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 Crossfire
    
Location: Kay-Dub
Gender: Male
Don't call it a comeback, I've been here for years.
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< on 8/23/2003 10:52 PM >
|  | | | http://www.infiltration.org/contest/
We bring you the First Bi-Monthly UE Photography Contest, or BiMonPhotoCon (or "Illumination").
Check out the above website for details! Email your submissions (they must meet the regulations) to contestATinfiltrationDOTorg by September 30th, whereupon voting will begin!
You can submit as often as you like. Your photos will be submitted to rigorous testing by Krazy, and then posted to the Contest website's gallery. At the end of September, the voting page will be opened and the voting will begin.
Come one, come all.
Most importantly, have fun!
TMC.
Disgruntled. |
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Avatar-X
  
Alpha Husky
Location: West Coast
Gender: Male
yay!
| | | Re: Photo Contest OPEN
<Reply # 1 on 8/23/2003 11:12 PM >
| | | | 640 by 480? That isn't even enough to be able to tell anything. I vote for at least 1024x768!
And had you guys asked me about this, I could have whipped up a webpage allowing automated submission and voting...
-av
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Crossfire
Location: Kay-Dub
Gender: Male
Don't call it a comeback, I've been here for years.
| | | | | Re: Photo Contest OPEN
<Reply # 2 on 8/24/2003 4:41 AM >
| | | | Posted by Avatar-X
And had you guys asked me about this, I could have whipped up a webpage allowing automated submission and voting...
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There was quite an extensive thread about it... where were you? Anyways, the voting system hasn't been done yet, so you can always pitch in there and help out.
TMC.
Disgruntled. |
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uem-Mokonax
Location: Montréal, Canada
| | | Re: Photo Contest OPEN
<Reply # 3 on 8/24/2003 3:31 PM >
| | | | Don't listen to Av, he's just trying to monopolize the presence of UE online. 
You should stick with 640x480 for at least this "round". If enough people want a different resolution, I'm sure you'll hear about it.
"Dark blue is the geek's black." - Tux, OPE 95
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CMH
Gender: Male
| | Re: Photo Contest OPEN
<Reply # 4 on 8/24/2003 4:03 PM >
| | | | Can we have a contest for the worst photo?
"It's funnier that way." |
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Avatar-X
Alpha Husky
Location: West Coast
Gender: Male
yay!
| | | Re: Photo Contest OPEN
<Reply # 5 on 8/24/2003 6:07 PM >
| | | | monopolize? no i'm not... i'm just trying to make things better for everyone.
anyway, 640 by 480 is so damned small you wont even be able to tell what's in the picture. 1024 dammit!
huskies - such fluff. |
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Caput_58
Location: Virginia, USA
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Photo Contest OPEN
<Reply # 6 on 8/24/2003 6:19 PM >
| | | | I think I suggested something about 1024x768 in the original thread, but I guess if I'm one of the few photographers with strong feelings about resolution, we'll just go with 640x480. But realize that even a 4x6 photograph has more detail in it than that.. 640x480 is more or less the equivilent of a wallet sized shot. Even 1MP digicams can do 1024x764.
Caput_58
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kowalski
| | Re: Photo Contest OPEN
<Reply # 7 on 8/24/2003 6:53 PM >
| | | | Sorry for not chiming in earlier, but I also think 640x480 is way too small.
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uem-Tux
Iron Wok Jan
Location: Montreal
Gender: Male
UE Geek
| | | | Re: Photo Contest OPEN
<Reply # 8 on 8/24/2003 7:26 PM >
| | | | Hm, I think making the res slightly higher might be a good idea too. Keep in mind though that some people have low-res cameras, but are still excellent photographers in terms of composition and originality.
In a contest like this, having expensive equipment can tip the scales in your favour, so maybe an upper limit on res is a good idea. 640x480 doesn't sound unreasonable to me.
[last edit 8/24/2003 2:36 PM by uem-Tux - edited 1 times]
Urban Exploration Montreal
Why are you the way that you are? |
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kowalski
| | Re: Photo Contest OPEN
<Reply # 9 on 8/24/2003 8:11 PM >
| | | | As Caput notes, even 1 megapixel cams can shoot at 1024x764. But to assuage the low-end user and keep the bandwidth draw down, we could always take a middle ground of 800x600. I think that size would still be acceptable to most of us.
640x480 just washes so much of the detail out of the picture.
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Kimmo
Noble Donor
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<Reply # 10 on 8/24/2003 8:21 PM >
| | | | I have taken most of my pictures with 640x480, because I only had a memory stick, that had 16MB. You can't store too many pictures in that, which are 1024x764.
I'm probably not the only one?
Now I have memory stick with 256MB, but I haven't photographed with that so much yet, so if we go with higher resolution, my choises are limited.
