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Voting done for Jan 
And FPOTY
And FPOTY 
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I thought the same, is it due to being a tad Black heavy?
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I think I can see some yellow-green leaves and blue-green leaves in the first. In the second, the sleeve of the subject is a colour that's not a shade of red.
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Personally, I think those pictures look pretty much monochromatic, I should think if you look carefully enough at any picture you'll find colour elements, even if it's only sensor-generated noise. I wouldn't exclude any of those pictures from the theme of monochrome on the basis that there might be other colours in them. I shall probably stick to the traditional, accepted concept of monochrome and take my picture in black and white (even if white does contain ALL the colours!).
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Well done @TimHughes our January winner. A close-run thing with some cracking entries. I'll post the spreadsheet a little later
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Nice work @TimHughes
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Well done @TimHughes 
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Well done to @TimHughes and everyone participating!
I loved January’s entries!
I loved January’s entries!
Sorry folks, manically busy week this week but backlog cleared and I should be online a bit more.
Can I just ask about monochrome please.
My camera has numerous monochrome options, L-monochrome and all that jazz. Can I use one of these in camera monochrome settings, or are we looking for B&W...sorry if my Q doesn't make sense but images in the different monochrome settings I can select all look different.
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Can I just ask about monochrome please.
My camera has numerous monochrome options, L-monochrome and all that jazz. Can I use one of these in camera monochrome settings, or are we looking for B&W...sorry if my Q doesn't make sense but images in the different monochrome settings I can select all look different.
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There was a chat a page back if you've missed it, but use you want you're happy with
DPOTY 2024 - Chat thread
I've done my time, I've paid my taxes, I've failed to pay into national insurance for only two weeks in my entire working life, I deserve to do sweet FA, or whatever else I want, in my Autumn years, so there! I’m nearly there with you Martin.
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Well done @TimHughes it was a great shot.
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Why not use the PAGB definition of Mono for their comps its pretty straightforward. .. ??
DEFINITION OF MONOCHROME TO BE USED IN PAGB COMPETITIONS
Monochrome Images include:
• An Image in tones of neutral grey ranging from transparent/white to opaque/black.
• An Image in a single colour:
o A Print using a chemical process such as sepia, cyanotype, etc..
o A digitally produced Image ‘colorized’ in a single hue.
DEFINITION OF MONOCHROME TO BE USED IN PAGB COMPETITIONS
Monochrome Images include:
• An Image in tones of neutral grey ranging from transparent/white to opaque/black.
• An Image in a single colour:
o A Print using a chemical process such as sepia, cyanotype, etc..
o A digitally produced Image ‘colorized’ in a single hue.
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I'm trying some that are not B&W, too, and have several that are close to monochrome in camera, but removing other tints and keeping the feel of the original is proving quite tricky. Seems more difficult than B&W conversion and I'm not sure why.
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**Best thing to do if unsure about the image been monochrome is to convert your image to greyscale first.
Then add a layer of colour and finally make adjustments to contrast, tone and such.**
Think of film photography, cyanotype(blue hue) and sepia tone(brown hue).
Then add a layer of colour and finally make adjustments to contrast, tone and such.**
Think of film photography, cyanotype(blue hue) and sepia tone(brown hue).
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I had a similar idea, take a b&w film negative (recently taken
) then convert to digi(scanning) and last add a layer of colour. Then i thought it might be against the rules because it’s film. But then again converted to digi and manipulated even further digitally, puts the image in between a grey area haha.Funny there’s a thread about digital images now been converted to analog.
I believe as long as the final image is within the boundaries of this months theme “monochrome “ then it qualifies as such.
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GM, I notice that both of you (@Marino @TimHughes ) have directly loaded jpgs into your post. I can't see the dimensions etc of those images, but we are aware that the software can sometimes do its own slight compression when you do that. That's why the majority use a free Flickr account to hold the full size images and then use a BBCode link to post the image into the thread, which avoids this issue.
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Thanks Lindsay, I may have a flickr account, I have not used that in a long time. Can I switch the link if I get it working?
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Thank you
I've managed to do the same. I noticed including the Flickr links works, but BB code did not.
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Funny for me it’s the opposite Bb code works but link doesn’t
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how strange! I must go and read the manual!
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Flickr instructions I forgot to keep the size within the 1024 limit