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    Posted: July/10/2018 at 08:18
Anything Summer related. Lake trips, vacations, fireworks, sunsets, sunrises, swimming at the city pool, ect...

Originally posted by Skylar McMahon Skylar McMahon wrote:

1. We will post one thread for each month, located in >>> HOT SHOTS <<<  Photography Section, for Photo Submissions.

The person who selects each month's subject theme, per Rule #6 & 8, will start a new thread identifying that  month's theme topic.

2. Entries are restricted to ONE per participant.

(If you post more than one on the thread you are automatically disqualified for that month's competition, although we do highly encourage you to create new threads with any additional photos not related to the Monthly Photo Contests that you wish to share with the OT.) 
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Changing entries: PM an RifleDude or SkyMac if you would like to change your posted entry so that is removed from the voted poll thread at the end of the month. 

3. Pictures must be submitted by midnight 
of the last day of the month.

 

4. Photo you choose to enter must be taken within the month the topic is announced for a given contest.


5. Photo submitted must be taken by you.


6. By the 5th day of the following month a winner will be chosen by a poll thread created with all of the entries from the previous month's contest for everyone to vote on. Poll threads are for voting on the monthly photo contest entries only; do not post anything in those threads.

 

7. Voting criteria should be equally weighted toward the photo’s technical excellence, composition, artistic merit, creativity, adherence to the Photo Contest Rules, and relevance to the monthly subject theme. An important part of the monthly contest is challenging participants to select subjects that fit the monthly theme. (***i.e. you may really like that B-17 bomber photo, but if the monthly theme is “rivers,” it shouldn’t be considered a winning entry.)

8. The person whose picture is chosen will then select a topic for the following month's assignment per rule #1. 

9. Critiques on ways to use lighting, camera settings, composition and other factors to improve photo quality are accepted and encouraged.

(Hopefully participants will be open to constructive criticism and suggestions.)

10. 
Post-processing photos to adjust white balance, color saturation, contrast, crop, sharpening, etc is allowed...as long as the original subject has not been altered by added elements from other photos to create a composite photo. Distracting elements may be removed from a photo to improve the composition, but nothing shall be inserted into the photo in post-processing that wasn't present in the scene when the photo was taken.

10. (addendum )

Originally posted by RifleDude RifleDude wrote:


Allowed: Pretty much any in-camera or post-processing technique for artistic effect that enhances a real photo taken by the person submitting the photo within the time constraints and remaining contest rules. This includes things like:
- exposure stacking or tone mapping for HDR
- focus stacking
- removing pimples from a persons face or softening skin tone
- correcting distortion, un-level horizon, etc. 
- cropping a photo to remove something distracting like a trash can, power pole, etc or to zoom in on the subject, or improve composition 
- using filters, either on-camera or in post processing
- changing color photo to black and white
- using longer shutter speed to blur motion
- selectively lightening/darkening a certain portion of an image for artistic effect
- removing chromatic aberrations, lens flare spots, sensor dust spots, digital noise, sharpening, etc.
- adding vignetting effects to an image border to draw more attention to the subject.
As long as you aren't adding a subject element or objects that were not part of the original photo file when the photo was taken, you're fine. In each case above, you are changing the way a real scene is viewed, not creating a fictional scene that never existed.

Examples of things not allowed: 
- Adding a Great White shark breaching out of the waves to a photo you took of a person surfing.
- Re-positioning any object in a photo you took because you didn't like where it was positioned in the scene when you took the photo. If you don't like where elements of a scene are positioned, take the photo from a different vantage point.
- Adding the sky from one photo to the landscape of another photo because you preferred the way the clouds looked in the former.
- cloning any object in a photo and scattering throughout the scene to make it appear there were more of the objects than were actually there when the photo was taken.
- Any "photo" that is the result of taking multiple photos of different subjects shot at different times and different locations and combining elements of each into a single composite photo.


11. Lobbying or cheerleading for one's own photo is not necessary.




Edited by Skylar McMahon - August/30/2018 at 09:31
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Lake Michigan Doug? Nice pic. My wife was up to Lake Charleviox ( East Jordan ) area for a week while I was at ICAST.
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Skylar, can you send out a reminder update the last day of each contest?? I keep forgetting and miss it by a day. Embarrassed
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Originally posted by mike650 mike650 wrote:

Skylar, can you send out a reminder update the last day of each contest?? I keep forgetting and miss it by a day. Embarrassed

You still have 2 days left, Mike.
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Originally posted by RifleDude RifleDude wrote:

Originally posted by mike650 mike650 wrote:

Skylar, can you send out a reminder update the last day of each contest?? I keep forgetting and miss it by a day. Embarrassed

You still have 2 days left, Mike.













That's great, I still have a day and a half to grab my camera and find a 4th of July picnic.
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Fourth of July engagement photos in Dallas. 

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Last day for entries, Mike650 this means you, LOL
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Wait what???

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Still have some time but I'm gonna forget again so here you go.  Big smile


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Poll is live. Voting will conclude on the 5th. 
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I could've sworn Semo Shooter submitted one too. I guess maybe he deleted it?
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Originally posted by RifleDude RifleDude wrote:

I could've sworn Semo Shooter submitted one too. I guess maybe he deleted it?

IDK, I went off of the entries I saw this morning after getting to SWFA. 
If he did and wants it entered and will PM it to me, I'll add it to the poll. 

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Originally posted by mike650 mike650 wrote:

Still have some time but I'm gonna forget again so here you go.  Big smile


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Dang brother, that's an awesome photo!
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Originally posted by RifleDude RifleDude wrote:

I could've sworn Semo Shooter submitted one too. I guess maybe he deleted it?


He did, I think it was a couple of sail borders on the water diring the daylight hours. I forgot where he mentioned. Next time I checked it was gone.
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Originally posted by Skylar McMahon Skylar McMahon wrote:

Dang brother, that's an awesome photo


Thanks man, lucky shot.
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Mike, you need to be participating in the contests as often as possible, given you bought a nice camera and lenses a couple years ago.

NO EXCUSES! 
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