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Bluelight weekly photography contest Round 169 : Smiles

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Smiles (suggested by numbtar)


RULES

1. Any photograph or variation of a photograph which has been previously submitted for one of the contest rounds cannot be used in subsequent rounds of the contest.

2. Photographs must be your original work and that has never been copyrighted or, if copyrighted, that you are the sole copyright owner of.
2a. No submitting pictures for other people, for friends, etc. Your OWN work, very simple.

3. Only one photograph may be entered per contest.

4. All photographs must be free of watermarks, signatures and borders

5. Photographs must be no wider than 700 and no higher than 700 pixels. Free resizing software - Irfanview.

6. Deadline for entries is 12am Eastern (5am GMT) on the posted deadline date.

7. Voting ends at 12am Eastern (5am GMT) on the posted end date.

8. Post your images in the appropriate thread in the form of an image, not a link to click on.

9. Don't be a dummy and vote for your own photo, try and make it fun.

Be reminded that this is a photo contest and so images which have been heavily manipulated through an image editing software will not be accepted. To put everyone on a level playing field, editing should be restricted to cropping and resizing.

Images which are not relevant to the week's theme will be automatically removed.

If you have a problem with another contestant's entry adhering to the contest guidelines, please PM the forum moderators. Do not try to begin a debate about the issue within the contest submission or poll thread! There will be zero tolerance towards any attempts to devolve a contest thread into a bash-fest or witch hunt.

We will pick the next theme and post it the night a contest ends for the next round so people have a full 7 days to take pictures and submit them. After all the entries have been posted, a poll will be added on the last night, so people can vote. Voting will take place from midnight to midnight over the following 2 days (12am Sunday - 12am Tuesday).

Those who wish to participate in sharing full versions of their entries may do so by providing a link only to the full sized version in the same post as their entry.

Thank you and have fun!
 
Please submit your photos in this thread and a mod will re-post them when voting starts in a separate voting thread.

Submissions: February 28 - March 6
Voting: March 7 - March 9

Followed By: Technology [March 06 - March 12] (suggested by n3ophy7e)
Then: Natural [March 13 - March 19] (suggested by ocean)
Then: Birds [March 20 - March 26] (suggested by Thizzerfershizzer)
 
Smile.jpg
 
I have a lot to pick from, but I think this best fits the theme. :)

zjvwvb.jpg
 
An old picture of a few of my friends looking happy.

smiles.jpg
 
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What camera was THAT straight off of?

That looks like HDR treatment to me. :\

I'm going to trust your judgement on this one because you're the camera/photography guru around here.

Sancho, answer the man ;)
 
Ah, I see what you mean. This is one of my older photos and I'm 100% certain that I hadn't discovered HDR at that point. I'd just got my first DSLR. I'm guessing it's something to do with sharpening, perhaps I went overboard with unsharp mask due to being a novice. Is sharpening allowed?

I don't think it adds anything to the photo, it's all about the smiles anyhow.

Edit: In fact it seems detrimental to the photo. My friends look greasy, lol. I'll leave it to the powers that be to decide, unless I can find the original.

Edit2: Found the original and updated my first post, the first one I posted was from my Flickr account.
 
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^Just for future reference (and this is stated in the rules) the only kind of editing allowed is cropping and resizing. :)
 
perhaps I went overboard with unsharp mask due to being a novice. Is sharpening allowed?

As fizzle said, the only editing that is allowed with the use of software programs is cropping and resizing. Anything else is not allowed, unless it was an actual function of your camera e.g. shooting in sepia or black&white, etc.
It's listed in the rules in the first post ;)
 
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