September 2007 PhotoContest Information

Since you allow generic, non-affiliated LEGOs you should also allow a few other generic, non-affiliated action figures. It is just that if I wanted to enhance my photo to add some realism, I may not want to add something cartoony like a LEGO figure.

Lapse Of Reason wrote:Since you allow generic, non-affiliated LEGOs you should also allow a few other generic, non-affiliated action figures.

...Like what?

Ok, I'm a bit confused about the procedures. I know how to enter etc, just that last paragraph confused me. (so sue me, I'm tired & Ill, I'm allowed to be dumb XD)
Could you use an example to explain it fully? Say the month begins on Monday the 1st, it's announced then, then we can enter on the... blah blah blah, just to spell it out for those less awake people.


Example of generic, non-affiliated figures: toy cars? Dinosaur toys??? those kind of things, just props that may be of use.

Neko wrote:

Lapse Of Reason wrote:Since you allow generic, non-affiliated LEGOs you should also allow a few other generic, non-affiliated action figures.

...Like what?

Hot Wheels cars, generic army men, etc...

These are always fun!

Hope the theme will motivate me enough to stop being lazy and enter!

Look, before this becomes the "Lego, Knex GI Joe and Lincoln Logs Photocontest featuring the Transformers," let's just simply NOT allow non-TF objects/characters/toys in the pictures (except for stability issues, but points will be lost if they are visible), just like it used to be way back when.

I don't want to offend anyone or tell anyone how to do their job, but honestly if we keep bending or tweaking (or whatever colourful word you wish to use ) the rules, it's just going to snowball and result in lots of confusion, angry participants, and annoyed judges.

Let's keep our TF Photocontest about the Transformers, yes?

Lapse Of Reason wrote:

Neko wrote:

Lapse Of Reason wrote:Since you allow generic, non-affiliated LEGOs you should also allow a few other generic, non-affiliated action figures.

...Like what?

Hot Wheels cars, generic army men, etc...

Unless the theme requires such things, no. The announcement will say whether or not you are allowed things like that.


This month's PhotoContest schedual (the dates you need to be aware of) will be posted on Monday as well.

1337W422102 wrote:Look, before this becomes the "Lego, Knex GI Joe and Lincoln Logs Photocontest featuring the Transformers," let's just simply NOT allow non-TF objects/characters/toys in the pictures (except for stability issues, but points will be lost if they are visible), just like it used to be way back when.

I don't want to offend anyone or tell anyone how to do their job, but honestly if we keep bending or tweaking (or whatever colourful word you wish to use ) the rules, it's just going to snowball and result in lots of confusion, angry participants, and annoyed judges.

Let's keep our TF Photocontest about the Transformers, yes?

Exactly.


If you have a question about what is allowed, PM. But please wait until you know this month's theme before assuming you need HotWheels or generic army men to pull off the photo.

The center of these photos are the Transformers.

Plus, I don't think I have the ability to write out a set of rules saying EVERYTHING you can and cannot do; my brain ould explode.

This is Art (yes it is).

Express yourself! Rules are important but they aren't the only thing. Boundraies are ment to be pushed, not traced along.

Neko wrote:If you have a question about what is allowed, PM. But please wait until you know this month's theme before assuming you need HotWheels or generic army men to pull off the photo.

That's not exactly what I'm getting at. I'm just saying that by allowing one form of non-Transformers toy, why not allow another, or even more?

And plus, the Lego Minifigure is possibly one of the most identifiable toys on the planet; I hardly think they are generic looking!

And the plural of Lego is Lego. Lego NEVER takes an 's'. The term 'Lego' is like the term 'rice.' You can have a bowl of rice and you can have a bucket of Lego, you can have a grain of rice, you can have a Lego brick. But you can't have some rices nor some Legos.

The center of these photos are the Transformers.

Groovy. Let's just try to keep it that way, that's all I'm saying.

Plus, I don't think I have the ability to write out a set of rules saying EVERYTHING you can and cannot do; my brain ould explode.

No one expects you to.

This is Art (yes it is).

Express yourself! Rules are important but they aren't the only thing. Boundraies are ment to be pushed, not traced along.

Granted, but the said boundaries should be firmly stated and make sense. Allowing something as iconic as Lego on the grounds that it looks 'generic' doesn't really make much sense... unless if the theme involves the Transformers building something!

