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Title: Photo Contest
Post by: jfrabat on November 15, 2013, 02:30:42 PM
Last week, I decided to take a plunge and sign up for my first photo contest.  The contest is the 36th Annual Photo Contest at a local social club.  Categories were: Panama, Faces, Effects, Nature and Open.  I entered 10 photos overall; 3 into Faces, 3 into Nature, 3 into Open and 1 into Effect.  There are also two groups; those that have won awards in the past, and newcomers.  Out of the newcomers, I got 4 awards, bringing in Honorary Mention, 3rd place, 2nd place and 1st place in the Open category (for some reason, all my photos ended up here, as the photos that won I had entered as one face, one special effects, and one Open!).  But my biggest surprise that that the 1st place photo also won best photo of the contest!  I am really happy with my results (not bad for a first timer!), and, in all honesty, I think I had good enough photos to win even more prizes, but I think they felt bad giving me so many prizes already!

Here are the photos that won:

Honorary Mention - ONE HORSEPOWER:

(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7441/10875468456_50b923769c.jpg)

Third Place - PLOWING AHEAD

(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5549/10875438165_44b31e0697.jpg)

Second Place - END OF A WET WORKDAY

(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5518/10875433375_c1b69ac134.jpg)

First Place and Best Photo Overall - LONELY ROSE

(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3755/10875474636_6d02f75924.jpg)

Title: Re: Photo Contest
Post by: sharpxmen on November 15, 2013, 10:05:38 PM
oh wow - i really like the lonely rose, did you photoshop that? (looks like everything else is black and white except for the rose)
second fav is the "1 hp", title should take 50% of the credit (smart move).
Title: Re: Photo Contest
Post by: jfrabat on November 16, 2013, 07:09:31 AM
Quote from: sharpxmen on November 15, 2013, 10:05:38 PM
oh wow - i really like the lonely rose, did you photoshop that? (looks like everything else is black and white except for the rose)
second fav is the "1 hp", title should take 50% of the credit (smart move).

Yeah, the rose was taken in full color, and then I photoshoped it to take the color out, masking the rose to that anything red or green would be seen.
Title: Re: Photo Contest
Post by: neale_rs on November 17, 2013, 10:03:06 PM
Great Photos!