CLOSED: 2.0 Advanced Competition 114 - OPEN

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Further explanation of the theme, provided by Miklad:

"Ok - quite topical this week. Should Britain stay in the European Market or not? Who cares? But who makes the best sports cars? Europe, or dear old Blighty? You decide!

Take any British or European Sports Car, Saloon or Racer and show them off at their sexiest best. Remember - choose your side wisely!"



CARS: Either British or other European Country only
LOCATIONS: Any
PHOTOTRAVEL: Yes
UNIQUE RESTRICTIONS: No monotone or B/W images - bold colours, please!


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Please, ensure you read and understand all requirements for this competition. Failure to follow
the rules may result in disqualification. If you have questions, send me a Private Message.
This Thread will answer many possible questions you may have.

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  • Winner gets to choose the following week's theme, as well as the Top 15. Every fourth
    week, the poll will be H2H style: entries must choose a "team", leading to two 8-picture,
    4-day polls. The winners from each faces off in a final 48 hour poll.
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    It's recommended to save the original image (preferably in-game) until week's ends.
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What you may not do to a photo:
  • Alter the geometry of the car. No stickers, or body modifications not available in game.
  • Add shapes or objects from outside of GT5, signatures excepted.
  • Add lens flares or "artistic" filters to image.
  • Remove items from shot (scenery, other cars).
  • Use more than 1 image (HDR, photo-stitching, multi-exposure).
  • "Creative cropping". The main "image" must be four-sided, with 90-degree, upright corners.
  • Selective car colour changing: masking different parts to create racing stripes or similar.

What you may do to a photo:
  • Crop and/or resize an image.
  • Adjust the level or curve values.
  • Alter the colour tone of the image (gradient maps, photo filters, colour balance, etc).
  • Car body colour change (all stickers/design features must remain, see "Remove Items" rule).
  • Adjust brightness, contrast, exposure, shadow/highlights.
  • Enhance shadows or highlights (dodge and burn tools in Photoshop, for example).
  • Add noise and/or diffuse glow.
  • Add a post-game tilt-shift blur, or apply a motion blur to a stationary Photomode shot.
  • Make use of Layer Blend Modes.
  • Use a Sharpening filter and/or tool.
  • Scale or enlarge rims.
  • Remove or modify license plates.
  • Remove the GT watermark.
  • Add a personal signature.
  • Clean up or fix jaggies, texture pixelation, or colour separation.
  • Add a vignette effect.
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03.02.13
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I literally just came off GT5 from a lotus shoot, i didn't take any photos that i'd want to use in a 2.0 though:grumpy:.

On a side note am i the only one that keeps looking at the banner, i can't believe thats a photo from GT5, again great job Miklad:tup:
 
Hi all - Slipz has brought to my attention that people may get confused about the 'Cross-Filter Only' restriction.

To make it clearer:

'No Mono, or Black & White - I want to see bold colours!'

Does that make it clearer?

Happy shooting! :dopey:

(and thanks for the nice comment, cph) 👍
 
So just to be sure...cross processing filter in the game need not be used, as long as there are colors? And can we use multiple cars of the same model?

Another thing: what is a considered a sports car?
 
^^ I'm not going to be too strict on what is or isn't a sports car - just don't start shooting hatchbacks or similar. If it's fast and 'sporty' - it's a sports car.

Multiples is ok - as long as they are all British, or all European. No mixing countries please.

And just to reiterate - BOLD COLOURS PLEASE! This is an edit comp afterall. :)

Hint: I don't want 'dark and moody'. I want 'bright and cheerful'!
 
FINAL ENTRY:


British​

I took an entire set of pictures with the cross-processing filter before you said it wasn't necessary :grumpy: The cross-processing makes the image much darker than normal, with a lot more contrast, so it's kinda hard to edit.
 
FINAL ENTRY
UK

-click for the full size-

This is my first try here... i hope i'm doing it right, if not let me know.. still learning how to edit :nervous:
 
FINAL ENTRY



E U R O P E · A B R O A D


Two years of membership and just five posts to one thousand​
 
FINAL ENTRY
Britain. Great Britain.



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