Please keep in mind the new restrictions for voting this month.
Free-for-All (http://www.thephotoforum.com/gallery/browseimages.php?s=&do=browseimages&catid=173&imageuser=0&searchid=&orderby=title&direction=ASC&cutoffdate=-1)
Also thanks again to Joby.com (http://www.joby.com) for sponsoring another great challenge.
You may notice that in the gallery some files appear larger then 150KB, but every photo included was less then 150KB when uploaded to the gallery.
Please keep in mind that we are trying to keep this challenge anonymous (and unbiased) when it comes to both the submitting and the voting. Please avoid sharing your opinions about any specific photos until after the voting has completed and the winner is announced.
Please read the titles carefully in order to avoid confusion before voting. The photos may not be sorted in the correct order so to ensure you view them in proper order scroll to the bottom of the page and where it says "Display Options" ensure you select Sorted By: "Image Name" Sort Order: "Ascending" and then click on the "Show Images" button.
After viewing the photos please take the opportunity to vote for your favorite. Good luck to all. If there are any questions please let us know.
The mods/admins of thephotoforum.com may decide the winner from the top five submitted photos. The winner of the photo challenge will be contacted by Private Message (PM) on the day that the winner is announced. If the winner does not respond to the PM within 30 days they will not receive their prize and it will be put towards a future challenge. If we are unable to ship the intended prize to the winner do to his/her location we will provide another prize of equal value.
The polls will be open for the next seven days.
I suppose some people will vote for their own picture, but that doesn't do much for me. Heck, I already know I liked mine. :lol: I don't view this as a contest with competition, but more a matter of being a compliment from others who have the same interests.
It isn't about winning, in my personal view, it's about someone else saying they liked what I did. That's more meaningful to me in the long run.
Free For All was nice way to ring in the new year. I'm working on next months assignment now.
you can read it HERE (http://www.thephotoforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=71309)
Sincerely,
macha :)
I'm calling for a recount. The photos had higher numbers one day and lower the next. And in case anyone is taking the above seriously, I'm kidding. I don't think anything would have changed the winning photo in the end.
Now I wonder, and I haven't looked, can I write to one of the people who didn't win and explain why I voted for their photo, because I liked it so much?
Somewhere up above I wrote something like this. Congratulations to everyone for taking the time to enter (and vote), there was a fine selection and variety of photos. I enjoyed seeing all the different things that people picked for their Free For All.
Exactly my thought. Still.. wonderful to be part of this. Great stuff.
Could be I voted shortly before the crash ... and by the crash and our loss of everything between Monday and Wednesday, my vote as well as several others simply got lost. Maybe in the end a lot more have actually voted. For 40 DOES sound a very, very, very low number ... and with Photo 30 now only having 1 vote, when it was 2 right after I had voted ... also the votes must have gone lost.
But congratulations Macha to your submission, yours was a "near miss" for me, I just preferred the thought of "Free Beer for All!" :D. You won - and on your birthday! - all the same. Congratulations again, also for your birthday!!!! :D
Sincerely,
macha :)
As mentioned before, machangezi's photo was definitely one of my favorites, but for soem reason I just knew it would win so I decided to give somebody else my vote. :mrgreen:
Pretty funny. After I looked at every picture and made notes, I looked again at the numbers I wrote down and finally got it down to eight. Then I looked again and ended up with two. I couldn't decide which one. But that means a whole list of them stood out, eight jumped out at me and I still had to pick only one. The other 55, just about any one of them could have been a contender, it's just personal taste.
Great Work everyone.
I'm impressed!
P.S: I might be wrong but really it was different yesterday.
You need to have at least 25 posts from now on to be able to vote.
That was mine...not infrared, but looks like it b/c of the ice....
It really does! It's a beautiful shot, that's for sure. :thumbup:
That would make sense. Why is that, tho?
Anyways, congratulations. I didn't vote for yours simply because I had a feeling it would win anyways. :-P :sexywink:
Or signing up a couple of times themselves like last month.. :sexywink:
@Thor the Mighty.. document size has nothing to do with actual image size. The size in kb is determined by the resolution, not by how big (in inches) your image is. When you work in Photoshop, after everything is done, go to 'save image for web', that way it's being compressed a lot more and you can retain the actual image size (in inches) even though you will only need (for example) 250kb.
Did this make sense? maybe someone else can explain it a little better. :D
there is a certain air of umm... fantasy that i feel when i look at the pic.
there is a certain air of umm... fantasy that i feel when i look at the pic.
Yes, it's indeed a real photo. I, actually, had to get three cameras lined up (Nikon F90X, Canon Powershot and Nikon D70) for this shot. The one you see is from D70. F90X's (SLR) result was far better than D70 but it, somehow, doesn't look good once scanned.
No colour enhansment's been done in PS. Only the bushes on the right side got a little touch of "clone stamp".
And I must say that only 40 votes is pretty lame and I feel a lot more long-standing forum members COULD go and vote, even those who don't hand in submissions. I mean we are so many here who come very, very regularly and I am sure I am communicating with more than only 40 people on a very regular basis. How come they don't spend that little amount of time that is necessary to look at the submissions and vote for one?
yeah, my vote was wiped out too, it was one of the 11 that chase referred to above. congrats to the winner and everyone else that submitted, it was NOT an easy decision! :thumbup:
Ah well. Theres a few really great images in there :)
Tough call.
Once again thanks very much. ;)
Congrats machangezi and nice job!
http://thephotoforum.com/gallery/files/96-07janphoto02.jpg
And I must say that only 40 votes is pretty lame and I feel a lot more long-standing forum members COULD go and vote, even those who don't hand in submissions. I mean we are so many here who come very, very regularly and I am sure I am communicating with more than only 40 people on a very regular basis. How come they don't spend that little amount of time that is necessary to look at the submissions and vote for one?
too many good works..=)
And I must say that only 40 votes is pretty lame and I feel a lot more long-standing forum members COULD go and vote, even those who don't hand in submissions. I mean we are so many here who come very, very regularly and I am sure I am communicating with more than only 40 people on a very regular basis. How come they don't spend that little amount of time that is necessary to look at the submissions and vote for one?
I think there were more than 40 votes but the crash wiped out some. I'm not complaining. The vote percentages were about the same, before and after, so it didn't change the outcome.
The winner stood out, but I didn't vote for it. Not because it wasn't the best or just because I knew it would win or anything, I just found that two other pictures appealed to me personally. Best is totally subjective and I guess I'm from Pluto. :sexywink:
I voted for number 7 because I liked the scene, and composition. (train guy? Night scene with lights? Perspective of the shot over the locomotive cab? I don't know what did it.) Ya, I'm the one... But I sat and looked and looked at 45 and 7 over and over, before I finally had to pick one of them.
The white barn in the snow with the subtle dashes of colors. I wasn't one that jumped off the screen at first, but the more I looked at it, I said to myself, that's something that could be hanging on a wall in just about any room of a home.
No, it wasn't me! In my TPF-career I only submitted one image to a contest so far, and that is a while ago ;)
Also, I am not into the lager type of beer ;) .. I am an Ale and Stout person. Lager is for whimps ;)
Now I have to go back and look closer. Maybe the person who submitted it can tell me more. Just figure I come from Wisconsin, it's been freezing cold and snowing here, so when I looked at it, I thought the trees were covered with frozen snow and ice. Just like at home. :mrgreen:
That's what it looks like around here right after a wet snow and ice storm.
I see your point!
;)
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