Photo comp Sep-Oct voting

[Albino-Jay]

Awesome turnout this time.

Will run the poll for 4 days.


Get your votes in.

1
http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j195/sheepello/comp%20oct/Entry1.jpg
2
http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j195/sheepello/comp%20oct/Overslept.jpg
3
http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j195/sheepello/comp%20oct/Picture441.jpg
4
http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j195/sheepello/comp%20oct/Pussy.jpg
5
http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j195/sheepello/comp%20oct/S5006978.jpg
6
http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j195/sheepello/comp%20oct/bttos-comp-entry.jpg
7
http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j195/sheepello/comp%20oct/froggg2.jpg
8
http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j195/sheepello/comp%20oct/octbttosentry.jpg
9
http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j195/sheepello/comp%20oct/pic1.jpg
10
http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j195/sheepello/comp%20oct/picture099.jpg
11
http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j195/sheepello/comp%20oct/sebr.jpg

[ben306]

Has to be number 10 for me, no doubt about it

[Mike H]

Great entry list, some brilliant pics too :)

[Matt]

Number 4 gets my vote.

[Liss]

was beetween 7 or 10

chose 7 in the end

i didnt even look at the spiders because thats just mean!!!

[Tony]

Number 10. That photo would look at home in National Geographic magazine. Pretty amazing IMO.

[Mad-Dan]

yeh, number 10....

is this like the voting they used to have on cruise-cad for the best picture...

looked what happend to that site :O

[J0N]

Number 10 8)



is this like the voting they used to have on cruise-cad for the best picture...

I miss the old photoshop comps :oops:

[sxj]

photoshop comps were poo i usually won :lol: n got moved up to admin lol

[Mike H]

Cheers Jay for sorting all this out dude. :D

[Hugh Jeers]

Some very good ones this time round :)

[Captain Meowmix]

Here's my humble, unqualified opinion...

No1's subject is fantastic and in focus. All that lets the picture down is the background! Still good though

No2 is good, well thought out

No3 is a great idea, its just a shame about the tree behind the duck's head. In fairness it's hard to capture a moving subject so can't really nitpick on that :)

No4 is REALLY nice, my 2nd favourite overall. Great subject in a great position, makes me smile.

The spider photos are good, the detail on the 2nd is amazing. It would look great in a biology book but it's not appealing to me as a photo!

No7 is a nice frog, but somehow the focus isn't quite right. Would make a good subject though

No8 made me LOL hard, so I'm giving it 3rd place overall. Great smile factor.

No9 is a cute dog, but the picture seems a bit bleached? Background could be better.

No10 is utterly amazing! Tony pretty much summed it up perfectly, it does look like a totally professional picture in every way.

No11 is very nice too, the subject is perfect it just needs a better background

[Kev_Mk3]

2 i LOVE but 10 probs

[Sy]

Here's my humble, unqualified opinion...

No1's subject is fantastic and in focus. All that lets the picture down is the background! Still good though

No2 is good, well thought out

No3 is a great idea, its just a shame about the tree behind the duck's head. In fairness it's hard to capture a moving subject so can't really nitpick on that :)

No4 is REALLY nice, my 2nd favourite overall. Great subject in a great position, makes me smile.

The spider photos are good, the detail on the 2nd is amazing. It would look great in a biology book but it's not appealing to me as a photo!

No7 is a nice frog, but somehow the focus isn't quite right. Would make a good subject though

No8 made me LOL hard, so I'm giving it 3rd place overall. Great smile factor.

No9 is a cute dog, but the picture seems a bit bleached? Background could be better.

No10 is utterly amazing! Tony pretty much summed it up perfectly, it does look like a totally professional picture in every way.

No11 is very nice too, the subject is perfect it just needs a better background
Now that's the kind of feedback I'd prefer to see in this section, and even more so for the comp voting thread. Posts such as "I'm voting for X coz it's ded gud y0!" just infuriate me.

Oh and there will be a couple of changes to the next round of the comp. Others have already been discussed, shorter shooting period and with the total comp including voting running for a calendar month, but the new one will be that all votes will be made visible.

What does this mean and why?

Basically the poll will be set to show who has voted for what, I'm not 100% sure if this will be visible to everyone or just staff I'll have to look into that. And the why is because Mike and myself were talking earlier and neither of us think that it's fair if people vote for their own entry. That's rigging and this is the easiest way we can think to stop it from occurring. Anyone caught voting for their own will simply lose that vote off that total votes for that comp, repeat offenders could face punishment...

