POTN Powershot Series Speed Challenge plea

[Transit]

One of the guidelines in the photo comp is that people should include some shooting info. with the entry.
I find it helpful as I can learn from how it is done.
I find it very frustrating that quite often people don't bother !
Come on guys, help this newbie by adding your camera setting info :cool:

cheers
Pete

[Graystar]

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[Transit]

Thanks Dude,
wasn't pickin on you in particular :)
good to see another 15 sec effort :D

[Graystar]

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[teekay]

It's no big deal, but I have always taken it to be a matter if choice whether one includes camera settings etc. with an entry. I must admit I rarely look at them when others do so, and would find it a nuisance to have to extract the info and type it in each time.

Personally I don't keep a record of settings with each photo as that would quite time consuming, but if I want to see what they were (like when something goes wrong!) then I just look at the EXIF info contained in the JPG file. You can also do that with most entries in these contests if you are really interested, by saving the image to your computer and opening it in your photo editor.

[JustShootin']

I Don't keep records of camera settings myself, and sometimes the EXIF info is lost when I use a photo editor. Still, for the sake of those who are learning, which seems to be quite a few on this forum, it doesn't seem like much work to include the camera info in this very small contest. However, I don't think it should be a "have to" thing. That's just my opinion. As for me, I don't enter the contest anyway.

[mishnogram]

The other aspect would be to provide more feedback, both positive and negative to the entries. I think we all do a great job congratulating winners but for new people (myself included) it would be nice to have a share of ideas of what worked and what didn't; a frank critique of the work people are putting up; and maybe even follow up opportunities for people to improve on their technique.

I love the challenges and do my best to participate and hope that many more people will participate for the fun and for the learning experience.

I think say that the work that you guys are putting up there shows that P&S cameras are defnitely able to provide amazing output in the right hands.

[Transit]

The other aspect would be to provide more feedback, both positive and negative to the entries. I think we all do a great job congratulating winners but for new people (myself included) it would be nice to have a share of ideas of what worked and what didn't; a frank critique of the work people are putting up; and maybe even follow up opportunities for people to improve on their technique.



Thats true. One judge went through and gave feedback on each entry. I reckoned that was brilliant :)

[Stefan A]

Some photos have the exif embedded and you can find out all the info you want.

Stefan

[benarnold]

Some photos have the exif embedded and you can find out all the info you want.

Stefan

There are plugins you can get for both Internet Explorer and Firefox that show you the embedded EXIF information as well. So you only have to right-click on the image inside the web page to see it. Very handy.

FxIF (http://ted.mielczarek.org/code/mozilla/fxif/) is the one for firefox. Can't remember what the IE one is called.

[teekay]

There are plugins you can get for both Internet Explorer and Firefox....
FxIF (http://ted.mielczarek.org/code/mozilla/fxif/) is the one for firefox. Can't remember what the IE one is called.

Thanks for that most useful tip, Benarnold! I have just installed FxIF and it works like a charm. I installed it from this site: http://ted.mielczarek.org/code/mozilla/fxif/

I've also passed the tip on to the G-series forum.

[O_T]

3 exif plugins I use for the firefox browser:

exif viewer for firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3905/
fxif for firefox: http://ted.mielczarek.org/code/mozilla/fxif/
opanda exif for firefox: http://www.opanda.com/en/iexif/iexif_firefox.htm

For IE: http://www.opanda.com/en/iexif/index.html

[Transit]

There are plugins you can get for both Internet Explorer and Firefox that show you the embedded EXIF information as well. So you only have to right-click on the image inside the web page to see it. Very handy.

FxIF (http://ted.mielczarek.org/code/mozilla/fxif/) is the one for firefox. Can't remember what the IE one is called.


ah excellent thanks benarnold and OT !
I'll get the plugins :)

Pete