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Bluelight weekly photography contest Round 125: Vivid

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Vivid

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: April 26 – May 02
Voting: May 02 - May 03

Next: Weathered/Dilapidated [May 03 - May 09]
Followed by: 3 Different Perspectives [May 10 - May 16]
Then: 50s [May 17 - May 23]
Then: The Letter A [May 24 - May 30]
Then: Politics [May 31 - June 06]
Then: Simplicity [June 07 -June 13]
 
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Tropical Rainforest Creek
 
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Pair of Rainbow Lorikeets and their two babies
 

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Tip: For those of you with basic point and shoot cameras - if you're not getting colors that "pop", try and set your white balance to "cloudy" or "shade" modes. A lot of times this will pump up the red, green, and blues. :)

Going with this one for now, took it yesterday. :)

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Stiff competition, but... here goes. Not altered except for resizing. One of my dad's prize roses - the yellow, red, and black are all blooming now I hear, but this was my favorite of the series.

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Lost all quality and the natural glossy look when I resized :(

Might change this. Wish I knew how to make the background less focussed when I took the pic.

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Might change this. Wish I knew how to make the background less focussed when I took the pic.

Blurred backgrounds are made from wider apertures on your lens (low f-number. f1.4, f1.8, f2, etc), giving narrow depth of field. The cluttered background, however, is entirely up to you. ;)
 
GREAT entries. I love the bird in the glass. Made me smile. I don't even know where to start with this one...
 
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