Photo Contest - Nighttime (1/15-1/20)

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Discussion Overview

This thread discusses a photo contest themed around nighttime photography. Participants are provided with contest rules, submission guidelines, and the criteria for acceptable entries. The focus is on ensuring that submitted photos clearly represent nighttime and adhere to specific technical requirements.

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Main Points Raised

  • Photos must be taken at night and should clearly indicate nighttime; brightly-lit indoor photography is not acceptable.
  • Participants can submit only one photo, which cannot be changed once posted, except for compliance with resizing rules.
  • There is a suggestion from one participant to extend the contest duration by an additional week, citing the difficulty in choosing a single favorite photo.
  • Another participant expresses a sentiment that it is challenging to vote for only one photo due to the perceived beauty of each submission.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants generally agree on the contest rules, but there is disagreement regarding the contest's structure, particularly about the feasibility of selecting a single winning photo.

Contextual Notes

The discussion does not address potential limitations of the contest rules or the subjective nature of photography evaluation.

Who May Find This Useful

Individuals interested in photography contests, particularly those focused on specific themes like nighttime photography, may find this discussion relevant.

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Nighttime

Photos for this contest must be taken at night. There has to be a clear indication of night time in the photo. Brightly-lit indoor photography taken at night does not qualify.

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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How about an exception?
- leave this competition open for at least another week
- drop the competition as it is completely impossible the vote for only one
(I could convincingly reason about the beauty of every one of them.)
 
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Final day to submit your photo for this contest.

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