Welcome to the NZFF March 2012 Screenshot Competition now Closed

[Wynthorpe]

Somwhere over the South Island -

[Splitpin]

Magic !

[SgtPepper]

Nice screen Wynthorpe, good to see the new guys gonna give the usualls a run for their money.

[Ian Warren]

Simon , ya already bannerated it .. think you going to be told no borders , COOL SCREEN ...... and wet

[toprob]

QUOTE (Wynthorpe @ Mar 13 2012,4:59 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Somwhere over the South Island -

That is very nice. Welcome to the comp.

[Adamski]

QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Mar 13 2012,12:59 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Simon , ya already bannerated it

If I can throw in my 2c worth here ...

Initially, I went for creating banners - and tended to crop my entries to a banner shape as well. However - thousands of screenshots later, I came to the conclusion that it's primarily a screenshot competition - and that people vote for the most attractive pic - regardless of whether it'd make a good banner.

Part of the fun of the competition is to give Uncle Doug an impossible pic to crop

I certainly crop off any useless crud from the image, but sometimes the same image can work well in both shapes and it's a shame to lose that original stuff at top and bottom.

[dbcunnz]

QUOTE (Adamski @ Mar 18 2012,11:34 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Part of the fun of the competition is to give Uncle Doug an impossible pic to crop

Now now Adam don't go giving entrants any of those ideas like that or I will be giving the image back to the winner and telling them crop it to 1200px by 350px and send it back to me and that is what they will get as the banner

[Wynthorpe]

Mine just end up bannered size when resized to 1280 due to my res being 4320x900

[Olderndirt]

QUOTE (Adamski @ Mar 18 2012,3:34 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

If I can throw in my 2c worth here ...

Initially, I went for creating banners - and tended to crop my entries to a banner shape as well. However - thousands of screenshots later, I came to the conclusion that it's primarily a screenshot competition - and that people vote for the most attractive pic - regardless of whether it'd make a good banner.

Part of the fun of the competition is to give Uncle Doug an impossible pic to crop

I certainly crop off any useless crud from the image, but sometimes the same image can work well in both shapes and it's a shame to lose that original stuff at top and bottom.

I often find that cropping the useless crud doesn't leave much .

[SgtPepper]

QUOTE (Olderndirt @ Mar 19 2012,8:04 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I often find that cropping the useless crud doesn't leave much .

I often find that cropping the useless crud dosn't leave anything at all

[Adamski]

QUOTE (SgtPepper @ Mar 19 2012,9:58 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I often find that cropping the useless crud dosn't leave anything at all

Hahaha ... very funny - both of you . I suppose I kind of walked into that one!

[BobL]

My entry for the March comp. Captain Sim Hercules in NZ delivery colours. Just north of Wanaka

[Adamski]

Aaahh! Great to see an old Herc . This one is probably 75yrs old

[Splitpin]

Great shot, great old aircraft

[dbcunnz]

In addition to the prize and the banner the winner will now have a splash screen image done of their winning image.

Adam (Adamski) will be doing these splash screens of the winning image each month and they will be posted in the congratulations post after the winners banner goes up.
Members may be asked for a copy of their original image so it can be cropped to the right size for the banner and also for the splash screen image see here

Don't aim to shoe-horn your pic into both formats (the banner and splash pic are a totally different shape). The *banner* is the main priority (if you don't get the banner you wont get the splash screen). Either way, please keep a high-resolution (un-cropped) version for use for both images.

[Adamski]

QUOTE (dbcunnz @ Mar 22 2012,6:31 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Members may be asked for a copy of their original image so it can be cropped to the right size for the banner and also for the splash screen image see here

Just to stress - the splash pic is *secondary* ... so don't compose/crop your pic specifically for the [more] square shape.

On another note ... I entered a comp at ORBX (NZSI screenshots) ... and you can't change your entry once you've posted it. We have a BIG advantage over ORBX in that we can change our entries at any time - right up to 1 hour before the close of play. Sometimes, the competition "hots up" towards the end - and that pic that looked great for so long, suddenly looks a bit "ordinary". I always have a hard time deciding on my pic(s), so it's really great to be able to swap at any time.

[matthw]

The venerable Huey wraps up the search for the day.



FTX NZSI, Aerosoft Huey X

[Ian Warren]

25 Years ago , Scooting NZ blind in a RAZBAM T'Bird ... Just ta rip ya shorts .. Timmo's Bro broke it a few years later Read the Crash report in SKYHAWK !

One Skyhawk that died an Honorable Death

[dbcunnz]

Great screens guys
OK just 5 days left for all you late comers

[goingboeing]

Hi guys heres my entry for the comp, Herc 05 dawn flight along the Kaikoura coast awesome entries so far