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AndyDuncan
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And yes, I voted for myself, and no, I don't have any shame about that whatsoever
And yes, I voted for myself, and no, I don't have any shame about that whatsoever
No reason not to. You were in my top 3. :thumb:
No reason not to. You were in my top 3. :thumb:
The raccoon told me to do it.Uhhh, Chris, ... it's a little hard to make a comeback when I don't even have a farking voting bubble. :mad2: I worked very hard on that entry. In fact, I probably spent more time actually cooking my entry than anybody else. I know it probably was a little unfair that I had such better marbling than everybody else, but I really shouldn't be penalized for finding such a good supplier. Was it the squirrel? Was it the cheerleading pic? Or are you still mad that Donnie won the flip and got to be Mindy Vega in the last episode? Well, this just doesn't seem right. :tsk:
Uhhh, Chris, ... it's a little hard to make a comeback when I don't even have a farking voting bubble. :mad2:
Oh, and since you really wanted a bubble, here's one to click on for Gore.:heh:
It's just my opinion but it should be obvious why you don't have a voting bubble, the rules clearly state that there are no sides allowed and that gopher looks pretty tasty to me.......just sayin:becky:
Bill, the meat looked great but if you'd sliced it more you'd've gotten my (our) vote.
Although Gore's tri-tip fattie substance was intriguing shocked, we gave it to groundhog66. Nice work, everyone!
You can turn a steak from overcooked to blood rare with a simple red adjustment. Perhaps there should be some limits on what's allowed. Unfortunately some cameras skew towards the over-saturated, redder side anyway, so then you'd just be favoring people with those cameras.
I think it's pretty obvious which ones are touched up, but maybe that's just me spending too many years in photoshop.
For the record, I didn't do any adjustment on my photos.
EDIT: on re-reading this, I sound like a whiney little girl. I don't give a rat's butt what people do to their photos, that's what the vote button is for. Some great looking tips in there. Doesn't look like I'm going to win this one, but I already got to eat it, that's good enough for me.
Just for the record, I use an iphone4 to take my pics for lack of anything better, BUT my cow does still MOO when I take it off the grill!
Just for the record, I use an iphone4 to take my pics for lack of anything better, BUT my cow does still MOO when I take it off the grill!
Actually, you're in Ryan's top two, since he's not able to vote for his first choice due to a lack of voting bubble. :mad2:
As for the photo editing... well theres a lot of cameras out there which are pretty aweful, especially the phone cameras which massively overload the red because the CCD's are cheap, there's no flash and the lenses are dead basic. Deepsouth's camera is a prime example, but not everyone then has photoshop to try and pull the image back to a more realistic colour balance. The fact is, pretty much all of us can recognise a poor camera shot, but still appeciate the effort and the technical execution of the food itself and still give votes to what we feel is best even though the shot is not the best.
...you can tone them down in photoshop (or somewhere else) to something you think looks natural, but that's an adjustment too, if you're being pedantic about things. The only solution to perfect color accuracy is buying special lights, setting up a studio, buying thousands of dollars of calibration equipment etc. etc.. Unless you're shooting for Coca Cola, it just isn't worth it.
The iPhone camera (and a lot of other consumer cameras) have hardware and software that leans towards the over-saturated side because that's what consumers like.
I have a pretty nice point-and-shoot that I got specifically because it is pretty accurate and allows a lot of manual adjustment, but it still isn't neutral. I usually bump the exposure a little bit, but I've found with taking shots of meat that makes the meat look too red and underdone.
I'm not against adjustments, I think everyone should just post what they want and people should vote on it, it's all for fun, it's not a real contest or anything.