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March 2011 Monthly Photography Contest

alfa147x

alfa147x

Lifer
March 2011 Monthly Photography Contest

Welcome to monthly contest #23!

March Contest Dates:

  • Photo must be taken between March 1 - 31, 2011.
  • Photo must be submitted by end of day, April 22, 2011..
  • Voting begins the morning of April 23, 2011, and will run through the evening of April 31, 2011 .
  • Winner to be announced at the end of voting.

April's Themes:
  • Flowers
  • Landscape


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 three 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.
    • Post a link to it in this thread. Please do not embed images. This way we can keep threads clean.
    • 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.
 
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alfa147x said:
Sure! Have any ideas? I'll try to think of something
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Animals, flowers, architecture, etc. Dyxum.com does "assignments" where they teach you how to use the rules of photography, but they also have themed contests with random subjects.
 
If we go with themes, shouldn't we have the contest for pictures taken during the current month?

And for theme ideas, Dgrin.com has some really good ones.
 
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Done! Flowers for one. Any ideas for another one? If I don't get a request by tonight we'll go with architecture.
 
AkumaX said:
Wait, so we basically have 1 day to take a picture for March?
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Yes.

You are only allowed to submit pictures that have been taken in the month of March. I am going to start posting the next month's "theme" in the current months thread like I did for April. This way you have a month to work on those themes. For the month of March you can submit ANY (non-nude) pictures.
 
alfa147x said:
Yes.

You are only allowed to submit pictures that have been taken in the month of March. I am going to start posting the next month's "theme" in the current months thread like I did for April. This way you have a month to work on those themes. For the month of March you can submit ANY (non-nude) pictures.
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oh right, i kept thinking the flowers theme was for March, hahaha 😛 (which makes March another "anything goes!") T2i's getting cleaned, so let me see what i can dig out...
 
Just saw this.. will have to keep this in mind for my shoots this month. Too bad the photo has to be taken this month; I have great shots from a trip I took in December.
 
^ I love how the branches are in the same focus as the fruit and how they wrap and disappear into the background.
 
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