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NZFF March 2018 Screenshot Competition

The competition is now closed - winners announced!

NOTE: We have one entry per person but TWO CATEGORIES (TWO VOTES) in the poll at the end of the month:
1) Visual Appeal: the winner gets their image displayed as a banner for the following month.
2) Relevance to the Theme: the winner gets the sponsored prize and sets the theme for the next screencomp.

The two votes can go to the same entry or to different ones.

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The March theme is: "Heavy Metal"
... chosen by ExANZEng, winner of the January (theme) competition. If you have any theme-related queries, send him a PM!

"Flying Heavy Metal": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Heavy_Metal
Any aircraft and any location (but a NZ flavour would be nice)!

It doesn't have to be the "Iron Maiden" 747: it can even be military.


This month's competition is once again kindly sponsored by Just Flight. The winner will receive a download of their choice from the excellent range of native Just Flight products.
They're great developers and have been a great sponsor, so let's honour them with a good turnout! You could get your hands on a Dunkirk Spitfire!

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SCHEDULE
Images can be submitted (or edited) up until midnight Saturday 31st March.
Voting runs from Sunday 1st April up until midnight Thursday 5th April.

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PLEASE read the rules below:
If you have any queries, please PM Adam for clarification **before posting your entry**.

ELIGIBILITY

1. Entry (and voting) for the competition is open to all registered NZFF members.
   
   THE SCREENSHOT
2. The screenshot image must consist of a screen captured from a flight simulator program (FS2004, FSX, P3D, X-plane, DCS/IL-2 or War Thunder).
3. Some editing is allowed: additional images can be added (either real or other screenshots), but the main component of the image should always be from a flight sim.
   
   IMAGE FORMAT
4. The images can be jpg or png and must be EXACTLY 1280px wide (any depth).
5. Though "visual appeal" is all about the complete screenshot image (regardless of shape) bear in mind that, if it wins the "Visuals" poll, the final banner crops to quite a narrow letter-box shape - so try to compose your shot so as not to lose areas of high interest.
6. No frames or text on the image.
7. Keep the original uncompressed/high resolution version (BMP or TIFF) saved on your PC - admin may request it from you at the end of the month to convert into a site banner!
8. DCS users may want to look at these DCS tips.
   
   SUBMITTING AN ENTRY
9. Please post all screenshot/entries here - in this topic (below).
10. Only ONE entry/single image per member is allowed.
11. Images can changed any time up until closing time (midnight, last day of the month): use the "edit" button at the top of the original post, delete the old image link and replace it with the new one.
12. If possible, please add details of the aircraft depicted and general scenery/location information.
    
    VOTING
13. After the competition entry deadline, all registered NZFF members may cast TWO votes: one for visual appeal and one for relevance to the theme.
    The two votes can both go to the same entry or to different ones - but please vote in BOTH categories.
14. Entrants may not vote on their own screenshots (!).
15. The winner in the "relevance" poll receives the prize from the designated sponsor and gets to suggest a theme for the next screencomp.
16. The winner in the "visual appeal" poll will have a cropped version of their image posted as the NZFF banner for the following month.
17. Voting is OPEN - and placed by posts in a new (voting) topic.
18. Votes are along the lines of Visuals vote to XXXX and Relevance vote to YYYY. Voters may add why they voted the way they did if they wish.
19. Voting runs for five days and the voting topic is closed.
20. If you win the theme vote (and sponsored prize), don't forget to post a "thank you" topic with some screenshots!

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That's it, folks - get snapping!

Adam.

My favorite Heavy Metal airplane in my favorite livery "Queen of the Skies descending into San Francisco" (this must have been a few years ago):

A bit of Heavy Metal from back in the days of "blue band airways "

I was working away happily on a nice B747 shot when my Internet was down. I get back online only to find BobL beat me to it. Drat!!!

So ... here's a Tornado with all sorts of [heavy!] ironmongery hanging off it - practising its routine for the forthcoming Avalon Airshow:



Adam.

Something funny going with displaying the screens here . On my pc they are all cut short
If i click on Bobs shot i get directed to an image hosting site but no picture, with yours and mine Adam I have to open them in a new tab to view the whole thing.

Splitpin wrote:Something funny going with displaying the screens here . On my pc they are all cut short
If I click on Bobs shot I get directed to an image hosting site but no picture, with yours and mine Adam I have to open them in a new tab to view the whole thing.

An adblocker - or pop-up window blocker, maybe? Have you tried in other browsers?

I've edited Bob's (removed the URL) and copied your pic to the NZFF server. Does that make any difference? It all looks and behaves OK on my PC.

Adam ...must just be this laptop, all looks good on my regular machine

This is a real issue with the forum software, it depends on screen resolution -- if I narrow my browser, there's no way to scroll right to view all of an image. Not normally a problem if the resolution is high enough, but can be tricky for smaller screens and mobile.

Interesting...maybe if your browser is pretending to be a phone, it expects you to have a touchscreen?

and at capacity for 300,000kgs of fuel, it must be HEAVY!

toprob wrote:This is a real issue with the forum software, it depends on screen resolution -- if I narrow my browser, there's no way to scroll right to view all of an image. Not normally a problem if the resolution is high enough, but can be tricky for smaller screens and mobile.

Try now, Rob!

A Caledonian charter trip homeward bound from Dunedin after a haggis-bashing marathon.
TriStar by Thomas Ruth, scenery by Rob Corn, weather by REX Sky Force.

Aluminum overcast during Aurora Borealis passing Jan Mayen. Another John Young aircraft.

I normally just fly singles or twin GA and leave the heavy flying to the AI pilots. Here's the only 'heavy' I have in my 'hangar' leaving NZQN.

GSNDE,

How did you get green sky?

JMBIII wrote:Here's the only 'heavy' I have in my 'hangar' leaving NZQN.

... and very nice it is too! Any chance of a 1280px wide version?

Adam.

Damn, it got me again. I gotta quit reading the rules piecemeal. I swear all I saw was 1200 * 380.

JMBIII wrote:Damn, it got me again. I gotta quit reading the rules piecemeal. I swear all I saw was 1200 * 380.

- thanks for sorting it! .. wait ... now it's 1290!!!!

The 1200*380 dimensions are what the actual banner gets resized to (in the end). Those extra 80px in width give us a little leeway for cropping. Maybe I should remove those dimensions from the rules to save confusion (now done!).

Aharon wrote:GSNDE,

How did you get green sky?

That is the OrbX Aurora Borealis. Sometimes she is reddish which looks great, too.

From mobile hence short

It's heavy and its metal... Lol