Yeah, but it makes the masses...somewhat content. At least I hope so. Because it's be a bit of a pain for me and you guys to have to change the rules every contest.

You have a point of Lego (no 's') being very identifiable, but in the terms in which they would be used, I think they are very generic. They may be identifiable as Lego people but not as a characters themselves.

So we don't have mixed myhtologies. Like if we had a He-man figure being ran over by Optimus; it translate as just that; He-man getting run over by Optimus and not some random guy getting run over as it was intended to be. With a Lego man, you can tell that its meant to be genericly representing a random guy. That's what the whole Lego deal is about.



And by allowing the general Lego blocks to be used, it gives people another medium for backgrounds and such.

Neko wrote:And by allowing the general Lego blocks to be used, it gives people another medium for backgrounds and such.

For those who can't draw for shite & can't just print off a load of backgrounds every time they want to enter this contest.

I'm lucky, I can draw

So if I wanted to have a tree in the background, am I right in saying I could not use a plastic tree from some craft store, but I could use a LEGO tree or one I drew and cut out?

I'm just looking for clarification here.

If no other figures are allowed, I say no LEGO minifigs either.

Lapse Of Reason wrote:

Neko wrote:

Lapse Of Reason wrote:Since you allow generic, non-affiliated LEGOs you should also allow a few other generic, non-affiliated action figures.

...Like what?

Hot Wheels cars, generic army men, etc...

what about lego alphateam cars...they are almost at the same scale...

Can I use car models? its hard to make a transit scene to suppose that the transformer character is among ordinary cars if I only use transformers cars in the pic.

Lapse Of Reason wrote:So if I wanted to have a tree in the background, am I right in saying I could not use a plastic tree from some craft store, but I could use a LEGO tree or one I drew and cut out?

I'm just looking for clarification here.

If no other figures are allowed, I say no LEGO minifigs either.

You are.

Again, the rule only pertains to humanoid figures meant to represent people and such.



As for the Car models, I'm going to have to say no.

The rule that seems to causeing the confusion:

It's meant to clearify the 'Only Transformer toys' with the exception of Lego Blocks which I added so people could have some sort of humanoid figure allowed throughout the contests in case their idea for a photo needed a human represented in the picture and Lego people are nearly to scale with most Transformer toys (almost).



I don't know how to explain it any further. A plastic tree from a craft store doesn't qualify as a 'toy' and yes you can use them. Things from craft stores and such are all legal. Things like that are OK. It's other toys, like GI-Joe, Starwars, Barbie and stuff like that is what the rule refers to.

I hope that clearifies some of it for you.

Neko wrote:

Lapse Of Reason wrote:So if I wanted to have a tree in the background, am I right in saying I could not use a plastic tree from some craft store, but I could use a LEGO tree or one I drew and cut out?

I'm just looking for clarification here.

If no other figures are allowed, I say no LEGO minifigs either.

You are.

Again, the rule only pertains to humanoid figures meant to represent people and such.



As for the Car models, I'm going to have to say no.

The rule that seems to causeing the confusion:

It's meant to clearify the 'Only Transformer toys' with the exception of Lego Blocks which I added so people could have some sort of humanoid figure allowed throughout the contests in case their idea for a photo needed a human represented in the picture and Lego people are nearly to scale with most Transformer toys (almost).



I don't know how to explain it any further. A plastic tree from a craft store doesn't qualify as a 'toy' and yes you can use them. Things from craft stores and such are all legal. Things like that are OK. It's other toys, like GI-Joe, Starwars, Barbie and stuff like that is what the rule refers to.

I hope that clearifies some of it for you.

What if we have, say, Soundwave eating a giant sammich...can we make it a REAL sammich?

shockticus wrote:

Neko wrote:

Lapse Of Reason wrote:So if I wanted to have a tree in the background, am I right in saying I could not use a plastic tree from some craft store, but I could use a LEGO tree or one I drew and cut out?

I'm just looking for clarification here.

If no other figures are allowed, I say no LEGO minifigs either.

You are.

Again, the rule only pertains to humanoid figures meant to represent people and such.



As for the Car models, I'm going to have to say no.

The rule that seems to causeing the confusion:

It's meant to clearify the 'Only Transformer toys' with the exception of Lego Blocks which I added so people could have some sort of humanoid figure allowed throughout the contests in case their idea for a photo needed a human represented in the picture and Lego people are nearly to scale with most Transformer toys (almost).