[Hugh Jeers]

Problem is with Meoxmix's breakdown, is that those who submit photos are a bit hard pressed to describe them, without being overly/underly praising their own. Also, how will you know who is voting for their own, as no-one publishes the photos with their name? Sure, you can take educated guesses dependant on style - I've got my guesses on who's is who's, but unless you get a list of who done what of Jay???

Also agree about people voting for their own. I won't do for mine, as I'd like to see if anyone actually likes my work :pmsl: But something may need to be done, although I would like to think most of us are adults and won't resort to doing this?

[LM]

JD - The person who collects all the photos in (ie. Jay) will know who's is who, and can let admin know.

Great idea IMO.

[Mike H]

Problem is with Meoxmix's breakdown, is that those who submit photos are a bit hard pressed to describe them, without being overly/underly praising their own. Also, how will you know who is voting for their own, as no-one publishes the photos with their name? Sure, you can take educated guesses dependant on style - I've got my guesses on who's is who's, but unless you get a list of who done what of Jay???

Also agree about people voting for their own. I won't do for mine, as I'd like to see if anyone actually likes my work :pmsl: But something may need to be done, although I would like to think most of us are adults and won't resort to doing this?


Agreed, I'd like to think that people would choose the best of the other pictures. That's what I've done. Meowmix's post is really good and constructive, and whilst I appreciate about not commenting on your own, you could always offer a selection of comments to a couple of others as to what you like/dislike. If it gets more popular, then there will be plenty of photos for everyone to comment on. :)

[jamielou]

Really good results and pictures this month! I'm well impressed. I definitely liked Meowmix's comments on all pictures, that way people with the not so great pictures are still getting feedback. :tu:

[Albino-Jay]

Yeah great response this month.

I was going to make the poll viewable as it has crossed my mind before about people voting for their own picture.

Next month I shall sort it.

Also Next months comp will start at the beginning of the month run 3 weeks then say a week of voting?

So this poll will end sooner than it should but meh.

Early days

Number 10 is amazing, I love the colours and the detail in the wasp is just brilliant.

[Sy]

It's a hover fly...and no this doesn't mean it's my shot :lol:.

[Hugh Jeers]

It's a hover fly...and no this doesn't mean it's my shot :lol:.

I'm glad you said it. I thought it was a hover-fly. Looks like a wasp, but doesn't sting, and can fly backwards?

[PinkLady]

jesus the game has well and truely been upped!! they are some fab pics, ive been mega busy with wedding plans lately so i have not had much chance to get on here much (not that iwill have been missed :pmsl:) but once things have calmed down a bit i will deffo be entering in the comp again.
Well done to everyone that has sumbitted entries they are all fab!!

[Captain Meowmix]

How about a couple more categories? ie

Best subject
Best technical shot
Best overall picture

It would make polling difficult though :oops:

[Hugh Jeers]

How about a couple more categories? ie

Best subject
Best technical shot
Best overall picture

It would make polling difficult though :oops:

Don't reckon that would happen TBH. Simply because, most people vote for the AWWWW factor in most circumstances.

[Mike H]

Agreed, I think your favourite shot overall, and then you vote. That way we don't have silly ranks for all sorts of shit :pmsl:

[Captain Meowmix]

Agreed, I think your favourite shot overall, cos then I'll definitely win seeing as all I do is scan shit from magazines. Backup plan is chlorofom Sy and edit the poll :pmsl:

:lol: Okay Mike :lol:

[Mike H]

FPMSL!! You cunt. You don't know which entry is mine though ;)

[Sy]

FPMSL!! You cunt. You don't know which entry is mine though ;)
It's number 12.

[Mike H]

:tears:

[little miss naughty]

some really amazing piictures - apart from the spiders - i have not been able to look at them in detail as I hate spiders so I quickly scrolled the page down...

I liked 4 and 10 the best

[Hugh Jeers]

New topic for this month? Who was the winner? And how you going to score the points this time?

[Albino-Jay]

Been busy over the weekend, but Mike won. Am waiting for him to let me know what theme he wants.

Will put a new post up later when I get home from work with the scores and whos is whos etc etc.

Well done to everyone who entered was a great turn out!

[Mike H]

Jay, I've decided what I want as the topic...will drop you a pm chief. :tu:

[Albino-Jay]

Nice one heres a list of who's is who's.

1. LM
2. Bolf
3. Ads
4. Sy
5. Ben306
6. Sxj
7. Albino-jay
8. JayD
9. Jamielou
10. Mike H
11. Pottylotty