View Full Version : POTY 2011 - Round 1 - New Beginnings (Voting)
This is multiple choice, so you may vote for as many or as few images that you like, but they have to chosen in one go, you CANNOT come back and vote for more at a later date.
Take a look through the entries (http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=284619) and note the post number of the images you like (top right of each post....you'll notice a #1 above this post for example).
Please do NOT vote for the entries marked VOID.
This poll will close in 7 days.
Thanks :)
antihero
31-01-2011, 23:50
...and please no voting for yourself...
Hang on a cotton picken second, what's going on here? These polls don't normaly appear for two or three days after the competition ends :lol:
Sorted. Voted for 3! Well done people!
Lots of voids this month...
Got my votes in...
Bring on 2011 POTY...
TheBigYin
01-02-2011, 11:01
I'm in too...
:thumbs: and I have to say I'm impressed at how quick the poll was up this month - if I'd have know I'd have stayed online another 5 minutes last night and voted straight away :lol:
Now there's just another 7 days of trying not to check the poll every 10 minutes to see if anyone else has voted :lol:
My votes are in! It's going to be a long seven days me's thinks!
michael23
01-02-2011, 13:24
Votes are in, good luck everyone! Some stunning images this month.
littlemonster
01-02-2011, 14:45
My votes are in - was a hard choice!
uniquegardens
01-02-2011, 16:06
Got mine in too...
Terrific amount of entries - well done to all :clap:
All done :thumbs:
Good luck everyone.
There are some very clever interpretations of the brief - it's gonna be a close one!
Onto the next one now........:thinking:
Votes in, good luck everyone and well done to Fabs on getting the POTY off to a particularly punctual start. A new begining indeed :)
leftcurl
01-02-2011, 16:58
Votes in, good luck everyone and well done to Fabs on getting the POTY off to a particularly punctual start. A new begining indeed :)
+1!
although, having the voting ready at 0:06 on the 1st of the month is a mighty high bar to set for the future months :D
blondie606
01-02-2011, 17:57
My votes in :thumbs:
All the photo's are of such a high standard it made picking my favourites really hard . Loooking forward to seeing the entries over the next 11 months .
& really humbled & elated that I've actually got a couple of votes ,made my evening that has :thankyou:
AshMashMash
01-02-2011, 18:32
All voted! I'm really excited about this year, good luck everyone! :thumbs:
geez thats tough picking one.. well done everyone,
leftcurl
01-02-2011, 21:52
geez thats tough picking one.. well done everyone,
you can pick more than one you know.... or isn't that what you meant? :shrug:
i decided just to do one, because i thought 11 would just be a bit silly
SilentGoddess
01-02-2011, 22:23
DONE!
Quite a lot of entries to choose from. Good job everybody! :clap:
chris321
01-02-2011, 23:54
Some good shots to kick off the new year then! I found myself voting for less this time than I have previously.... I thought some shots were, although really top notch, not quite keeping with the theme, and it pained me a little to not vote for them!
But I'm chuffed that 1 person has voted for mine, and it wasn't even me :D :lol:
Chris
james 91
02-02-2011, 06:21
My votes have been cast.
Looks like I'll be checking this thread every day haha
I've put my votes in, good luck to all.
Andysnap
02-02-2011, 08:46
What d'ya mean no voting for yourself, some months its the only vote I get....:lol: Seriously though there are a tremendous number of really good images this month, if the standard is this high all year I'm going to struggle.
Andy
Voted. Looks like it was a difficult theme this month.
TheBigYin
02-02-2011, 15:26
Voted. Looks like it was a difficult theme this month.
I've been doing the competition for the last 2 years, and haven't seen an easy one yet :lol:
specialman
02-02-2011, 16:16
Entered and voted - hopefully won't forget to do the other 11 months. Now to tog something cold.... Might do my size 11s, which are currently defrosting after u found out my wafers had a leak while mid-river today :)
I've done my bit and voted!
Must get it together for next entry.
phil8139
02-02-2011, 19:30
Some cracking shots, done my voting and now going to take more time over Feb theme, must remember it's a shorter month though :D
tijuana taxi
02-02-2011, 20:43
Intended to enter myself this year and still will albeit a month late
So at least going to make sure I vote every month and will restrict it to just the one choice
All done
leftcurl
03-02-2011, 08:11
still only 85 votes though for over 100 entries.... come on get into the polling booths people!
