Photo Contest - Exhilaration (9/24-9/30)

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Discussion Overview

The discussion revolves around a photo contest themed "exhilaration," where participants are invited to submit photographs that either depict the emotion of exhilaration or evoke that feeling in viewers. The conversation includes contest rules, participant reactions, and submissions.

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Main Points Raised

  • The contest requires photos that reflect the theme of exhilaration, either through human emotion or viewer impact, as explained by the contest organizer.
  • Participants are reminded of the rules regarding photo submissions, including size limitations and editing restrictions.
  • One participant expresses concern that the forum lacks a sense of exhilaration.
  • Another participant suggests that broader categories might enhance the contest.
  • A participant shares a photo submission, indicating that the theme resonated with them personally.
  • There is a light-hearted comment about the possibility of winning by default if no other submissions are made.
  • The organizer notes a delay in polling due to being out of town, affecting the contest timeline.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants have not reached a consensus on the emotional impact of the forum or the contest's thematic categories, and there are varying opinions on how to approach the theme of exhilaration.

Contextual Notes

Some participants may have differing interpretations of what constitutes exhilaration in photography, and the rules may lead to questions about acceptable photo modifications.

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The explanation for this week's contest is simple. Your photo must reflect the feeling of "exhilaration". However, this can be done in two ways: (i) the photo shows the human emotion of exhilaration, or (ii) the photos evoke the feeling of exhilaration onto the viewer.

Good luck!

Zz.

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 800 x 600 or 600 x 800 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. But other than those, any form of picture editing or modification is not allowed. This is a photo contest, not a picture editing/special effect contest. You may add a watermark or your name/nickname to the photo for identification purposes.

3. Upload your photos to any of the photo servers such as imageshack or photobucket. 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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Oh no! This forum lacks the feeling of exhilaration!

:(

Zz.
 
Maybe more broad categories...?
 
Hoping for method (ii), it worked on me when I downloaded the photo from my camera :)

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Looks like you might win by default if no one else submit a photo! :)

Zz.
 
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Zz.
 
Polling for this will be a bit late, because I was out of town this past Saturday and couldn't connect to post the polling thread and the new contest.

Zz.