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Post subject: Re: Vote for my Walnut Strat
Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2013 7:07 am
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"Photo Contest Official Rules:

VI. Judging Criteria

On or about Tuesday, April 16, 2013, the Sponsor will select winners from the contest entrants based on the following criteria: photo quality, use of color, composition, and creativity. One winner will receive a $50 Guitar Center gift card. Other winners will receive other prizes that will be determined based on number of entrants but may include Sonis Music Studio gift cards and items."

https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/files.apps.agorapulse.com/contest/1418/rules.pdf

I couldn't find anything related to this contest on Sonis Music Studio's website, so I don't know where you got the idea that the winner will be based on public voting. But they're legally bound by their official rules. They gave themselves leeway to extend the contest a little or end it a bit early (since they only have 16 entries and most of the pics are pretty poor quality they may have extended the deadline), but it's pretty clear that someone who works for Sonis will be picking the winner based on the artistic qualities of the photos, not a popularity contest based on who's got the coolest guitar.

While I do agree that your guitar is the coolest one in the contest, there's really no creativity in your pic, no use of color, and it's poorly composed. It's fairly crisp/sharp so it beats the fuzzy and washed out gear pics, but based on their criteria the pics entitled "Could Use Some Encouragement" and "Ergo Electric Upright Bass" are the likely winners (they're pretty poor pics too, but at least they tried to be photographically creative).

Could be worse -- the Carnival Seasons band pic is cliched and I suspect the 5 people who voted for it are the 5 members of the band.


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Post subject: Re: Vote for my Walnut Strat
Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2013 3:11 pm
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CRGuitarMan wrote:
Is that guitar as dusty and dirty as it looks to be in the picture..?

Maybe that's what's hurting your vote count... :|


The flash doesn't help. The dust is actually pick-shavings . . .

strayedstrater wrote:
While I do agree that your guitar is the coolest one in the contest, there's really no creativity in your pic, no use of color, and it's poorly composed.


Hey, it's just a picture. It's not a portrait, it wasn't staged or lit with a keylight, backlighting and a fancy background and a camera with a greased lens. I didn't take it to Glamour Shots. If you'd have seen some of the punk dives where I played it you'd probably be shocked.

I took the picture at least a year ago to show someone what it looked like. When I entered the contest, I uploaded what I had. There's only so much effort warranted for a $50 gift card. If you'd do it differently, great . . .

Oh, and the submission period is over, so it's up to the judges.

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