October 2010 photo contest-OPEN
 

ok gang let's get a photo contest going on the site!

Theme: OPEN - it can be any photo as long as it's r/c related!

contest ends October 31rst!

1 entry per person (for now)

some rules though:

1) The photo has to be yours!!!!
2) the photo has to be recent
3) no photo shopping the photos-no cropping etc
4)you must follow the theme!
5) no copyright or watermarks on the photos!

as far as judging goes,it will be in a round robin form,meaning the winner of October's contest gets to judge November's!,etc

let the contest begin!!!!.....

All looks good, but i think you should scrap points 3 and 5.
Point 3 as it is means no cropping, no sharpening, no anything ..pics straight from the camera! Not many people would do no photoshopping whatsoever.
Point 5 is a personal thing and shouldn't be a rule. Personally i don't use them, but some will... and some might not even post their awesome shot if they cant... and at the end of the day isn't that what it's all about .... good photos?

Here's my Trinidad Tobago TB-20
http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/188/tb20.jpg
I think static and any r/c type should be allowed too :)

My thought on the water mark is that it takes away from the photo itself!

here's my entry, but it may change if post processing is allowed #3.
[IMG]http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk82/gene1219/maple%20acres/_DSC0093.jpg[IMG]
Photo removed since #3 is now allowed

I wanna use this photo as the a example.if you wanna clean up the image thats ok but basically you see where the guys legs are in the upper corner...if that was the r/c, that would be a little tooo extreme to crop from that distance in the photo

Here is my photo, but hoping that you dropp rule 3 and 5
http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h7...nNC2010052.jpg

I agree man, the image quality would really suffer if you went to crop down to such a small piece of the original.... but i guess that comes down to the pixels count of the camera a bit too. If the image quality wasn't great as a result i would assume that would reflect in the judging.... so it all evens out.
I guess what i mean of photoshopping to enhance what is already there using basic tools that get applied evenly over the whole frame like hue/saturation, brightness/contrast, levels, sharpening and a few others and cropping.
Rule 3 kinda cuts all that out...although it would be hard to tell anyway.
I also agree with your point on rule 5 how some people make large signature marks or splash watermarks right across the pic..... it don't look so good. If i ever do a sig i like to keep it so small and blended that you would hardly ever pic it .... like a small sticker on a car somewhere.
Perhaps rule 5 could be something like this.
Rule 5: It's preferred you dont include a signature or watermark on your pic, but if you MUST please keep it to a minimum.

Anyway i hope i don't sound like a winging nancy boy~ and sorry for clogging the new thread.

I will also add another pic here later in it's place!

since #3 is okay, here's my photo that I would like to submit.
http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/k...es/rctech1.jpg

This month's theme is OPEN so anything goes...

I wonder if you posted the same thread in a couple of the other forum categories, like one in electric on-road, electric offroad, nitro ect, the ones that get a lot of members visiting said section. I bet a mod can make it a sticky in each section. Having a thread go on for a month straight with a bunch of entries should drive a lot of people to view the thread, which in turn, adds more instances of sponsor's banners being seen.

Rule #3 should be dropped as there is a certain style of editing that I like doing- to make the picture so it's uniquely my style and can be recognized a picture by me.

#5 there's some obvious watermarks that should be avoided, like spanning across the image, but some may not want to add an image if they can sign it

North East Super Series, Rd 4 Barn Stormers RC @ Chester, NY

http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h2...0/IMG_2846.jpg

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OCT. THEME
 

Ok...what is this months theme?!?

Action, Still, Off-road, On-road, Ect.:confused:

here you go: