420 Magazine's Photo of the Month: June 2023
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Vegan4life
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Congratulations! Great job!Congratulations to
June's Photo of the Month Winners
1st Place - @Carcass
2nd Place - @LizardMate
3rd Place - @Danishoes21
KeithLemon
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Congratulations well disserved wins.
Thanks so much everyone- and, of course, 420 Mag for another great contest! 
And congrats to @LizardMate and @Danishoes21 for their beautiful entries!
Funny- the camera I used is an old, beat up Canon PowerShot A2200 I found sitting on a pallet of freight about 15 years ago...
that thing has taken a lot of weed pics- and every now and then, it takes a good one...
And congrats to @LizardMate and @Danishoes21 for their beautiful entries!
Funny- the camera I used is an old, beat up Canon PowerShot A2200 I found sitting on a pallet of freight about 15 years ago...
that thing has taken a lot of weed pics- and every now and then, it takes a good one...
How’d you get the background so deep black?Thanks so much everyone- and, of course, 420 Mag for another great contest!
And congrats to @LizardMate and @Danishoes21 for their beautiful entries!
Funny- the camera I used is an old, beat up Canon PowerShot A2200 I found sitting on a pallet of freight about 15 years ago...
that thing has taken a lot of weed pics- and every now and then, it takes a good one...
I can think of two or three ways (no image manipulation software required - 100% not suggesting that!) - just from seeing that - single flash, multiple or background material? Shutter speed all that nerdy! You’re ineligible for 3 months so I have a window to improve! Just nerding out on the skillz!
Nick
Hi, Nick-
Good question-
It was dark when I took the pic- that's a deep black posterboard behind the buds, and I used a cotton ball over the flash to tone it waaay down. It was taken from 3 feet away, so I also zoomed it 2x before taking the shots..somehow, that seems to capture detail a bit better..
The camera was set to "auto", so nothing else was adjusted.
That was the best one out of 10 shots.
It was bigger, but I cropped it to put your focus on just those 2 buds...
Needless to say, I'm far from being a photographer, but, even a blind squirrel occassionally stumbles across an acorn...
Good question-
It was dark when I took the pic- that's a deep black posterboard behind the buds, and I used a cotton ball over the flash to tone it waaay down. It was taken from 3 feet away, so I also zoomed it 2x before taking the shots..somehow, that seems to capture detail a bit better..
The camera was set to "auto", so nothing else was adjusted.
That was the best one out of 10 shots.
It was bigger, but I cropped it to put your focus on just those 2 buds...
Needless to say, I'm far from being a photographer, but, even a blind squirrel occassionally stumbles across an acorn...
Congrats. on your Phot
.T.M. win @Carcass. 
Beautiful shot!
And congrats. to the two runners up @LizardMate and @Danishoes21 as well, Great work all!
.T.M. win @Carcass. Beautiful shot!And congrats. to the two runners up @LizardMate and @Danishoes21 as well, Great work all!
Danishoes21
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Glad to know you guys/gals like the photo. Lots more to come.
Congrats to the other winners.
Congrats to the other winners.
Welcome to 420 Magazine's Photo of the Month Contest!
We want to showcase and celebrate the very best photographs of our beloved plant, Cannabis. Unlike our Plant and Nug of the Month contests, this Photo of the Month Contest is all about the quality of an individual photo. It will be judged on composition, lighting, creativity, originality and general quality.
The contest is open to members with 50 or more posts. Staff members from this or any other cannabis forum/community and/or 420 Magazine Sponsors are not permitted to enter our contests. It's okay for staff to post photos in the contest for fun, however to retain the credibility of the contest, their photos will not be added to the voting polls.
Your entry must be one, and only one, photo. Entries with more than one photo will be deleted. The photograph may be of a plant or plants, part of a plant (e.g. a cola, a bud, even roots!), a nug or nugs, a seed or seeds or Cannabis extracts. It must be an original photograph that you have taken and contain no nudity or alcohol.
The contest will be open for submissions from the first until the 15th day of the month. Winners will be decided by the 420 Moderation Team and announced in-thread on the 1st of the following month.
All winners receive "420 Photo of the Month" title and the following Prize Packages:
First Place
420 Magazine: 420 Magazine Lighter, 420 Magazine Magnet, 420 Magazine Stickers
GeoPot: Winner's choice of 5 x 3 Gallon Pots, 3 x 5 Gallon Pots OR 1 x 15 Gallon Pot
Geoflora Nutrients: Geoflora Veg & Geoflora Bloom (Members can only win this prize once per year)
Foods Alive: Organic Toasted Hemp Seeds
Sierra Natural Science: SNS-217 Spider Mite Control - 1 Quart Mix Pouch
Mile High Cleaner: Deluxe Cleaning Kit
MagicStone: MagicStone Alchemy
Second Place
420 Magazine: 420 Magazine Lighter, 420 Magazine Magnet & 420 Magazine Stickers
Third Place
420 Magazine: 420 Magazine Magnet & 420 Magazine Stickers
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Contest Guidelines:
All contest entrants must use their own original photograph. It should be rather recent and not previously entered in a Photo of the Month contest. The same photo cannot be entered into more than one contest in the same month. Winning entries cannot be entered into any future contests.
420 Magazine prefers all entries include a title and description of the image. Provide the strain name, grow method, or subject of the submitted image during the upload process to provide some context to your image.
Photos must be cropped properly, leaving no large empty spaces at top/bottom or left/right of the image.
The use of Photoshop and other digital manipulation tools are now acceptable for enhancing your own original photos (i.e. contrast, filters, and other image adjustments), however, these tools may not be used to create new elements that were not part of the original photograph (i.e. super-imposing multiple photos or adding a digital rendering of an object to a photo where that object did not originally exist, etc.). This applies to Photo of the Month contest only, effects are still prohibited in Plant & Nug of the Month contests, because we want to see the natural state of the plants and flowers.
The widespread availability of simple editing tools and software have created a fairer and more equitable environment for entrants. Entrants should be open & transparent about the process which their pictures are made, In the same way we share cannabis cultivation techniques.
420 Magazine would like to promote the quality and content of photography, rather than heavily edited digital artwork, with the intent of cultivating photographers and photography. This is not a Photoshop contest or a Graphic Arts contest and entrants should understand this difference before submitting an image
The intent of this photography contest is to showcase 420 Magazine cultivators’ efforts in cannabis cultivation and cannabis awareness. 420 Magazine wants to provide a platform for entrants to share their photos and cultivate creativity and expression in their members. Originality and creativity will be given preference over recycled images and ideas.
Images entered must not include text, watermarks, copyright images, or added digital content. The entire image must be the entrants own original work. Any entrant or image found to be using copyright material may be removed from the contest and restricted from entering future contests.
Updating or adding photos throughout the month is prohibited and will result in all the submissions being disqualified. Remember to upload your photograph through our Photo Gallery before posting them on this thread: Photo Gallery Guide - How to Resize, Upload & Post Photos
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Congratulations to
1st Place - @Carcass
2nd Place - @LizardMate
3rd Place - @Danishoes21
Congratulations to @Carcass , @LizardMate and @Danishoes21 for the great pics!
