Photo Contest - Brownies (3/22-2/38)

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Discussion Overview

The discussion revolves around a photo contest themed on the color brown, where participants are invited to submit their photographs that prominently feature this color. The scope includes contest rules, submissions, and participant interactions regarding their entries.

Discussion Character

  • Contest-related
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Main Points Raised

  • One participant outlines the contest rules, including submission guidelines and restrictions on photo editing.
  • Another participant shares a link to their photo, claiming it is hand-made.
  • A participant questions whether sepia-toned images are acceptable for the contest.
  • One participant mentions visiting the National Gallery of Art and shares a photo they took there, highlighting its brown color.
  • Another participant shares a high-resolution image of wood grain, describing its features and significance for wood identification.
  • Several participants express admiration for a specific photo submitted by another member, indicating a competitive atmosphere.
  • Participants comment on the difficulty of making voting decisions as more entries are submitted.
  • A reminder is issued about the final day for photo submissions.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants generally agree on the contest rules and the theme of the submissions. However, there are questions regarding the acceptability of certain photo styles, such as sepia tones, indicating some uncertainty. The discussion remains open with multiple entries and no consensus on a favorite photo yet.

Contextual Notes

Participants have different interpretations of what constitutes an acceptable photo for the contest, particularly regarding editing and color tones. There is also a variety of photographic subjects being submitted, which may affect voting preferences.

Who May Find This Useful

Photography enthusiasts, contest participants, and those interested in color-themed challenges may find this discussion relevant.

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Brownies[/color][/size]

This week, the topic is on the color Brown. Your photo must have, as it's main subject, something that has this color.

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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http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640x480q90/827/53q1.jpg

I should add it's proudly hand-made, by me. :biggrin:
 
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So, I'm guessing sepias are out?
:biggrin:
 
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We had a little breather from the cold weather yesterday so my wife invited me to visit D.C. yesterday. Here's the brownest thing I could find in the National Gallery of Art.

NatGalleryOfArt-Brown.jpg
 
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/22026080/juvenile-bald-eagle.jpg
 
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We have a winner. Beautiful shot Andre!
 
Oh wow Andre! Great photo.
 
marzena_brownies.jpg
 
Now it's getting tough..
 
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It doesn't get much browner :-p

marcin_brown.jpg
 
  • #11
Borek said:
It doesn't get much browner :-p

marcin_brown.jpg
Okay. This helps my voting decision. :wink:
 
  • #13
For my wood identification internet site I take high-res pics of the grain features of various woods to help in the identification. This particular one is a 1/3" x 1/3" end grain cross section of an Indonesian wood called kempas shown here at about 15X. The holes are the wood pores and the lozenge-shaped light colored regions around them are called aliform parenchyma (a kind of wood cell) and the white vertical lines are the rays.

I've always found this particular end grain shot to be among my favorites out of the 13,000+ wood pics I've taken for the site over the last 10+ years.


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Andy Resnick said:
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I was eating when I saw this.
 
  • #15
Final day to submit your brown photo for this contest.

Zz.
 

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