Photo Contest - Nighttime (3/12-3/18)

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Discussion Overview

This thread centers around a photo contest focused on nighttime photography. Participants are invited to submit their photos that clearly depict nighttime scenes, adhering to specific contest rules and guidelines.

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Main Points Raised

  • The contest requires submissions to be digital photos taken during nighttime, with specific rules regarding photo editing and resizing proposed by the organizer.
  • Participants are limited to one submission each, and photos must be original works taken by the submitter.
  • Some participants express their challenges in finding suitable photos, with one mentioning laziness as a barrier to participation.
  • Another participant comments on the quality of submissions, noting that they found their own attempts to be unsatisfactory due to blurriness or lack of interest.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

There is no explicit disagreement among participants regarding the contest rules, but there are varying levels of enthusiasm and ability to participate, with some expressing frustration over their own photo quality.

Contextual Notes

Participants may have different interpretations of what constitutes a suitable nighttime photo, and there may be uncertainties regarding the technical aspects of photo quality and editing limits.

Who May Find This Useful

Photography enthusiasts, particularly those interested in nighttime photography, as well as members looking to engage in community contests.

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This week, we focus on night time shots. Your photo must clearly show that it was taken during night time.

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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. The photo of the subject must be something that you took directly, not via in intermediary medium, and not taken by someone else. Unless otherwise noted, a photo of another photo, painting, print, etc. does not qualify.

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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Final day to submit your nighttime photos for this contest.

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I would have had a good one to enter but I was too lazy to get out of my sleeping bag!
 
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Really good photos so far! I failed to find any good ones myself, they were all too blurry or boring...:frown:
 
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