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Religion #1 : Islam

Challenge #7 in the Religion series. Hosted by DemiLion.

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This series is intended to study the various religions of the World. In this first one the subject is Islam. Please read the PP and additional rules. Voters please see below for guidelines in Additional Rules.

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Announced:

Thursday, 19th August, 2010 (GMT)

Submissions:

Thursday, 26th August, 2010 – Wednesday, 1st September, 2010 (GMT)

Voting:

Thursday, 2nd September, 2010 – Wednesday, 8th September, 2010 (GMT)

Processing rules:

Post-processing to be similar to News or Editorial images:
1.0 True-to-Life And Utility-Enhancing Procedures
The following digital image editing procedures are permitted to compensate for limitations and defects inherent in the digital photographic process, provided that the impact is to make the photograph more true-to-life (i.e. accurate):
1.0.1 Colour balancing/correction [additional: B/W accepted]
1.0.2 Burning
1.0.3 Correction of lens distortion
1.0.4 Despeckling
1.0.5 Dodging
1.0.6 File optimization [additional: to inc Sharpening]
1.0.7 Focus adjustments
1.0.8 Glare elimination
1.0.9 Overall lightening or darkening
1.0.10 Red eye elimination
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also:
2.0.1 Cropping, darkening or focus-softening to reduce/eliminate superfluous material in a manner that preserves the context of the event.
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Reference:
http://www.digitalcustom.com/howto/mediaguidelines.asp
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Submissions must be at least 900x600
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Exif to be intact

Capture date rules:

No restrictions.

Additional rules:

No nudity, Glamour etc. No excessive gore.
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No Borders, frames or watermarks.
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No reference to your kit or your name in the notes. (you can add a comment post voting if you want to refer to them).
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Consider the skills shown in image manipulation and post processing in comparison with the original (shown in examples below) when voting!
Please vote on the image at full size or in slideshow view- the entrants have put some effort into their submissions, so look at them as they were intended and not as thumbnails.
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Entries that show signs of vote manipulation will be disqualified.

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Evening Prayer

by figuratives_peech

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Evening prayer of a Bedouin in the desert close to Dubai, UAE

Camera:	Sony HDR-XR520
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Submitted:	Sunday, 29th August, 2010 16:43 (GMT)
Taken:	Thursday, 8th October, 2009
Focal length:	8.4 mm
Shutter speed:	1/120 sec
Aperture:	F3.4
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