New challenge type

[Reschsmooth]

Not to takeover the existing challenge format, and leading on from the discussion on PP, I was thinking it might be a good idea to start a new series of challenges (monthly, weekly, whatever):

1. One person posts a photo with minimal PP (say, resize, dust bunnies extermination, etc).
2. Subsequent posters can manipulate the photo in anyway they want and repost the photo.
3. Posters detail (as much as they can) their post-process.
4. First poster starts the next one.

Any thoughts?

Cheers

[phillipb]

Haven't we tried this already in the past?

How about relaxing the PP rules in the current challenges.

[Geoff]

I am not for relaxing the PPing rules in the challenges, in fact I'm strongly against this idea. We are putting our photographic know how on display, not our PPing abilities.

I don't mind Patrick's suggestion, be keen to hear what others think.

[Yi-P]

I believe we do have some Exercises in Style each month and posters are free to post anything they want there and the first one to reply gets the initiative to start next month's ES post. Are you talking something about this or a complete "challenge" series?

I think it is hard to manage something to do with monthly challenges. It does keep photographers on their toes but not sure if this will add some more workload to those who are managing the site hosting for the challenges.

I'm not sure how this will work with the votings, if we have a challenge to vote for every month.

[Reschsmooth]

Sorry guys - Yip spotted my error. I didn't mean the Challenges, I meant something similar to the ES. Informal, no judging, no prizes, just interpretation, via PP of one image.

[sirhc55]

PP’ing in the Challenges is already allowed to a certain extent - WB, levels etc. What is not allowed is manipulation of the image through PP’ing - I hope that clears up certain misunderstandings

[Old Bob]

I think it would be very exciting to see what someone else could do with a submitted image. There are are a lot of excellent "PP practitioners" on this forum, and I would love to see what they could do with a photo they didn't produce themselves. Good idea Patrick.

Bob

[greencardigan]

Interesting idea. I can see it being an educational exercise.

[sirhc55]

The only way to effectively apply PP’ing is with an original RAW file otherwise there would be too much degradation of the image, if lifted from this site, IMO.