PMC - Week 146 - Closed

[Nicknamealguem]

Welcome to Week 146 of the GT4 Photo Mode Competition

This competition will run for approximately one week. Please submit your entry by Friday, the 4th of July, 2008


Week 144 winner: NTX1982

Theme: All Wet

Shots on Tsukuba Wet

Cars: Any

Tracks: Tsukuba Wet

Photo Travel: No

Poll Size: -

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.
• 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.
• We recommend you use a free image hosting service such as or
• 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.

Above all, have fun and enjoy yourself!

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[NTX]

Final Entry

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[suzq044]

Final Entry

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[David48]

Final Entry
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Edit: Entry changed.

 

[Nicknamealguem]

Final Entry

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[David48]

Great shot LDS 👍
I like how you can faintly see Nissan through the mist in the back of the skyline.

 

[atlop]

Final entry



350Z @ Tsukuba

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[tupacrulez]

Final Entry


Runner Up


This was an extremely tough decision on which to enter. I either had the full bodied detail of the Final entry, or, the glare of the water with the Runner up. It was indeed a hard decision, but I decided that detail and a better angle for the wet slide prevailed over glare and more apparent motion

Swiss: his head is also swiveled more in the Final, and his steering motion is more pronounced. Just noticed that now.

 

[Swiss Legend]

atlop - great entry! The light capturing makes it look very real.
tupac - i think you made the right call there. I like how bob's head sticks out past the roll cage.

 

[tupacrulez]

not that it matters. As usual, atlop has outshone me. It just never fails. I dunno how he does what he does with freaking brightness/contrast.

However, I really don't like the 350z at all

 

[Swiss Legend]

the ingame blur also makes a big difference. When thats combined with the right lighting ingame, the results are as shown in his shot.

 

[tupacrulez]

I've been taking GT4 photos for over a year, steady, and I still can't touch it...

 

[atlop]

not that it matters. As usual, atlop has outshone me. It just never fails. I dunno how he does what he does with freaking brightness/contrast.

However, I really don't like the 350z at all

Lol, did not see your 350Z "disclaimer" before I quoted your post. Maybe I need glasses. Anyway very smart to post that in size 1 font seeing as how that's the all time most popular car in this forum.

About the brightness and contrast I would say only two things: 1) don't forget the gamma (that is also allowed) and 2) use an angle where light comes from behind the "camera".

 

[Nicknamealguem]

1) don't forget the gamma (that is also allowed).

👍 + 1 :tup:

 

[tupacrulez]

LOL i don't even know where the gamma setting IS in Photoshop. much less use it.

I still don't like the 350Z. Popular opinion be damned. There, now it is large enough for everyone to see

 

[Swiss Legend]

F I N A L E N T R Y
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[alexwrc]

Wow Atlop and Swiss, it's great to keep saving photos in my personal archive, even these days when the forum is not so active like in the past. The quality is still so high 👍

 

[tupacrulez]

ah dammit...looks like 3rd is my best chance now. and LdS' photo is no slouch either...lol.

But DAMN swiss...that is NICE. the colour is so rich, and yet it's also bright...i need to find that gamma setting and screw around with it, lol

 

[AOS-]

Swiss is tackling some understeer?

 

[Swiss Legend]

Wow Atlop and Swiss, it's great to keep saving photos in my personal archive, even these days when the forum is not so active like in the past. The quality is still so high 👍

Thats cool that you save peoples shots alex, I must say that I have some of you shots also.

ah dammit...looks like 3rd is my best chance now. and LdS' photo is no slouch either...lol.

But DAMN swiss...that is NICE. the colour is so rich, and yet it's also bright...i need to find that gamma setting and screw around with it, lol

Thanks tupac!

Swiss is tackling some understeer?

just a little bit man, made the corner though.

 

[Tangled Web]

Final Entry

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[David48]

All those entries look soooooo good that I decided to change mine to another one from the same set. Oh and I have no idea what gamma values are, how to adjust them, or if its even possible to adjust in GIMP(which is what I'm using.)

 

[tupacrulez]

bit of a steep drift angle you've got there. hehe

that said, excellent work. love the shine on the car.

 

[David48]

Less of a drift, more of a first time around tsukuba wet with no aids...ish



Thanks:tup:

 

[Muzaffar]

Final Entry
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[Moglet]

Here is my

Final Entry

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[Nicknamealguem]

Competition Closed​