Have you noticed also the editors choice has stopped running! I agree that it should be Photo of the year however, there should also be a photgrapher of the year . Sometimes you are in just the right place at the right time to capture the shot, but for those who wait for hours for the right shot and do it over and over again their needs to be something there as well. I know students 11-14 yrs, who have just been in the right place and taken the great shot, very lucky however, some of them take hours to set up the right pieces, wait for the right moment and understand how and why it works. I am still waiting to take a good shot for the dawn till dusk section. Have you looked at some of the kids shots? One question though, how come we cant leave comments on their efforts?

will there be a young poty 2008 ????

Maybe someone out there knows the answer to this. Why is the  readers choice section  filled with all recent photos? There doesn't seem to be a reader's choice this year. It just seems to be filled with the most recent photos as they come in to the comp. Is there a problem with the site?

norma gleeson:

Maybe someone out there knows the answer to this. Why is the  readers choice section  filled with all recent photos? There doesn't seem to be a reader's choice this year. It just seems to be filled with the most recent photos as they come in to the comp. Is there a problem with the site?

The reader's choice system currently uses a decay algorithm, so new photos will appear there. Each photo then begins to be replaced with new shots and move its way onto the 2nd page, 3rd and so on. If one of these photos is voted up, it will move up one. At the moment, as large numbers of entries are still coming in, it's a bit confusing - we're hoping as the focus turns more to voting later on in the competition, this order will be more obviously based on highest voted shots. Of course, we're constantly checking to see whether this is working, and may change the system if we decide it isn't.

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Hi JD,

I take it from this post that you want to encourage people to vote on the pictures. I'm fine with that in principle - and have in fact voted for a number already. I just want to draw your attention to the fact that the procedure is not very user-friendly. It would be really good if it could be made to work better (or maybe I just need to understand how to make it work).

In particular once you've voted on a picture and want to get out of the photographer's gallery you have to go back to the start of the section again, or go somewhere else entirely - you can't go back to the page you were in. This means that if you've gone through 20 or so pages of portraits it takes 5 or 6 clicks (each one taking some time to take effect) just to get back to where you left off. Stepping backwards erases the vote or comment. I persevered for some time on Sunday but got very fed up and the drudgery will put me off doing more than looking at images again. I think that's a pity as there are some very good images that deserve to be celebrated.

There may be a clever trick that I'm missing: if so, grateful to be told what it is. I could just randomly look at a few front pages, but like going through a selection of portraits, etc., and deciding which I like best in each group.

Cheers, Eileen

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JD:

Craig_1591:

is there another YPOTY ?

There will be shortly :)

Hello,

Just woundering, could you put a date on when or not yet?

Thanks,

Jack

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OK i got a probably stupid question....
I've got a couple of shots of ships that i am really pleased with (ferries to be precise) but if i wanted to enter them what category would they go under?? I keep coming back to the 'hidden briatain' category in my own head as no one has ever heard of where they were taken lol
any help fully appreciated on this

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Ok, quick question for everyone/anyone.

I have decided I may as well enter the competition and will be uploading a few more entries soon, and it also give me added focus to go out and take more images with the various catagories.

So, I have just uploaded my first entry in the "dusk till dawn" section.

This is what I entered:



But I wanted to get everyones opinions/views on the fact that I have my copyright symbol/signature on the image.....would that be frowned upon...should I just re-upload the version without the signature?.

I thought it would have been prudent to have it on, but noticed that I have not seen any other entries (this year or last) with sigs on.

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My personal opinion - and it is just an opinion - is that should be in 'Creative' because of the amount of PP, even though I think it's a nice image.  I don't think they will mind you using your signature - unless you win, when they will require full rights to the image. 

I think I agree with Steve, you can tell it's been photoshopped however, I must say there is no way in saying that the image isn't good, as that is false, I think it's great, but like Steve, I think that creative could be the category for it.

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I am being slightly provocative - it's no worse than many others. I guess it's a question of how you define a digital photograph ... 

Steve Polky:

My personal opinion - and it is just an opinion - is that should be in 'Creative' because of the amount of PP, even though I think it's a nice image.  I don't think they will mind you using your signature - unless you win, when they will require full rights to the image. 

Thanks for the reply Steve,

There is actually very very little pp done here, other than a little levels adjustment and curve adjustment.

Other than that, the only real work done was on repairing sensor dust and a scratch I stupidly made on my sensor some time ago.

Here is the image as it came out of the camera (converted to jpeg and downsized)

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If that's the case I apologise for discrediting you lol ... it appeared that you had done a bit of work on the wave line and water flow. I guess I'm jaded by all the Photosopped images out there

Hi Mark,

From memory there is nothing in the rules about watermarking images, so by the letter of the law you should be OK. However I think it detracts from the image, you possibly do too as you have kept it small and tucked it away in a corner, it is therefore very easy to clone or crop out of the image and is not really serving any purpose other than to potentially scupper your chances. I would say re-submit without it IMHO.

Also from memory the rules do permit stitching and HDR work, so you can use this image wherever you feel appropriate as I understand it. BTW, nice shot!

Cheers, Peter.

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JD:

norma gleeson:

Maybe someone out there knows the answer to this. Why is the  readers choice section  filled with all recent photos? There doesn't seem to be a reader's choice this year. It just seems to be filled with the most recent photos as they come in to the comp. Is there a problem with the site?

The reader's choice system currently uses a decay algorithm, so new photos will appear there. Each photo then begins to be replaced with new shots and move its way onto the 2nd page, 3rd and so on. If one of these photos is voted up, it will move up one. At the moment, as large numbers of entries are still coming in, it's a bit confusing - we're hoping as the focus turns more to voting later on in the competition, this order will be more obviously based on highest voted shots. Of course, we're constantly checking to see whether this is working, and may change the system if we decide it isn't.

I'm a little confused here. Two of my shots have had votes cast for them.

However, when I look at the Reader's Choice, they're not with the ones at the beginning that have been voted for. I scroll through, and they're way down near the end, behind lots of shots that mostly have no votes at all.

Is this correct?

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