[SI] New Mandate: Filters!

Post by Bowser
Courtesy of Prince Annika of Bug Tussel, the new mandate is Filters. Shoot
a picture with a traditional filter for effect, or apply filter effects in
your favorite editing program. Any subject matter is OK, but for God's
sakes, try to avoid submitting a photo and saying that you used the
"sharpening" filter, or something else that does not really add to the
image.
Fire at will. This mandate is due by June 7th, 2009.
http://www.pbase.com/shootin/filters
PS: I don't know about you, but I'd prefer to shoot using a traditional
filter. Trouble is, aside from the polarizer, I can't remember where I put
the damned things.

If a guy uses a UV filter, just about anything goes ... :)

Take Care,
Dudley

Bowser

2009-05-12 22:32:31 UTC

Post by Bowser
Courtesy of Prince Annika of Bug Tussel, the new mandate is Filters.
Shoot a picture with a traditional filter for effect, or apply filter
effects in your favorite editing program. Any subject matter is OK, but
for God's sakes, try to avoid submitting a photo and saying that you used
the "sharpening" filter, or something else that does not really add to
the image.
Fire at will. This mandate is due by June 7th, 2009.
http://www.pbase.com/shootin/filters
PS: I don't know about you, but I'd prefer to shoot using a traditional
filter. Trouble is, aside from the polarizer, I can't remember where I
put the damned things.

If a guy uses a UV filter, just about anything goes ... :)

Sigh...

Troy Piggins

2009-05-12 22:49:23 UTC

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Post by Bowser
filter. Trouble is, aside from the polarizer, I can't remember where I
put the damned things.

If a guy uses a UV filter, just about anything goes ... :)

Sigh...

Sounds like you need to use a coffee filter :)

--
Troy Piggins

Dudley Hanks

2009-05-12 23:02:59 UTC

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Post by Bowser
filter. Trouble is, aside from the polarizer, I can't remember where I
put the damned things.

If a guy uses a UV filter, just about anything goes ... :)

Sigh...

Sounds like you need to use a coffee filter :)
--
Troy Piggins

I was thinking about using a soft focus filter, but nobody'll be able to
tell it from my usual ... :)

Take Care,
Dudley

Troy Piggins

2009-05-12 23:22:43 UTC

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Post by Troy Piggins
Sounds like you need to use a coffee filter :)

I was thinking about using a soft focus filter, but nobody'll be able to
tell it from my usual ... :)

:)

My shots are usually taken through a bad-composition,
uninteresting shot filter... :)

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Troy Piggins

Bob Larter

2009-05-18 08:03:16 UTC

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Post by Troy Piggins
Sounds like you need to use a coffee filter :)

I was thinking about using a soft focus filter, but nobody'll be able to
tell it from my usual ... :)

:)
My shots are usually taken through a bad-composition,
uninteresting shot filter... :)

Oh, I've got one of those too. I try to leave it in the cupboard as much
as possible though. ;^)

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Bertram Paul

2009-05-12 23:49:34 UTC

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Post by Bowser
filter. Trouble is, aside from the polarizer, I can't remember where I
put the damned things.

If a guy uses a UV filter, just about anything goes ... :)

Sigh...

Sounds like you need to use a coffee filter :)
--
Troy Piggins

I was thinking about using a soft focus filter, but nobody'll be able to
tell it from my usual ... :)
Take Care,
Dudley

I'll make one with a fuel filter, one with an oil filter and one with an air
filter.
After that one with a water filter and another with a spam filter.
Of course I'll be smoking a sigarette with a cigarette filter while shooting
;-)

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Bertram Paul

Paul Furman

2009-05-13 08:21:32 UTC

Post by Bertram Paul

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Post by Bowser
filter. Trouble is, aside from the polarizer, I can't remember where I
put the damned things.

If a guy uses a UV filter, just about anything goes ... :)

Sigh...

Sounds like you need to use a coffee filter :)
--
Troy Piggins

I was thinking about using a soft focus filter, but nobody'll be able to
tell it from my usual ... :)
Take Care,
Dudley

Open season for filter puns!

