Shoot & Tell

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Welcome to Shoot & Tell Shang Mabalos and welcome back Kelisha

Call for March 2013 exhibition

We ask you to pick out the best picture of March from your own album and send the link in a PM to shoottell. Alternatively you can use our exhibition submissions forum thread to submit your picture.

For the March exhibition we would like to have the links by the end of March 31st at the latest. It will take a few days to put this together, so the exhibition will open the door around the 3rd of April 2013.
We hope you all will join in and send your best photo that you would like to show a bit extra. If you find it difficult to decide what is your best picture, then let moderators to decide! We hope to see photos from all of us!

Shoot & Tell turns 3 years in April
Anyone that has a celebration idea and is ready to perform the task?

Welcome to Shoot & Tell February 2013 exhibition which consist from One color theme and Monthly bests.

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For February we have One color theme.

We ask you to use only one monochrome effect, which can be b/w, sepia or any other color which you like. Changing colors, it can change the mood and the atmosphere of your picture. The challenge will be to make the original picture stronger by simplifying it by using one monochrome effect.

If you want to use one color the best way is to convert the picture into b/w at first and then change it to the color you want.

And if you don’t have possibility to shoot in b/w and edit the picture, then try to find subjects where only one color dominates. You can shoot basket full of tomatoes, blue sky, snow white landscape, black cat on black velvet, or cityscape of gray houses.

When shooting very bright subjects, do try overexpose at least one Exposure Value (+1EV). ANd when shooting very dark subjects, then underexpose one step (-1EV). In any circumstances it is a good idea to take multiple exposures, especially in difficult light conditions.

Please use the theme tag like this:

One color theme,mm/yyyy

Theme starts today, February 10th, and lasts till the end of this month We would like to see at least one of your photos for this theme, but bear in mind the limit of 40 photos per month.

About members

Welcome back Antonio Daniele, and cheers for Philip and Wertti who have started their second album

Call for January 2013 exhibition

We ask you to pick out the best picture of January from your own album and send the link in a PM to shoottell. Alternatively you can use our exhibition submissions forum thread to submit your picture.

For the January exhibition we would like to have the links by the end of January 31st at the latest. It will take a few days to put this together, so the exhibition will open the door around the 3rd of February 2013. We hope you all will join in and send your best photo that you would like to show a bit extra. If you find it difficult to decide what is your best picture, then let moderators to decide! We hope to see photos from all of us!

2012 statistics

12 months and 11 wonderful themes behind

Sky and Repetition themes were most inspiring, whereas Oddities theme probably was just most challenging. There also seems to be a growing trend towards end of the year 2012. Either our active members have became more active or we just managed to come up with good theme topics lately

Rules still exists

Spring cleaning
Once again it is time to check through albums and close down inactive ones. Please make sure you have at least four pictures per every month. Contact moderators if you wish to have a break and put your album on hold.

Although we quit of editing instructions, there still are some rules we need you to follow. First of all please read our group description that has pretty much been the same since this group was founded:

“The members of this group are addicted and devoted to sheer photography. We take pictures every day and want to develop through it.”

Do notice this is a photography group. In practise this means we require camera used as a tool to get images. Therefore we do not accept any other tools to create images. For example screen capture images are not accepted.

Since there are no more editing instructions, one can of course even “draw” something new into a photograph, but eventually all that you express here must be based on a photograph taken with a camera. One can of course bush the limits and take something like a totally white picture, and then start to draw on it on a picture editor. Or draw something on a computer, and then use camera to capture image of it.

But as said, one has to use camera in a way or another. And best way to assure it has happened is to use camera that records EXIF data like date etc. If EXIF data is missing from a picture, moderators will always become suspicious and may ask you to prove that camera has been used, and then may ask you to remove the picture if you can’t.

And then there of course are also rules about posting only pictures taken by you, and pictures that are recently taken. This again means that you can photograph pictures and things made by someone else, but you can not represent a picture if you have not taken the photograph of it. So, always make sure it is you who have pressed the camera button.

Changes in moderation team

Starting from February 2013 there should be following moderators helping you out with your albums, and taking care of monthly themes, news an exhibitions: Juques, Eva, Orlando, Thomas, Zdenko and Wertti. Elina is busy at work for awhile, and Sami goes back to sabbatical but will continue as an active member.

Welcome to Shoot & Tell December 2012 exhibition which consist from Dream theme and Monthly bests.

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