FAcebook Banner Competition - September

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We are fully aware lots of people don't like Facebook and that's fine, you are more than welcome to click away now ;)

Now Open for Entries for the September TP Banner!

Each month we are asking you to post a photo that you think deserves that top slot on the FB page, that you can share and brag about to your friends. The winner will be chosen by member vote and the winning photo will be there for all to see for a month. You don't have to have a Facebook account to enter of course, the competition will take place here and just the winning photograph will be added to the page. Of course there have to be a few simple rules and here they are.

  • The photo you submit MUST be cropped to this ratio > 851px x315px - This is where the challenge will lie, finding the right photo for such a ratio and avoiding the main focus being on that left hand side. Any photos not to this ratio will unfortunately not feature in the voting.
  • You will have one week each month to submit your photo and voting will be open for one week afterwards.
  • By submitting your photo, you are granting TalkPhotography permission to use that image for a month on the Talk Photography Facebook page and a post promoting the fact you have won within the status updates on the page.
  • The Talk Photography facebook page is an open, public page, so we must ask that all photos are 'family' friendly. [in other words, use your common sense ;) ] but other than that, the theme is totally open.
  • You may add a small lower/upper right hand corner watermark if you wish, but no great big ones that cover/distort the photo or generally spoil the viewing experience.

So, here we go with this months, you are submitting photos that will feature on the page in September, so you have from now until just before midnight, Wednesday 20th August to get your entries in. The voting will then be open until Wednesday 27th August, so our winner can be announced and added to the page in time for September. Post them in this thread please.

Remember we will be running this every month, so it is worth remembering when you are taking photos to perhaps think about framing the odd picture to suit this crop with an entry in mind.

Good luck everyone :D




ETA: Just for reference, this photo is cropped to the correct ratio, so if yours doesn't look this kind of shape, then you need to check it again. [This is not an entry]

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To demonstrate how the banner will look, including the left hand profile picture which obscures some of the image, here is how it looks featuring a previous winner.

 
Not much I can do as its cropped to the correct ratio needed.

If you go back to the original image, set you crop ratio to the correct figures above, and crop the image based on that aspect ratio, and you'll get the image at the right dementions, then resize it to the correct size and you shouldn't then have the distortion issue

Edit: I'd also be tempted to flip it to put the stag on the opposite side so as not to be lost behind the profile picture :)
 
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my entry Red Arrow landing at Exeter
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apologies for double post.. just finding my way around here.. and cant see how to delete a post either..
 
WOW!! Impressed by this months entries, some real good ones in there. Entries are now closed and later today I will get the vote going. Sorry its a bit late, been a bit hectic here and you don't want to know why I am up and posting at 4am!
 
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