Posted my first ever entry into the photo contest, little nervous to see how it will stack up.

Good luck everybody!

 

Posted my first one too. Got the message "You are not authorized to view this gallery".. Is that my "confirmation" that my picture loaded?

 

Your photo shows as logged into the contest gallery.

We keep the contest gallery blocked from viewing so no one "peeks" and gets overly inspired before the contest submittal deadline.

 

Since this month's topic is "landscape", I personally would like to see more pixels in everyone's entries rather than having them resized from the original submitted photo. I would suspect that the resize of contest entries is done in the interest of saving bandwidth which I can understand (how much are my NAM membership dues? ). Is there a target file size that the moderators would like to have (i.e. "50kb or less in file size") that we could stick to, yet still have the full 800 x 600 pixels to work with?

Just wondering if this is a possibility.
Cheers!

 

800x600 is fine. I'll do my best to post those and not the resized ones.

NOTE: the resized image will be used if your submittal exceeds 800x600.

 

All right, thanks Dave! Please let us know if you need something smaller than the generous 200KB file size too.
Cheers!

 

Can 1 person submit more than 1 entry?

 

That's rule #1
For the rest of the contest rules, check the link in the first post.

 

sorry, I know I read that, must work on reading comprehension skills... :impatient

 

Yay. I got a submition in in time this month.

 

This is a reject. *snicker*

 

89AKURT - a good reject! I like that shot!

 

Thanks. I'm entering the "good" photo from the same spot (unless the vertical format won't work).
Why am I showing my hand, fool?

 

I entered a photo, but I didn't get a reply email, is it entered?

 

You're in.

 

FYI: I just pulled the June Poll. I need to make some edits to it. There are some photos included in it that are clearly quite old and not within the contest rules of being new photos. The contest is here to encourage new photos being taken, not to be an opportunity to go through a catalog of past work to see what fits.

The poll will be returned shortly and the poll options reset.

Dave

 

Thank you Dave.

 

The updated June Photo Contest Poll has now been posted.

 

You pulled my photo because it was 'quite old' -? that's crap in my opinion -! It's a great photo that hasn't been submitted here before and was very fresh.
It was taken only weeks before June. I don't have some big portfolio of "past work" to pull from! I was under the *mistaken* impression this was supposed to be fun and encourage amateur photography.

I'm not a professional photographer, I don't have a lot of spare time to go out and take photos, but when I do there are usually some great ones. Not good enough for your contest? Fine.

I'm very disappointed in this board, and this "contest".
You certainly have not encouraged me.

 

Sorry, BartMack, but I think Dave did the right thing. This contest is to encourage people to GO OUT AND SHOOT. "Weeks before June" means you culled something from your archive, and that you didn't actually get out and take a new picture with the theme in mind. The parameters of the contest are pretty well defined, and if you don't agree with it, then there are lots of other places you can go to get your work seen. Very few of us here are "pros" (and I'm gonna go out on a limb here and guess that "pros" are neither likely to enter nor particularly welcome in this group of amateurs). The contest works like this: Dave announces a topic, and we've got roughly 3 weeks to go out, take pictures, and submit them for inclusion. That's laid out in the rules, and you didn't follow them, therefore you're exempt from the contest.

 

BartMark: Your photo was taken on May 5th which was a month before the contest topic was announced. As we have said since the beginning of the contest, we hold the contest to encourage new photos to be taken, not so that people can go through their photo archive and find a photo that best fits the topic (whether it was taken last month, last year, or three years ago).

Dave

 

Hey, hey!
I'm sure you're proud of your skills BM, but I'm even more sure you'd like to sharpen them even more.
What's cool about these monthly challenges is how we're given a task to complete.
Some of us will choose to participate, depending on our interests. Oftentimes, we might choose to sit back and enjoy the scenery.

Whatever the case, we have a choice whether to accept the challenge, or decide if it's not our cup of tea.

My thinking is that when a challenge is presented, someone will always rise to the occasion.

-Juan

 

I agree with Mack that one month is no reason to pull some great photo's. I got to take some of my best photo's at MOTD and it got pulled.... Maybe i should just drive back up 12hrs just to get a shot within this month....

But somehow this picture gets through?????



Seems like what i spoke to you about in PM's actually does ring true......

Sorry but within the past 6 months would seem like a reasonable time to be able to submit a photo. If i truly wanted i could have changed the data on my picture to show it was taken the day before i submitted and none the wiser......

 

Mine was pulled also. It was assumed the picture was taken in 2003 because the time & date was not set on the camera I used. The MINI in my picture is my 2005 Cabrio But when I was honest enough to say I took the picture in May, I was told it wasn't new enough & to set the date/time on my camera the next time like I was some kind of dummy.

Lois

 

I went through every photo in the contest and checked exif. Any photo that had a date before the contest was announced was removed. There were a couple photos that had the exif stripped off. Lacking exif, the photo was included if it appeared reasonable that it may have been taken during the contest period.

Was that system infallable? No.

Was it sustantially more fair than doing nothing to those that waited for the contest topic to be announced, then went out and shot something with that as the objective, and then entered it for the contest? Yes.

In future contests we will stipulate that in order for photos to be included into the contest they must have exif data intact.

Again, the point of the contest isn't to have people going through their catalog of photos. The contest is held as a way to get people out to shoot something new with the contest topic in mind. A photo from 6 months before the contest topic was announced was not taken with the contest topic in mind.