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March photo competition: Nightlife

Second entry, taken in a New Orleans suburb a few years back (an area not directly flooded by Katrina, so probably still has working lights):
American xmas

Used an Olympus OM20 on a tripod with 400 ASA film and about a 1/2 sec exposure. My aim was to take pictures of loads of houses, but I found I only has about 30 mins between dusk and night. Once it was full night it was too dark to see the houses as well as the lights. Some photoshopping: sharpening and added blue to the sky.
 
Cool topic. Right, my second consecutive month. Here goes with my 1st pic.
Cold Beer, Dirty Girls.
BTW, so far I'm likin' Snadge's spooky path, Aurora Green's incredibly cool son, and riot sky's atmospheric Earl's Court.
:)
 
the only pics I've already got are ones I've taken on my phone, if I'm feeling lazy, I'll use some of them, but I might get out and take some specially for the comp.

aurora, your son is very :cool:

Iemanja, how come you're sticking up a little version of what you're entering, are you trying to get into our brains? ;)
 
Thumbs....

I've changed the way the thumbs are done. It also means that I'm hosting resized images instead of linking off. However this is way easier for me to do than the old way.

If people like it, I'll use it for the rest of the month.

If not I'll change it back to the original format.

Let me know.
 
I like the way you have done the thumbs, and I do not mind them being hosted on your website. I was going to suggest that perhaps you should link to the user's gallery / website - but that would create more work for you.

Does anyone think I should started a thread discussing photocomp suggestions and anxieties? Seems to get derailed each time :)
 
tank girl posting

tank girl posting - forgot to log milesy off :o

I like the look of the thumbnails, but as they're not showing the full picture, it kind of does away with the option of just looking at thumbnails instead of clicking for the full size pic.

but if it's easier for them to stay that way, s'cool, I normally look at the full size pics anyway.

ta for doing them Robster :)
 
milesy said:
tank girl posting - forgot to log milesy off :o

I like the look of the thumbnails, but as they're not showing the full picture, it kind of does away with the option of just looking at thumbnails instead of clicking for the full size pic.

but if it's easier for them to stay that way, s'cool, I normally look at the full size pics anyway.

ta for doing them Robster :)
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I can put full size in but the thumbs max size is 100pixels so it shrinks the thumbs even more. Like I said, if people object enough I'll change it - it's not a problem for me at all. Also hosting is not a prob for me as I've got quite a bit of space.
 
Can you not alter that 100 pixel minimum? I would say it's fine but if the competition is going to be popular this month, and given the theme I think it really will, then the work of going through every thumbnail is going to reduce the votes even further.

I think to do the entries justice you do have to click each, and that could pose a problem. I can probably do you a gallery you can upload the originals to, based on this format, if that's going to help?
 
Reet! I'm going to create a photoshop suggestions thread, with FAQ for hosting etc. To avoid further derailment in future :)
 
mauvais mangue said:
Can you not alter that 100 pixel minimum?
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I can, but the php, which is off the shelf tries to put 6 thumbs per row regardless of the thumb size and therefore bursts out of the 758 pixel width of the main area.

I've got loads of stuff to auto generate galleries and quite liked the style of the one I just put up. Then again your point about the 'screening' done on the votes is fair.

It was just an experiment - I'll revert to the original format tomorrow night.
 
Tank Girl said:
Iemanja, how come you're sticking up a little version of what you're entering, are you trying to get into our brains? ;)
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I think it looks kinda :cool:...

I've been doing it on the desktop background thread and I decided to do it here too... ;)
 
Tank Girl said:
you naughty little rule breaker ;)
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They're only tiny... I wasn't even aware I was breaking any rules! :eek:

e2a: just seen other the other thread, I've removed the thumbnails (even though they were tiny) :)
 
I just removed my thumbnails cause it 'breaks the rules' and someone else has gone and put some on... :confused:

nice photos though! :)
 
can you change the title of my first entry to just Wheel my first was refference to my first entry not part of the title... cheers :)
 
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