Bryan Bedell
5th of October 2005 (Wed), 12:43
"WINNERS:"
OK, this challenge was ridiculous, so I'm not going to offer any helpful commentary or even try to justify my choices, I'm just going to ramble aimlessly, like usual.
(I'm going to be rude to everyone, don't take it personally!)
rpolitsr: "Vanishing Dog"
Off to a good start, if this had been taken with a tripod, it would be downright creepy. Was the dog's head behind that bush, or was he moving so fast you just can't see it? Apparently it's still the 1970s in Ecuador, and everything is painted Avocado, Mustard, and Rust. A truly awful photo, and for that, i thank you! (Also thank your son for the movie-rotating tips, i haven't tried them yet, I'll write back to him soon!)
KCJewel: "Rocket Launch"
We've all thrown away our fair share of all-black screens, but KC Jewel looked at that little 2" screen and saw a bit of haze and said "what the hey, i've got all kinds of room on this 8GB SmartMedia card, and a 10 terrabyte disk array at home, I'll have a look at it when i get back to my media lab." and lo and behold, he captured a ghostly manta ray, or a sideways skull, or something. something evil. something he should have deleted to save mankind, but now it's too late. Now we're stuck with this sinister photo and we all have to look at it. Was this a nighttime launch, I guess? And that's a cloud of smoke from the engine that was lit up by the flash? Because i'm having a hard time figuring out how this would look better without flash.
zacabog: "heh heh heh FIRE!"
A Beavis and Butthead quote just to make sure this contest has NO class. Nice. Yep, that's fire allright, we've all got a few fire photos, I'm sure, but usually of a campfire, or a fireplace, or an olympic torch, or some such. Most of us, I'd like to think, when coming across an unsupervised fire in a trash can, would put down the camera and try to put it out, but not zackabog! he realizes his duty as a photographer is to document it, then burn rubber and get out of there fast. Actually I rather like the barely-discernible foreground. Hats off to you, for bringing us this masterpiece, and next time use a tripod. : )
(Am I being too mean? You should see some of the crap I've committed to CF card. Please don't take this all personally, I'm just joking around.)
rayzorb "Over Exposed and out of Frame"
This is about the best photo I've ever seen. If Michael Lavine took this and it was Liz Phair or Sonic Youth instead of a flower girl, he would have been paid more for it than I make in a year. Even as it is, you could probably sell it to Corbis or Veer, I get whole viewbooks full of washed-out, arty big-head photos like this and those people make good money. Stop cluttering my challenge with merely overexposed photos, say you did it on purpose and call yourself an artist! This is beautiful, get it out of my sight and bring me another manta ray cloud... NOW!
mp2k-net "Midday Midnight"
Like rayzorb's, this one is downright beautiful, but it's maybe a little more clearly a botch-up. I'm confused about the setup, maybe you can explain it to me better? If you were using an IR filter, and took it off, wouldn't a 2-second exposure in broad daylight, even at the smallest aperture, pretty much go way OVERexposed rather than dark? The blueness makes sense, since you were balanced for infrared, I guess. In any case, it's a neat shot... did you have a star filter to get the reflections on the water? It looks like a backdrop from a disney movie or something, very pretty. You did a very nice job ruining this photo (and of course we want to see the IR version!)
nactos: (No title)
(note: not having a title is no big deal to me, but you should be careful, some people might disqualify you for that) I spent a while trying to figure this one out, and I was confused how the car in the foreground seemed to be exposed with the flash set on "first curtain" and the car in the background appeared to be exposed with the flash set on "second curtain" Then, looking a little longer, i realized the trails went from one car to the other and I realized it was the same car. So it was a longish exposure, with the car moving, frozen in motion in the start of the exposure, then spinning right and coming to rest long enough to form an impression with the existing light. Am I right? Neat! it's a pretty good exposure considering there's no PP, I woulda balanced the levels to get the wheel black and darken the background a bit. The sign's a bit distracting, and the composition's not great, but the effect is really interesting and even though we all have a thousand "blurred car lights" photos, this one's got something going for it and it would be fun to TRY to recreate it on purpose and see what you could come up with.
