August 2008 Monthly Photography Contest

alfa147x

Lifer
Jul 14, 2005
29,307
106
106
Welcome to monthly contest #15!
Well here is number 15, so last month looked really goes for the lights (fireworks surprised?) Well this month lets do something more out doors

Also galleries will be posted once the due date has arrived (Blame OdiN )

New email address to keep things organized: alfa.photocontest (at) gmail.com


Good Clicking!
~Alfa147x


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Rain
Outdoors
Anything



As always, feel free to use this thread to suggest themes for next month's contest.
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Past Winners

Password to galleries: atcontest



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August Contest Dates:

  • Photo must be taken between August 1 - 31, 2008.
  • Photo must be submitted by end of day, August 31, 2008.
  • Voting begins the morning of September 1, 2008, and will run through the evening of September 6, 2008 .
  • Winner to be announced at the end of voting.
Primary August 2008 Contest Theme:

  • "Rain"
    • Well it rains in a lot of placesLI] Thanks to FeuerFrei
Secondary August 2008 Contest Theme:

  • "The Outdoors"
    • camping, wheeling, hiking, fishing, just needs to be outdoors
    • Thanks to OdiN
Tertiary August 2008 Contest Theme:

  • "Anything Goes"
    • I liked the idea of people taking a picture and it being a awesome shot but it not fitting in any category
    • Please keep the pictures SAFE FOR WORK
The General Rules:

  • Submitted photos must easily pertain to the contest subject matter.
  • Contest eligible pictures MUST be taken within the dates stated for this month's contest.
  • Only one submitted photo per entrant per catagory
  • Full EXIF info is strongly suggested to be retained with any submitted picture. I am ceasing to make this a requirement, due to the fact that this is merely a fun and no-prize contest.
  • Submitted photos must abide by forum rules (which basically means no nudity)
Post-Processing Rules:

  • We are now going to dispense with any PP rules. Anything is allowed, but I still want to discourage the following:
    • Try to refrain from turning your photo into "graphic art".
    • I would like to discourage major cloning and photo transplants.
Submission Rules:

  • Each person is given until the time that I put up the voting to submit their picture. Polls are usually erected the morning of the start date of voting.
  • Smallest picture size available to submit will be limited to 1200 pixels on the smallest side. This gives everyone with atleast a 2MP camera a chance to enter. (Any arguements on this one?) - UPDATE: If anyone has any problems with this, we can dispense with this rule. Now that I think about it, any full-size originals you submit to me will be available for anyone here to grab.
  • Please submit JPG's only! (Highest quality setting for JPG is suggested to reduce compression artifacts.)
  • Your final entry can be made at any time between the start of the contest itself until the submission deadline stated above.
  • Each member will have only ONE chance to submit a final entry for the contest. Once you submit, that is it.
Submitting Your Entry:

  • There will be two ways to get your photo to me:
    • Email your photo to alfa.photocontest (at) gmail.com, and BE SURE to include your username in the body of the email. Sometimes I've had to go back and references people's profiles on here with the email address. Luckily I've not had any problems yet with matching photos to users without having to send emails back and forth. Please send a PM indicating an email has been sent just incase it's put in the spam folder.
    • PM me with a link to your full-size photo on the web.
Voting:

  • Voting will begin at the date stated at the start of this thread.
  • The gallery will be available to view at all times as pictures are added throughout the contest, however all final entries will be posted in this thread with links, along with a poll at the top of the thread.
  • Voting will stay open until the deadline.
Prizes:

  • Due to the nature of the contest being ran by regular members, there are no prizes to be offered. You will only gain the satisfaction of being chosen by the members of Anandtech as the best in this month's theme.
  • If any prizes are able to be given away in any future contests, I will be sure to outline the details. If you do not see mention of a prize, then assume there isn't one.
Errors/Omissions:

  • I try my best to keep everything organized on my end in regards to picture submissions and the names of users that submitted those. If you find any errors, PLEASE let me know so I may correct them. I've not been told that I've linked to wrong pictures, or labeled pictures with the wrong usernames yet, so I must be doing something right. But that's the last thing I want is giving credit for a photo to the wrong person.
 

Fardringle

Diamond Member
Oct 23, 2000
9,200
765
126
We had a grand total of .14 inches (just over 1/8th of an inch) of rain the entire month of July so I don't expect I'll have much of a chance to get any rain pictures this month unless I fake some with the lawn sprinklers but I have some nice outdoors shots already so I'll try to have something decent submitted this month.
 

cputeq

Member
Sep 2, 2007
154
0
0
Hrm, I'm going to have to stretch my new 40D and 28-135 legs on this one

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Ironically enough, there's a rain category exactly 1 week after I sell off my weather sealed DA* 50-135 (and K20D)


 

996GT2

Diamond Member
Jun 23, 2005
5,212
0
76
This might be the last one I enter before I leave for JHU and have no time to shoot anything...but I'll definitely try to get something in.
 

soydios

Platinum Member
Mar 12, 2006
2,708
0
0
Submitted Outdoors and Anything; a Rain submission will be forthcoming if I actually get any rain by the end of the month.
 

Jawo

Diamond Member
Jun 15, 2005
4,125
0
0
I wish we had some rain here....its been so dry here! I'll have something....remind me if I don't send anything!!!
 

FeuerFrei

Diamond Member
Mar 30, 2005
9,144
929
126
I voted like a madman.
I was hoping for moody rainy day type stuff. You just don't see many pictures taken during rainfall. Guess beautiful weather brings out the cameras.
 

andylawcc

Lifer
Mar 9, 2000
18,183
3
81
voted.

no offense, but why do ppl think "Anything #2" is a better pic? Is it because it is very difficult to capture a plane in motion with some much detail? (yes, i can see the pilot)
 

alfa147x

Lifer
Jul 14, 2005
29,307
106
106
Rain (Total Votes: 17)
1

10 votes 58.82 (%)
2

2 votes 11.76 (%)
3

5 votes 29.41 (%)
Outdoors (Total Votes: 17)
1

5 votes 29.41 (%)
2

2 votes 11.76 (%)
3

10 votes 58.82 (%)
4

0 votes 0.00 (%)
Anything Goes (Total Votes: 17)
1

5 votes 29.41 (%)
2

10 votes 58.82 (%)
3

1 votes 5.88 (%)
4

0 votes 0.00 (%)
5

1 votes 5.88 (%)
 

soydios

Platinum Member
Mar 12, 2006
2,708
0
0
^^^

Fail at linking, thankfully.

Mods...

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The spam post that was above yours has been canned.

Harvey
Senior AT Mod
 

soydios

Platinum Member
Mar 12, 2006
2,708
0
0
Originally posted by: andylawcc
for September contest, how about attempt at Astrophotography since the Chinese Moon Festival is coming up on Sept 14.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-autumn_festival
(supposedly, it should be full moon that day)

if Astro-shots are too difficult due to lack of gears, maybe Night Shots would be more appropiate?

2nd theme: Animals?

Night shots would be better than astrophotography, in order to keep the contest accessible to everyone. Other than that, sounds good to me.
 
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