:-)

Bowser

2009-05-14 22:28:32 UTC

Post by Bertram Paul

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Post by Bowser
filter. Trouble is, aside from the polarizer, I can't remember where I
put the damned things.

If a guy uses a UV filter, just about anything goes ... :)

Sigh...

Sounds like you need to use a coffee filter :)
--
Troy Piggins

I was thinking about using a soft focus filter, but nobody'll be able to
tell it from my usual ... :)
Take Care,
Dudley

I'll make one with a fuel filter, one with an oil filter and one with an
air filter.
After that one with a water filter and another with a spam filter.
Of course I'll be smoking a sigarette with a cigarette filter while
shooting ;-)

Open season for filter puns!

Maybe I should change the mandate to filter punography?

Alan Browne

2009-05-14 23:06:19 UTC

Post by Bertram Paul

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Post by Bowser
filter. Trouble is, aside from the polarizer, I can't remember where I
put the damned things.

If a guy uses a UV filter, just about anything goes ... :)

Sigh...

Sounds like you need to use a coffee filter :)
--
Troy Piggins

I was thinking about using a soft focus filter, but nobody'll be
able to tell it from my usual ... :)
Take Care,
Dudley

I'll make one with a fuel filter, one with an oil filter and one with
an air filter.
After that one with a water filter and another with a spam filter.
Of course I'll be smoking a sigarette with a cigarette filter while
shooting ;-)

Open season for filter puns!

Maybe I should change the mandate to filter punography?

Maybe you should filter the mandates more carefully?

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Troy Piggins

2009-05-14 23:10:13 UTC

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Post by Bertram Paul
After that one with a water filter and another with a spam filter.
Of course I'll be smoking a sigarette with a cigarette filter while
shooting ;-)

Open season for filter puns!

Maybe I should change the mandate to filter punography?

That's sure to polarise the collective.

Wow - 2 filter puns in one sentence. What do I win?

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Troy Piggins

Paul Furman

2009-05-16 04:28:51 UTC

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Post by Bertram Paul
After that one with a water filter and another with a spam filter.
Of course I'll be smoking a sigarette with a cigarette filter while
shooting ;-)

Open season for filter puns!

Maybe I should change the mandate to filter punography?

That's sure to polarise the collective.
Wow - 2 filter puns in one sentence. What do I win?

You get a diploma for graduating with a degree in neural density.

B***@aol.com

2009-05-15 16:20:21 UTC

Post by Bowser
Maybe I should change the mandate to filter punography?

Cool. I'll submit a photo of my lunch - gefilter fish.

Cheers,
DuncanC

Savageduck

2009-05-12 23:14:54 UTC

Post by Bowser
Courtesy of Prince Annika of Bug Tussel, the new mandate is Filters.
Shoot a picture with a traditional filter for effect, or apply filter
effects in your favorite editing program. Any subject matter is OK, but
for God's sakes, try to avoid submitting a photo and saying that you
used the "sharpening" filter, or something else that does not really
add to the image.
Fire at will. This mandate is due by June 7th, 2009.
http://www.pbase.com/shootin/filters
PS: I don't know about you, but I'd prefer to shoot using a traditional
filter. Trouble is, aside from the polarizer, I can't remember where I
put the damned things.

Time to dig through the Cokins.

--
Regards,
Savageduck

SneakyP

2009-05-13 03:56:50 UTC

Post by Bowser
Courtesy of Prince Annika of Bug Tussel, the new mandate is Filters.
Shoot a picture with a traditional filter for effect, or apply filter
effects in your favorite editing program. Any subject matter is OK,
but for God's sakes, try to avoid submitting a photo and saying that
you used the "sharpening" filter, or something else that does not
really add to the image.
Fire at will. This mandate is due by June 7th, 2009.
http://www.pbase.com/shootin/filters
PS: I don't know about you, but I'd prefer to shoot using a
traditional filter. Trouble is, aside from the polarizer, I can't
remember where I put the damned things.

It would be a neat trick if each pixel array were able to tell the
polarization of each photon that hit them. Walla - no attachment.

