SOOC (Straight Out of the Camera)

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Title	Author	Replies	Latest Post
Your SOOC shots that have hit Explore	Itinerant	47	8 days ago
Manual Exposure Mentor	jlmphotographic	7	2 weeks ago
Contrast	Jimi D.	1	2 weeks ago
Possibly stupid question??	desiderata02	14	3 weeks ago
Why the SOOC admin often seems cranky	Itinerant	27	4 weeks ago
I wont deny	local paparazzi	0	6 weeks ago

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About SOOC (Straight Out of the Camera)

This group is for those who like to get it right in the camera.

Straight. Out. Of. The. Camera.

Pictures that have NOT been adjusted, converted, plugin-ized, scanned, processed, photoshopped, illustrated. That means no post-processing. The only allowable modification is cropping and resizing.

Trust your camera. Trust yourself.

(There is a super-secret way we can tell, so if it's not a SOOC image, it'll be removed.)

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So, rules:

SOOC is when the picture is straight out of the camera. The ONLY allowable modifications are resizing (for the web) and cropping. No adjustments. No conversions. No sharpening, no blurring, no color or contrast adjustments, actions, plugins. Straight out of the camera.

RAW. The default jpeg from a RAW file. Open the RAW file in the converter and do a "Save as JPEG". This would give the image as shot by the camera. Any other adjustments isnt SOOC.

Film. Scanning a print or negative is allowed, but ONLY if the scanned image is the default output. Any other adjustment isnt SOOC.

Watermarks: Does your camera put a watermark on your image? So, no.

In camera adjustments: Does your camera do in camera adjustments? B&W, D-lighting, cropping? If so, then yes. Because its in the camera. But really, the point is to show the image as it was SHOT in the camera. So, try not to futz with it.

In camera panoramas: Sure, but please, thats stretching it. See above.

If your image has been removed, take a look here to see why:

www.flickr.com/groups/sooc/discuss/72157613148160053/