July-August '08 Photo Challenge - "Travel"

[TwistMyArm]

Hi everyone,

For the first time we're going to try a two month challenge. This challenge will be for July and August '08. The theme for this challenge will be "Travel".

For all those who wish to participate in this challenge please take a moment to read through the following:

- The deadline for submissions is August 30
- The image can be no larger then 150KB*
- Include your forum username when submitting
- The submitted photo must be in the form of a .jpg
- Please keep your photo anonymous (no distinguishing watermarks, and no photos that have been posted previously on the forum)
- Submit no more than one photo
- If you wish you may include a title when submitting your photo (please use no special characters)
- The form must also be included when submitting the photo
- The forum Admins and Moderators reserve the right to exclude or remove any photo solely at their discretion
- The forum Admins and Moderators reserve the right to decide the winner of the photo challenge
- All submitted photos will be posted in a new thread within the first week of the following month

.........Copy and Paste this into your submission email...........................
ThePhotoForum.com Username:
*Photo Title (optional):
Is the photo 150KB or less? Y/N
Is the photo a jpeg? Y/N
Has this photo been posted before? Y/N
Please submit only one photo per challenge.
Please enter your email subject as "July-Aug '08 Challenge Submission"
*Please ensure that the attached photo is named the title you wish it to have otherwise the title will not be used.
.................................................. .................................................. ...

Please email your photo to photochallenge@thephotoforum.com and remember to enter the subject as indicated.

All photos must include the form when submitted. Just copy and paste it into your email. This will ensure that no mistakes are made when photos are submitted and therefore, hopefully, no photos are excluded. If the form is not included in the submission email the photo will not be included in the challenge gallery and voting process.

There is more important information regarding rules and procedures located in the FAQ section. We highly recommend that you take the time to read these FAQs.
Good luck to everyone and have fun with this challenge!

*150KB will be taken as the “size on disk” and not the actual file size. Also some email programs consider 1KB=1000Bytes as oppposed to 1KB=1024Bytes. When these programs calculate attachment size they will often read larger then they actually are. To be safe we recommend a target size of about 140KB so that once sent it does not go over 150KB.

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[johngpt]

Great idea about it being a two-fer. This gives time for folks to get somewhere, get back, and post.

I've gone to find myself. If I should get back before I return, keep me here.

[SBlanca]

i just got back from lisbon yesterday and started processing photos today so i should be finished by the end of the week so i could try this one

[JoeyMcDermottPhotography]

i'm still a newbie on this? does this have to be a photo taken in the present, or can it be one taken while "traveling" a few years back?

[JoeyMcDermottPhotography]

i think i made my screenname too long.

[johngpt]

i'm still a newbie on this? does this have to be a photo taken in the present, or can it be one taken while "traveling" a few years back?

Hellopersonwithlongscreenname!

I've only been around for two challenges thus far, but have noticed that while it's preferable to submit something recent, shot especially for the challenge, everyone here seems to appreciate nice images. So, it doesn't really matter, in all probability.

But since the deadline isn't until the end of August, this should give most of us time to be thinking and working on it.

Most of all, have fun!

[Big Bully]

I think that the main requirement is that the submission is anonomous. So whatever you do.. Don't post it on this thread or any other thread until after the judging is over!

[johngpt]

I think that the main requirement is that the submission is anonomous. So whatever you do.. Don't post it on this thread or any other thread until after the judging is over!

Good point. That's the single most missed item from the challenge constraints. Post nothing here, it has to go to the email address in the post which sets up the challenge, and there can be no identifiers on the image. And no larger than 150k, and...

[Big Bully]

Good point. That's the single most missed item from the challenge constraints. Post nothing here, it has to go to the email address in the post which sets up the challenge, and there can be no identifiers on the image. And no larger than 150k, and...

I wonder if we keep repeating ourselves if people will actually get it this month..

[Hawaii Five-O]

"I wonder if we keep repeating ourselves if people will actually get it this month.. "

aww rats no I didn't

[Harix]

How to submit a decent photos lower than 150KB? That's the size of avatar

[Big Bully]

"I wonder if we keep repeating ourselves if people will actually get it this month.. "

aww rats no I didn't

Hahahaha you are just too funny!

[johngpt]

How to submit a decent photos lower than 150KB? That's the size of avatar

It's easy if you have photoshop. If not, I don't have a clue.

In photoshop, thanks to Dana's advice, once I've saved my image as a .psd file, and I don't want to make any more additions or changes, in the menu bar, I click on Image>Image Size.

My shots out of the camera are 52 inches by 36 inches. I resize to something like 18x12, click enter. Don't save it!

Then in the menu bar, I click on File>Save for web. When that tool opens, there is a slider which you can use to adjust percentage. When you move the slider and release, the file size in kb shows up in the lower left corner.

Get it to something just about 140k, so that there is some margin for error. When we attach these files to our emails to Dana, there is some 'growth' of them.

Click Save from that Save for web tool, and it'll prompt you for a name. I usually append the word 'web' at the end of the original file name. It saves as a jpeg in the same folder at the original.

And there you are!

That Save for web tool closes, and you're back at your original .psd file. I close its window without saving, because I don't want it to stay at the 18x12 size that I used just before opening the Save for web tool.

PM me if you have further questions. If you're not using photoshop, perhaps someone else can assist.

[livingandart]

Hi! I'm new here. This is probably a stupid question but...are we allowed to edit the images? Or are they meant to be "au natural?" I've seen different photography competitions have different requirements but I couldn't find anything written on this one about editing beyond changing the file size. Thanks so much! Oh, and glad to be here! I love this site! Wish I'd found it sooner!

[iflynething]

Sounds super interesting.

I do have one question, what about last month. I won, but don't know how to claim my prize. Can anyone help me with that?

~Michael~