What Qualifies as a Winning Entry in This Week's Running-Themed Photo Contest?

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The running-themed photo contest requires participants to submit a digital photo depicting the act of running, either by people or animals. Statues are not eligible. Photos must be resized to a maximum of 800 x 600 or 600 x 800 pixels, with minimal adjustments allowed for brightness and contrast. Each member can submit only one photo, and all entries must be original works taken by the participant. Voting will occur at the end of the contest period, with potential multiple polling threads if entries exceed a certain number.

PREREQUISITES
  • Understanding of digital photo formats and resizing techniques
  • Familiarity with photo hosting services like Imageshack or Photobucket
  • Basic photo editing skills for brightness and contrast adjustments
  • Knowledge of contest rules and submission guidelines
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  • Research techniques for capturing dynamic running shots
  • Learn about effective photo composition for action photography
  • Explore digital photo editing tools for brightness and contrast adjustments
  • Investigate online platforms for hosting and sharing photos
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Photographers, contest participants, and anyone interested in improving their action photography skills will benefit from this discussion.

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The theme this week should be easy enough. Your photo must have, as its main subject, a depiction of the act of running. This can be a person or persons in the middle of running, or it could be an animal or animals.

Please note that a statue of a figure in the act of running does not qualify.

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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(Can be hard to take pics of people running because they don't stand still for them.)

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Final day to submit your photo for this contest. Run for it now before you get left behind!

Zz.
 

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