CLOSED: 2.0 Advanced Competition 055

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This week's theme in detail, brought to you by last week's winner, KING OF SKULLS:

"As the year 2014 comes to it's end and GT 6 lately celebrated its first birthday, I want you to look back and resume.

All of you are an indispensable part of this vibrant, inspiring community of photomode enthusiasts (may you be newbies or veterans). What makes it so special is the fact that art is always open to interpretation.
Inspirations makes our talents grow and looking left and right reveals new points of view.
You should follow your path, but lift your head from time to time to prevent you from seeing nothing but your own feet on the gravel.

Many of you developed their own style and became true masters of their art.
So show me your masterpieces!!!
It could be old stuff or a brandnew shot never seen before. Just put all your talent and skills into the shot. Give me the best of the best!

Let this very last 2.0 comp for this year be spectacular fireworks of art.

Happy new year to all of you!! :cheers:"



CARS: Any
LOCATIONS: Any
PHOTOTRAVEL: Any
UNIQUE RESTRICTIONS: None


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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, start a convo with me.
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.
  • Absolutely no hybrid, hacked cars, or cars obtained through such means.
  • Mark your FINAL ENTRY clearly, with red text. On H2H weeks, which side, as well.
    Unsure how to? Copy and paste the following:
    [COLOR="Red"]FINAL ENTRY[/COLOR]
  • 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 20. Every fourth
    week, the poll will be H2H style: entries must choose a "team", leading to two 10-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.
  • Tying into the above: signatures only, no image titles or other typographic elements.
  • 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.
  • Remove or modify license plates - it must be hand-drawn, no importing real ones.
  • 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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01.04.15
[20.00 GMT]
 
THIS WAS 2014

FINAL ENTRY

Unleash the BEAST


I think this was a big year for me in this forum ... I was an casual GT6 gamer who loved to photograph the cars in GT6. I was very bad at it first but with a lot of friends here helping me to improve my techniques and giving me inspiration and motivation I can finally say that I reached a name here in this Forum and I am very proud of it !
I am so thankfully to everyone! Thank you and for another year of good photography!

HAPPY NEW YEAR
 
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i'll just take my entry out after looking at all these. Im trash

No way, I've seen shots that I thought were sure winners get no votes and ones that I thought had nothing good about them dominate the polls. Keep 'er in!

Agreed, no need to opt out, however I would strongly recommend grabbing a (free) Flickr account or similar if you don't already have one and post your entries with a preview size linked to the fullsize image as it's hard to compete in the polls if you only have a 500px image.

And if this is still open then I'll throw in an entry too...

FINAL ENTRY



Not exactly a masterpiece but the only unused image I had left to edit on my usb stick.​
 
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