I guess a camera would cost over $10,000 for that.

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Some choose to swim in the potty bowl of nan-ae rather than flush it
down :0)

Alan Browne

2009-05-13 19:45:46 UTC

Post by SneakyP
It would be a neat trick if each pixel array were able to tell the
polarization of each photon that hit them. Walla - no attachment.

Hmm, a few issues:

I suspect that polarization of a photon might be affected in attempting
to measure its polarization.

Even if the above is false, each photo sensor collects a number of
photons. Each photon will have its own polarization (random). As such,
filtering for up/down v. left/right polarization would probably result
in loss. Reporting on each photosensor's number of photons in one
orientation or the other would result in very large files (at least
double the size).

OTOH, if it were possible, then with a single image capture one could
generate output images with unlimited application of polarization angle.

My bet: won't happen soon.

unknown

2009-05-13 20:08:30 UTC

Post by Alan Browne

Post by SneakyP
It would be a neat trick if each pixel array were able to tell the
polarization of each photon that hit them. Walla - no attachment.

I suspect that polarization of a photon might be affected in attempting
to measure its polarization.

That is correct.

But it is possible to measure the polarization of a photon. HOWEVER,
you have to decide in advance what the direction of the axis
you are measuring against is. That is, for light traveling horizontally,
you can tell vertical versus horizontal polarization, but if the
light is in fact polarized at exactly 45 degrees to the vertical,
the photons will randomly appear as up-down and left-right ... in equal
numbers. If you set the polarizer at 45 degrees, and the light was vertical,
you'd get 50% in the up-right/left-down channel and 50% in the up-left/downright
channel.

I should add that it is easy to measure each pixel as described above without
losing any light: you just us a polarizing prism that splits the
light into two polarized beams. These exist that transmit 99.9%, total.
This is in fact very common ... I've built them.

Doug McDonald

tony cooper

2009-05-13 04:16:16 UTC

Post by Bowser
Courtesy of Prince Annika of Bug Tussel, the new mandate is Filters. Shoot a
picture with a traditional filter for effect, or apply filter effects in
your favorite editing program. Any subject matter is OK, but for God's
sakes, try to avoid submitting a photo and saying that you used the
"sharpening" filter, or something else that does not really add to the
image.
Fire at will. This mandate is due by June 7th, 2009.
http://www.pbase.com/shootin/filters
PS: I don't know about you, but I'd prefer to shoot using a traditional
filter. Trouble is, aside from the polarizer, I can't remember where I put
the damned things.

Annika can't figure out what a visual pun is, and we're stuck with
"filters"? What's the mandate for July? Infra-red photos of
Tennessee osprey?

--
Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida

Annika1980

2009-05-13 13:50:28 UTC

Post by tony cooper
Annika can't figure out what a visual pun is, and we're stuck with
"filters"? What's the mandate for July? Infra-red photos of
Tennessee osprey?

Oooh, great idea!

The filter mandate is a brilliant idea. Kudos to the genius that
thought of it.
It should certainly open up more opportunites for submissions than a
visual pun, which is an oxymoron .... unlike the regular type of moron
who came up with that stupid mandate.

Don't forget that you don't have to use the filter on your lens.
There are lighting filters as well.
That's all I'm sayin.

Bowser

2009-05-13 16:05:31 UTC

Post by tony cooper
Annika can't figure out what a visual pun is, and we're stuck with
"filters"? What's the mandate for July? Infra-red photos of
Tennessee osprey?

At least us regular morons could figure out how to shot a pic that met
the mandate. Use the force, Luke. Let go.

Post by Annika1980
Don't forget that you don't have to use the filter on your lens.
There are lighting filters as well.
That's all I'm sayin.

Bowser

2009-05-13 16:07:35 UTC

Post by tony cooper
Annika can't figure out what a visual pun is, and we're stuck with
"filters"? What's the mandate for July? Infra-red photos of
Tennessee osprey?

At least us regular morons could figure out how to shot a pic that met
the mandate. Use the force, Luke. Let go.

Post by Annika1980
Don't forget that you don't have to use the filter on your lens.
There are lighting filters as well.
That's all I'm sayin.

