July 05 Contest Votes

[T Paul]

Voting will run from 25 July to 31 July 2005. Deadline for votes is 5pm EDT 31 July 2005.

Only those that entered the contest may vote. All other votes will be deleted. If you did not enter, but would like to comment on an entry, please post your comments to the July 05 Discussion Thread.

Vote for the 5 best entries in order.

Note you cannot vote for your own image. If you do, your votes will be deleted.

Example Vote:
Pick the top five contest entries and list in order...

1. Entry X (First Place)
2. Entry A (Second Place and so on)
3. Entry Q
4. Entry S
5. Entry P

This thread will remain closed until it's time to vote.

Also don't forget that all participants must vote in order to avoid being disqualified.

[T Paul]

Well it’s time to vote and this will take some time with so many entries to review. Remember to make sure you have the most current version of the entry as many changed throughout the month. If there is an edit tag at the end of the post, then most likely the entry has been changed. Also when viewing the images, make sure you view the full image and not just the thumbnail. Furthermore make sure the full image is completely opened as many browsers shrink images to fit within the screen view. If you place your mouse over the image and a box with arrows pointing out appears in the lower corner, this indicates that the image is not full size and you need to expand the image to regular size. Just click on the arrow box to perform this action.

A couple important things to remember about the rules:

1. You must VOTE for the top 5 entries. Participants that do not submit their top 5 WILL BE DISQUALIFIED.

2. This was not a Photo Art challenge. The glamour portrait was to remain as a photo. That doesn’t mean you couldn’t add, subtract or change items, it just means that the quality should still remain as a photo.

And as always, when you vote try to include some things you especially liked about your choices…what made them stand out, what impressed you, etc. This is a learning experience!

Finally, Caitlin has kindly offered to post the images on her server for easier viewing. Once I have the link I will add it here.

[T Paul]

For easier viewing of the entries click here

Note this is a temporary web site.

[lkroll]

Since this was a glamour touchup and not a paint contest, I leveled my opinion on the following (though I really liked one other, but, to me, it looked like a painting so I had to adhere to the rules in my voting):

1. Doug Colwell
2. soleah
3. Flora
4. smats
5. karmaelea

[T Paul]

Note, votes will be tallied as they come in so any changes after the fact will be disregarded.

[1STLITE]

There were alot of awesome entries here! Congrats to all who entered and to those who place in the voting!!

My votes:

1st - Faustina
2nd - DreamyPix
3rd - TPaul
4th - Caitlin
5th - Flora

Faustina's entry, in my eyes, is absolutely beautiful - WELL DONE! DreamyPix is a very close second, losing out only on the background - for me it just does not say glamour. TPaul's is lovely also, but I thought her nose was altered just a bit too much until it was just not her (but this is just nit-picking really - it's a lovely retouch! And I love her hair in this one!). Caitlin's was also an issue of the background, I just thought was too distracting and doesn't say glamour to me. It was very well executed however, so great job! Flora's I thought the coloring and all was beautiful, but I thought her hair on the side that was replaced was lacking something. Other than that a very well done retouch!

THis was very hard to call on many accounts, and I thought everyone did a very good job!

Great job EVERYONE!

Dawn

(PS - Thanks Caitlin!)

[nurdant]

1. Faustina
2. Dreamypix
3. 1stlite
4. Soleah
5. Ilpro

This contest will be a great memory for me.
Thanks everyone

[Caitlin]

Just wanted to make people aware that there was a problem with the photo album and one entry (pjulich) was accidently left out. I've just fixed it! (Please please use your name as the fiilename is per the instructions - 'portrait7' is not very meaningful hence easily lost!!) Sorry for the mix-up

[kiska]

1. Faustina - eyes a little overdone, otherwise Great.
2. Flora - 'fudged' on hair- smooth skin, nice 'nose job'
3. Cazubi - plain BG - good job on face
4. Soleah - color cast, prominent nose - otherwise well done
5. Racclria - face a little 'smudgy' - great eyes

[smats]

1 Doug Colwell
2 Karmalea
3 Chris Hoggy
4 Gen
5 Ikroll

[raniday]

1. Doug Colwell
2. TPaul
3. Kiska
4. ilpro
5. Faustina

Great contest and awesome entries.

[Panpan]

I decided by sorting the entries into two almost equal piles. Then I sorted the better pile into two again and so on. In end I had the six entries I liked best. However I still had to rank them and one of them would be left out. Since I liked them best, I had to nitpick to drop some in rank. Please don't be vexed by my comments. It's how I managed to vote, so don't shoot!

• 1. chrishoggy - Very nice interpretation. I can't say better than first place
• 2. lorraine - I like the expression and the skin. The lower half of the hair needs work.
• 3. dougcolwell - Nice skin. Could have worked on the hair.
• 4. gobethgo - I had a really hard time deciding between this and dougcolwell. Gobethgo lost out because of the neck and eyes.
• 5. 1stlite - The painterly hair would have been an asset in another contest

In case you're wondering, the sixth was dreamypix. The skin color of the upper half is great, but it changes from the mouth down.

[Caitlin]

I know it's said all the time, but this seriously was incredibly hard to judge. For the same reason it was hard to do, it was hard to work out what the best result was in others work too.

My criteria was - realistic and attractive makeup added, still looks like the model, attractive overall effect.

My very tortuous final list came out as:

1. Dreamypix - nice makeup, like the background perspective. Could do with some noise removed.
2. RaccaIria - Not my favourite colours for makeup, but well done.
3. Karmaelea - love the eye colour, and makeup and skin looks good.
4. 1st light - love the hair colour, and the background is really interesting.
5. Doug Colwell - Could do with a bit more makeup, but skin and lips are great.

In terms of technical skill and polish I thought that Faustina and Flora were far ahead and were really attractive images, but in both cases I felt that the model's 'look' was altered too much, and I no longer recognised her, so I didn't feel I could rate either in my top 5.

[Eliebeth]

1. Faustina
2. Flora
3. dougcolwell
4. Lorraine
5. soleah

It wasn`t easy to choose

[faustina]

1. DreamyPix. I think you did a great job smoothing her skin, while preserving texture and a nice job with the hair and makeup. I would have liked to see a different background besides the brick.

2. Soleah. I love the pastel hues you decided to use and that you fluffed up her hair. I toyed with that idea myself, but you really made it work! I also like that you made the earrings match the background... details details

3. ISTLITE. I loved watching your image transform over the month I think you ended up with a beautiful image. The lashes are great and I love the coloring. I think the hair looks a little oversmoothed, otherwise I would have had you higher

4. Flora. Beautiful coloring, glamourous indeed. The only reason I have you 4th is a matter of personal preference. I would have liked to see the eyemakeup highlighting her brows and really making her eyes pop with less of the brown and the eye whites less yellow. Really nice

5. Caitlin. You did a nice job


I really love Doug Colwell's image and had this not had "glamour" in the name of the game, he would have been my personal 1st place. It's beautiful work evening out the skin tones, etc...I just didn't much any glam in it.

There is a tremendous amount of talent here and I am happy to have found this forum