Digital Photographers United - Picture It Competition November/December - Adventures in Low Key Land
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General Rules:
Only your own work!
The picture must be taken by you and the processing of it must be done by yourself as well. Joint entries are allowed but in this case all the participants must be credited. If you get caught posting stolen works, the entries will be rejected and you'll be excluded from the current event. This means that you won't be allowed to re-enter to the competition with a different entry.
Only photographic elements!
While composing your final entry out of several photos is allowed. All the elements in your entry must be photographic. You can combine several of your own photos into a single image and process it as you wish but no artificial elements are allowed. You can use brushes, textures etc, elements to make corrections to your entry, for example you can add film grain or paper texture to the image but you're not allowed to use these to create new elements to the picture or change the properties of the existing ones.
As an exception to this rule you're allowed to add borders of your liking to your entry.
Technical regulations:
Submit your entry as a JPEG image. Maximum dimensions are 1600x1600px. Filesize is unlimited.
Theme: (by escimo)
Adventures in Low Key Land
Low key is a style of lightig which predominance of shadowy areas and emphasizes the contours of the subject. Entries don't need to be textbook low key photos. Film noir styled photos will do nicely. In essence dark and contrasty.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-key_lighting
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_noir
Want inspiration? Watch Maltese Falcon, Blade Runner, Dark City, any of the Batman movies or Ghost in the Shell to name a few.
Or check out these Flickr groups...
http://www.flickr.com/groups/film-noir/
http://www.flickr.com/groups/filmnoir/
http://www.flickr.com/groups/lowkey/
Entry Period:
November 1st to December 20th. (12pm UTC)
You can submit as many entries to this thread as you wish, however you can enter just one as your final entry for the contest. You can submit your final entry by posting in this thread or as private or profile message to me (escimo). When posting it to thread make sure to clearly mark it as Final Entry. If you submit your entry as a profile message, mark the link to your entry as "Picture It - Final Entry" and as a private message use it as a subject.
Voting Phase:
December 20th to December 27th.
Entries will be posted as a public poll in the Fan Creations section.
You can check the relation to the UTC in your time zone
here.