Perhaps including both resolutions as an option to submit photos?
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Avatar-X
Alpha Husky
Location: West Coast
Gender: Male
yay!
| | | Re: Photo Contest OPEN
<Reply # 11 on 8/24/2003 8:56 PM >
| | | | How about you just submit the highest resolution you have. Then, the judges can resize them to 1024 if larger.
I hate tiny photos... for example on ninj's site the pictures are like 150x150, they're like thumbnails, you can't make anything out in them. Ninj! Use bigger pics!
huskies - such fluff. |
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SPEK Photo
Location: Where you were not.
"Chere cachère!"
| | | Re: Photo Contest OPEN
<Reply # 12 on 8/24/2003 10:02 PM >
| | | | Posted by Avatar-X
How about you just submit the highest resolution you have. Then, the judges can resize them to 1024 if larger.
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I can scan pics for at least 2048 x 1036, that would only overload the contest. A 1024 is just good enough. If your scanner, memory sticks, camera is not good or big enough then too bad.
Pour fins d'archives.
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MacGyver
Location: St Paul, Minnesota
Gender: Male
"Someone go find me a paperclip, a D-cell battery, and a cheese grater"
| | Re: Photo Contest OPEN
<Reply # 13 on 8/24/2003 10:32 PM >
| | | | 640 was intended as sort of a low end cut off. I was hoping most people would submit at higher resolutions, but I didn't want to exclude anyone because their picture was too small.
Submit whatever size you can, and I think I'll be resizing them all to 800x600 or 1024x768 for the browsing gallery. The winners will probably be offered in background-like dimensions when the winners are announced. I think I ran this idea past TMC, but the page hasn't been changed yet.
Submit what you've got, and I'll work with it from there to make everything pretty.
Like a fiend with his dope / a drunkard his wine / a man will have lust for the lure of the mine
"If you are not part of the solution, you are not dissolved in the solvent." |
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Jester
Location: Vancouver,B.C. Canada
Gender: Male
Always just out of sight...
| | | Re: Photo Contest OPEN
<Reply # 14 on 8/24/2003 11:20 PM >
| | | | Posted by SPEK
I can scan pics for at least 2048 x 1036, that would only overload the contest. A 1024 is just good enough. If your scanner, memory sticks, camera is not good or big enough then too bad.
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That would be a pretty shitty way to run a contest. It's not who can make the biggest fucking picture is it ? Some people only have cams that will take 640x480 but they may have totally amazing pictures...
of course changing all pics submitted to 1024 will screw the quality of the 640 ones a bit...
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. |
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Dirtbag
Location: Big D
| | | Re: Photo Contest OPEN
<Reply # 15 on 8/24/2003 11:38 PM >
| | | | If i've said it once i've said it a million times, FILM FILM FILM!
May the floor be solid and the door be open. |
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Avatar-X
Alpha Husky
Location: West Coast
Gender: Male
yay!
| | | Re: Photo Contest OPEN
<Reply # 16 on 8/25/2003 1:46 AM >
| | | | Film is fine... you still need to scan your final image though.
huskies - such fluff. |
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Caput_58
Location: Virginia, USA
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Photo Contest OPEN
<Reply # 17 on 8/25/2003 5:32 AM >
| | | | I'm gonna avoid my usual snobby elitist tendencies for a moment and make an argument for a MAX picture size. If everyone who could decided to submit 2048x1036 .jpg's (.tif's anyone?), it would put a major load on those viewer's using modems. Assume 30 contestants x 3 submissions x avg file size, and realize that if you expect the judges to be fair and view every submission before judging, you have to put an upper limit on filesize.
To resume my snobby elitist ways, with regards to those shooting in 640x400, memory is uber cheap these days, so please stop treating your 1-3MP camera like the VGA camera pen's they sell at walmart.
Caput_58
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Jester
Location: Vancouver,B.C. Canada
Gender: Male
Always just out of sight...
| | | Re: Photo Contest OPEN
<Reply # 18 on 8/25/2003 5:45 AM >
| | | | Well, up until not long ago, all we had was a shitty camera that did 640x480 max... so what the hell was I supposed to do ? I didn't have money for a new camera at the time. Other people are in the same boat, but they could still have some great things to photograph and will want to enter in the contest...
People have said often it's not the camera but the photographer, well, if that's the case, then even if everyone was at 640x480 that should hold true. A bigger picture does make you a better photographer...
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. |
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Avatar-X
Alpha Husky
Location: West Coast
Gender: Male
yay!
| | | Re: Photo Contest OPEN
<Reply # 19 on 8/25/2003 5:56 AM >
| | | | maybe not, but it does make your work look better. let me ask you this: which image would you pick?
This one:
or this one?
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