Eggciting news

[Glen]

Great slice of life shot, Greg

[the foto fanatic]

Great challenge, great topic. Should result in some great images. Looking forward to printing them all off and putting them in a photo albumen.
Boom tish.

Love your work, Simon!

[Nnnnsic]

This is going to be hell.

[Manta]

This is going to be hell.

No Leigh...that's "shell".

[Nnnnsic]

Stop proving me right. Dad hates it when people do that.

[phillipb]

Easily fixed, all you need to do is get a bit creative with the word filter...

[gstark]

Easily fixed, all you need to do is get a bit creative with the word filter...

Who, me ???

Is that something I'm likely to do?

[Willy wombat]

Eggshellent

Thanks to the sponsors for putting up such wonderful prizes.

And now i will add my fowl input to the puns.

Ive just been thinking about props and think I will have to get my stuffed cock out of storage .

[gecko]

Challenging theme and great prizes...
This forum never ceases to amaze - which is possibly why it is so addictive...
Thanks to the clever and generous ones behind this comp

Cheers
Gecko

[Slider]

Hmm, I think I need to find a truly eggsotic location for this one

[birddog114]

Hmm, I think I need to find a truly eggsotic location for this one

Mark,
I've been told there're few dinosaur eggs upthere

[Slider]

Hmm, I think I need to find a truly eggsotic location for this one

Mark,
I've been told there're few dinosaur eggs upthere

Sshh. You'll give away all our secrets

[marcotrov]

Gary said:

Wipe that smile off your face, or it's into the pan for you.

Could this be getting close to eggstortion, Gary.

I just had to join the pun brigade. Like a kid in a lollyshop I just couldn't help myself

Great challenge idea with great prizes
cheers
marco

[Bob G]

You guys just keep egging each other on.
Whoever cracks this one will need to hatch a good shell of a plan and eggsecute well.
We could see a boilover and some poaching of good ideas.
Everyone's yolked together with this one so don't be a chicken because you're devilled if you do and devilled if you don't.



Bob G

[Manta]

I give up. I feel like I'm beaten already. Would someone just whisk me away from all of this?

[Greg B]

I'm ova this

[Manta]

I'm ova this

Yep - It's hard to look on the sunny side...

[gstark]

I'm quite sure somebody will make a meal of this. I'm just going to let these rest over easy for now.

[MCWB]

Given the shortages of the D200, I'm going to try and buy a D2Eggs for this one!

[the foto fanatic]

All of these off yolks have scrambled my brain.

Please stop, I can souffle no more. I just want to be coddled for a while.

The mods should scotch the next post with bad puns.

I hope people who win prizes for this competition don't just frittata them away, but as they say in the classics, quiche to their own.

(That's it - I'm all out! The game is pavlova!)

[Alpha_7]

(That's it - I'm all out! The game is pavlova!)

GOLD! I hope people have their brainstorming caps on as well as their bad pun sweaters, if the same about of enthusiasm goes into the photo's will have some cracker entries

[Alpha_7]

Photomicrography is also not permitted for this challenge.

Just wondering Macro is "meant to be" 1:1 or higher what is Micro ? Or does it mean the same thing ?

I got the point that no Microscopes were meant to be used, but does it rule out macro style shots feature one egg ?

[sirhc55]

Photomicrography is not macro. It is the use of a microscope and camera

Macro is fine

[Alpha_7]

Eggcellent.

[Manta]

quiche to their own.

(Dare I say it - this cracked me up!!)

[leek]

I did a few test shots for this today...
I had a little trouble getting the right eggsposure
( Surprised no-one used that pun already )

[Alpha_7]

I did a few test shots for this today...
I had a little trouble getting the right eggsposure
( Surprised no-one used that pun already )

Your Eggsposure was probably off due to eggagerated highlights

[blacknstormy]

Gary:

The egg must be from an animal source of some kind, such as a farmyard foul and must be of natural extraction

Animal - also insect/snail etc eggs? please

Rel

[gstark]

Gary:

The egg must be from an animal source of some kind, such as a farmyard foul and must be of natural extraction

Animal - also insect/snail etc eggs? please

Two points ...

Your image must contain as the obvious, primary, identifiable and dominant element, one egg.

So, it must be obvious and identifiable as an egg. If the average person looking at it cannot see that it's an egg, it's probably out.

Photomicrography is also not permitted for this challenge.

Macro is fine, but you cannot use a microscope.

Does that help?

