What Smells Captured Your Lens This Week?

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This week's forum discussion centers on a photo contest themed around capturing scents, where participants can submit images of items that emit distinct aromas, such as flowers, food, and perfumes. Contest rules specify that only one photo per member is allowed, with strict guidelines on resizing and editing. Photos must be original and taken by the member submitting them, and a poll will determine the winner at the end of the contest period. The discussion highlights the importance of adhering to these rules to ensure a fair competition.

PREREQUISITES
  • Understanding of digital photography basics
  • Familiarity with photo editing tools for resizing and adjusting brightness/contrast
  • Knowledge of online photo hosting services like ImageShack or Photobucket
  • Awareness of contest participation etiquette and rules
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  • Research techniques for capturing aromas in photography
  • Learn about effective photo composition for contest submissions
  • Explore digital photo editing software for resizing images
  • Investigate online platforms for hosting and sharing photos
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Photographers, contest participants, and anyone interested in enhancing their skills in capturing and presenting aromatic subjects through photography.

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Sniff, sniff. What's that that I'm smelling?

This week's contest will focus on items or objects that have a scent, or give off an aroma. This can be flowers, food items, spices, perfumes, decaying flesh, etc. Anything that gives off a distinct smell, good or bad, qualifies. The only thing that I ask that you consider is the gag level of our members here.

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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Of course, when choosing something with a strong aroma, I have to pick a food item. Nothing is more fragrant than Indian food, and here we have basmati rice, chapati bread, a lamb josh, and a vegetable khurma.
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