Annika1980

2009-05-13 16:19:48 UTC

Post by Bowser
At least us regular morons could figure out how to shot a pic that met
the mandate.

Really? Which entries would you consider Puns?

Now, in the spirit of the game I shall Filter any further comments
from you.

Bowser

2009-05-13 18:19:14 UTC

Post by Bowser
At least us regular morons could figure out how to shot a pic that met
the mandate.

Really? Which entries would you consider Puns?
Now, in the spirit of the game I shall Filter any further comments
from you.

Walking the plank, holding the bag, assualt and battery, etc.

Best to use a soft-focus filter on me.

Annika1980

2009-05-13 20:21:25 UTC

Really? Which entries would you consider Puns?

Walking the plank, holding the bag, assualt and battery, etc.

Those aren't puns, they're expressions.
A pun would be "walking the prank" or "holding the bug."

I'll give you "A salt and battery."

Calvin Sambrook

2009-05-13 20:48:07 UTC

Really? Which entries would you consider Puns?

Walking the plank, holding the bag, assualt and battery, etc.

Those aren't puns, they're expressions.
A pun would be "walking the prank" or "holding the bug."
I'll give you "A salt and battery."

Hmm... I think you've got a far too narrow definition of a pun there. To
quote that well known source of all knowledge, the wiki, "A pun, or
paronomasia, is a form of word play that deliberately exploits ambiguity
between similar-sounding words for humorous or rhetorical effect. Such
ambiguity may arise from the intentional misuse of homophonical,
homographical, homonymic, polysemic, metonymic, or metaphorical language.".
Essentially that allows for pretty much any and all overloading of a word.

Your narrow definition restricts puns to homophonical overloading, ie. you
only call it a pun if one word sounds like another but the puns listed above
rely on homographical overloading, ie. two different concepts/meanings
represented in language by the same written word.

In the case of, for instance, Walking the Plank the word "walking" carries
two quite different meanings, firstly to "take for a walk" and secondly to
"walk along the length of". Hence the image is of someone doing the first
but (hopefully) portrayed in a manner which makes the viewer realise the
second meaning without it actually being portrayed.

Anyway, lighten up, it's all about creating and sharing high quality images.
Some people managed that rather well I thought.

Troy Piggins

2009-05-13 22:18:06 UTC

Really? Which entries would you consider Puns?

Walking the plank, holding the bag, assualt and battery, etc.

Those aren't puns, they're expressions.
A pun would be "walking the prank" or "holding the bug."

No. Walking the plank in the pirate type definition means that
one actually walks along the plank and into the ocean. The
"walking" photo was taking the plank for a walk. Different takes
on the same words. Pun. The spelling doesn't have to be
different.

pun (plural puns)

1. A joke or type of wordplay in which similar senses or
sounds of two words or phrases, or different senses of the same
word, are deliberately confused.

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Troy Piggins

Bowser

2009-05-13 23:16:40 UTC

Really? Which entries would you consider Puns?

Walking the plank, holding the bag, assualt and battery, etc.
Those aren't puns, they're expressions.
A pun would be "walking the prank" or "holding the bug."
I'll give you "A salt and battery."

Ah. See the other two replies, and you'll see why this mandate was
impossible for you. Since you picked the next mandate I'll expect only the
finest from you.

Suggestion: buy a dictionary and look up the meaning of the mandates before
you shoot. No go find some cheerleaders and start shooting.

Noons

2009-05-15 06:50:18 UTC

Post by Bowser
Suggestion: buy a dictionary and look up the meaning of the mandates before
you shoot. No go find some cheerleaders and start shooting.

Hehehe! Ouch!....

Bob Larter

2009-05-18 08:10:27 UTC

Really? Which entries would you consider Puns?

Walking the plank, holding the bag, assualt and battery, etc.
Those aren't puns, they're expressions.
A pun would be "walking the prank" or "holding the bug."
I'll give you "A salt and battery."

