What Makes a Photo Hot?

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Discussion Overview

The discussion revolves around a photo contest themed "Hot," where participants are encouraged to submit digital photos that depict something hot in temperature or convey the feeling of heat. The conversation includes contest rules, submissions, and participant interactions regarding their entries.

Discussion Character

  • Contest-related
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Main Points Raised

  • Participants must submit a single digital photo relevant to the theme, adhering to specific size and editing rules.
  • One participant expresses their inability to enter due to snowy weather, contrasting with the theme of heat.
  • Another participant notes that a submitted photo could have also fit the previous theme of "Cold."
  • Several participants share links to their photo submissions, with requests for details about the photography settings used.
  • A participant humorously claims to be a terrible photographer, contributing to the light-hearted nature of the discussion.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants generally agree on the contest rules and theme, but there is no consensus on the quality of photography, as some express self-doubt while others compliment submissions.

Contextual Notes

Participants are reminded of the honor system regarding photo originality, and the discussion includes various interpretations of what constitutes a "hot" photo.

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A couple of weeks ago, we had a theme on "Cold". So it is only fair that we go to the other extreme temperature and have a theme on "Hot". Your photo must depict something that is hot in temperature, or convey the feeling of being hot in temperature.

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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Zz.
 
Is that from Hawaii or something? Looks very hot ;)
It's snowy where I am right now so I don't think I can enter this competition :(
 
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If you look closely at the cup, this would have worked as last weeks as well.
 
^ That is excellent. Details?
 
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Another tough contest.. We need more votes. :cry:
 
KrisOhn said:
^ That is excellent. Details?

Thanks- I don't recall the specific settings, but I used my telephoto stopped down almost all the way.
 
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Final day to submit your Hot photo for this contest. If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen!

Zz.
 
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Just to prove that I am a terrible photographer...
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