P3D Re: Competitions suppressing creativity?

[michaelk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Michael Kersenbrock)]

> If you really like this picture, why not *fix it*? It sounds like it's just
> this one item that is out of position (too much parallax) relative to the
> rest of the image. You could move the location of that item to fit within
> the easily fusible range of the rest of the image. If done carefully, no one

Do you mean scanning the slide images and doctoring the images then writing
them out to a film unit?  Or do you mean for me to have adjusted Luxor's
display when nobody was looking (they MAY not have cared, but I just left
things -- and with the camera parallax I might not have been able to tell
exactly anyway, despite the seemingly useless parallax adjustment doohicky
on the revere camera) ?

The item is on the front edge and as I recall looked funny if I wanted to
mask it out, and would make one's eyes cross on the rest of the image if
the chips were adjusted to pull it back toward the screen (when projected).
In a viewer, it's fine.  A compromise chip adjustment I had selected would
work only on my screen-size, and probably only with my eyes.  For proper
adjustment  for general-eyes and/or larger screens, it needs to have the
item stick out quite a bit.

Maybe it's just a image destined to be only be seen in a viewer.  Nothing
really wrong with that.  Peter's x-ray seashells (in 35mm form) seem to
have the same destiny for other technical reasons.

Which is, of course, yet another aspect of competition.  Are the competitions
projection or viewer based?  Which is "better"?  There certainly are
differences -- in one's film exposure, at very least.  Should all images
be taken (when slides anyway) in two versions?  Double-wide bracketting?  :-)

Might not evaluation of competition slides also depend upon the brightness
of the projector used and the darkness of the room?  And where the judges
are sitting (for ortho aspects)?  Do the Salons (etc) have published rules
for these aspects for the competitions?


Mike K.


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