Mark (TBY), do you have any stats on number of voters against number of entries by any chance? would be interesting to know, i saw the breakdown you did of the entries in 2010 against 2009 and there were massive fluctuations throughout the months... i'm a sucker for figures (yes, those kind as well :D)
TheBigYin
03-02-2011, 09:14
still only 85 votes though for over 100 entries.... come on get into the polling booths people!
Mark (TBY), do you have any stats on number of voters against number of entries by any chance? would be interesting to know, i saw the breakdown you did of the entries in 2010 against 2009 and there were massive fluctuations throughout the months... i'm a sucker for figures (yes, those kind as well :D)
I think i've got stats for most things, somewhere or other ;)
Overall, we usually manage to get more voters than entrants (even if it is still only people voting for themselves!), especially so when we get the advert on the home page, as with December 2010... Only occasionally do we have attacks of apathy where not even all the people who enter manage to vote.
Stats Here (http://www.mb-software.co.uk/tp/POTY_EntriesAndVotes.htm) !
Has it always been that you can vote for more than one entry? Teach me to read things in future & I haven't voted for myself, thought that wasn't allowed anyway
TheBigYin
03-02-2011, 11:09
Has it always been that you can vote for more than one entry? Teach me to read things in future & I haven't voted for myself, thought that wasn't allowed anyway
It's always been multiple votes, yes... You can vote for as many as you like, as long as none of them are your own shot this year! It's surprising how many people have voted for just one entry tbh... At least 9 people have done so far this month
As to voting for your own shot, it's certainly mentioned in the rules this year not to do so...
How to submit an entry
Each month, a new thread will be started in the Photographer of the Year Forum (http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=29), with the round details in, entitled "Entries". To enter, simply post your image in the thread.
There will also be a second thread running concurrently, entitled "Discussion", This thread allows discussion regarding the month's theme.
At the end of the round, a poll will be added where you can vote for your favourite photographs. This will be a multiple choice poll, where you may vote for as many or as few shots as you like. Please do not vote for your own entry.
Voting ends at 23:59 on the 7th of the following month (roughly 7 days voting).
Entries containing nudity must be posted as a link to your image with a NSFW warning next to it.
Please do not post a 'place holder' or 'temporary entry'. Once you have posted an entry, you may not change it. If you do change it, your entry may be disqualified.
At least 9 people have done so far this month
How do you know that?
I think it is a pity to only vote for one when there are so many good ones. I voted for about 8 :eek:
Jenny
leftcurl
03-02-2011, 11:25
i knew you'd come up trumps Mark. Interesting stuff. Now, can you give me a breakdown of the voters / entries with regard to age brackets, salary, own their own home... you know the script. :D:D
i do vote carefully.. but i don't think i could pick just 1. i think i went for 4. Not #4, but 4 entries :bonk:
That's not to say that i didn't vote for #4 though... i'll shut up now.
i knew you'd come up trumps Mark. Interesting stuff. Now, can you give me a breakdown of the voters / entries with regard to age brackets, salary, own their own home... you know the script. :D:D
i do vote carefully.. but i don't think i could pick just 1. i think i went for 4. Not #4, but 4 entries :bonk:
That's not to say that i didn't vote for #4 though... i'll shut up now.
Think you better! :lol:
TheBigYin
03-02-2011, 11:43
How do you know that?
I think it is a pity to only vote for one when there are so many good ones. I voted for about 8 :eek:
Jenny
Well - as part of doing the leaderboard, I have a routine that "screen scrapes" the poll - basically does a text screenshot of the poll, and drops it into a file. when the number of people who has cast a vote goes up by 1, and the number of votes cast goes up by one, then that person has voted for one entry. Simples. Only thing is, if more than one person has voted in between "scrapes" a single vote may be masked by another person voting for say 8 entries. So - I can't say that there have been definitely 9 people who have single-voted. But I can say that at least 9 people have done so.