abat: "Thomas"
I know firsthand it's just about impossible to get a kid to stay still long enough to get a good photo, and i've done my share of sneaking up behind random kids on trains when they were lost in thought, and then... taken a bad photo, just like this, ha. It looks like the focus was pretty close, but the camera shook like crazy, If it was me, i'd be blaming it on the train. Interesting that a couple points (his collar, the post) are relatively in focus while others are long gone. The lighting IS perfect, and the color and composition are good. I hope you got a good one before he turned around.
partridge9: "Night Crossing"
I live around the corner from a crossing that looks a lot like this, and I've been stuck there long enough to pull out my camera a few times. I'm guessing you pulled the old "hold the camera up a little higher to clear the hood" trick and then forgot you had the camera pointed right at the mirror. EIther that or it's a self-portrait gone awry. Considering you can see the arc left by the light as the barricade came down, i'm guessing it was a second or two exposure, or else that gate came down really fast. The street and barricade are lit by a streetlight, right (I'd imagine the flash would have just lit up all the smudges on the windshield). This meets the criteria of the contest nicely... useless, not a thing in focus, but you just have to stare at it for a couple minutes to figure it out.
teekay: "Bison Booboo"
This is another good "what the !!**&$#@!! is going on?" photo. Since the foreground is so washed out (is that the foreground, even? heh) I can't see the bison's nose, it appears to be behind something, so maybe his head is resting on some sort of pipe or corrugated metal fence? or is his whole nose sticking in some kind of basin? The texture is nice, and in an abstract way, i like the sort of gradation from fur to white in the top left quarter of the photo. I'm guessing the white balance was set wrong, or the auto white balance meter just guessed wrong. Still, the unwavering buffaloness of it (horn, eye, wooly fur) is intact, so you get the point! You will, of course, have to post your PSP salvage job, I can't wait to see that! If someone is looking for a good challenge idea, how about "Before and after" where we can see the great salvage jobs of all time. : )
txfirebug: "Bear"
If firebug hadn't told me this was a dog, or titled it "bear," I would have assumed it was the other half of teekay's bison or the head of rpolitsr's dog. This is another photo that technically couldn't be any worse, motion blur, completely blasted-out whites, you can't even tell what the subject is, and if that's not enough, there's a huge lens flare in the bottom right corner! And yet, it's great, you're trapped looking at it trying to guess what it is. the angle (and I guess the fence) makes it look menacing and the dayglo yellows and greens (and that nice spot of orange) are nicely balanced by the brown organic blob in the middle.
Boutty: "Mission Impossible"
Boutty, NEVER blame yourself! Clearly you were using a tripod and the ground tilted 15° just as you took the photo. I have long fingers and I can barely get at that "*" button... I think the G6 is set up fairly well, but I've done that a few times, and i also have a really bad habit (only when under stress to work quickly) of using the on/off switch instead of the zoom/shutter switch (My old camera had the zoom and shutter right where the power switch is on the G6) I'll get used to it, someday. Anyway, lay off the lager and grow another arm, and your photography will improve greatly.
jpdw "Streaky-Green-Sludge"
Mmmmm... I can see the horse and... carriage... there... in the... OK, I don't see anything that could possibly be construed as a horse or carriage. Just say it's a photo of a waterfall. People on this list seem to love waterfall photos for some reason. it's funny, I have a similar photo that I took on purpose, the inside wall of the train i ride is brushed metal, and the reflection of the trees outside, while you're moving, look a lot like this (angled 45°). Anyway, pretty colors. Don't delete that, someday you'll need a background photo for something! (Yeah, I tell myself that all the time, it never happens).
sara "Babyteeth"
Many people say babies are 'cute,' but those people have never had their lens cracked by a 2-year-old's incisor. Babies are dangerous and should be avoided at all costs, especially if you have a slugmatic G6. I've been doing some testing, and babies and small children can move out of frame from any distance at f1/1250. I've had about 50/50 luck catching them still at f2000, sometimes if you sedate them with something, you can get them to stay still longer, I've found those banana-flavored mushy orange "circus peanuts" work pretty well, or pretty much anything with a photo of Elmo on it. In any case, you're lucky you and your G6 got away just in time.
zero: "Mrrrow… Photos are boring!"
like rayzorb, zero's outtakes are a lot better than my "good" photos. Is that one of those crazy bengal kittens? He's way cuter than my cats, even when he's trying to look mean. Not that he doesn't look tough. I bet he'd put up a good fight against sara's baby, or either of those brown furry things in rpolitsr and txfirebug's photos. If this was a contest for "most ferocious looking thing," you just might win, but it's a contest for bad photos, and this one, aside from being a bit blurry, is pretty good. Better luck next time. Or worse luck, i guess, whichever applies.
