CLOSED: Secret Santa Competition Week 74

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Further explaination of the theme as described by me.

"Just recently I took shome shots of my Viper GTS at an Eifel Circuit track I created for the
shoot, I had set the time of day to 6:00am and the weather to 25% and was quite impressed
with the lighting conditions this gave. So your mission this week is to create yourself an Eifel
track with these settings and go on a photo shoot."


Cars: Any.
Locations: Eifel Circuit (not Kart) set to start @ 6:00am.
Phototravel: No.
Unique Restrictions: Time must start at 6:00am, you can set the weather to
whatever you like - this has quite an effect on the lighting conditions however ;).

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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.

  • Entries for the competition this week must be sent to the Judge Nato_777 Via
    Private Message and not posted in this thread, any pics posted in this thread will not be
    considered for the poll. Use the Submit Entry button to ensure your entry goes to the judge.
  • Your PM must consist of a preview image no bigger than 500px at the largest side with a
    direct link to the full size image.
  • Your first entry will be your last, you will not be allowed to change your entry so be happy
    with it.
  • One entry per user. It must be your own work, and never previously used in a competition.
  • Do not use a photo from your Gallery or post your photo shoot in your Gallery until after
    the competition (and poll if you made it) has closed.
  • 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.
  • Winner chooses the following week's theme and becomes Judge for that week.
  • Winners cannot enter in their own theme!
  • The Judge will select the top 10 entries and PM to the Host for the poll.
  • The poll entries will then all be hosted by me so that links cannot be traced to the owner
    of the photo.
  • 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.
  • It is recommended you host your image on ImageShack, Photobucket, or Flickr.
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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.
  • Add a signature or personal watermark.
  • 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.
  • Clean up or fix jaggies, texture pixelation, or colour separation.
  • Add a vignette effect.
Failure to follow these rules will result in ignored entries and/or disqualification!
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Sunday 28.10.12

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Feeling rather annoyed with my 7 day contact flickr update right now as i seem to be among the last to have discoved your GTS shots:lol:
 
This made me rember EV settings don't work on custom tracks. 👎:grumpy:

EV settings worked perfectly fine for me when I shot my Viper set.



For this shot from that set, I took several identical shots at different exposures, I could have done an HDR with them but I just used the one that I was able to achieve the result I was intending - ended up being the darkest one.

Also if anyone wants to use my Eifel track I have set it to share - it's quite long >8km with 43 corners.
 
You're really on a roll right now Nato! And I'm glad you're unable to enter this week again. Your Viper set is amazing! :drool:👍

definitely going to shoot for this1 :D
 
EV settings worked perfectly fine for me when I shot my Viper set.
Well, my game must be broken, because whether the shot was on +5.0 or -5.0 it didn't really change, so I hated all of my shots in they original state. :ouch:

I edited all of them and will upload them when this week ends. :dopey:

BTW, Entry sent.
 
Closing in a couple of hours so you can still get any last minute entries in. :)
 
Entry sent. Thanks for keeping this open for me to enter:tup:

I made a mistake in my editing but I'm not allowed to change my entry right?
 
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