It's all down to personal taste at the end of the day - I really rated a few of the shots this month, but only voted for a sub-set of them, as some lovely pictures didn't really fit the topic to me - maybe I wasn't thinking outside the same box as the person who shot the picture, who knows :)
leftcurl
03-02-2011, 11:44
Think you better! :lol:
i'll tell you on February 8th :naughty:
TheBigYin
03-02-2011, 11:48
i knew you'd come up trumps Mark. Interesting stuff. Now, can you give me a breakdown of the voters / entries with regard to age brackets, salary, own their own home... you know the script. :D:D
I know the script so well, I told the last person who used to do that with me to Foxtrot Oscar and stick their job up their Data Centre :lol:
i do vote carefully.. but i don't think i could pick just 1. i think i went for 4. Not #4, but 4 entries :bonk:
That's not to say that i didn't vote for #4 though... i'll shut up now.
Glad you liked the breakdown - it does highlight one or two things - mainly that if there's going to be an advert for the POTY voting, then it needs to be all year or not at all imho - look how the December 2010 poll results were so much higher than the rest of the year - it's bound to skew the results overall.
SarahLee
03-02-2011, 20:13
My votes are in :D
Well done to everybody who took part, it was tough to single out the ones to vote on - there are some real stunners in there this month. Already setting a high standard for the rest of the year :thumbs:
Thank you to anyone who's voted for mine too :)
My votes were in at the start:D
Thanks for everyone that voted for mine, some fantastic entries this month it's going to be a great year if this sets the standard.
TheBigYin
05-02-2011, 10:47
My votes were in at the start:D
Thanks for everyone that voted for mine, some fantastic entries this month it's going to be a great year if this sets the standard.
Somehow I think I might have peaked a little too early :lol: I've a feeling it's gonna be all downhill from here.
We've had a good voting turn out so far, and still nearly 3 days to go, so anything can happen yet. Well done to everyone who entered, and to all who have taken the time out to vote BTW. Also, many, many thanks to the kind folks who have voted for my shot...deeply appreciated I can assure you :thumbs:
I'm kicking myself so hard right now:bang:
The story behind my shot is that it's startrails with a local lighthouse, I've always like the startrails photos so I thought I would give it a try hence new beginnings..
I finished work at midnight so set out to give it a try, the lighthouse is on a small island a few hundred meters of the shore and accessed via a tidal causeway, I placed myself on the island in a position where I could get the shot and keep an eye on the causeway for the incoming tide the waves were breaking quite a distance from the causeway and I was feeling happy to continue. Around 1:10 am I went for a walk around the island as I was the only person on it I managed to find a sign with all the tide times printed on it strange I thought to myself according to this the tide came in 10 minutes ago and yet the waves are nowhere near the causeway.
Yes you guessed it the water had risen and the waves still broke in the same place,:gag: I was stuck out there for 6 hours at -6c I almost took a photo of myself as a human icicle for this month’s competition as it was so cold, wife was none to impressed with the phone call telling her not to wait up I’m stranded until 7am and the daughter posted it on facebook for all my workmates to see they are still taking the pi**.:(
But to make matters worse I posted the shot because it didn’t look like I was going to get a better one with no more clear nights forecast within the timeframe for the competition, the night after I posted my entry the clouds disappeared allowing me to get what I feel is a far better image. :bang::bang::bang:
Oh well you live and you learn. On the plus I've got a few votes so it seems worth it now I've defrosted.
TheBigYin
05-02-2011, 11:32
At a guess - St. Marys ?? The forums most photographed Lighthouse??
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3500/3312057625_196fb0f2aa.jpg
Got it in one Mark:thumbs:
Bloody cold and expossed at night with the tide in I can tell you:'(
TheBigYin
05-02-2011, 11:51
Well - I reckon you should definitely get the "Suffering for Your Art" prize this month :thumbs: And I liked the shot you submitted - keep threatening to get out and try it myself, but never manage to :(
You should try it, very satisfying when all the images are stacked I was astonished by how many more stars the camera picks up than the eye.
TheBigYin
05-02-2011, 13:31
what kind of duration of exposure was it in total - might have a go with the Pinhole camera as I can just leave that outside with a 10 stop ND installed and get 4 hours out of a single exposure on 100iso film - or am I missing something obvious :thinking:
Not to sure of how it would work with film to be honest, this one was 216 shots of 15 seconds each all at F8 iso 400, the longer exposure the better I've read but I had a light on the light house and any longer would have killed it for me. Would you get much noise on film with a 4 hour exposure?
