tidyboy21

The theme is Black & White Landscapes. Something with good foreground interest, maybe something that leads you into the picture (lead-in-lines), etc. Google the rule of thirds, something I take into account when taking landscapes, well, sometimes. Good luck everyone!

Rules:
Playing this tournament is simple:

A tournament involves 10 different members max.
The winner of the last tournament will give a theme, and those who want to participate will post their pictures (Only one per person). Please, No more than ten participants total.

When all participants have entered their picture in the tournament (please submit a link along with your picture), I will then create another thread to vote on the pictures via a poll.

New Rules:
- No spot saving; you will only be counted if you have a picture submitted.
- Only one picture may be posted at a time, if you decide to change it, please edit the original post.
- No posting an image that has previously won a competition.

So in brief:
- Users who wish to participate please post your image within this thread followed by a link to the image source.
- After ten participants have entered the tournament, a second thread will be made with a poll to vote on the pictures.
- If entering a slightly computer manipulated photo, please post the original along with it so users who are voting can see the difference.

Winners will simply be the one who gets the most votes. He/she will then create another thread in which they propose a different theme for the next tournament.

Please resize your pictures to no larger than 1024x768
This tournament will have 5 days of voting.

You are permitted to change your image but if you could just change the URL in your original post and leave an edited comment with it.

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My entry:

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tidyboy21

Do not enter on this thread, for some reason it posted twice, sorry
Could an admin please remove this one, thanks.


Edit: I have just noticed that someone has removed the other thread and not this one, so please post your entries here. Sorry about this.

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Irishwhistle

I don't see another thread... could you link to it please? Thanks!

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tidyboy21

There is no other thread, it has been removed as I stated in my last post. So post your entries here

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Irishwhistle

Well then, if you accept panoramas (and if you don't consider desaturation in Gimp to be editing) I'd like to enter this: (resize it if you must, but I figured that the area is no bigger than 1024x768)


Link: http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/7...anoramagi1.jpg

If you won't accept it tell me and I'll post a different COMPLETELY unedited one.

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TFT

Is a change to black & white from colour considered a slight edit or too much

EDIT: come to think of it, it is a bit big of an edit

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Is your water edited tidyboy?

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I would imagine Tidyboy's answer will be "long exposure"

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tidyboy21

Got it in one! It was quite a bright afternoon so I used 2 ND filters to get a 1.3 second exposure, an ND grad filter (to darken the sky) and a Circular Polarizer, aperture of f18, converted from colour to B & W and a slight levels change in PS. I don't consider converting from colour to B & W a big edit at all. If you use the B & W setting on your camera you will not achieve "real" black and white tones, so it's always better to take in colour then convert.

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