So let's see... Winners... Hmmm...
Third place: KC Jewel for capturing the supernatural.
Second place: partridge9 for... i don't know why, i just chose him at random.
And since I squandered his chance to host this week, with this sham of a challenge, and on top of that his photo was pretty darn neat, let's go with mp2k-net in first place. Congratulations, I think.
and the special award for "Model Citizen" award goes to zacabog!
Thanks everyone for once again putting up with me, Keep on taking those accidental photos!
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OK, nevermind the nevermind, we're back on! Es839145 and mp2k-net haven't responded yet, and it's several hours past the deadline, so you're stuck with me again.
Challenge #35 is a little crazy, but i hope it's fun.
If you're like me, you probably have several (or dozens of) photos that were total and complete accidents and completely go off the rails of the rules and goals of photography, and are utterly useless, yet you saved them, and there they are, taking up hard drive space, waiting for a reason to exist.
Well here it is!
I want to see your accidents! Not experiments, or embarrassing photos where the subject's nipple is showing or the still life caught on fire, I want to see technical accidents where the result was somehow so interesting that you couldn't erase it. Many things can go wrong when you take a picture, and often do. Maybe your finger covered half the flash, maybe your white balance was set wrong, maybe you had the camera set for 2-second timer and didn't realize it, maybe you have no idea why that snapshot of your friend in front of the eiffel tower showed up on the screen as a psychedelic nightmare or a disembodied ghost head floating in space...
We're on the honor system here, accidents only! Qualitative judging is nearly impossible this time, but it should be interesting to see what people come up with. I'll do my best. : )
To submit, click "Post Reply" and put your Photo Name (the title) in the Subject Line. Don't forget your Camera Model.
Post until Monday noon GMT, Monday October 10rd, 2005.
Hosted by: Bryan Bedell
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Please consider turning on Private Messaging in your profile.
This will allow the host to contact you about winning or ineligible photos. You turn this feature on by clicking "User CP, Edit Options, Enable Private Messaging" (about a third of the way down the page). Thank you.
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Photo Submissions
1. Camera -- photos must be taken with a Canon G-Series Camera (G1,G2,G3,G5,G6) or Pro 1.
2. Time -- any on-topic photo taken at any time is eligible, although photos that have won other competitions should NOT be entered.
3. Size -- photo must be EXACTLY 640 pixels on the longest side, with NO BORDERS. Odd-sized photos ineligible.
4. Post-Processing -- do whatever you like, crop closer, and I will decide if it works. Don't forget the above rules though. (this is the generic post processing rule, see post #5 for detail regarding this challenge)
5. Posting --
ONE PHOTO per photographer in each challenge.
Photo Name must in the message subject line.
Camera model.
6. Photographer's Notes -- Name and camera are all you need, but you're welcome to add a story, location, photo tips, brief EXIF data.
7. No Commenting by others -- When the posting is closed, comments can be made in this thread.
Time
Posting Stops ... Monday noon GMT Oct 10th.
Winners Announcement ... before Tuesday Oct 11th, noon GMT.
Hosting
1. The Challenge Host is the winner of the last challenge.
2. Choose a topic and list any special rules -- but DO NOT POST a photo. 3. Post the topic in a thread with this title: “POTN G-Series Speed Challenge #XX -- [TOPIC]”
4. At the end of competition, choose a Winner and two Runners-up and explain why the photos were selected. Comments on other photos are nice but not required.
5. Post these in a thread titled “POTN G-Series Speed Challenge #XX -- [TOPIC] -- Winners.”
6. Winner starts with Rule #1 above.
7. If the winner can't be contacted and doesn't respond by Wednesday noon GMT, the second-place winner will host the challenge. Etcetera.
