€5000 for a bunny rabbit?

bigeoino

saw this and thought you might be interested...
http://www.noticenature.ie/TV3_Photographic_Competition.html

rymus

splendid.. time to search the back catalog

Valentia

Thanks for that. Interesting. The only dumb thing about it is that the photo must have been taken in 2007. How stupid is that?? The year is not half gone yet!! 2006 would have made more sense as it would have all the seasons. I haven't started taking photos seriously yet this year. Damn, maybe there is something somewhere on my HD.

rymus

ah the wonders of an EXIF editor

Benster

Saw that comp a few days ago. But reading through the T's and C's it's another one of those picture-trawling schemes I think. By entering you give them non-exclusive rights to use your photos for whatever they want.

But having said that, the prizes are pretty good and I doubt I'd ever actually sell any of my pictures for even a grand!

Remember though, it can't be of a landscape but it can be of trees...

B.

Valentia

rymus wrote:

ah the wonders of an EXIF editor

What what what!!!??? Where where where??? Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh now!! Dya hear??

Valentia

Benster wrote:

But reading through the T's and C's it's another one of those picture-trawling schemes I think. /quote]

Not at all, compared to most to be honest. They are fairly standard. Some require you to sell your soul (moral rights). The copyright remains with you in this one though they can use your pic for promotion. That's fair enough considering the quality of prizes.

rymus

I mean eh... what's EXIF?

5uspect

Just submitting three pics now. Thanks for that!

Borderfox

Sent them off just now. Thanks for the heads up.

m_stan

Nice one ! Can you submit multiple entries ?

bigeoino

I think so...

m_stan

Yeah I checked and it's max 3 per person

magicbastarder

always a good idea to check if they mention who the judges are going to be; for example, there's usually a judge from the irish birdwatching association on the judging panel for the ESB competition, and the winners do show a bias towards photos of birds.

however, this could also be a bias on the part of the photographers, in terms of the numbers of photos of birds submitted.

Oriel

rymus wrote:

ah the wonders of an EXIF editor

What's the best one for Mac? Reveal?

shepthedog

anyone else finding their email entry bouncing back to them unsent?? Could it be because I am sending all three together?

m_stan

shepthedog wrote:

anyone else finding their email entry bouncing back to them unsent?? Could it be because I am sending all three together?

not me. I sent all three in one email last night. BCC'd myself to make sure it had a good chance of getting through. No bounce backs for me. It was a 10MB email

dubtom

m_stan wrote:

not me. I sent all three in one email last night. BCC'd myself to make sure it had a good chance of getting through. No bounce backs for me. It was a 10MB email

Wasn't the limit 1.5-2megs per pic. Your sums don't add up M_stan,quick resend.

m_stan

dubtom wrote:

Wasn't the limit 1.5-2megs per pic. Your sums don't add up M_stan,quick resend.

good call ta

m_stan

Looking at this again, wtf does the below mean ? Really unclear what the desired resolution should be or whether a filesize over 2MB excludes you. Personally I think they are trying to simply set the low end requirement rather than exlcuding files that are over these thresholds, but I've re-submitted again just in case.



Entries should be between 2,400 x 3,000 pixels or 1.5 and 2MB in size to ensure the photographs are of a high enough quality to exhibit.

bigeoino

In normal circumstances you'd assume that they'd ask for bigger sizes of the winners anyway....

Roen

Anyone receive a reply after submitting?
I didn't

bovril

they wrote back told me my photos were cr*p..

ah no, got no reply apart from a delivery report on my e-mail. I don't expect to hear back from them either, don't stand a chance of winning anything.

rymus

you dont know that.. if you're not in, you can't win as the fella says!

mloc

can you send multiple entries?

shepthedog

I ended up sending them 3 emails with one entry on each and that seemed to work. Wouldnt say anyone will hear anything for a while..
Anyone here see any of their shots used on the weather over last wk? I would imagine they would contact people to let them know they would use their images.

