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With the start of the month just around the corner I suggest we take on this little challenge:

An image a day for 31 days.

Q. How does it work???

A. Simple, you need to take at least one image a day for the month of October.

Q. Can I take more than 1 image a day???

A. Yes you can, however you can only submit 1 image a day (so make it your best).

Q. Are there any prizes for the best image of the month???

A. Yes there is... The warm fuzzy feeling you will feel inside knowing you produced the nicest image of the month (who said anything about material prizes?)

So if you want to take up this challenge post your name here.

I am trying to work out a way we can use my Smugmug account to display all the images. The only way I can think of at the moment is people e-mail me there images and then I upload them nightly into a gallery. I thought this would be more organised then everyone just posting into a thread on the message board.

Any thoughts???

Cheers,

W00DY

I'm in!

I might fail quickly though if the +1 waits until october to go into labour... (she is due any day now!)

MHD wrote:I'm in!

I might fail quickly though if the +1 waits until october to go into labour... (she is due any day now!)

Hey MHD,

If the baby arrives in October I can gaurante you will take at least 1 image a day, fair enough we will be sick of baby photos by the end of the month though

Any suggestions on how to display the images? Should we just add our image to this thread (or a new one) each day or shoudl we try and get them in one place?

W00DY

I might be able to do something with my site...

But I would have to limit the size of the images..

Would people be interested in that?
I could create a sub album at http://potofgrass.ath.cx/gallery and give all those who want to submit accounts...

That could be fun!

If we can upload our own images that is a great idea (that way there is no admin work for you).

I can create a gallery on my SmugMug account but I have to upload all the images (which I'm happy to do if needed).

I think one place for all the images is a good idea though.

W00DY

Yep I should be able to do it on my site...
PM me your username, and email and I will create accounts...

feel free to test by uploading images, but please keep them small (Limit of 500K, smaller if you can!)

We should set a size for uploads, say 800*600

I think the software I use even has options for a vote as well.. will have to take it for a test

http://potofgrass.ath.cx/gallery/d70aday

Crikey, pressure.

This is not an easy challenge, and yet.....bring it!

I'm in.

Hopefully, there will be a tolerance for crap.

MHD wrote:We should set a size for uploads, say 800*600

Huge thanks to MHD for this kind offer. I have tested and the upload works.

In addition to limiting your images to 800*600 I think we should also have a naming convention for each image. I suggest we use the following:

imagename_user_date (example: building_W00DY_011004)

It also looks like you can delete / edit ANY image in the gallery once you are logged in, if this is the case please be very careful and only edit your own images if need be.

This challenge should be fun.

W00DY

Greg B wrote:Hopefully, there will be a tolerance for crap.

If I have a bad day at work you might only get a picture of my big toe

The idea is to get people using their camera more and documenting a month of there life.

There are NO quality standards here, somedays you might feel creative other days you won't... That's the idea.

W00DY

W00DY wrote:

MHD wrote:We should set a size for uploads, say 800*600

Huge thanks to MHD for this kind offer. I have tested and the upload works.

In addition to limiting your images to 800*600 I think we should also have a naming convention for each image. I suggest we use the following:

imagename_user_date (example: building_W00DY_011004)

It also looks like you can delete / edit ANY image in the gallery once you are logged in, if this is the case please be very careful and only edit your own images if need be.

This challenge should be fun.

W00DY

I should be able to fix that...

W00DY wrote:There are NO quality standards here

I resemble that remark!

What a great (or should that be grate?) idea.

gstark wrote:What a great (or should that be grate?) idea.

Thanks Gary...

I was going to do this myself and then thought it would be fun to get the forum involved.

W00DY

Yep.... Voting works...

MHD wrote:Yep.... Voting works...

Cool!!!!!

Can you configure it so that you can't vote for your own images?

Dunno... Will play as time goes on...

Might be good to use it for comps!

This sounds good
I'm IN!!!!!

Cheers
Ray

Raydar wrote:I'm IN!!!!!

Good stuff. Look forward to seeing how you spend October

W00DY wrote:Good stuff. Look forward to seeing how you spend October

That makes two of us mate!!!!!

Cheers
Ray

I'm up for this - Just won't be able to post it every day. Doing a bit of traveling in October.

What a great idea!

Yeah, I think Oct 15th will never exist for me - travelling over the international dateline.

Excuses Excuses!

PM me for a uname and password...

Onyx wrote:Yeah, I think Oct 15th will never exist for me - travelling over the international dateline.

Take a photo with the lens cap on.... Black day!!!!

Has everyone received a username and password from MHD???

