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The "Photo Contest - This Is Where I Live" invites participants to submit digital photos reflecting their local environment, adhering to specific rules. Photos must be resized to 800 x 600 or 600 x 800 pixels, and only one submission per member is allowed. Editing is limited to brightness and contrast adjustments, with all submissions required to be original works. Voting will occur at the end of the contest period, with potential multiple polling threads depending on the number of entries.

PREREQUISITES
  • Understanding of digital photo formats and resizing techniques
  • Familiarity with photo hosting services like ImageShack or Photobucket
  • Knowledge of basic photo editing tools for brightness and contrast adjustments
  • Awareness of online contest rules and submission guidelines
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  • Research how to resize images using software like Adobe Photoshop or GIMP
  • Learn about the features and functionalities of ImageShack and Photobucket for photo uploads
  • Explore basic photo editing techniques to enhance image quality without altering the original look
  • Investigate best practices for participating in online contests and community voting systems
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Photography enthusiasts, contest participants, and community members interested in showcasing their local environments through digital photography.

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The theme this week is all about where you live. Your photo may reflect your area, your neighborhood, your village, your city, your state, or the country you live in.

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. Photos not meant for submission must not be posted in the contest thread. Posting of more than one photos by a member may result in an automatic disqualification from the week's contest.
 
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Where is that?
 
epenguin said:
Where is that?

Chicago, Michigan Ave.
 
Another Chicagoan here. Cruising on the south branch of the Chicago river at sunset.

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Zz.
 
ZapperZ said:
Another Chicagoan here. Cruising on the south branch of the Chicago river at sunset.

And here I thought you lived in a lab. Go figure.
 
I live in a log house out in the woods. Nothing fancy, but I don't like fancy.

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OK so I don't really live there but at least someone lives there which is more than it looks for some submissions. :biggrin:
 
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epenguin said:
OK so I don't really live there but at least someone lives there which is more than it looks for some submissions. :biggrin:
So Zz really does live in a lab? :rolleyes:
 
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Long Island, NY
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The original photo is bigger. How do I edit? Maybe I missed a setting.
 
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ChristinaJ said:
The original photo is bigger. How do I edit? Maybe I missed a setting.

Contest Rules said:
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.

Many photo hosting servers will give you a direct link to your photos. Use that url, and then enclosed that link with [.img]http:... [./img] (without the period) in your post.

You have less than 1 day to correct the submission.

Zz.
 
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Reflections of LI

ZapperZ, Thank you.

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