30 Days Of Photos New Rule
Terry and I were discussing an issue with tagging on flickr for the 30 day challenge, today. Some people are tagging more than one photo on flickr as "30dayphoto" each day. Not that we don't want to see everyone's photos - the more the merrier - but if everyone tags multiple photos each day, it's going to balloon pretty quickly. Maybe that's not a problem. I don't know. But, we thought it might better to just tag one photo each day. You're more than welcome to post multiple pictures on your blog, but tag only one 30dayphoto on flickr. Make sense? Have any better ideas?
Responses and Conversations
Ya – I totally thought the same thing and ended up just selecting one per day. The problem with Amy and I is that we’re both taking photos and storing them on the same site, so it gets a little weird. Maybe, by the time the 30 days is over, I’ll have figured out a good way to deal with our photos.
Comment by Christopher Frazier on March 1st, 2006 at 4:06 pm
That’s fine because we understand that there’s two of you. Two photos tagged 30dayphoto per day is better than five.
I wish flickr let you have multiple profiles for the same account. It doesn’t make sense for Christine and I (and for you and Amy) to have two different accounts when most of the pics are shared.
Comment by John Koontz on March 1st, 2006 at 4:10 pm
Seriously.
Quick question… What about Photoshop? Do we have a limit for what we can do? I ended up dorking with the levels on Amy’s street sign, so it’s not pure. Is that off limits?
Comment by Christopher Frazier on March 1st, 2006 at 4:15 pm
I think normal photographic manipulation is fine. You know, the 5 adjustment layers, dodge and burn, noise reduction, artificial vignetting, etc… But if you spend 4 hours pasting in Amy’s head on Sarah’s body, that’s probably off limits. But do it anyways.
But I shouldn’t be the rule keeper, what does everyone else think?
Comment by John Koontz on March 1st, 2006 at 4:21 pm
That might be a good challenge. Taking pictures for a week without ANY manipulation out of camera. Not even cropping.
Comment by John Koontz on March 1st, 2006 at 4:22 pm
Sounds good to me. One “Tagged” photo a day,but post all you want with different tags.
As for manipulation and stuff, why not? I say it’s a wide-open forum for creativity. it’s about the challenge and fun of ending up with the image you visualized in your mind.
I think “one-tagged-image”per day should be the only rule.
Comment by JimmyD on March 1st, 2006 at 4:56 pm
I like the idea of keeping it open and free, as is. My reasoning from taking on the challenge has nothing to do with producing photos better than anyone else. I’m in on this to challenge myself and watch others do the same. If there were a real competition in place then I could understand establishing strict rules. I would vote to just let it be open and free…
Comment by Lance Calvin on March 1st, 2006 at 4:59 pm
Lance – you seriously can’t keep going by Baddog if you keep saying things like, “I would vote to just let it be open and free…” There’s just nothing baddog in that statement.
Since we’re going for creativity, check out what I ended up doing with my failed attempt at architectural photography.
Comment by Chris Frazier on March 1st, 2006 at 9:01 pm