Photo Contest Champions (5/10-5/17)

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The thread discusses a special photo contest on Physics Forums, inviting participants to submit their best photos from previous contests to determine the PF Photo Contest Champions. The scope includes rules for submission, technical specifications for photos, and the excitement surrounding the contest's anniversary.

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Main Points Raised

  • Participants are encouraged to submit their best photos from past contests, with a relaxed rule on submissions for this special occasion.
  • Several participants share their entries, referencing specific past contests and expressing their feelings about the quality of their submissions.
  • Some participants express uncertainty about the rules, particularly regarding photo resizing and editing, and share their experiences with photo hosting services.
  • There is a sense of competition, with participants acknowledging the difficulty in choosing a winner due to the high quality of entries.
  • Technical details about photo-taking techniques are shared, particularly in response to inquiries about specific submissions.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants generally agree on the excitement of the contest and the quality of the entries, but there is no consensus on which photo might be the best or how the rules are interpreted, particularly regarding photo modifications and submissions.

Contextual Notes

Some participants mention issues with photo hosting and resizing, indicating potential limitations in how their submissions may be perceived. There are also references to specific technical setups for photography that may not be universally understood.

Who May Find This Useful

Members interested in photography, contest participation, and those who enjoy sharing and critiquing visual art may find this discussion engaging.

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PF Photo Contest Champions
It has been exactly TWO YEARS since our weekly photo contest has started, and it comes the time to pit our best photos against each other in a single thread to celebrate and conclude. There is one week to select your best photo from any of the years' contests to see who are the PF Photo Contest Champions.

For this special occasion, I think we can stretch the one-time submit rule. I am eager to see what will be judged the Physics Forums Photo Contest's best photo :smile:.

All of the previous contests can be found in the PF Photo Contest Winners thread.

Contest Rules:

1. Any digital photo or digitally-scanned photo relevant to the theme will be accepted within the contest period. In case there's a gray area, or you're not sure if the picture is suitable, check with me first.

2. Please resize your digital photo to no more than 650 x 490 or 490 x 650 pixels. You may also crop your picture if you wish. You are also allowed to adjust the brightness and contrast of your picture but these should not dramatically alter the look of the picture. Any other form of picture editing or modification is not allowed. This is a photo contest, not a special effect contest.

3. Upload your photos to any of the photo servers such as imageshack. Then post it the relevant contest thread and link your picture using the img command. PM me if you do not know how.

4. Only ONE picture per member per contest. Once a picture is posted, it cannot be changed other than a total withdrawl by that member from that week's photo contest. Exceptions will be made for modification to comply with the rules, such as resizing.

5. At the end of the contest period, I will open a poll and every PF member can vote for the picture they like best.

6. Note that in case we have a large number of entries, I will do the polling in more than one thread. If that's the case, you can vote in each of the polling threads. The photos will be assigned in the polling threads in the order they were submitted.

7. These pictures must be something that you took, not something taken off someone else's photo albums or taken by someone else. I have no way of checking if you did this, so we'll go by the honor system.

8. You can use a picture only once. Once it is used in a contest, it cannot be reused in another contest.

9. Please post only pictures meant for submission in this thread.
 
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sad..I've got nothing better to enter but here it is. (from the "Are you for Real" contest)
http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/5167/imgp0634gy3.jpg
 
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This is my entry from the "Bridge Over Troubled Waters" contest.

hawthorne.jpg
 
http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/5408/image0vw0.jpg

Here's mine from "It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas" or some title like that. I think I only tied for third because I was new to Imageshack and it screwed it over when I told it to resize. Now that I see that most people just upload full size, that's what I did. Bite me for it like I know some smartass will.
 
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Ooooo this should prove interesting. All gorgeous entries already.
 
From the "When You Wish Upon a Star" contest

http://home.comcast.net/~larkspur2020/Milkyway.jpg
 
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The Spurn lightship at night. Think this is one of my faves that I've entered.

This contest will be brutal.
 
IMG_1005.jpg


From the 'Silhouette' contest.

And happy contest anniversary! :)
 
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Wow, these are some really beautiful pictures in, I love larkspur's. Here's my submission, from close-up week:

http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/2217/ferrozd5.jpg

Reflections on ferrofluid.

The polls are made on the 17th of May, so get your photos in!
 
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Sunset in San Pedro, CA. Taken with Nikon D100 back in 2004 (IIRC). Used 50/1.8D with Cokin 3 stop GND and b&w polarizer. Informed Mk before posting.

http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/9531/10ks4ti9.jpg

Here's a slightly larger version: http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/1550/10ks4sa9.jpg
 
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Unfortunately most of my pictures were on a domain, which is gone now. But here is the last entry from "sick as a dog":

mainau1.PNG
 
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Jeez.. this is going to be the toughest one to decide a winner from yet!
 
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larkspur said:
http://home.comcast.net/~larkspur2020/Milkyway.jpg
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How did you take that picture?
 
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Mk said:
How did you take that picture?
The camera was on an equatorial mount with a clock drive mount and the shutter was held open with a remote shutter cable IIRC about 280 seconds.
 

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