420 Magazine's Photo of the Month Contest: March 2018
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That’s sick @bobrown14!
Some smoking pic ya'll
GL and Keepem Green
GL and Keepem Green
Kismet
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Newbie . How do i vote?
DrDoob
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Winners will be decided by the 420 Moderation Team.
Kismet
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Thank you dr dooby . Are there any events members can vote on ?Winners will be decided by the 420 Moderation Team.
All the other contests! This one is the only one we don’t vote on (thank goodness! Not that the others are easy, but imagine trying to pick a winner here!!
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GreenThunder
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All the other contests! This one is the only one we don’t vote on (thank goodness! Not that the others are easy, but imagine trying to pick a winner here!!
I think you also have to have 50 posts before you can vote....
True dat! 
DrDoob
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Edit: I meant to say members can vote on all the contests except this one and here is a list of all the contests, they always sticky the current ones to the top.
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And don't forget the staff-chosen Grow Journal Of The Month
And yes, entries and votes for the other contests are restricted to those with a minimum of 50 posts, to prevent members joining just to try and win stuff, and - Heaven forbid - contenders setting up false accounts just to vote for themselves.
And yes, entries and votes for the other contests are restricted to those with a minimum of 50 posts, to prevent members joining just to try and win stuff, and - Heaven forbid - contenders setting up false accounts just to vote for themselves.
Rider509
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So post it like you shot it? That seems a fair and necessary rule to even the playing field as this is a photo contest, not a photo editing contest. I've played with a few of these submissions that are great as is, but with a little Photoshop magic they become front cover magazine quality. So we bare our naked, unretouched photos to the scrutiny of the judges and hope! LOL.
Good luck to all!
DrDoob
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Would removing a recognizable face out of the image be allowed?
Rider509
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The Overlords will have to address that, but I'd think that cropping is a given in framing a shot. I'd think though that blurring a face would detract from the overall composition of a photo and probably not win any extra points.
And don't forget the staff-chosen Grow Journal Of The Month
And yes, entries and votes for the other contests are restricted to those with a minimum of 50 posts, to prevent members joining just to try and win stuff, and - Heaven forbid - contenders setting up false accounts just to vote for themselves.
Hi Teddy - maybe that contest could get listed among the contests (in the contests forum) as well as the grow journals forum... I’ve been missing it for months!! I won’t now that I know where to find it - but maybe it can be linked in 2 places so it joins the contest ‘family’.
I think we’d find any number of the previous winners have spent some time in photoshop or something similar. Don’t get me wrong, I agree with what you say completely. It’s a hard thing to ‘enforce’ - like you say there are certain effects that only come from pro-processes and many of winners show this quality. They’re very deserving winners, I’ve no problem with that - just saying...
Berulakide
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I kinda like just normal pictures, no lies or making it look better than it is. I would like to see some of my pictures done on the editing program to see what it looked like.
I've been using CorelDraw and its predecessors since 1994. The Home and Student Suite goes for $129.92 CAD at Staples. I'm by no means an expert, as I use it only for a few graphics and drawings a year. My avatar is three layers of images that have been modified by cropping, cutting, and setting the transparency of the layers. There's a lot you can do with it to touch up photographs. It was a necessary purchase for some of my earlier endeavors.
Something a lot of folks don't remember is that more than 80% of a photographer's work was done in the darkroom. Light was manipulated, blemishes were airbrushed away, images were cropped, and the development cycle was adapted to get the final result. Image manipulation software has simply taken the place of the darkroom in digital photography.
Now, I'd rather use my funds to improve growing conditions
Berulakide
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I don't forget, but never used either really. No photone shop or dark room. Years ago in school i guess I used animation programs and video editing but that's it. I didn't even use a good camera for my pic, just a tablet.
Derbybud
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Likewise with mine. Out of the phone and into the screen. I'm not much of a photographer so when I saw the picture that I submitted I just knew I had to enter it. Just looked different than most my pix
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