Photo Contest - Me And My Shadow (5/19-5/25)

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This thread discusses a photo contest themed "Me And My Shadow," where participants are required to submit photos featuring their own shadow while taking the photograph. The discussion includes contest rules, submission guidelines, and participant interactions regarding their entries.

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Main Points Raised

  • The contest requires that submitted photos feature the participant's own shadow, not reflections or shadows of objects.
  • Participants express enthusiasm for the theme and indicate intentions to submit photos.
  • One participant mentions difficulty in finding a suitable photo and considers taking a new one.
  • A participant shares a photo of a plane's shadow but is informed that it does not qualify as it does not meet the contest criteria.
  • Another participant acknowledges uncertainty about the rules regarding shadow eligibility and mentions switching to a different photo for submission.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants generally agree on the contest rules, but there are differing interpretations regarding what qualifies as an acceptable shadow for submission.

Contextual Notes

Some participants express uncertainty about specific rules, particularly regarding the eligibility of shadows that are not directly of the participant.

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Me And My Shadow

For this week's contest, the photo MUST feature your shadow as you are taking the photograph. It must be a shadow, not a reflection.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. Alternatively, you may simply upload your image file to PF, and then have the full image displayed in your post.

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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ZapperZ said:
For this week's contest, the photo MUST feature your shadow as you are taking the photograph. It must be a shadow, not a reflection.
Very fun theme! I've got a photo coming soon...
 
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DennisN said:
Very fun theme! I've got a photo coming soon...
I can't find the photo I was thinking of :frown:, so maybe I'll take a new one...
 
Final day to submit your photo for this contest.

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back up photo to my first submission.
 

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Janus said:
https://www.physicsforums.com/attachments/226169

Shadow of our plane from my window on our way from Maui to the big island.

Unfortunately, this does not qualify. The shadow must be of you, not the vehicle you are riding in.

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ZapperZ said:
Unfortunately, this does not qualify. The shadow must be of you, not the vehicle you are riding in.

Zz.
I wasn't sure if that was the case or not. Anyway, I switched it out for my second choice.
 
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You can see me on the right.
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