Firstly, thanks to everyone who sent entries in. I appreciate it was neither a pure photography competition or a great picture to build upon. That said, it was a bit of fun and I hope you had a laugh doing it.

Given how frequently cropping was used within the entries, I'm guessing nobody liked my original composition!

In order to make it impartial, I asked Dermot to judge the entries and provided them to him in an anonymous flickr page.

You can find a gallery of entries here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/27345143@N05/sets/72157606014987089/


About the winner, Dermot said:

"A nice clever crop, good composition, a little bit of brightness tweaking to bring out the colours and give definition to the clouds, we don’t need to see the whole digger to know that it’s a digger…"


So, without further ado and with much ripping of virtual envelopes, the winner of the 2008 Learningtosnap challenge is.....




Andrew!


Thanks to all that entered and to Dermot for judging the entries.

Folks, a final reminder that if you want to enter the challenge/competition thing I set up a few weeks back, then I need your entries by the end of tomorrow!

You can find all the details here!

 

Send them to me at paul(at)learningtosnap.com

Just a quick reminder that the challenge is still ongoing.

 

If you're interested in having a bit of a lugh and maybe winning the grand sum of £10 in amazon Vouchers (no expense spared!), then take a loo here.

It was just pointed out to me that there might not be an obvious email address to actually send entries to.

All I can say is 'ooops'.

Please send them to

paul<at>learningtosnap.com

Needless to say the <at> should be an @...

I purchased my camera and started this blog in earnest in July last year. A year seems to have flown past and hopefully I've shown a lot of what I've learned about photography. I know I've hosted a lot of images and had a surprising number of visitors to this blog.

In order to celebrate a year of blogdom and camera fun I thought it might be nice to have a challenge.

The aim of the game is to take the following image and make it 'better' using any post processing tools you have at your disposal. Be it Photoshop or Picasa, GIMP or Paint Shop Pro, even the online tools I discussed here are allowed. When you've finished, email me the image and I'll host all the finished work in a gallery for review. I'll even arrange an independent judge to pick the best one.

To make it interesting, and as a thank-you to all the people who've visited over the last year, I'll donate a £10 Amazon voucher to the winner. I know it's not going to change your life, but hey...

Closing date for entries will be the 30th June and I'll post the gallery and winner as soon after that as feasible.

So! What are you waiting for?

 

...oh, yeah, the image...

 

The full size jpeg can be found here.

The full size raw (.dng) file can be found here.

(You might want to use right-click then save link as...)

 

 

The small print.

I'm not sure if we need much in the way of formalised rules here, but just in case...

1. No more than 2 entries per person. The competition is open to everyone

2. All entries should have a valid email address associated with them

3. Submitted pictures should be composed of the above image (no substituting my digger picture for some random blonde, Jon)

4. The judges decision is final

5. The £10 Amazon voucher can be made available in different currencies as required

EDIT (21/05/08)

The link for the .dng file should now work.