Automotive Photography Competition #178

[zeppelin]

Congratulations to Fumacher for winning competition #177!

• The deadline is Saturday 11:59PM
• The photograph can contain only automotive images (with no adulterous material)
• The proposed picture must be your own and not found on the net.
• The photograph must be attached using the UCP system. Any picture not attached using the UCP system will not be in the voting thread.
• Your image may be up to 800 pixels wide or tall.
• Photograph may contain post-processing editing
• It is preferred that you state enhancements made, but not necessary.
• The photograph must be taken no earlier than 3 months before start date
• Each photographer cannot vote for himself, they must vote for the others.
• Any users who enter and vote for themselves automatically receive a 2 week penalty from the competition and all votes previously given to his/her photo are removed.
• The entry must contain the following information in the same order :

User name
Subject matter/photo title
Date taken
Camera Type | additional information you feel important

pat_ernzen: 8
-
Manik: 5
-
John Thawley: 4
-
Fumacher: 3
-
johnnynumfiv: 2 / <AAA-MOD>: 2 / basman007: 2 / Wouter Melissen: 2
-
zeppelin: 1 / João Guimarães: 1 / Piacki_117: 1 / henk4: 1 / Rijoh: 1 / robcooper: 1
---
January: johnnynumfiv / February: pat_ernzen / March: pat_ernzen / April: pat_ernzen / May: pat_ernzen

[fisetdavid26]

http://vote doesn't lead to anywhere

EDIT: I took the liberty to fix your links, the one in the General Comp also linked to vote.

[basman007]

basman007
C36 AMG
16/08
The Netherlands
350D

[henk4]

Henk4
Lola T212s
Turn 11,Laguna Seca, 16-08-2008
Canon 40D, Canon 28-300L,
190mm,F5.6,1/900, ISO 100

Edit. The original entry was replaced by a resized version using Photoshop, (not by me though....)

[Gt1Street]

henk, you should really consider keeping you're photos in a higher quality or atlist when posting in the competitions posting in a higher quality, It really ruins the pictures which im sure look better then the versions you post here

[henk4]

henk, you should really consider keeping you're photos in a higher quality or atlist when posting in the competitions posting in a higher quality, It really ruins the pictures which im sure look better then the versions you post here

I am bound by the 800-600 limit. What would you advise for resizing?

[Gt1Street]

I am bound by the 800-600 limit. What would you advise for resizing?

well that's a given, but I dont remember when was the last time that I resized one of my pictures to 800*600 and ended up with picture size of less then 70Kb. what program are you using ?

[henk4]

well that's a given, but I dont remember when was the last time that I resized one of my pictures to 800*600 and ended up with picture size of less then 70Kb. what program are you using ?

a freely available one, either Irfanview (this time) or Microsoft Office Picture Manager.(comes with XP)

Edit: "somebody" resized the pic, using photoshop.

[faksta]

<<changed entry>>

[Gt1Street]

a freely available one, either Irfanview (this time) or Microsoft Office Picture Manager.(comes with XP)

Edit: "somebody" resized the pic, using photoshop.

well, I'm not femiliar with irfanview but i know that the XP default program uses the lowest quality settings and it cannot be changed. If you are using photoshop to resize then you should opt for Quality - 10 or higher and keep the DPI above 72...

[basman007]

I use ifranview to edit large batches and, when set on the highest quality level, I think it works good.
For single pics to add my name I use Pshop.

[faksta]

Photoshop is very slow, at least on my [not so new] computer... But it is a great program anyway.
BTW, for resizing your pics you may use Paint - I sometimes do The problem is that you won't know what size you will finally get - you are proposed to change the size in percent rates.

[basman007]

Photoshop is very slow, at least on my [not so new] computer... But it is a great program anyway.
BTW, for resizing your pics you may use Paint - I sometimes do The problem is that you won't know what size you will finally get - you are proposed to change the size in percent rates.

paint reduces the quality of the photo... Just take a photo, don't change anything and save it with paint. It will go from 1mb to something like 100kb

[faksta]

Yes, that's sad true..

[henk4]

paint reduces the quality of the photo... Just take a photo, don't change anything and save it with paint. It will go from 1mb to something like 100kb

I only use paint for labeling.