Don't forget, from this Friday you need to take your camera everywhere for 31 days

W00DY

W00DY wrote:Has everyone received a username and password from MHD???

Don't forget, from this Friday you need to take your camera everywhere for 31 days

W00DY

He's quiet on the last few days, I believe, he's very busy and trying to learn how to change nappies and bottle feeding to his newborn baby.
Waiting to hear from him.

Baby schmaby, this is important......

I'm Back.. Gory details of the Birth to come in another thread...

Anyways welcome all to the challenge... One important thing to remember is to PLEASE resize your images on your own computer before uploading them... Maximum of of 500K but even better if smaller (have a look at the size of the medium images in my albums, that is how big the medium will be in the d70 album... and most people will only look at the medium)

This should be fun!

MHD wrote:I'm Back.. Gory details of the Birth to come in another thread...

Anyways welcome all to the challenge... One important thing to remember is to PLEASE resize your images on your own computer before uploading them... Maximum of of 500K but even better if smaller (have a look at the size of the medium images in my albums, that is how big the medium will be in the d70 album... and most people will only look at the medium)

This should be fun!

Congrats on the birth... We just had our 2nd 5 weeks ago

Looking forward to the challenge (hope I can hang in there) my brain will probably explode after try to be creative for an entire month

Cheers,

W00DY

Is the other thread about the birth the one with "Wet winching" in the title?

Well Enjoy your shooting from tommorow!!

Site:
http://potofgrass.ath.cx/gallery/d70aday

Nice to start it with a long weekend!

If anyone else wants an account (alows posting of images and ranking of images) PM me

Anyone can leave comments in this album so feel free to critique the images!

Oh and Make sure that the image you post has valid EXIF tags as this will tell us when the image was shot!

You wouldn't beleive it...

To make this challenge that little bit harder I have pulled all the muscles in the back of my neck and can hardly move my neck at all

So don't expect any exciting images from me for the first couple of days untill I get movement back again.

But don't worry I will still take an image a day

W00DY

That's no good Woody, but look on the bright side, at least you have an excuse - whatever you come up with will be viewed in the context of a courageous struggle against adversity.

Whereas, anything I do will be judged on its merits. Oh boy, am I ever in trouble.

Greg B wrote:Whereas, anything I do will be judged on its merits. Oh boy, am I ever in trouble.

And you're obviously out to sabotage us ... sending us your weather today!

Ditto! FIrst day and its gloomy!

Welcome to the concept of the level playing field Gentlemen.

Hold on, what's that bright thing in the sky........

It is sunny in Melbourne (well, kinda)

Added my first image!

Added my 1-10-04 entry but I forgot to include the date in the title... Is there any way I can ammend the title?

PM me the caption and I will add it

The caption looks good to me... I can rename the file if you need me to

Greg B wrote:That's no good Woody, but look on the bright side, at least you have an excuse - whatever you come up with will be viewed in the context of a courageous struggle against adversity.

Hmmm, Think I will use that excuse

1st of Oct began for me just 3 hours ago... is this kinda "cheating" cos I'm posting what would otherwise be yesterday - aka you guys are living in my tomorrow.

can we still get in on this? How?

ta!

sheepie wrote:can we still get in on this? How?

ta!

Send MHD a PM and he will set you up with a user name and password. You can then add images to the website and vote on other images, or leave comments.

You don't need to upload everyday if you can't but you do need to take an image everyday and then label them with the correct date.

Read through the other messages as there some size limits to the images.

Hope you enjoy the challenge and look forward to seeing your images.

W00DY

Onyx wrote:1st of Oct began for me just 3 hours ago... is this kinda "cheating" cos I'm posting what would otherwise be yesterday - aka you guys are living in my tomorrow.

My head hurts!

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I love the Ivy!

How come the depth of field is so shalow at f/7.1??? Was the ivy off the wall a bit??

Oh and the brick is fantastic!

Thanks MHD - I guess I was at 70mm on the kit lens, and about as close to the ivy as I could be to get focus, so the dof was very shallow.

Yes, the old red bricks are a great backdrop for the ivy, and the late sun gave a redder look.

I like all the shots - day one has been a success!

Mines up for the day

Cheers
Ray

potofgrass.ath.cx is down for a while... I HOPE to get it back on line tonight!!
Bloody IT!!!!

MHD - I just realised the pot of grass website title and your avatar. What's that all about? Not THAT kinda 'grass' I hope.

Long story

It all came about when I was playing with scripts in povray (3d raytracer) that made grass blades but took forever to render a lawn so I made a pot of grass...

Now I thought this was a clever marketing name (two drug references in one sentance...) So pot of grass productions was born!