CLOSED: 2.0 Advanced Competition 59

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Further explanation of the theme, provided by FishyJuice:

"Try to create entries which are strange and dreamy. Get as far from realism as possible."


CARS: Any (or none)
LOCATIONS: Any
PHOTOTRAVEL: Sure!
UNIQUE RESTRICTIONS: See above


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Please, ensure you read and understand all requirements for this competition. Failure to follow
the rules may result in disqualification. If you have questions, send me a Private Message.
This Thread will answer many possible questions you may have.

  • It is recommended you host your image on ImageShack, Photobucket, or Flickr.
  • Not sure how to post a thumbnail or preview image? Read this sticky!
  • Please use a clickable-preview to full-size, not a separate text link for it;
    it makes poll creation much easier!

  • One entry per user. It must be your own work, and never previously used in a comp.
  • Do not ask other users to choose your entry.
  • Mark your FINAL ENTRY clearly, with red text. On H2H weeks, which side, as well.
  • You may change your entry once. Do it clearly; edit out your previous entry, and
    either post the new one in a new reply, or in place of the original.
  • When submitting, use either a thumbnail or a preview image, linked to the full-sizer.
  • Preview images can not exceed 500 pixels in either direction.
  • A preview image must be representative of the full-size image. Do not add effects to it.
  • Do not post "Honourable Mentions" or outtakes - just your Final Entry, that's all.
  • Winner gets to choose the following week's theme, as well as the Top 15. Every fourth
    week, the poll will be H2H style: entries must choose a "team", leading to two 8-picture,
    4-day polls. The winners from each faces off in a final 48 hour poll.
  • Winners cannot enter in their own theme!
  • The Host may ask for the original image and it must be submitted if so.
    It's recommended to save the original image (preferably in-game) until week's ends.
Failure to follow these rules will result in ignored entries and/or disqualification!

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What you may not do to a photo:
  • Alter the geometry of the car. No stickers, or body modifications not available in game.
  • Add shapes or objects from outside of GT5, signatures excepted.
  • Add lens flares or "artistic" filters to image.
  • Remove items from shot (scenery, other cars).
  • Use more than 1 image (HDR, photo-stitching, multi-exposure).
  • "Creative cropping". The main "image" must be four-sided, with 90-degree, upright corners.
  • Selective car colour changing: masking different parts to create racing stripes or similar.

What you may do to a photo:
  • Crop and/or resize an image.
  • Adjust the level or curve values.
  • Alter the colour tone of the image (gradient maps, photo filters, colour balance, etc).
  • Car body colour change (all stickers/design features must remain, see "Remove Items" rule).
  • Adjust brightness, contrast, exposure, shadow/highlights.
  • Enhance shadows or highlights (dodge and burn tools in Photoshop, for example).
  • Add noise and/or diffuse glow.
  • Add a post-game tilt-shift blur, or apply a motion blur to a stationary Photomode shot.
  • Make use of Layer Blend Modes.
  • Use a Sharpening filter and/or tool.
  • Scale or enlarge rims.
  • Remove or modify license plates.
  • Remove the GT watermark.
  • Add a personal signature.
  • Clean up or fix jaggies, texture pixelation, or colour separation.
  • Add a vignette effect.
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15.01.12
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I'm fairly sure this fits the bill :lol: In case anyone's wondering, its looking through the back of a 458 at the Eiger... Yeah, I don't know how it happened either :lol:
 
Hey, hey everyone. Sorry for sending the theme so late, should have I realised it had to be done myself. :dunce:

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Very nice, that is a great start to the theme.
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Nice, abstract/surreal panning mode 1 shots works fine as well.
Does this fits here ? :S



Click for full size :sly:
No, that is too big, and perhaps not quite exactly the kind of image I'm looking for. It is accepted, but I'd prefer something else to just mixing up the colours in an otherwise relatively speaking realistic image.
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"Ghost in Black"

"I kept thinking it felt like a dream come true. Until I realized it was a nightmare."

Great theme!​

Thanks, happy that you like it. And that is an absolutely fantastic way to portray the theme. It can just be a regular image, like in werty's case, but edited to create something with a mystic feeling, with toned down and darkened lights and colours.

I don't really know how to explain the difference in my eyes between werty's and RG's entries. But try to take an image with shadows lurking in the background or a mystical object (rpanico) and then enhance it in PS, GIMP, PDN, etc.

And ghostrider, I'm sure you'll come up with something really nice. You have a habit of doing just that, usually.

Remember, this is your guidelines this week.

"Try to create entries which are strange and dreamy.
Get as far from realism as possible."

Try your best with those words, you are given almost all available tools to complete this task. And I'm not looking for abstract images specifically, just something that doesn't look like it could come from real life. Good luck, and I hope to see a few entries. Despite the perhaps difficult theme.

// Jacob
 
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Also, I don't think "artistic filters" are fair game, either.

(Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong!)
 
Also, I don't think "artistic filters" are fair game, either.

(Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong!)

That is correct, however you can get similar results (to werty_56-1's entry) by playing with the Curves which is allowed.
 
Sorry for the inconviniet , I'm not quite a good photo editer with picnik yet , sorry again :S
 
huh.....do you want us to take pictures like we did in the Abstract week Fishy?
Or does some realistic, dreamy looking pictures do it as well?
Something like this or this?
Or should I rather enter one like this?

I'm a bit unsure/confused :nervous::indiff::ill::scared::boggled:


Ok, I think I know what to do now. ;)
 
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F I N A L • E N T R Y




Changed my entry
from Stewart's "green hell" to Ahab's nightmare or obsession:

THE EYE OF THE WHALE

MOBY-DICK
Chapter 103
The Pequod Meets the Delight
Finally Ahab spies the whale, and Tashtego affirms Ahab's vision.
Love it or hate it…


For original picture without surrealistic spin motion look here
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^:drool: Thats awsome Mitch 👍


Final entry
(for now at least)

 
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