Past Winners List
#035 - Accidents - mp2k-net, Patridge9, KCJewel
#034 - Get Closer! - es839145, mp2k-net, Bryan Bedell
#033 - Typography - Zero, mp2k-net, BottomBracket
#032 - Point/Counterpoint - Bryan Bedell, BottomBracket, InJapan
#031 - Hobby - MegaTrixel, Zero, abat
#030 - History - Boutty, abat, teekay
#029 - Toys - In Japan, HungryWriter, Don Ellis
#028 - Taken Within 50cm of the Ground - BottomBracket, Marie, Megatrixel
#027 - Self Portrait - abat, rpolitsr, HungryWriter
#026 - Personal Treasures – Boutty, in Japan, HungryWriter
#025 - Wheels – Zero, Boutty, Teekay
#024 - Street Candids - rpolitsr, in Japan, txfirebug
#023 - Religion - marie, in japan , megatrixel
#022 - Animals - monkey_wrench, jesshen, fooboy
#021 - Night Shots - bang, KingSize, abat
#020 - Food - sara, abat, gewb
#019 - Shoes – Boutty, partridge9, morrisman
#018 - Blowing in the Wind - In Japan, Txfirebug, Gewb
#017 - Rain - marie, Boutty, Tonyq
#016 - Reflections - abat, Boutty, IainB
#015 - Spheres - digidog, (2) Boutty, (2) Thefly, (2) Bottombracket, (3) marie, (3) gkunning
#014 - Trees - partridge9, cyclone, Boutty
#013 - Body Language - digidog, Dchemist, Bottom Bracket
#012 - Light & Dark - IainB, cyclone, (3) teekay, (3) bottombracket
#011 - Transportation - 4nr, digidog, IainB
#010 - Making Music - Bottom Bracket, gkuenning, (3)Alexandre Gabriel, (3)pushtoexit
#009 - Hands - IainB, txfirebug, Dbump
#008 - Stop Action - Partridge9, Marie, Bottom Bracket,Thefly
#007 - Red - Pushtoexit, Marie, IainB, Megatrixel
#006 - Pencil - theFly, am_pitbull_terrier, bottombracket
#005 - An Egg - Don Ellis, Megatrixel/Samerj, Rich Lawrence
#004 - Old People - teekay, raj, thefly
#003 - Passage of Time - Booyah, Don Ellis, Rich Lawrence
#002 - Joy - TeeKay, Rich Lawrence, Pradeep1
#001 - Speed - BottomBracket, SmartImport, Rich Lawrence
OK, this challenge was ridiculous, so I'm not going to offer any helpful commentary or even try to justify my choices, I'm just going to ramble aimlessly, like usual.
(I'm going to be rude to everyone, don't take it personally!)
rpolitsr: "Vanishing Dog"
Off to a good start, if this had been taken with a tripod, it would be downright creepy. Was the dog's head behind that bush, or was he moving so fast you just can't see it? Apparently it's still the 1970s in Ecuador, and everything is painted Avocado, Mustard, and Rust. A truly awful photo, and for that, i thank you! (Also thank your son for the movie-rotating tips, i haven't tried them yet, I'll write back to him soon!)
KCJewel: "Rocket Launch"
We've all thrown away our fair share of all-black screens, but KC Jewel looked at that little 2" screen and saw a bit of haze and said "what the hey, i've got all kinds of room on this 8GB SmartMedia card, and a 10 terrabyte disk array at home, I'll have a look at it when i get back to my media lab." and lo and behold, he captured a ghostly manta ray, or a sideways skull, or something. something evil. something he should have deleted to save mankind, but now it's too late. Now we're stuck with this sinister photo and we all have to look at it. Was this a nighttime launch, I guess? And that's a cloud of smoke from the engine that was lit up by the flash? Because i'm having a hard time figuring out how this would look better without flash.
zacabog: "heh heh heh FIRE!"
A Beavis and Butthead quote just to make sure this contest has NO class. Nice. Yep, that's fire allright, we've all got a few fire photos, I'm sure, but usually of a campfire, or a fireplace, or an olympic torch, or some such. Most of us, I'd like to think, when coming across an unsupervised fire in a trash can, would put down the camera and try to put it out, but not zackabog! he realizes his duty as a photographer is to document it, then burn rubber and get out of there fast. Actually I rather like the barely-discernible foreground. Hats off to you, for bringing us this masterpiece, and next time use a tripod. : )
(Am I being too mean? You should see some of the crap I've committed to CF card. Please don't take this all personally, I'm just joking around.)
