exactly as taken. Works for me

 

What post mortems?

I take my photos, post them up, make my vote (simples ) - and get on with pestering bureaucrats, officials, big business and public companies

 

Hello @shiney I've forgotten what my explanation was

 

This is typical of the settings.

This is with the camera on automatic.


And then on the snow setting


I found the snow setting on the 'landscape' option. It had a few choices and I just had to scroll to the correct one. So it was just a turn of the dial on the camera. I could have changed the 'white balance' but that's a bity more of a nuisance than just putting it on 'snow'.

 

Hello @shiney that's enhancing the snow