Automotive Photography Competition #145

[zeppelin]

Congratulations to basman007 for winning competition #144!

• 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.
• 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

basman007: 1

Congratulations basman007, on the first automotive win of 2008. As with the general competitions, I'll be doing a 'Best of 2007 Automotive' vote as well. It'll take a while to compile and create the votes, but I should get it started this week. Let's see if we can top three entries in the meantime.

[basman007]

Cool =D

Thanks everyone for voting for me

[pat_ernzen]

Congrats basman. You had my vote.

[oneblack]

oneblack

cuba classic

november 2007

canon eos 350d

[pat_ernzen]

pat_ernzen
Phantom
Evolution Motorsports
December 1st, 2007
Canon 20D
RAW editing, cropping, some overlays, some touchups

[henk4]

RAW editing, cropping, some overlays, some touchups

indeed.

[Merrill]

Merrill
Brand New Nissan Skyline R35
30/12/07
Canon EOS 30D

[The_Canuck]

Personally I think most press release photos are terrible...

[zeppelin]

I personally have been liking the Jaguar and Aston ones lately.

[LotusLocost]

I, as some of you know, agree in full with Pieter on this subject.
The computer is not there to show what the camera didn't see.

I don't enter these competitions anymore now. I used to, but compared to the high tech editing many of you are very good at, I can't bother to enter anything. You feel like you have lost 2 sec after you have looked through the competitors photos.
We had two competitions a while back, one for edited photos, and one for non-edited.
The non-edited had a good amount of entries always, 8-15 every time.
The editing allowed competition never really kicked off, and i don't think it saw more than a couple of rounds.
Now our photo competitions have turned into that competition that a couple of the same guys enter every time.
Sub 5 entries a couple of the last comps guys!
Congrats people, and I say again what I have said earlier: R.I.P Photo competitions.

I feel that a competition with high amounts of editing allowed, would fit better on a photography forum than a car forum where the majority of semi good hobby-photographers with small editing skills.

But of course, someone will always seek the arena where they find themselves on the top.

[pat_ernzen]

I feel that a competition with high amounts of editing allowed, would fit better on a photography forum than a car forum where the majority of semi good hobby-photographers with small editing skills.

But of course, someone will always seek the arena where they find themselves on the top.

You're argument is that editing penalizes "amateurs". My argument would be that not allowing editing penalizes those that are able to do it. Who SHOULD be entering these contests? People who just bought their first camera and just took their first pic? I enter the contests here as I do ~95% automotive photography. I've entered the general photography comp once and the automotive one 7 time (IIRC). I don't know of many photography sites that have regular automotive photography competitions and I find them fun.

EDIT: The thing I don't understand is that some people seem to think those who edit and win would never have a chance of winning without editing and that editing is in some way "cheating".

There are people entering photos that have nicer cameras/lenses/etc than me, but I'm not going to complain about it.

[zeppelin]

Personally I think pat's shot even unedited is still the best entry so far anyway. The post-processing isn't giving him some unfair advantage, it's enhancing the photograph (like anyone could do with a bit of practice) to create a better overall piece.

For the most part, when I edit my photos I am just trying to recreate the original scene closest to how I viewed it. Photos rarely turn out similar, because the camera doesn't capture and expose an entire scene the same way an eye does. Like in the darkrooms before digital, to Photoshop today, half the art of the print was processing the raw image to a final piece. That is why, especially now in 2008 I think allowing post-processing is the way to go. It's pretty much a part of modern photography, and like capturing an image, it takes skill as well. You can easily mess up a photo with edits.

Now, please, I'd like to continue with entries. If you'd like to continue this discussion, I've stickied the competition discussion thread. That's the place for these conversations.

[henk4]

Personally I think pat's shot even unedited is still the best entry so far anyway.

I agree there, so it proves that the need for editing isn't as great as people seem to think....

[Timothy (in VA)]

It's not yet 11:59 on Saturday in my time zone, so I think I'm still allowed to submit.

Timothy (in VA)
Sunset
December 1, 2007
Sony DSC-S500
No editing

[aiasib]

....Gran Turismo?