rayzorb "Over Exposed and out of Frame"
This is about the best photo I've ever seen. If Michael Lavine took this and it was Liz Phair or Sonic Youth instead of a flower girl, he would have been paid more for it than I make in a year. Even as it is, you could probably sell it to Corbis or Veer, I get whole viewbooks full of washed-out, arty big-head photos like this and those people make good money. Stop cluttering my challenge with merely overexposed photos, say you did it on purpose and call yourself an artist! This is beautiful, get it out of my sight and bring me another manta ray cloud... NOW!
mp2k-net "Midday Midnight"
Like rayzorb's, this one is downright beautiful, but it's maybe a little more clearly a botch-up. I'm confused about the setup, maybe you can explain it to me better? If you were using an IR filter, and took it off, wouldn't a 2-second exposure in broad daylight, even at the smallest aperture, pretty much go way OVERexposed rather than dark? The blueness makes sense, since you were balanced for infrared, I guess. In any case, it's a neat shot... did you have a star filter to get the reflections on the water? It looks like a backdrop from a disney movie or something, very pretty. You did a very nice job ruining this photo (and of course we want to see the IR version!)
nactos: (No title)
(note: not having a title is no big deal to me, but you should be careful, some people might disqualify you for that) I spent a while trying to figure this one out, and I was confused how the car in the foreground seemed to be exposed with the flash set on "first curtain" and the car in the background appeared to be exposed with the flash set on "second curtain" Then, looking a little longer, i realized the trails went from one car to the other and I realized it was the same car. So it was a longish exposure, with the car moving, frozen in motion in the start of the exposure, then spinning right and coming to rest long enough to form an impression with the existing light. Am I right? Neat! it's a pretty good exposure considering there's no PP, I woulda balanced the levels to get the wheel black and darken the background a bit. The sign's a bit distracting, and the composition's not great, but the effect is really interesting and even though we all have a thousand "blurred car lights" photos, this one's got something going for it and it would be fun to TRY to recreate it on purpose and see what you could come up with.
abat: "Thomas"
I know firsthand it's just about impossible to get a kid to stay still long enough to get a good photo, and i've done my share of sneaking up behind random kids on trains when they were lost in thought, and then... taken a bad photo, just like this, ha. It looks like the focus was pretty close, but the camera shook like crazy, If it was me, i'd be blaming it on the train. Interesting that a couple points (his collar, the post) are relatively in focus while others are long gone. The lighting IS perfect, and the color and composition are good. I hope you got a good one before he turned around.
partridge9: "Night Crossing"
I live around the corner from a crossing that looks a lot like this, and I've been stuck there long enough to pull out my camera a few times. I'm guessing you pulled the old "hold the camera up a little higher to clear the hood" trick and then forgot you had the camera pointed right at the mirror. EIther that or it's a self-portrait gone awry. Considering you can see the arc left by the light as the barricade came down, i'm guessing it was a second or two exposure, or else that gate came down really fast. The street and barricade are lit by a streetlight, right (I'd imagine the flash would have just lit up all the smudges on the windshield). This meets the criteria of the contest nicely... useless, not a thing in focus, but you just have to stare at it for a couple minutes to figure it out.
teekay: "Bison Booboo"
This is another good "what the !!**&$#@!! is going on?" photo. Since the foreground is so washed out (is that the foreground, even? heh) I can't see the bison's nose, it appears to be behind something, so maybe his head is resting on some sort of pipe or corrugated metal fence? or is his whole nose sticking in some kind of basin? The texture is nice, and in an abstract way, i like the sort of gradation from fur to white in the top left quarter of the photo. I'm guessing the white balance was set wrong, or the auto white balance meter just guessed wrong. Still, the unwavering buffaloness of it (horn, eye, wooly fur) is intact, so you get the point! You will, of course, have to post your PSP salvage job, I can't wait to see that! If someone is looking for a good challenge idea, how about "Before and after" where we can see the great salvage jobs of all time. : )
txfirebug: "Bear"
If firebug hadn't told me this was a dog, or titled it "bear," I would have assumed it was the other half of teekay's bison or the head of rpolitsr's dog. This is another photo that technically couldn't be any worse, motion blur, completely blasted-out whites, you can't even tell what the subject is, and if that's not enough, there's a huge lens flare in the bottom right corner! And yet, it's great, you're trapped looking at it trying to guess what it is. the angle (and I guess the fence) makes it look menacing and the dayglo yellows and greens (and that nice spot of orange) are nicely balanced by the brown organic blob in the middle.
