Photomode Tournament - Final Round - Winners: arsenal and Ultrashot!

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And the winners are...?


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This is the final poll/thread of this tournament. So good luck, and vote carefully! 👍
 
Had to go with arsenal for the clean shot. Very nice work. I was torn between ultra and dman. I went with ultra due to the cleanliness of the shot. Dman's was a nice idea but the blur and angle of the car seem to work against each other. Still a spectacular shot.
 
Im not dissapointed this go-round. I thought the pmc was very good considering no photoshop. I had to go with arsenal on that one, his shot was just soo clean. And i loved Dmans shot, because it is very original, but i had to go with ultra and the merc, its just such a cool angle, and very clean to boot!
 
Like everyone, I'm torn between Arsenal and 440. Both are clean, both have great action. But I'm going with arsenal as well on this one, due to 440's shot being very blurry.

Ultrashot... nice picture, however I do see some flaws that truly let it down in my eyes (hopefully you take this constructively, i'm not trying to sound snotty). The Merc Sign has a few jaggies and is sorta blurry. The innards of the headlights are also somewhat blurry. Since the merc sign is one of the main foci, I feel that lets it down. I'm not saying its a bad shot, I just feel it'd be that much better if these flaws were fixed. Anyway, everybody thus far seems to like it anyway, so Good Luck and congrats!
 
Some very nice shots here in the last round of the tournement. Just a general question is who's is who in the the PMC Rules cause I haven't a clue. I know whos is who in the 2.0 but not PMC could anyone shine a light to me?
 
Speedster, I think it is safe to say the the 350Z is 440's. He loves his bling rims. :D

Superb entries as is expected, I am having trouble deciding who to vote for so I will come back later. 👍
 
Oh yea I completely forgot about that. Have to say where my votes went to they went to:
440 Charger and Ultrashot two brilliant photographers!
 
It was pretty hard, but I voted for 440 and Dman. Arsenal's shot wasn't that clean like everyone said, but 440's was, despite the car giving a bit of a blurry impression. But both are nice shots. I didn't vote for Ultra partly because he didn't clean up as much as he normally does. I think clean-up is prettier. Also it looks rather like a PMC shot, so it dissapointed me. Dman's shot wasn't cleaned-up aswell, but at least it is a real 2.0 shot. The road doesn't look good and the car could have been better, but in the end it is an innovative shot. Congrats to the winners when the poll has ended.
 
Well, thanks for all the votes so far guys 👍 This is the first time ever I'm in a Tournament and I'm very happy with how far I've come so far 👍

I haven't voted yet though, I cannot decide between arsenal and Charger. Both shots are very nice, what one misses, the other one has. Arsenal's shot is very clean and very well focused but it's too bad the awful lines are so visible as well as the colors which could've used some more contrast and saturation. The colours in Charger's shot, however, are lovely as always. However, the car being out of focus on some places makes it less interesting so I still need some time to decide where my vote will go.

Dman, thanks for the feedback, however, the emblem and the area around it was nearly impossible to get perfectly, I'll post the original in my gallery later on but the jaggies were ever so bad, getting it perfect would make it akward so I just left it simple like this. I also could not create enough depth into the emblem itself and everything I did seemed to make it worse. The lens flare on the left in the pic was also too bright, I realised it just after I submitted and on the right hand of the emblem, the bumper part, there is a huge flaw in depth but overall, I'm happy with this shot 👍

Your shot is very nice as well, it impressed me alot when I first saw it, the camera angle and blur are unusual and hard to get but upon closer look, the car looked seriously "un-clean". Especially the vinyl on the hood, that definitly could use some cleanup 👍 But all in all, great shot 👍
 
First duel: Z gets my vote.
Second duel: SLR gets my vote.

No need for explanation for me.
 
Voted for the 350Z on PMC, since I think the overall result is more original and well achieved (although the car seems a bit blurred on spots), specially considering it's a in-race shot.
the NSX is a nice shot, good angle, but being a Phototravel shot, could be a bit more realistic, imo. Still, is a clean shot with an excellent composition.

