Amateur Photographer Forum Monthly Photographic Competition 2009

November – A good long look – open shutter

What’s the shutter speed of your eye? The lower the light the longer the ‘exposure’, and motion becomes blurred. Shoot a long exposure – longer than usual – and make it show in the picture. Combine the still and the moving, streak reality into art or create an effect to catch the eye.

Monthly Competition Rules

1. ONLY one entry per member is allowed.

2. Images must not exceed 600 pixels x 600 pixels.

3. Files must be under 100Kb (102,400 bytes).
New members should read the Posting Images – Maximum Sizes etc… sticky before posting!

4. Entries can be from any time period, not just the current month.

5. Images must be embedded in the monthly competition sticky using the ‘Image’ tag. No links please!

6. Posts should only include a ‘title’ and an image – (please keep technical info and comments to a minimum). Use the Comments thread for in-depth (or whatever) discussions.

7. Images that don’t show (because of hosting problems on your part) will obviously not be included in the competition. AP accepts no responsibility for this.

8. Images that exceed the competition guidelines will be deleted and replaced with the words. “Image exceeds competition guidelines – you may re-submit by posting a new URL in the ‘comments’ thread where a moderator will then amend your original post” or similar…

9. The competition ends 12 midnight on the last day of each month.

This competition is for ‘fun’ and is to encourage you to get out and take photos!

Thanks to our wonderful sponsors – Nikon. The company very kindly supplies us with a delightful Nikon Coolpix S560 for the winning entry each month.

The second and third placed entrants win a top of the range, fully waterproof, ‘AP loves my pictures’ mug.

You can catch-up with all the chat about each round and see the entries and results in our monthly competition forum area