Boutty: "Mission Impossible"
Boutty, NEVER blame yourself! Clearly you were using a tripod and the ground tilted 15° just as you took the photo. I have long fingers and I can barely get at that "*" button... I think the G6 is set up fairly well, but I've done that a few times, and i also have a really bad habit (only when under stress to work quickly) of using the on/off switch instead of the zoom/shutter switch (My old camera had the zoom and shutter right where the power switch is on the G6) I'll get used to it, someday. Anyway, lay off the lager and grow another arm, and your photography will improve greatly.
jpdw "Streaky-Green-Sludge"
Mmmmm... I can see the horse and... carriage... there... in the... OK, I don't see anything that could possibly be construed as a horse or carriage. Just say it's a photo of a waterfall. People on this list seem to love waterfall photos for some reason. it's funny, I have a similar photo that I took on purpose, the inside wall of the train i ride is brushed metal, and the reflection of the trees outside, while you're moving, look a lot like this (angled 45°). Anyway, pretty colors. Don't delete that, someday you'll need a background photo for something! (Yeah, I tell myself that all the time, it never happens).
sara "Babyteeth"
Many people say babies are 'cute,' but those people have never had their lens cracked by a 2-year-old's incisor. Babies are dangerous and should be avoided at all costs, especially if you have a slugmatic G6. I've been doing some testing, and babies and small children can move out of frame from any distance at f1/1250. I've had about 50/50 luck catching them still at f2000, sometimes if you sedate them with something, you can get them to stay still longer, I've found those banana-flavored mushy orange "circus peanuts" work pretty well, or pretty much anything with a photo of Elmo on it. In any case, you're lucky you and your G6 got away just in time.
zero: "Mrrrow… Photos are boring!"
like rayzorb, zero's outtakes are a lot better than my "good" photos. Is that one of those crazy bengal kittens? He's way cuter than my cats, even when he's trying to look mean. Not that he doesn't look tough. I bet he'd put up a good fight against sara's baby, or either of those brown furry things in rpolitsr and txfirebug's photos. If this was a contest for "most ferocious looking thing," you just might win, but it's a contest for bad photos, and this one, aside from being a bit blurry, is pretty good. Better luck next time. Or worse luck, i guess, whichever applies.
So let's see... Winners... Hmmm...
Third place: KC Jewel for capturing the supernatural.
Second place: partridge9 for... i don't know why, i just chose him at random.
And since I squandered his chance to host this week, with this sham of a challenge, and on top of that his photo was pretty darn neat, let's go with mp2k-net in first place. Congratulations, I think.
and the special award for "Model Citizen" award goes to zacabog!
Thanks everyone for once again putting up with me, Keep on taking those accidental photos!
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OK, nevermind the nevermind, we're back on! Es839145 and mp2k-net haven't responded yet, and it's several hours past the deadline, so you're stuck with me again.
Challenge #35 is a little crazy, but i hope it's fun.
If you're like me, you probably have several (or dozens of) photos that were total and complete accidents and completely go off the rails of the rules and goals of photography, and are utterly useless, yet you saved them, and there they are, taking up hard drive space, waiting for a reason to exist.
Well here it is!
I want to see your accidents! Not experiments, or embarrassing photos where the subject's nipple is showing or the still life caught on fire, I want to see technical accidents where the result was somehow so interesting that you couldn't erase it. Many things can go wrong when you take a picture, and often do. Maybe your finger covered half the flash, maybe your white balance was set wrong, maybe you had the camera set for 2-second timer and didn't realize it, maybe you have no idea why that snapshot of your friend in front of the eiffel tower showed up on the screen as a psychedelic nightmare or a disembodied ghost head floating in space...
We're on the honor system here, accidents only! Qualitative judging is nearly impossible this time, but it should be interesting to see what people come up with. I'll do my best. : )
To submit, click "Post Reply" and put your Photo Name (the title) in the Subject Line. Don't forget your Camera Model.
Post until Monday noon GMT, Monday October 10rd, 2005.
Hosted by: Bryan Bedell
_____________________________________________
Please consider turning on Private Messaging in your profile.