I don't know how to explain it any further. A plastic tree from a craft store doesn't qualify as a 'toy' and yes you can use them. Things from craft stores and such are all legal. Things like that are OK. It's other toys, like GI-Joe, Starwars, Barbie and stuff like that is what the rule refers to.

I hope that clearifies some of it for you.

What if we have, say, Soundwave eating a giant sammich...can we make it a REAL sammich?

...OK now you're just being redundant...


*Sigh*

Yes.

I don't think anything besides transformers or transformers related things should be allowed. It is unfair to those of us who only collect TF stuff.

Test.

Neko wrote:

Lapse Of Reason wrote:So if I wanted to have a tree in the background, am I right in saying I could not use a plastic tree from some craft store, but I could use a LEGO tree or one I drew and cut out?

I'm just looking for clarification here.

If no other figures are allowed, I say no LEGO minifigs either.

You are.

Again, the rule only pertains to humanoid figures meant to represent people and such.



As for the Car models, I'm going to have to say no.

The rule that seems to causeing the confusion:

It's meant to clearify the 'Only Transformer toys' with the exception of Lego Blocks which I added so people could have some sort of humanoid figure allowed throughout the contests in case their idea for a photo needed a human represented in the picture and Lego people are nearly to scale with most Transformer toys (almost).



I don't know how to explain it any further. A plastic tree from a craft store doesn't qualify as a 'toy' and yes you can use them. Things from craft stores and such are all legal. Things like that are OK. It's other toys, like GI-Joe, Starwars, Barbie and stuff like that is what the rule refers to.

I hope that clearifies some of it for you.

Thanks for clearing that up.

You're welcome.


I can't wait till monday! *squeeee*

I think you guys are gonna like this theme. So many possibilities! lol.

I can see some people getting creative with this one.


Also, it's a theme someone suggested in the old thread.

I hope to get a good collection of ideas so we have a roster of sorts to choose from instead of scrambling for ideas a week before the contest starts.

So start thinking people!

We need ideas!

No ideas = no contest.


And that would just plain suck.

how bout..........................................uuhhh science???? or uhhhh the transformers takin care of the nature or something like it...

Transformers playing sports? Has that been done before?

How about a theme from Favourite song being representing a song.

Romance.

Adventures

Races.

A day in the life of a transformer.

Movie Parodies.

Seens from 1986 like they did a year back.

Transformers and Arcades.

Seen from differnet Tv Shows.

Battles,Bots Vs Cons.

Transformers and Food.

I can't really think anymore.

Thundercracker91 wrote:A day in the life of a transformer.

I like that idea.

Imagine Optimus Prime at the super market buying milk or something! lol.

I just saw the theme on the other thread. I'm a little confused. "Out of the box" Is that like a Toy Story theme, you know, Transformers interacting with real scenarios and things or like Transformers doing real stuff in mock-up scenarios?

optronix321 wrote:I just saw the theme on the other thread. I'm a little confused. "Out of the box" Is that like a Toy Story theme, you know, Transformers interacting with real scenarios and things or like Transformers doing real stuff in mock-up scenarios?

You could initially do both. You could set up a scene or go out and find a real one to photograph.

But the idea is to know they're toys. Like if someone had a photo of a Starscream toy switching the price tags on merchandise in a grocery store or an Optimus Prime toy helping a little old lady across the street.

Does that clearify it a little better?


For this contest, real people are allowed to be in the photos and such.

There we go

Neko wrote:Does that clearify it a little better?

Yeah, thanks. I'm new at this stuff. The entry can be posted from 16-22 or can we start posting now? And on which thread, the one that's on the front page now?

Sorry for bugging you, I just want to be sure.

optronix321 wrote:

Neko wrote:Does that clearify it a little better?

Yeah, thanks. I'm new at this stuff. The entry can be posted from 16-22 or can we start posting now? And on which thread, the one that's on the front page now?

Sorry for bugging you, I just want to be sure.

That is correst sir.

The thread for entries will be created when the 16th rolls around early in the morning so from the morning of the 16th to midnight of the 22nd is the time for submission.

AH okay... I understand what is going on.

So when you say "10 Transformers only" in a pic, I assume that means total, even if you have less than 10 in the foreground (or in the "action" of the pic) and a few idling around in the background for effect?

