Automotive Photography Competition #178 [Voting, Pt. 2]

[basman007]

Vote for whose photo you think is best


Viana
WRC New Zealand/Red Bull Evo
30/08/2008
Canon 400D | 1/100sec. f18 ISO 400
Cropped



superwaxer
WRC New Zealand/WRC Citroën
30/08/2008
Canon 400D | ISO 800 1/125sec. f25
Adjusted colour levels



Wouter Melissen
Tyrrell 6x6
Laguna Seca, August 9th
Canon 1D Mark III / 70-200 2.8L @ 75mm, 1/80, F13
Cropped and some lighting adjustments



Fumacher
Ferrari 430
Nikon D70S
Spa-Francorchamps
02-08-2008



Manik
Will Power of Aussie Vineyards speeding down the main straight
July 26 weekend
Edmonton Indy
Canon EOS 350D



John Thawley
Rain Dance
Flying Lizards Porsche
Detroit Grand Prix
August 30, 2008
Canon 40D
Canon 500mm f/4
1/320 sec.
f/5.6
ISO 100
Slight crop, post processing normal color and sharpness adjustments.



Again alot of great entries!
Don't forget to vote in the 1st voting thread. Good luck to everyone!

[John Thawley]

How does this work? Are people supposed to vote twice?

There are 7 votes in the other thread and only 4 in this one.

Seems a bit confusing....

JT

[Wouter Melissen]

How does this work? Are people supposed to vote twice?

There are 7 votes in the other thread and only 4 in this one.

Seems a bit confusing....

JT

The winner of each of the threads will be entered in a vote off.

[basman007]

How does this work? Are people supposed to vote twice?

There are 7 votes in the other thread and only 4 in this one.

Seems a bit confusing....

JT

The winner of each of the threads will be entered in a vote off.

Indeed, apparently you can only add 10 images. So I split the voting in two.

[Wouter Melissen]

Indeed, apparently you can only add 10 images. So I split the voting in two.

In one post. So you could have made one poll with two posts. But this is fine too.

[basman007]

In one post. So you could have made one poll with two posts. But this is fine too.

DOH

[nopassn]

Perhaps the toughest choice I've seen yet. You guys have really kicked it up a notch this week.

[Gt1Street]

Perhaps the toughest choice I've seen yet. You guys have really kicked it up a notch this week.

bam !

[John Thawley]

The winner of each of the threads will be entered in a vote off.

SO.... if the top vote getter has (hypothetically) 12 votes in thread one.. and another person in the same thread has 10 votes, that person is superseded by the leading vote getter in the other thread even if they have less than 10 votes?

I fail to see how that makes sense. In fact... well, never mind.

[Wouter Melissen]

SO.... if the top vote getter has (hypothetically) 12 votes in thread one.. and another person in the same thread has 10 votes, that person is superseded by the leading vote getter in the other thread even if they have less than 10 votes?

I fail to see how that makes sense. In fact... well, never mind.

This way the shot that wins beats all other shots, which is what matters. The number for votes in the threads is irrelevant.

[cmcpokey]

SO.... if the top vote getter has (hypothetically) 12 votes in thread one.. and another person in the same thread has 10 votes, that person is superseded by the leading vote getter in the other thread even if they have less than 10 votes?

I fail to see how that makes sense. In fact... well, never mind.

2 threads for initial voting... best of those 2 go for a run-off in a new thread. that one is deemed the winner.

its like a bracket. it's easier than you are thinking.

[LeonOfTheDead]

2 threads for initial voting... best of those 2 go for a run-off in a new thread. that one is deemed the winner.

its like a bracket. it's easier than you are thinking.

I think he has a point, even if, as Wouter said, it doesn't really matter how much votes a shot has but the fact that it won.
But it's true that a run-off between the two winning images from the two competition could be wrong. In the worts of the hypothesis, one image can win the first competition with just one, while in the second one the winner can have 20 votes, and the second 19, for example.
In this case, a run-off between the 20 votes images and that with just one vote, isn't fair at all.
I think we should stop making two competition, and entering all the images in the same one.
Finally, I can vote in a comp and not in the other if I don't find any image that suite my tastes, and this doesn't help balancing the two competitions and their votes.

[cmcpokey]

I think he has a point, even if, as Wouter said, it doesn't really matter how much votes a shot has but the fact that it won.
But it's true that a run-off between the two winning images from the two competition could be wrong. In the worts of the hypothesis, one image can win the first competition with just one, while in the second one the winner can have 20 votes, and the second 19, for example.
In this case, a run-off between the 20 votes images and that with just one vote, isn't fair at all.
I think we should stop making two competition, and entering all the images in the same one.
Finally, I can vote in a comp and not in the other if I don't find any image that suite my tastes, and this doesn't help balancing the two competitions and their votes.

that is all true, and it is your opinion whether to vote in both polls or not. but this is not the first time we have done things this way. for quite a while we had to do all photo comps this way because there werent enough spots in the poll to get everyone on there. it wasnt really necessary this time, but it is what it is.

so vote in this thread. vote in the other. then the winners will battle it out in a no-holds-barred grudge match of photographic supremacy. then, if everyone played nicely with others, we will have the consensus of the best pic of the week.

[John Thawley]

that is all true, and it is your opinion whether to vote in both polls or not. but this is not the first time we have done things this way. for quite a while we had to do all photo comps this way because there werent enough spots in the poll to get everyone on there. it wasnt really necessary this time, but it is what it is.

so vote in this thread. vote in the other. then the winners will battle it out in a no-holds-barred grudge match of photographic supremacy. then, if everyone played nicely with others, we will have the consensus of the best pic of the week.

That's absolutely not true.

Thread one could have a winner with 20 votes... and thread two could have a winner with 3 votes. So, regardless of the possibility of several other images in thread one having more than 3 votes.. in other words more than the winning image in thread two, they are discarded? Wow. Sorry.. that defies logic.

JT

[cmcpokey]

i understand what you're saying, but would the winner with 3 votes not still be the winner? and would the winner with 20 votes also not be the winner. so its just taking the best 2 from each thread. we aren't out to find second place, just the winner.

and trust me, this is the guy who has no wins up there talking. we've just been through this numerous times already, long before you joined this site John. it may not be the ideal solution, but its the solution we have come up with given the restraints of the software.

if you have a better idea, then please, let's hear it.