June Photo Contest Theme

[jak]

Attention Zgeek Photographers!

Time to start posting your nominations for the June theme.

Please post in this thread your ideas/nominations and I will create a poll of the nominations in a couple of days.

Suggestions so far:
- Things beginning with the letter....... "W"
- Ocean
- Mountains
- Islands
- Macro (close-up)
- Skyscape
- Cityscape
- Lights
- Motion
- Sport/Action
- People
- Interior
- Fire
- Reflection
- Symmetry
- Caustics
- Pornography
- Defiance

OK, post away. I will add to the list above as people post their ideas.

[btwong]

things beginning with the letter....... "W"

[HAL]

I just realised I have an SLR camera laying around and spare roll of film, this combined with having nothing to do due to a broken bone may see a new entrant in the event..... even though I have not a clue how to use the thing.


Ocean
Mountains
Islands
Action!

[pavilion]

hal - go take some more acid ( im prosuming your already on some degree of phsycadelic drug ) then go get freaky with that camera

[muga]

Macro (close-up)
Skyscape
Cityscape
Lights
Motion
Sport

[dozer]

people

[King_Crud]

interior

[Fenaughty]

Fire!

[Mr. Bungle]

macro

[Urban3300]

Mountains would be a great theme but you have to remember, not all live near mountains, or in a country that has mountains worth of photography. Of course if you accept older pictures taken in June I could enter the mountain competition, should it be the next theme.

[ttpuk]

macro
motion

or macro motion!

[HAL]

Hey jak, by Action I basically meant Sport. So you may want to get rid of Action in order to reduce the size of the list.

[jak]

done!

I removed the double entry of "macro" also. Errr, well spotted.

:)

[jak]

Ok, will be putting up a poll in the morning (perth time: +0800). So get any nominations in by then!

:)

[dozer]

reflection
symmetry

[Urban3300]

Caustics.
Pornography.

[m0loch]

defiance

[jak]

Nominations closed, poll up!

:cool:

[DOGG]

it would be good if we could choose multiple options

[jak]

why so?

(not meant to be or sound sarcastic).

[DOGG]

well, i would have chosen cityscape and fire. i reckon it's a lot more flexible if you give people multiple options. in the end the most popular ones would win anyhow.

[Elentari]

i definately think fire, coz it's just so pretty-like. and then when i get in trouble for burning things i can say, "but it's for a Zgeek's photo competition."

who can argue with that??? :p

[jak]

See your point. How does the multi choice work? I am guessing that you cant choose every option? Is there a limit (be good to limit to say 3 votes)? I assume you cannot vote more than once (ie once you have chose say 2 options and hit vote, you cant do so again)?

These are the reasons why I have avoided a multi choice poll for both theme and photo voting (better sus it out).

[DOGG]

[/QUOTE="DOGG"]you can't limit the number of choices in a multiple choice poll.[/QUOTE]

I could be wrong but i didn't see any option. Best create a test poll or ask pirate

[lostreality]

lights.

[jak]

you can't limit the number of choices in a multiple choice poll.

I could be wrong but i didn't see any option. Best create a test poll or ask pirate

I reckon we should try it for the next poll.

But will do a test in the meantime. When creating a poll, can only see options for number of entries; allowing votes to be made public; and mutliple votes or not.

cheers

Oh, and sorry lostreality, but once the poll is up, I cant add anymore nominations. :(

[Fenaughty]

I'm with dogg on the multiple selections, but then if you want cityscape and fire... set fire to a cityscape.

But seriously I do like Fire (as that was my suggestion) but I'd also choose reflection as I've been experimenting on a few subject matters along those lines recently.

So multiple selections in the subject poll is a good idea but leave it out for the actual comp.

VOTE 1 FIRE!

[HAL]

Vote 1 Ocean!!!

[jak]

I'm liking macro my self, easy (can shoot in the backyard) and lots of fun.

:)

But Ocean was my second choice.

[Mr. Bungle]

Photos that are entered must be shot in the same month as the contest right?

[jak]

Correct. Rules are same as last month ie. Rules (http://forums.zgeek.com/showthread.php?t=34262)

[sheol]

Voted people, it'd be nice to see some good portraiture that doesn't follow the usual "sit and face the camera". Something that tells the viewer what the person is all about.

[banga]

how about you pick a time that you can take a pic for the next day then walk out the next day at that time and take a pic of the first thing you think looks interesting

[Mr. Bungle]

This may be a stupid question, but is minor photoshopping allowed? I don't mean photo alteration but just level and brightness adjustments.

[dozer]

i believe so

[minorproblem]

The problem with macro is people with shit camera's can not enter.

[jak]

This may be a stupid question, but is minor photoshopping allowed? I don't mean photo alteration but just level and brightness adjustments.

Yes, that is fine. The link (rules) I posted to your earlier question has *all* the rules.

[Mr. Bungle]

just stab me. it's amazing that i can type but not read.

[asdfjkl]

Voted people, it'd be nice to see some good portraiture that doesn't follow the usual "sit and face the camera". Something that tells the viewer what the person is all about.

Great idea.

That is called environmental portraiture and can be excellent, i will certainly vote for that next month.

[jak]

just stab me. it's amazing that i can type but not read.

hehehe no worries :)

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Seems we have a draw between "Things starting with W" and "pornography". We could always combine them and have pron starting with W!

:)

Thoughts?

[muga]

Yea, pornography is a pretty silly subject.. perhaps we should just randomly pick a topic from all the ones selected

[jak]

If we discard porn, then we must choose the "W" option as it scored the most votes.

[asdfjkl]

yeah, discard pronography and keep everyone happy. Those wanting to take a picture of something begining with w can, and those into the porn can submit wang shots.

[dozer]

then ban urban for suggesting it

[Mr. Bungle]

i would like to take part in the contests, but porn is not the way for me to start this out.

[jak]

I included pornography as it was nominated. Simple as that. I prefer the comps to be what we all want, not what I want.

Having said, I think I will make "Things beginning with the letter....... "W" as the official theme for 2 reasons. 1. Woman starts with W, so if you really really want to shoot porn you stil can (just of the one sex unless you know a guy named Wayne or Will :) ). 2. One of the rules states "4. Stay with the theme and submit tasteful work.". Of course, porn can be tasteful, but probably not really in keeping with the idea of the contest.

So "Things beginning with the letter....... "W" it is.

:)