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*** Acurazine Photo Contest #38: View From Your Workspace ***

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*** Acurazine Photo Contest #38: View From Your Workspace ***

Acurazine Photo Contest #38

The theme for this contest is: "View From Your Workspace"

Show us what you see from your workspace. Workspace meaning basically where you get work done.

Any interpretation of the theme is good.
HDR *IS NOT* allowed.

The rules for this contest are as follows:

-The subject can be anything you deem acceptable that fits the description.
-You must be the person that took the photos. Previous photos are acceptable as long as you are the one that captured the image.
-One submission per contest.
-Images must be no larger than 1024px in any direction. Links to larger images are allowed but you must have one that is under 1024px for the poll.
-All contestants must host their own pictures.
-All pictures must have a title.
-While post processing in Photoshop is allowed, adding or removing parts of the picture is not. In the event a photo is suspected to be "photo-chopped," the contestant will be asked to provide the original picture.

Important dates and poll info:

Entries must be submitted to this thread no later than February 7th 9PM EST

The poll will start on February 7th at 9PM

The poll will close on February 11th at 9PM EST

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Old 01-25-2010, 07:45 AM
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Jan 30 Are we going to have daily contests soon? 5 days is a really short window to get ideas and shoot.

The intention of the contest was to shoot something new for each theme rather than to dig through the archives to find something that fits. That's why the contests were always 2-3 weeks.
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Originally Posted by Dan Martin
Jan 30 Are we going to have daily contests soon? 5 days is a really short window to get ideas and shoot.
Oh wow I didn't notice the due date. I hope it will be changed. I'm not even back in the US yet.

This contest's theme seemed like something I could do.
Old 01-25-2010, 10:51 AM
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well i just based this contest on the last one, so if everyone wants it changed i see no problem with that
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how many days shall we extend it...
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I'd say the total time should be at least 14 days from announcement.
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And you guys all thought I screwed these things up badly...
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Originally Posted by stogie1020
And you guys all thought I screwed these things up badly...
you just got the fail ball rolling...
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Dates in OP edited.

Entries by the 7th, Voting closed on the 11th.
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Originally Posted by stogie1020
And you guys all thought I screwed these things up badly...
It's just that whenever something sounds totally screwed up, one of our first thoughts is you.
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Originally Posted by Shalooby
It's just that whenever something sounds totally screwed up, one of our first thoughts is you.
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This is what i see at my works food court.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/11733708@N03/4193048703/


Around Christmas time of course LoL

Sherway Gardens

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Old 01-29-2010, 07:09 AM
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^^Is Santa on a cigarette break? I have always thought that malls were a great place to take pictures of people being people. Especially ones with a mezzanine level, unfortunately we don't have one here and if we did Paul Blart would probably kick me out for being a weirdo.
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not really sure if i am allowed to enter my own contest, but ive always liked this one of my room
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That looks like HDR to me. But I could be wrong.
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wow, that totally slipped my mind, it is actually, so do i just say that i want to take the picture out of the contest? or what? haha sorry guys
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hard.at.work

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/leftride/4296357823/" title="hard.at.work by leftride, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4028/4296357823_1019a1e4a8.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="hard.at.work" /></a>

a slight twist on the theme, but i took this last week at my (home office) desk after a late night.
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Originally Posted by JT22
wow, that totally slipped my mind, it is actually, so do i just say that i want to take the picture out of the contest? or what? haha sorry guys
or, you could say, HDR is allowed.
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haha well alrighty then, HDR is allowed!
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...are you also saying stitching photographs together is allowed...?
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So he violated 2 of the rules.

HDR and picture size?
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picture size is fine, 1024px.
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Originally Posted by rimz
...are you also saying stitching photographs together is allowed...?
we never said it wasn't allowed. how complicated do we want these to get? we are trying to move in a simpler direction, not more and more rules.
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Originally Posted by srika
we never said it wasn't allowed. how complicated do we want these to get? we are trying to move in a simpler direction, not more and more rules.
we never said it was allowed either...since when have we been able to, unless told we can, stitch (combine) 2 or more photos together for a contest? that pretty much takes away from getting that one great shot to enter for the contest unless the rules specifically say "hey, this contest is for best panorama"...i mean come on, that basically turns into photoshopping when you use more than one image for your final entry.
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I see your point. OP, I think it would be good to pick another shot.
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i agree, all this argument is not really worth it haha
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Originally Posted by rimz
we never said it was allowed either...since when have we been able to, unless told we can, stitch (combine) 2 or more photos together for a contest? that pretty much takes away from getting that one great shot to enter for the contest unless the rules specifically say "hey, this contest is for best panorama"...i mean come on, that basically turns into photoshopping when you use more than one image for your final entry.
Maybe we could have a panorama theme in the future?
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3 days left and two pics to choose from.
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No cameras allowed where I work, probably the same for others as well.
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Originally Posted by kcroberge
No cameras allowed where I work, probably the same for others as well.
i just dont wanna get in trouble for taking pics at work instead of working
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I hope to get one together this weekend.
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Originally Posted by hdcolumbus
3 days left and two pics to choose from.
I wanted to take one out of an adjacent office window, but that would not technically be my workspace and didn't have enough time/creativity to make my messy desk look interesting.
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Originally Posted by moeronn
I wanted to take one out of an adjacent office window, but that would not technically be my workspace and didn't have enough time/creativity to make my messy desk look interesting.
It could be as the title is view from your workspace it doesn't say view of your workspace. So it is open to interpretation.
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damn... this contest... what a fail. lol
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Originally Posted by Beelzebub
It could be as the title is view from your workspace it doesn't say view of your workspace. So it is open to interpretation.
Why the sarcasm?

I know it is from your workspace. To me that means I am limited to shooting from within my office. If it was from your work place, it would give a bit more flexibility.

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