Chitchat for the September Photo Comp

[fred]

Please feel free to use this thread as discussion for the September photo competition.

[fred]

the following Awards will be awarded to winners of the photo comp for September.

Winner of the Novice catogory





Winner of the Intermediate catogory





Winner of the Open catogory



Winner of the Orchid Species catorgy





Winner of the Floral Art Display catorgy

[Anton]

Looks like I am out of a job.

No holding Fred back now.

Goooooooo Fred!

[NancyG]

Hi Fred,

Just wondering if this is possible. Could the winner also have their winning orchid picture next to their award? A thumbnail that could be clicked on so it could be viewed at a larger size. The winners from August were great but in couldn't be viewed larger and if you missed a few weeks like I did because I was on vacation then you would still be able to see the larger pictures.

Just a thought.

NancyG

[fred]

Just a reminder to all about this months photo competition
all the forum members can enter this comp for your chance to win one of the above awards
so if you have a photo of your own orchids in bloom you can enter the comp.

good luck to all

[Tess1]

By what date do the photos have to be in?

[fred]

Tess1
photos have to be posted by the second last day of each month
so they can be judged by the Secret Judge

who ever that may be

[Tess1]

okie dokie

[viper]

cool. this is going to be a fun month for me.

[tom499]

I think I have two plants that will qualify, maybe a third, its taking some time to grow. The stem is maybe 50cm high and is finally starting to bud.

[tizzycat]

Fred, I posted some photos to join in the fun of the comp, but notice they came up rather small, do I need to enlarge them. If so what is the maximum size please??

[Anton]

I make mine 900 pixels on the longest dimension, by 120 dpi resolution injpg format if I post directly from here in the forum.

If you start up a Photobucket account, you actually get larger dimensioned images to show up by making a link to that image in Photobucket from where you Manage Images here in the Forum.

Fred has info on how to do it.

[fred]

tizzycat

here is the link for the image host photobucket you can join that for free
http://photobucket.com/
once you have joined photobucket and you want to upload photos you will see 3 icons that say Browse click one of them once you have clicked one of the icons that will take you to the picture floder on your pc you can scroll and find the pic you want to upload once you have the pic click on the pic and then click open that will send your pic to photobucket.
Next to the Browse icon you clicked you will see some text added in the window you can also rename the pic in the window.
If you want to upload more than 3 pics click add more under the browse icons
Then click upload once uploaded you scroll down to the pic you wish to post under each pic you will see some codes click on the IMG code and it will say Copied.
When you start a new post and you want to add the pic right click and a window will open then click Paste that will add the IMG code only once you have added the IMG code and you want to view the pic click Preview Post once you are happy with the pic click Submit Reply.

you can also resize the pics in photobucket just click Options just above the browse icons, click on the size you want then click save.

[tizzycat]

Fred, Anton, Thankyou.,

I had already downsized the pics using Corel Photohouse, have now used Photobucket -hope their not too big.

I have used macro mode in the photos and don't know whether this is allowed in the novice section, if not please can you enter them in the (lower end of) the next one up.

Thanks

Chris

[tom499]

I love your white phal tizzycat The colour on the orange bit is amazing. Perfect focusing! I need to get me one these cameras

[tizzycat]

Thanks Tom, it also has a feint pink tinge to the centre of the petals too. It's a shame I don't have the ID. It was the firs orchid I bought for myself (the first was an Xmas gift). I bought it from Ikea and it has always had an enormous number of flowers (fifty this time round).

The Camera is a Fuji FinePix S5700 - not what I went out to buy, but was newly released and a lot of camera for the money so went home and did a bit of research before buying. I previously had a point and shoot Canon A40 (and still have it ) but wanted something with a bit more zoom.

Still trying to find time to read the 178 page manual, but the basics are good enough for now.

The camera has 7.1 mega pixels and 10x optical zoom and "no" I'm not thinking of producing any posters, but it's just nice to have it.

[tom499]

Fifty flowers In one go?

WOW That would be an entry photo and a half!

That camera sounds abit out of my league, but i will have to get a digital SLR at some point.

[tizzycat]

Tom the camera I set out to get WAS a digital SLR in fact an XT rebel.

This is not an SLR, but it is much lighter than the XT which means I cart it all over with me, very neat and light.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/...A3P5ROKL5A1OLE

I cant believe how much they have come down mine was £200 in May of this year.