This site explains it much better than I can
http://www.weatherscapes.com/techniques.php?cat=astronomy&page=startrails
TheBigYin
06-02-2011, 10:13
Not to sure of how it would work with film to be honest, this one was 216 shots of 15 seconds each all at F8 iso 400, the longer exposure the better I've read but I had a light on the light house and any longer would have killed it for me. Would you get much noise on film with a 4 hour exposure?
This site explains it much better than I can
http://www.weatherscapes.com/techniques.php?cat=astronomy&page=startrails
We don't call it noise, it's grain - and it's meant to be there. To be honest, if the films exposed correctly, then it should be no more grainy than a shot at mid-day. It's just digital sensors getting overheated and giving hot pixels with long exposures. Having said that, I've done a bit of reading into longer exposures on film, and the big problem seems to be that film gets very non-linear as far as long exposures are concerned - reciprocity fail (http://home.earthlink.net/%7Ekitathome/LunarLight/moonlight_gallery/technique/reciprocity.htm) - and it seems that it's different for pretty much every film :eek: So - I guess it's a non-starter. Just thought I'd be happier leaving a £30 piece of plastic on a tripod outside for 8 hours (well - i'd definitely not be sat by it's side counting elephants for all that time, would I!) than the digital camera tbh :shrug:
I'm made up I've got a few votes (#81) entered for some fun and didn't think I'd get any!
TheBigYin
06-02-2011, 16:33
I'm made up I've got a few votes (#81) entered for some fun and didn't think I'd get any!
You'd better watch out Paul, that's how I started out 2 years ago - it gets addictive! :lol:
I guess it just going to be a case of trial and error Mark your never going to know unless you give it a try.:thumbs:
Mostly error on my part :lol:
I'm glad I did'nt promise myself I'd complete the whole year again.
After last years abysmal results after entering every comp, and this entries embarrassment, I have to finally accept I'm total crap, and back out ungracefully :D
Probably my best bet would be to post in the Critique sections, at least that way, hopefully I'd get help in where I'm going so wrong to try and improve my abilities and self esteem :bonk:
jollyjack
07-02-2011, 16:07
A very interesting month with a lots of good images well done everyone. Ok just about 7 hours left to vote so making a reply to thread to get it on the new post list.
I am soooo happy that more than one person likes my picture (no.111). I have achieved my year aim already!
I have a couple of ideas for pictures for this month and one in the bag that I could use if I get stuck. Some snow forecast here :thumbs: so if this head cold I have clears up, I will get out. Yay!
Thank you to everyone who voted for my photo. Well done to everyone else!
Sent from my HTC Desire using TP Forums
Graham00
07-02-2011, 18:50
I didn't think mine deserved any votes but i got 2, i'm overjoyed tbh because there's some far superior ones there :) it's a really difficult subject too i think.
TheBigYin
07-02-2011, 21:00
Shameless Thread bumpage time...
Come on everyone - theres still a couple of hours left to get your votes in before polling closes :thumbs:
Closed now....
Whoooo I've more than doubled the vote's I got for last January's entry:lol: thanks for all the votes everyone.
TheBigYin
08-02-2011, 09:05
Provisional Results Here (http://www.mb-software.co.uk/tp/index.htm).
Thanks Mark, will post the official version shortly.
BTW, you've got it as January 2010. For a couple of jaffa cakes, I promise I won't tell. ;) :D
TheBigYin
08-02-2011, 09:34
Thanks Mark, will post the official version shortly.
BTW, you've got it as January 2010. For a couple of jaffa cakes, I promise I won't tell. ;) :D
Cheers - that's what I get for trying to re-use code :bonk: Good to tell its been a while since I was a full time code-monkey.
Actually, I'm going to blame the fact that I was up half the night after having nightmares over the February Topic - or more accurately - my inability to shoot anything that would qualify as half reasonable. That's what I get for finishing the Port and Stilton for supper I guess :lol:
The winner has been announced HERE (http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=294825)
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