Marto's reddish black skirt tetras and green plants
1%
[ 1 ]
Mogwai's blue and orange mbuna
6%
[ 4 ]
beachbum21984's orange and blue rams
3%
[ 2 ]
LittleMousling's blue and orange caudopunctatus
6%
[ 4 ]
Alex Kawazaki's red-orange pygmy rasbora and green plants
6%
[ 4 ]
susankatomerit's red-orange Endler's livebearer and green plants
1%
[ 1 ]
Doosharm's red-orange platy and green plants
5%
[ 3 ]
Psyfalcon's blue-striped urophthalmus and orange terra cotta pot
0%
[ 0 ]
Marcos Avila's school of red serpae tetras and green plants
1%
[ 1 ]
nonamethefish's blue and orange Nothobranchius kafuensis
0%
[ 0 ]
2la's scarlet badis and green plants
18%
[ 11 ]
dr_fosg8's orange and blue Metriaclima estherae
3%
[ 2 ]
shalu's red Rotala macranda and green plants
1%
[ 1 ]
randomrambler's blue-green chromis and yellow-orange pajama cardinals
0%
[ 0 ]
bash's blue auratus and red-orange jewel cichlid
1%
[ 1 ]
Dan0504's orange clownfish and blue background
3%
[ 2 ]
Steve Hampton's purple and yellow Nymphaea capensis flower
5%
[ 3 ]
SLACkra's orchid and lime-green zoanthid colony
1%
[ 1 ]
mobius's blue and orange Boeseman's rainbowfish
10%
[ 6 ]
Total Votes : 59
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Joined: 05 Feb 2003 Location: St. Paul, MN
Posted: 2005.08.08(Mon)12:45 Post subject: [Vote closed] Photo Contest "Complementary Colors"
The candidates are in, and now it's time for you to vote for your favorite image in August's "Complementary Colors" Photo Contest! Be sure and leave your questions, comments, and constructive criticisms after you vote, too! Voting closes after 7 days from this post. Here again are this month's entries (refer to the submissions thread for further details on each photo). Looks like another tough vote!
Zeco's blue and orange discus
Marto's reddish black skirt tetras and green plants
Mogwai's blue and orange mbuna
beachbum21984's orange and blue rams
LittleMousling's blue and orange caudopunctatus
Alex Kawazaki's red-orange pygmy rasbora and green plants
susankatomerit's red-orange Endler's livebearer and green plants
Doosharm's red-orange platy and green plants
Psyfalcon's blue-striped urophthalmus and orange terra cotta pot
Marcos Avila's school of red serpae tetras and green plants
nonamethefish's blue and orange Nothobranchius kafuensis
2la's scarlet badis and green plants
dr_fosg8's orange and blue Metriaclima estherae
shalu's red Rotala macranda and green plants
randomrambler's blue-green chromis and yellow-orange pajama cardinals
bash's blue auratus and red-orange jewel cichlid
Dan0504's orange clownfish and blue background
Steve Hampton's purple and yellow Nymphaea capensis(?) flower
SLACkra's orchid and lime-green zoanthid colony
mobius's blue and orange Boeseman's rainbowfish _________________
Last edited by 2la on 2005.09.11(Sun)22:14; edited 2 times in total
Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Location: Rio de Janeiro - Brazil
Posted: 2005.08.08(Mon)23:27 Post subject:
Considering the theme, mobiu's boeseman's rainbow was my choice for gathering the complementary colours in a single fish.
Congratulations to all the members for the amazing photos. The contests are already a successful experiment among us. In my opinion, this one was the best so far.
Congratulations algo to whoever had the idea for the theme. Original, fun and open to all kinds of photos, not excluding anybody.
Joined: 05 Feb 2003 Location: Santo Andre (Brazil)
Posted: 2005.08.09(Tue)1:22 Post subject:
I almost voted for Steve's flower...but at the last moment I went for the photo above it...for some reason that little clown fish really caught my eye...he looks almost unrreal, with perfect focus while everything else is blurred behind him, and the shadow putting everything in perspective and giving a nice 3-dimensional touch to the composition. _________________ Success with a fish/tank is measured in YEARS, not months or weeks...
Great photos from everyone this month. I would have voted for Marcos based on subject composition if the focus have been sharper. It was a very difficult choice for me between Zeco, 2la, and Mobius...finally settling on Zeco...two sets of complimentary colors, the blue and orange and red and green, but might vote differently if given the choice again tomorrow...it was that close to me. _________________
I had to vote for 2la's picture because I love the sharp focus of the fish, and the plant leaf, in contrast to the blurred background. It makes the fish stand out much more than if the background woul have been in foucs like the fish. It was a tough choice though and I enjoied veiwing all of your wonderful pictures. _________________ 10 gal- Betta Tank
40 gal- Community
Well, after letting it stew in my brain for a few days, I realized that tacking days onto my decision wasn't going to make it any easier, so I'm biting the bullet.
First, I'd like to give credit where credit is due:
lularib wrote:
Congratulations algo to whoever had the idea for the theme. Original, fun and open to all kinds of photos, not excluding anybody.
That would be me. But actually, Marcos was the one who pushed for it to be this month's theme. I was a little worried that people would be struggling to find good examples of complementary colors in their photos, but with just a little bit of rule-bending for some entries, we actually had as many turn out for this contest as for our first one. Congrats to everyone who entered!
From a photographically technical standpoint, it was easy to pick out the strongest entries: LittleMousling's, Alex's, Doosharm's, dr_fosg8's, and Steve's images all have nice crispness, good and even exposure, good saturation, and relatively little noise. Psyfalcon's and mobius's images were also strong but for minor saturation and focus issues, respectively. That's extreme nitpicking, though, but in a contest with so many high-quality images, I had to find reasons not to vote for certain entries, even if the criteria would otherwise be minor. As another example, as an afficionado of small fish, I can especially appreciate the trials Alex must have gone through to nab such a sharp picture of such a tiny, hyperactive fish! Ultimately, though, I felt a strong conviction to adhere to my original interpretation of this contest theme when I first proposed it, and it was unfortunate that the Boraras wasn't a pure red fish.
From a subject point of view, I really liked Marcos's and noname's photos, even if they weren't the strongest from a technical standpoint. Steve's flower image was IMHO the most original, but like noname I felt a little distracted by the grid and the floating riccia mat. I think a tight square crop really would have swung my vote.
So who did I finally vote for? Ultimately, I cast my vote after I asked myself, "If I could put one of these images on my desktop, which one would I like to see most?" And even though it wasn't the most noise-free or sharply focused image, I felt that Zeco's discus image best embodied the spirit of this month's contest theme. It strikes me as such a dynamic image, making it seem like the discus just exploded into existence out of nowhere (no, I'm not smoking anything right now). That, combined with the bold, saturated contrast of truly complementary blue and orange, gave it the very slight nod over LittleMousling's, Steve's, Alex's, and dr_fosg8's superb images.
So, thank you to everyone EXCEPT Zeco for making me feel like a jerk for not voting for your image! _________________
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But actually, Marcos was the one who pushed for it to be this month's theme. I was a little worried that people would be struggling to find good examples of complementary colors in their photos, but with just a little bit of rule-bending for some entries, we actually had as many turn out for this contest as for our first one. Congrats to everyone who entered!