Windracer wrote:So when you say "10 Transformers only" in a pic, I assume that means total, even if you have less than 10 in the foreground (or in the "action" of the pic) and a few idling around in the background for effect?

If you use more then 10 Transformer toys in the photo, your entry will be void.

Neko wrote:

Windracer wrote:So when you say "10 Transformers only" in a pic, I assume that means total, even if you have less than 10 in the foreground (or in the "action" of the pic) and a few idling around in the background for effect?

If you use more then 10 Transformer toys in the photo, your entry will be void.

Bollocks!

Well, glad I re-took the pic, then... Thanks for clearing that up.

I am gonna be using the pic I posted. However, I am not clearing the board of my hord... at least they're blurry

Windracer wrote:

Neko wrote:

Windracer wrote:So when you say "10 Transformers only" in a pic, I assume that means total, even if you have less than 10 in the foreground (or in the "action" of the pic) and a few idling around in the background for effect?

If you use more then 10 Transformer toys in the photo, your entry will be void.

Bollocks!

Well, glad I re-took the pic, then... Thanks for clearing that up.

Anytime, it's what I'm here for.

I keep wanting to enter one of these contests, and no offense to those who put the ideas up, but the themes are always something kind of silly.

I mean, it's always a theme, which has transformers as the characters, not a Transformers theme.


For instance, I'd like to see less "Tea time for Transformers" and more "Velocitron Grand Prix", less "Transformers fashion show" and more "Megatron must be stopped!".

Just my $0.02

Counterpunch wrote:I keep wanting to enter one of these contests, and no offense to those who put the ideas up, but the themes are always something kind of silly.

I mean, it's always a theme, which has transformers as the characters, not a Transformers theme.


For instance, I'd like to see less "Tea time for Transformers" and more "Velocitron Grand Prix", less "Transformers fashion show" and more "Megatron must be stopped!".

Just my $0.02

I see your point in wanting more serious related themes and I agree. But when a theme is chosen it has to be broad enough so we don't get repetitive entries. If you can suggest themes that would provide a wide range of possible photos, I'd love to hear them.

Hey,Neko here's a question can we do Photo's like Stealing food from the Pantry or listening to music.

Autovolt127 wrote:Hey,Neko here's a question can we do Photo's like Stealing food from the Pantry or listening to music.

Yep.


I actually had an idea of having a TF toy winding up all the egg timers at the store. Kind of hard to pull off, but I got the idea when my mom and I went to World Market the other day. I always wind the egg timers.

Well, I put my pic up. Someone should tell General Magnus to remove his sig!

Hey there! I just wanted to ask the following:

To add a comment on the contest thread I haven't seen any field to submit the photo, so is it intended that each person himself hosts the pic anywhere and link to it with HTML on the comment? Or did I miss something?

(added later: I was looking at the comments on the thread outside of the forum... I found the thread on the forum and now I can see all the photos and the picture upload button - sorry for the confusion)

Also, I think that the 800x800 rule is a bit odd because the cameras don't take square photos but rectangular instead... at least the ones I usually see. And that ruined a bit my ideia which I'll be hopefully posting this night (Portugal hour).

Robot cheers

Seeing some fantastic shots so far.

In terms of angle and clarity, 1337W422102's shot is great. Did really well to take a photo of a computer screen with no glare or refresh lines, something I find difficult to do myself.

For originality, Windracer. 'Nuff said.

Mulla™ wrote:For originality, Windracer. 'Nuff said.

Ditto.


tHE 800x800 rule is simply there to keep people from sucking up the site's bandwidth. Thats just the maximum size, you could easily submit an entry that 'So many pixels' x 'So many pixels' in order to keep it's rectangular shape.

Hey! Windy's using her sex appeal to win!

1337W422102 wrote:Hey! Windy's using her sex appeal to win!

I was thinking of doing something similar, but a drawer full of jockey shorts just doesn't have the same panache.

Hi, newbie here! can I include a piece of paper with a Note to my entry photo?

Thanks!

if i use a Gestalt, o.e. Superion, does it count as 1 TF or 5 TFs?

optronix91 wrote:if i use a Gestalt, o.e. Superion, does it count as 1 TF or 5 TFs?

I'm afraid that will count for each individual toy you use, combined or not.