Couldn't resist a challenge! http://tinyurl.com/3dyzyg
Technical data on the page John Coyle Brisbane, Australia ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Loveless" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 4:10 AM Subject: Cheapskate Challenge > I've been thinking lately about the cost of doing photography and > finishing photographs for web publication. A recent, erm, thread got me > steamed up enough to post this. Basically, how much can you accomplish > without spending any more money than it cost you to obtain your > hardware? First some assumptions and then the rules. > > Assumptions: > 1. You have access to a computer with an operating system installed and > a connection to the Internet. Said computer is capable of running photo > editing software and displaying the images on a screen. > 2. You have access to a working digital camera or a scanner that you > can connect to the computer. > > The rules: > 1. You can use the software that came with your computer. Your > computer probably came with an OS installed. If it didn't, whatever OS > is currently installed is fine. OSX, Windows, Linux, whatever. From > what I understand, the Mac has some basic photo editing software > installed by default. Most Linux distros do, too. All of this is fine. > 2. You can use the software that came with your camera or scanner. If > you had to buy a third party application to get your scanner or camera > to talk to your computer that's fine, too. > 3. Since most of us like to print photos from time to time, you can use > the software that came with your printer. In my case the Epson R320 > came with Elements 2.0, so that's allowed. > 4. You can use any freely available software, open source or > otherwise. e.g. - Irfanview, Lightzone for Linux, Picasa, the GIMP, > etc. Trial versions, software that watermarks your photos until you pay > for the real thing, etc. are not allowed. You should be able to use the > software indefinitely (and legally, so no warez) without having to shell > out extra cash. > > To sum up, if it came with your hardware, is absolutely necessary for > operating your hardware, or is freely available (no strings attached) > it's allowed. Nothing else. > > Within these limitation try to produce something you're proud to call > your own. When discussing digital (or digitally scanned) photographs > with someone who's never done it before, you should be able to show them > the photo and say something like "All you need is your computer, your > camera, and whatever software came with them." > > In an attempt to add some credibility to the challenge, I should state > that I have submitted two photographs to the Pentax Gallery. One of > them was accepted. I shot the photograph on a K100D, JPEG, and edited > it with Picasa on a PC running Windows XP. It was a PESO a few weeks > ago and can be seen here: > http://picasaweb.google.com/sdloveless/PDMLPESO/photo#5035527265195980162 > > If you're interested in playing along, simply post a link to your > photo(s) in a reply to this message, or mark it as a Cheapskate > Challenge photo in a separate thread. Let us know what software you > used to process/edit the photo. Compare it to the software you would > normally use. If you're not interested, I won't be offended. If you > think I need to revise the assumptions or rules please let me know. If > you think this is a ridiculous waste of time I'd like to hear about > that, too. > > Have fun! > > -- > Scott Loveless > www.twosixteen.com > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
