PmC - Week 179 - Closed

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Welcome to Week 179 of the GT4 Photomode Competition

Week 177 Winner: Swiss Legend

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Theme: Blackout™

Black cars with black rims @ night locations / tracks

Cars: Any Black car w/ black rims

Tracks: SSR5 & CSR5

Photo Travel: Any night phototravel location

Poll Size: 5

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Rules

Please ensure you read and understand all requirements for this competition. Failure to follow the rules may result in disqualification.
If you have any questions about how this competition is run, please, send me a private message.

Entry requirements
  • You may submit one entry. It must be your own work not previously entered in a competition.
  • The theme chooser cannot enter the competition he is judging.
  • You may only change your entry once. When changing it, indicate clearly (please, when doing this, edit your post with your new entry, do not submit a new post with a new entry);
  • Please mark your Final Entry clearly.
  • You must post your entry either as a thumbnail, or as a preview linked to the full image - see here for instructions.
  • Previews should be no larger than 400 pixels along the longest side, be it vertical or horizontal.
  • No enhacements permited to the previews, they must not have more or less effects that the original image.
  • We recommend you use a free image hosting service such as or
  • Your entry may not exceed the poll character limit. (5 characters is enough to name your image). If your entry exceeds it, the link to the full size image, will be removed.
  • Photos must be taken from a normal version of GT4, do not use any cheats or Game Shark codes to modify the game content.
  • Please do not ask other members to choose your entry. Have confidence in your own skills and go with your favourite shot(s).

Image enhancement rules
(what you can and can't do in Photoshop etc.)

  • You may adjust brightness, contrast and gamma values.
  • You may rotate, crop and resize the image.
  • You may add a border and signature to your entry.
  • You may NOT adjust levels, hue, saturation, curves or sharpen the image.
  • You may NOT use filters, blurs or layers on your entry.
  • You may NOT add any elements to the original photo.

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September, 14th
 
Wow, that's a GREAT theme. I'm gonna have a blast at this!
 
Cool theme, but aren't the BLACK RIMS requirement a bit excessive?¿¿?
Only because I was thinking Black Beauty for this, until I noticed the whole Black Rim thing.


can I just drop the brightness on only the rims to make them look black?? or does the brightness adjustment have to be uniform throughout the image??
 
Might have to break out the GTO I've been working on for this one

Great Theme 👍
 
I had a shot but it doesn't look very good so I'll make a new one. It's so hard, I feels odd because I can't see the rims so I keep brightening it but then I say, Oh no, I can't brighten it! :) My shot's coming soon.:)
 
Great shot GrumpEone, Where do you get that car?
Anyways, Here's my shot.
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Nicknamealguem, I changed my entry, I needed the rims in this shot.
 
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That shot is awesome, GrumpEone! I like the angle here very much. Also, the colours are great and there are nice reflections on the car. Loving your new border, though :D Additionally, I want to say that when looking at your previous entries, I can really see a good progress you've been through. You shots get better and better. Keep it up, my friend! :)
 
Great shot GrumpEone, Where do you get that car?

Thanks I'm glad you like it. It was another one of those hard choices between 4 excellent shots in my photo shoot; I went for the most interesting angle shot. That track (SSR5) is one of my favorite drift tracks, though I think I've been drifting too much.

It's a prize car in the American Hall, Muscle Car Competition. Getting a black one, is just the luck of the draw, since it's available in like 20+ colours.



That shot is awesome, GrumpEone! I like the angle here very much. Also, the colours are great and there are nice reflections on the car. Loving your new border, though :D Additionally, I want to say that when looking at your previous entries, I can really see a good progress you've been through. You shots get better and better. Keep it up, my friend! :)

Thanks, I have noticed if I run one photo shoot per session of game play, my shot selections are better. Also I am getting far more comfortable with the in-game camera options, thanks in large part to the "Large Aperture" theme we had not too long ago. I'll try to keep up the nice shots, no promises though, lol.
 
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Thanks I'm glad you like it. It was another one of those hard choices between 4 excellent shots in my photo shoot; I went for the most interesting angle shot. That track (SSR5) is one of my favorite drift tracks, though I think I've been drifting too much.

It's a prize car in the American Hall, Muscle Car Competition. Getting a black one, is just the luck of the draw, since it's available in like 20+ colours.
Thanks for telling me where to get it, I can drift every turn perfectly on
SSR5, Great track it is!
 
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I swear, I'm getting lazier and lazier when it comes to take pictures for competitions. :ill:
 
GNX :drool: That Superbird ain't bad either. I know a guy who used to have one. You would not believe how tall that spoiler is in real life

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I was more surprised that i didn't see any dark pics yet with a theme like "Blackout" :D.
 
Is it aright if I do this in Hong Kong? Or is it too bright with all the neon signs?
If not I'm happy to do it in The Stage routes.
Anyone want me to take a pic of a Midget II? LOL 'Blackout™' in a Midget... mysterious...

EDIT: Hey, NickName... Can we maybe go on any track but bring down the Exposure? I've got some pretty cool Dark Photos in Seattle...
 
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Sorry mate, but no. Has stated by Swiss, only SSR5 & CSR5 are allowed has tracks. You always have the phototravel locations 👍

NTX, what an entry!!! :eek:👍
 
Holy Hanna ,great to see so many entries so far!
And I must say that it is great to see some "sinister" shots in there as well, particularly from Ray and Nuno. GrumpE's and snowboard_kids I think could be a bit darker for me. But good stuff nonetheless. 👍
 
Would've been better without borders :) Good shot nevertheless!
 
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