[blacknstormy]

Thank you for clarifying Gary ... I spose most of the things I know are eggs, a lot of people wouldn't ..... so my insect egg shots are probably out

Back to the drawing board

Thanks again Gary
rel

[optogamut]

Somehow this must be related. Anyone boiling their eggs first?

She was in the kitchen doing the boiled eggs for
breakfast. He walks in and asks "What's for
breakfast?"

She turns to him and says, "You've got to make love to
me this very moment".

He, thinking it's his lucky day, stands her over the
kitchen table and they have sex.

Afterwards he says, "What was that all about?"

She says "The egg timer's broken!"

[Nnnnsic]

Eggs take 45 minutes to cook?

Wow. Must be a slow stove.

[Yi-P]

Eggs take 45 minutes to cook?

Wow. Must be a slow stove.

Are we talking about dinosaur eggs?

[the foto fanatic]

Eggs take 45 minutes to cook?

Wow. Must be a slow stove.

Skite!!

[firsty]

Eggs take 45 minutes to cook?

Wow. Must be a slow stove.

you need to tighten your grip or find a girl

[Oz_Beachside]

hello,

Wondering if anyone can give me some advice.

This is my first entry into a challenge, and I just wanted to ask if the way I have uploaded my file onto http://www.potofgrass.com/gallery/challenge10 is OK.

I logged in, I choose add photo, browsed for my pic, added a note, uploaded.

I could then see my pick while logged in.

Then, under my pic, was an option to "Hide". I chose "Hide", and then the caption under the pic said "Hidden". I then logged out, and the album is "empty".

I logged back in to confirm, and my pick was visible to me, while logged in, but says "hidden".

Does that sound like the normal way?

Perhaps someone in here may be an administrator, and if so, I would be happy to know my egg has landed safely...?

thanks so much, and I look forward to seeing the creativity in the group.
Oz.

[blacknstormy]

Oz - perfect
Good luck
Rel

[Matt. K]

Oz
That sounds about right. Good luck!

[birddog114]

OZ,
Your egg stays safe in the basket! just relax and wait till it hatched

[Oz_Beachside]

hey, does anyone know when we get to see the first round entries?

[Glen]

Oz, In the first post in this thread it says Round 1 closes, Gallery opens 4.7.06. Reading Scott's other posts I think that is about 9pm.

http://www.dslrusers.com/viewtopic.php?t=17833&start=0

[Oz_Beachside]

whoops, thanks. I was looking at http://www.potofgrass.com/gallery/challenge10
where it says 3/7.

[xerubus]

Just wanted a quick clarification of the rules while I'm putting pen to paper for the second round submissions.

One egg: Your image must contain as the obvious, primary, identifiable and dominant element, one egg.

Is this to be taken literally? I.E. can only be 'one' egg?

If so.. it's back to the drawing board for me.

cheers

[gstark]

Mark,

One egg must be the primary and obvious (etc) subject. That does not mean that the image must contain just one egg, but if there are, for instance, several eggs in the image, one of them should stand out as the primary subject.

Putting that in different terms, I think a clump of salmon roe on a bed of rice, (yes, sushi) would find it difficult to be compliant, whereas a dozen carton of eggs, with maybe 5 removed, and a gap between one at one end, and the remaining half dozen, all grouped together at the other, but selective focus applied to the one (the others nicely OOF in the background) would possibly be ok.

Does that help?

If not, PM myself or Scott.

[Alpha_7]

The way I read that was that I could have the "one egg" in crisp focus as the main subject, but I could have a dozen in the background to create a "egg bokeh" of sorts and that would be ok, as only one egg was the main key focus and the other eggs are only a background element.

[xerubus]

thanks Gary.. answered perfectly.

cheers

[Manta]

Just playing devil's advocate here...

I still think it's a little academic discussing the rules of entry when it's only going to come down to how voters interpret an image anyway. Has a shot ever been disqualified prior to voting on the basis that it didn't fit the theme???

[Glen]

Simon, images have been disqualified before.


The idea of a theme is so all entries are on an even footing, not down to voters interpretation of a theme. You probably remember decisive moment, not everyone had the same idea of what is a decisive moment. Hopefully all voters agree on what an egg is.

[Manta]

Thanks Glen - appreciate the response.

However, I feel your hope that everyone knows what an egg is may be in vain, judging by the large number of questions and subsequent explanations this theme seems to have generated!

[Steffen]

The way I read that was that I could have the "one egg" in crisp focus as the main subject, but I could have a dozen in the background to create a "egg bokeh" of sorts and that would be ok, as only one egg was the main key focus and the other eggs are only a background element.

Got it. One egg crisp, the others runny...

Cheers
Steffen.