China--People

Challenge #1 in the around the world in 80 ways series. Hosted by santamonica812.

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Images will be environmental portraits ideally, but traditional portraits are also acceptable if that's all you have. This is NOT the challenge for images of the Great Wall, Forbidden City, etc . . . that will be another challenge.

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Announced:

Thursday, 20th December, 2012 (GMT)

Submissions:

Thursday, 27th December, 2012 – Wednesday, 2nd January, 2013 (GMT)

Voting:

Thursday, 3rd January, 2013 – Wednesday, 9th January, 2013 (GMT)

Processing rules:

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Capture date rules:

No restrictions.

Additional rules:

-Image must be 1600 pixels on the longest side.
-1% leeway on size restrictions
-Must have a meaningful title
-Either title or details must give location where image was shot
-Environmental photographs should be given a slight "bonus" (about 0.5 points)
-Non-environmental portraits (i.e., ones not showing subject interacting with his/her environment) should have their scores voted down by about 0.5 points.
-Photos that are the recipient of suspicious voting patterns (come on; we all know them when we see them) will be DQ'd.
-I will recognize the top few "Judge's Choice" images in the Challenge forum, after the voting phase has ended.
-IF YOU ENTERED AN IMAGE, ***PLEASE*** VOTE ON ALL OTHER ENTRIES. THIS SHOULD TAKE LESS THAN 10 MINUTES TO DO. THANKS. :-)

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Maximum number of entries in challenge:

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Voting results: 33 entries Slideshow of 3 2 Page: 4 Rows:

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Crossing the River of Cry, Yun Nam, Western China

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Sample entries

These entries were provided by the challenge host(s) as samples and cannot be voted on. Upload sample image.

Challenge comments

Total comments: 4

JeanPierre,
I am trusting in your own sense of integrity. Please do vote on all the images. The challenges are not for money. If there are better images than yours, give those high scores. If there are images that are worse (or that don't fit the challenge rules), then don't feel guilty about giving them low scores.

Why do I want you to do this? First, because most challenges have very few votes (often fewer than 10-15 per image). If you and others vote, then there will be a *minimum* of about 35 votes per image, and likely more than that. So, even if a few people "cheat" by giving unfairly low votes, that will be offset by the sheer number of "honest" votes.

Second, it really should not take more than 10 minutes to do. It can take quite some time to host, and it's probably not asking too much for entrants to spend 10 minutes in order to make the challenge more successful.

If you really want to contribute to challenges, leave comments in addition to the votes for images.

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I've submited the first entry but I'm in conflict of interest to vote for all the other ones. I never did that and I don't understand why you want us to do that. My interest in to give a bad score to any picture better than mine, in order to help mine to win.

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Yes. I am hoping to see environmental portraits. I think the 3 examples I posted should give an idea, in case some people don't know what an environmental portrait is. For an example of what NOT to do, look at the middle of the 3 examples I gave . . . of a guard in front of a large image of Chairman Mao. If your image looks like the actual Mao (ie, very close up, showing only his head and shoulders) then you have not followed the challenge rule . . . you will have submitted a traditional portrait, which is NOT this challenge.

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Dear Host, according your sample entries you are preferably looking for a scene with chinese people, not for a portrait in the usual sense. And I assume that people e.g.in the Forbidden City as an environment would be allowed.
Can you confirm this? Thank you for the nice challenge idea!

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