LI Photography Contest - Ideas, Suggestions etc. etc. !

format_quote Originally Posted by Woodrow

I believe we should have 5 categories:
Landscapes
Seascapes
Close ups
Nature
Plants and Flowers

Perhaps the categories should be more general, so they can be more applicable to everyone? Not everyone lives by the sea for the seascape, and there should also be a category for those who live in the city and can't submit proper landscape shots.
Also, any decent close ups would need a good camera, so I'm not sure if that one would work too well, if some people are going to be using mobiles for picture taking?

I'm thinking something like

Landscapes ( um, landscapes)
Urban (this would be city shots/buildings/etc.)
Water (could be sea, ocean, lake, or even simply "water")
Nature (plants and flowers come under this)
A concept (hope/joy/peace/etc.)

What do you people think?

As for the scoring, I would say each judge gives each picture a score, and the final pictures score is the average of all the votes, right?

format_quote Originally Posted by crayon

I'm thinking something like

Landscapes ( um, landscapes)
Urban (this would be city shots/buildings/etc.)
Water (could be sea, ocean, lake, or even simply "water")
Nature (plants and flowers come under this)
A concept (hope/joy/peace/etc.)

I like this idea, it keeps it general and more open to different types of creative submissions. But just to put it out there, can't we have a simple theme? Something abstract like 'life', 'death', 'hope', 'peace' etc? It opens a number of possibilities and can really get everyone to be more creative?

Also, is photo manipulation allowed? Minor manipulation like burning, dodging etc?

So if I understood it correctly, contestants enter 1 picture under each category [do they have to?] and the score of each of their pictures is averaged and the contestant w/ the highest average wins? Sounds good to me, but I'm wondering if public polling ought to play a role as well?

To put it out there again, here's how judging was done by the National Geographic International Photography contest:

Contest consists of one (1) round of evaluation for each Category. A panel of National Geographic experts ("Judges") will evaluate all eligible entries based on the following criteria ("Judging Criteria"): (1) Creativity 50%; (2) Photographic quality 50%. In the event of a tie, the tied entries will be resubmitted to the Judges for a rejudging between the tied entries alone. In the event that a tie remains after the rejudging, the entry with the highest score in the creativity criteria will be declared the winner.
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ph...national-rules

format_quote Originally Posted by Abu Sayyad

I like this idea, it keeps it general and more open to different types of creative submissions. But just to put it out there, can't we have a simple theme? Something abstract like 'life', 'death', 'hope', 'peace' etc? It opens a number of possibilities and can really get everyone to be more creative?

Also, is photo manipulation allowed? Minor manipulation like burning, dodging etc?

So if I understood it correctly, contestants enter 1 picture under each category [do they have to?] and the score of each of their pictures is averaged and the contestant w/ the highest average wins? Sounds good to me, but I'm wondering if public polling ought to play a role as well?

To put it out there again, here's how judging was done by the National Geographic International Photography contest:

Contest consists of one (1) round of evaluation for each Category. A panel of National Geographic experts ("Judges") will evaluate all eligible entries based on the following criteria ("Judging Criteria"): (1) Creativity 50%; (2) Photographic quality 50%. In the event of a tie, the tied entries will be resubmitted to the Judges for a rejudging between the tied entries alone. In the event that a tie remains after the rejudging, the entry with the highest score in the creativity criteria will be declared the winner.
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ph...national-rules

Wa alaykum asalam,

I did put down an abstract theme, the last one, "conceptual". The specific one could be chosen easily once we decide on the categories. The reason you mentioned is the reason I wanted it up there, because it will get people thinking about the photo rather than just clicking a button.

As for photo manip, I would think it should be allowed, but i'm not sure if that would give people who have image editing software, and know how to use it, an unfair advantage.. but i guess having a good camera would also be a sort of advantage. So I'm not too sure...

There are several different categories, and you can enter in just one of them, or all of them, but only 1 photo per category. So say we decide on 5 categories, the maximum amount of submitted photos will be 5, one in each category. As I understood, you don't HAVE to enter in each one. There will be a winner in every category, and an overall winner for the best picture.

Yanal- There's more than one "theme", that's the categories we're talking about, either landscape, water, etc.

I believe Sister Crayon has worded the categories better. Here are her suggestions. With some minor modifications and additions

Landscapes ( Out door scenery, in which natural formations is the dominant feature)

Urban (this would be city shots/buildings/etc.)

Architecture (Individual buildings, bridges, roads, towers etc are the dominant feature)

Water (could be sea, ocean, lake, or even simply "water")

Nature (plants and flowers come under this)

A concept (hope/joy/peace/etc.)

Unclassified (anything that does not seem to fit any of the above)


For Rules:

1. You may enter as few as one picture or as many as you desire. But only a maximum of one picture in each category. Each picture may be entered only once. (The same picture can not be entered in over one category)

2. The contestant decides what category their picture should be entered under

3. Each entry must be titled

4. The entry must be the contestant's original work

5. No pictures of living beings (This needs to be clarified further)

6. No photo enhancement allowed except for cropping and minor color correction

7. The judges will remain anonymous except to myself and one judge.

8. Judges will not be permitted to enter

The judging will be as follows:

Each judge will give a score of 1 to 5 points for each picture. The scores will be added and the picture with the highest score will win for that category.



There will be a "Best in Category" for each category.

From the winning picture in each category, The one with the highest overall score will win "Best in Show"

After the judges reach a decision but before the results are made public, all members will be able to vote on an open thread, but that score will not be used unless the Judges are stuck in a tie. There will be a separate winner of "The Member's Choice", which may or may not agree with the judges choice of "Best in Show"



Scoring will be based upon the criteria mentioned in an earlier post.

format_quote Originally Posted by north_malaysian

I have uno question...

The pics that we want to put for the competition must be a new pic or can we put pics that we've downloaded on those images threads before?

Can we have a "building" (ie. mosque, house, historical building) category too?

That Question was answered, Wen I asked.

format_quote Originally Posted by Woodrow

For this I suggest the entries not be anonymous. The reason being some of the best pictures may have already been posted on a thread.

For this I suggest we have a panel of anonymous judges. I will volunteer to coordinate the Judges. One rule being a judge can not enter and will remain anonymous.

Anyone wishing to be a judge please PM me.

Here is the official entry thread , I made it sticky btw

http://www.islamicboard.com/creative...ry-thread.html


Do we need a banner ?

format_quote Originally Posted by Güven

Here is the official entry thread , I made it sticky btw

http://www.islamicboard.com/creative...ry-thread.html


Do we need a banner ?

Jazakallahu Khayran Akhi

A banner would be nice. Good suggestion.

Let us see if somebody wants to make one.

format_quote Originally Posted by Woodrow

Jazakallahu Khayran Akhi

A banner would be nice. Good suggestion.

Let us see if somebody wants to make one.

I think Saifur-Rahmaan volunteered. :X

Sorry! But I dun want a ugly wan goin up, bad nuff havin dodgy ads!!

format_quote Originally Posted by Yanoorah

That Question was answered, Wen I asked.

sorry.... I missed it...

So who's entering?

Coooool! Mayyybe I'll enter.

format_quote Originally Posted by MKE Brother

Question regarding this;



If I have a shot where I had a filter on my lens, does that disqualify it? I am thinking of a sunrise picture I took where I used my fall foliage intensifying filter to bring the oranges and reds of the sunrise out.

I consider use of filters as color correction. The rule is intended to keep contestants from using elaborate editing software, such as photo-shop etc.

thier own