On the 2.0, I honestly expected some mind-blowing shots, but thinking about it, submission time's kinda short to really sink your teeth on heavy projects.

Ended up voting for the SLR shot, but it was really hard to choose.
SLR is a not-really-original Phototravel shot, with exquisite cleaning - reflections are eye-candy. But... those jaggies - that I reckon are a pain to get rid of - almost ruin it all, because they're almost the 1st thing our eyes rest on when enlarging the shot.
The Nissan is an extremely original idea, love the angle, and it did not get my vote because of the lack of cleaning on the car, which is a real downer. Still, loved the blur. Too bad colors are almost exactly as in-game.

Congrats, everyone that made it this far!
 
Voted for Arsenal in the PMC category, perfect colors, very clean for a PMC shot - nice job with the manual focus 👍. 440's is great too, but a bit too blurry, the composition calls for a clean shot imo. Very final worthy shots both!

In the 2.0 voted for dman's, pretty original idea there. Ultrashot's would be cool but would need some more cleaning up as already mentioned.

Just want to say thanks go Jacoja for doing this comp, can't wait for the next one!
 
Yeah, I did so much cleanup on mine, it wasnt even funny. I finally got tired and said: "Screw it - nothings worth this much work (nearly 2 hours on cleanup alone)...
 
I'm sorry if I sound rude now but it certaintly does not look like you spend 2 hours on cleanup on your entry...The hood could easily be cleaned up in 30 minutes, sorry if I sound rude but I don't agree with atlop saying my entry looks not clean :grumpy:
 
sorry if I sound rude but I don't agree with atlop saying my entry looks not clean :grumpy:

It's clean mostly but... like Beerzgood said, there are some jaggies left in places where you first look in the photo. Don't take it the wrong way, it's a cool shot, good composition, good car choice, but sometimes small details are important.
 
Well I agree on those areas off course, I thought you ment the whole picture :lol:

Apologies Dman and atlop ;)👍
 
I'm sorry if I sound rude now but it certaintly does not look like you spend 2 hours on cleanup on your entry...The hood could easily be cleaned up in 30 minutes, sorry if I sound rude but I don't agree with atlop saying my entry looks not clean :grumpy:

Well, if you compare the rear of the car to the front, you can tell where I got tired of doing it...

I also did cleanup on the road, only to realize that I was going to blur it, so that was worthless.
 
Congratulations arsenal and Ultrashot!
The winners of the Photomode Tournament.

Thanks very much to everyone who entered the competition. I really enjoyed hosting it and hope to do it again in the near future (just depending on the time I have :sly: ). To keep you all informed, NTX will be hosting the next tournament in a couple of weeks, so be prepared to enter the qualification round under your favourite set of rules (I'll definitely be entering under the 2.0 rules :) ).

Once again, thanks to everyone for entering... and good luck in the next tourney. :cheers:

All bow to the winners! :bowdown:
 
Good job, everybody in this tournament did their best except for me in the first round. 👍
 
That's cause you haven't seen my lame entry... :crazy:
 
Well i'm sure i can bring something way better for the next tournament. I've made up my mind, i'm on the PMC side now. I know photoshop blurs are very appealing and stuff, but i have many more access to the Ps2 then to the PC :)
 
Well, first of all I'd like to say thanks to Jaco who made this all possible and who made sure everything ran smootly 👍 I really hope Jaco will enter in the 2.0 section in the next Tournaments and who knows, both of us might be facing eatchother 👍

I'd also like to thank everyone who voted for my entries throughout the rounds and congratulations to arsenal for winning the PMC division 👍
 
WOW! Thanks to everyone for supporting my work, and to all of the great competition in both tournaments. Somehow, these tournaments always seem to bring out the best in everyone's work. I'm definitely looking forward to the next tournament, maybe I can make it 3 in a row.

Now I just hope my Arizona Wildcats can share in some of my good tournament luck, because they will need it. :cheers:
 
Congratulations to Ultra and arsenal, you both deserved it with your superb shots. 👍
I totally forgot to vote, guess it doesn't matter now does it. :dunce:

Also a big 👍 to jaco for doing a awesome job on running this Tournament and to everyone that entered. :)
 
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