Ah. See the other two replies, and you'll see why this mandate was
impossible for you. Since you picked the next mandate I'll expect only
the finest from you.
Suggestion: buy a dictionary and look up the meaning of the mandates
before you shoot. No go find some cheerleaders and start shooting.

Maybe he can find some /cute/ cheerleaders for a change. ;^)

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Troy Piggins

2009-05-13 22:15:20 UTC

Post by Bowser
At least us regular morons could figure out how to shot a pic that met
the mandate.

Really? Which entries would you consider Puns?

These were pretty clear to me:

"Draggin' the chain"/"Chain smoker"
"Walking the plank"
"Assault and battery"

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Troy Piggins

Alan Browne

2009-05-13 22:48:49 UTC

Post by Troy Piggins
"Walking the plank"

To me that one was: "Boardwalk".

Troy Piggins

2009-05-13 22:56:05 UTC

Post by Alan Browne

Post by Troy Piggins
"Walking the plank"

To me that one was: "Boardwalk".

Aah, that works too. Good one. For me, the guy dressed up a
little like a pirate led me to the "walking the plank" path.

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Troy Piggins

whisky-dave

2009-05-14 12:13:39 UTC

Post by Alan Browne

Post by Troy Piggins
"Walking the plank"

To me that one was: "Boardwalk".

Aah, that works too. Good one. For me, the guy dressed up a
little like a pirate led me to the "walking the plank" path.

Yep, me to as in walking the dog hence the lead around the plank.

Looking forward to the filter mandata,

But can we argue over what a traditional filter is compared to an
untraditional one ;-)

Post by Troy Piggins
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Troy Piggins

tony cooper

2009-05-14 05:25:01 UTC

On Wed, 13 May 2009 06:50:28 -0700 (PDT), Annika1980

Post by tony cooper
Annika can't figure out what a visual pun is, and we're stuck with
"filters"? What's the mandate for July? Infra-red photos of
Tennessee osprey?

Oooh, great idea!
The filter mandate is a brilliant idea. Kudos to the genius that
thought of it.
It should certainly open up more opportunites for submissions than a
visual pun, which is an oxymoron .... unlike the regular type of moron
who came up with that stupid mandate.
Don't forget that you don't have to use the filter on your lens.
There are lighting filters as well.
That's all I'm sayin.

Since you had so much difficulty figuring out how to meet the last
mandate, I'll give you a suggestion for the next one: take a
self-portrait filtered through a thinly sliced piece of Muenster and
title it "Cheese and Whine". You get two mandates in one.

--
Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida

Annika1980

2009-05-13 16:21:50 UTC

Post by Bowser
Courtesy of Prince Annika of Bug Tussel, the new mandate is Filters.

Good call. We can always do the Macro Cheerleader thing during
football season.

Peter Chant

2009-05-13 17:53:03 UTC

Ah ha, all those years buying wierd and whacky filteres from the Jessops
clearance bin, the ones that I have never used will pay off! Victory is
mine!

(Well it might be if I do something!)

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http://www.petezilla.co.uk

Annika1980

2009-05-13 20:18:04 UTC

Post by Peter Chant
Ah ha, all those years buying wierd and whacky filteres from the Jessops
clearance bin, the ones that I have never used will pay off! Victory is
mine!
(Well it might be if I do something!)

I suppose one could use a Lensbaby and satisfy the mandate.

Helen

2009-05-14 02:45:50 UTC

Post by Bowser
Courtesy of Prince Annika of Bug Tussel, the new mandate is Filters. Shoot a
picture with a traditional filter for effect, or apply filter effects in
your favorite editing program. Any subject matter is OK, but for God's
sakes, try to avoid submitting a photo and saying that you used the
"sharpening" filter, or something else that does not really add to the
image.
Fire at will. This mandate is due by June 7th, 2009.
http://www.pbase.com/shootin/filters
PS: I don't know about you, but I'd prefer to shoot using a traditional
filter. Trouble is, aside from the polarizer, I can't remember where I put
the damned things.

My schedule is very full and hectic, but I'll try my best to
contribute. The due date is easy to remember for me, the day after my
bd.

Draco

2009-05-14 12:40:19 UTC