I don't think they contact people at all You just have to remember to watch the news.It boosts their ratings I guess with all these photographers tuning in.....

Only a 1 week wait at least.Winners are announced on the 3rd of July.I don't have a chance of getting anywhere near the prize money but I would like a heritage card and it'd be nice to have your photo exhibited.I can always dream

City-Exile

Even if the competition was limited to the talented folk of this board, I still wouldn't stand a chance but, I have never entered a photography competition before and it would be fantastic to get exhibited, so I submitted two.

It cost nothing and could be a bit of fun.

m_stan

Anyone can win. I also feel inadequate with my photography skills, but anyone can win.

I got no email reply. Don't expect one either.

Does anyone feel like sharing their submission ? Here are my three.

Good luck everyone !

Morlar

That butterfly one is cool.

rymus

threw a few in for the craic

City-Exile

rymus wrote:

threw a few in for the craic

Absolutely love the first one.
It's almost like a Kiwi Fruit.

mloc

Sent in one of my dads for him, he doesnt have many in digital form... not so good with technology.

m_stan

rymus wrote:

threw a few in for the craic

yeah really like that first one too. very nice

City-Exile

When they say, "All entries must be original photographs ...", do they mean that no photoshopping must have been done? I adjusted the exposure in mine.

Damn some of those are nice.If they have to be "original" photos I really am screwed.I did a lot of tweaking with levels.Anyway these were mine.




and



and one of my dog.Not wildlife at all but the competition said all animals so why not give it a go:D

m_stan

great hedgehog shot Inibaz. ps: you should put a link on your footer image

latchiko

rymus wrote:

threw a few in for the craic

Yep, that first one is a cracker.

Deleted User wrote:

Anyway these were mine

Great lighting in the hedgehog shot.

Thanks very much guys,I had about 5 minutes to photograph him(too scared to move I think) so I had some fun light painting

Some great shots in your blog Latchiko.I tried the cloud catching Riverpoint shot myself a while ago.Nowhere near as good as yours though.

M_Stan I spent about half an hour messing around with it before and I was lucky to get the image up I think I understand it now though.I just have to use [URL] instead of <A HREF>.I'll give it another go...

EDIT:So simple.Ha I don't know how I didn't figure that out before[/url]

rymus

anybody catch the weather on tv3 tonight? What pic did they show?

Yip,the first was a white fox cub.He was in the distance though.The second was a macro of a yellow flower and the third was of 2 snails on a wall...

bigeoino

latchiko wrote:

Great lighting in the hedgehog shot.

Agree with latchiko's comments above - love the lighting on the hedgehog shot

m_stan

Deleted User wrote:

Yip,the first was a white fox cub.He was in the distance though.The second was a macro of a yellow flower and the third was of 2 snails on a wall...

was this the yellow flower shot they used ?

latchiko

rymus wrote:

anybody catch the weather on tv3 tonight? What pic did they show?

I was only half watching it but I think one of John's (Monasette / North Atlantic Skyline) shots flashed up at the start. I had a quick look for it but can't find it online - pink flowers in foreground, looks like it may have been taken in the Burren. Not sure if it was the TV3 or RTE weather though!

Deleted User wrote:

Some great shots in your blog Latchiko.

Thanks!

rymus

wayhay... Go John!

Agree with latchiko's comments above - love the lighting on the hedgehog shot

Thanks again

was this the yellow flower shot they used ?

Nope,sorry.It was kind of like it but there was only one flower.

Muineach

well these are the 3 i submitted on a wing and a prayer! get it ? ah some ppl have no sense of humour

it would be cool thought going somewhere and seeing your photo on display

Benster

Heh, seems these are popular flowers to shoot this time of the year...

One of my entries:

shepthedog

anyone know what photos they showed last night??

Roen

Well the winners are getting announced today in Dublin. Wonder if anyone from here will be in the money.




















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