This will allow the host to contact you about winning or ineligible photos. You turn this feature on by clicking "User CP, Edit Options, Enable Private Messaging" (about a third of the way down the page). Thank you.
_____________________________________________
Photo Submissions
1. Camera -- photos must be taken with a Canon G-Series Camera (G1,G2,G3,G5,G6) or Pro 1.
2. Time -- any on-topic photo taken at any time is eligible, although photos that have won other competitions should NOT be entered.
3. Size -- photo must be EXACTLY 640 pixels on the longest side, with NO BORDERS. Odd-sized photos ineligible.
4. Post-Processing -- do whatever you like, crop closer, and I will decide if it works. Don't forget the above rules though. (this is the generic post processing rule, see post #5 for detail regarding this challenge)
5. Posting --
ONE PHOTO per photographer in each challenge.
Photo Name must in the message subject line.
Camera model.
6. Photographer's Notes -- Name and camera are all you need, but you're welcome to add a story, location, photo tips, brief EXIF data.
7. No Commenting by others -- When the posting is closed, comments can be made in this thread.
Time
Posting Stops ... Monday noon GMT Oct 10th.
Winners Announcement ... before Tuesday Oct 11th, noon GMT.
Hosting
1. The Challenge Host is the winner of the last challenge.
2. Choose a topic and list any special rules -- but DO NOT POST a photo. 3. Post the topic in a thread with this title: “POTN G-Series Speed Challenge #XX -- [TOPIC]”
4. At the end of competition, choose a Winner and two Runners-up and explain why the photos were selected. Comments on other photos are nice but not required.
5. Post these in a thread titled “POTN G-Series Speed Challenge #XX -- [TOPIC] -- Winners.”
6. Winner starts with Rule #1 above.
7. If the winner can't be contacted and doesn't respond by Wednesday noon GMT, the second-place winner will host the challenge. Etcetera.
Past Winners List
#035 - Accidents - mp2k-net, Patridge9, KCJewel
#034 - Get Closer! - es839145, mp2k-net, Bryan Bedell
#033 - Typography - Zero, mp2k-net, BottomBracket
#032 - Point/Counterpoint - Bryan Bedell, BottomBracket, InJapan
#031 - Hobby - MegaTrixel, Zero, abat
#030 - History - Boutty, abat, teekay
#029 - Toys - In Japan, HungryWriter, Don Ellis
#028 - Taken Within 50cm of the Ground - BottomBracket, Marie, Megatrixel
#027 - Self Portrait - abat, rpolitsr, HungryWriter
#026 - Personal Treasures – Boutty, in Japan, HungryWriter
#025 - Wheels – Zero, Boutty, Teekay
#024 - Street Candids - rpolitsr, in Japan, txfirebug
#023 - Religion - marie, in japan , megatrixel
#022 - Animals - monkey_wrench, jesshen, fooboy
#021 - Night Shots - bang, KingSize, abat
#020 - Food - sara, abat, gewb
#019 - Shoes – Boutty, partridge9, morrisman
#018 - Blowing in the Wind - In Japan, Txfirebug, Gewb
#017 - Rain - marie, Boutty, Tonyq
#016 - Reflections - abat, Boutty, IainB
#015 - Spheres - digidog, (2) Boutty, (2) Thefly, (2) Bottombracket, (3) marie, (3) gkunning
#014 - Trees - partridge9, cyclone, Boutty
#013 - Body Language - digidog, Dchemist, Bottom Bracket
#012 - Light & Dark - IainB, cyclone, (3) teekay, (3) bottombracket
#011 - Transportation - 4nr, digidog, IainB
#010 - Making Music - Bottom Bracket, gkuenning, (3)Alexandre Gabriel, (3)pushtoexit
#009 - Hands - IainB, txfirebug, Dbump
#008 - Stop Action - Partridge9, Marie, Bottom Bracket,Thefly
#007 - Red - Pushtoexit, Marie, IainB, Megatrixel
#006 - Pencil - theFly, am_pitbull_terrier, bottombracket
#005 - An Egg - Don Ellis, Megatrixel/Samerj, Rich Lawrence
#004 - Old People - teekay, raj, thefly
#003 - Passage of Time - Booyah, Don Ellis, Rich Lawrence
#002 - Joy - TeeKay, Rich Lawrence, Pradeep1
#001 - Speed - BottomBracket, SmartImport, Rich Lawrence