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Create Chimes a Stock Pack!



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-What's this?
Well, I'm glad you asked. I thought of this little contest while trying to think of ways to boost activity and submissions over at Reference Pictures, the aim is to create a stock pack for me to make a manipulation from (if you need a couple of samples of my work visit: CCASP: Samples). The stock packs will be put into the Reference Pictures archives enabling you to become one of the Reference Photographers - that's if you don't mind having them in there. Please note that this is not an official contest.

-What is a Stock Pack?
A Stock Pack is a set or series of images used to create a photomanipulation. It can include (but is not limited to): Landscapes, interiors, model stocks, animal stocks, object stocks and textures.

-What will I get if I participate?
A little unofficial badge, made by myself. If you choose to allow your pack to be submitted to Reference Pictures then you will also receive the badge of the Reference Photographers. You also get the warm feeling of taking part.

-What will I get if I win?
If you win I will be making a manipulation out of your stock, which will be dedicated to you and it will be for you. If you have a DeviantART account, I will feature you in my journal over there. I am also trying to think of some other little goodies for you.
Plus all of the prizes for participation.

-How will it be judged?
I haven't quite decided yet but the options are: public vote, a panel of judges or my personal choice.

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Rules



1. Images MUST be yours and must adhere to the uploading art rules.
If they are not yours you will be disqualified from this contest and reported to the guards. Collaborative efforts are allowed, but please limit your teams to three at most.

2. There must be at least three images in your stock pack and entries must be placed on separate (exported) wikis.
One of the three images must be some sort of background, the other two can be to enhance said background. For example: your images could be as follows, a field, stormy sky and a horse. Feel free to put as many images in as you like, I will try to incorperate all of them, if you win.

3. You must make a note of whether you are willing to have your packs submitted to Reference Pictures or not.
This is not necessary but it would be nice if you would allow it, remember that if you agree your images will be free for anyone on Elftown to use. If you are using recognisable human models that are not yourself I will need written permission from them to use the images. This is the same with Reference Photos, you may choose to do this using the Elftown Media Release Form.

4. Good quality photos, please.
Grainy or pixelated images are somewhat hard to work with, so good quality images are necessary.

5. Stick to the theme.
There will not always be a theme, see below for details If this goes well I will be doing several rounds of this contest.

6. Have fun!
That one is simple. :P

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Theme



-None.
There is no theme for this round, you are free to go whichever direction you wish. Have fun, go crazy, suprise me.

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Deadline



-26th March '09
Midnight in your local time at the latest, unless you have contacted me beforehand with a valid reason to give you extra time. :]


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Entries



Contest Closed

Winner to be announced!




Please set out your entries like so:
0.[Username] - [Username's Stock Pack@wiki]
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1. [Yuriona] - Yuriona's Stock Pack




2. [Rebulous] - Rebulous' Stock Pack




3. [Skydancer] - Sky's Stock for Chimes




4. [Easterling] - Easterling's Stock Pack




5. [Jitter] - Jitter's Stockpack will add moar




6. [Skydancer] Sky's Stock for Chimes 2 more incentive for folk to go all out in their efforts. :D




7. [Linderel] - Lin's stock pack




8. [Aeolynn] - Aeolynn + Stock = Chimes




9. [Tynuka-Rhytishy] - Chime's Stock Pack - Tynuka




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2008-12-21 [Thunder Cid]: *watches*

2008-12-21 [Chimes]: Then who is the mysterious second watcher? o.o;

2008-12-21 [Jitter]: 4th watcher ahoy!

2008-12-21 [Chimes]: Yippee! :D

2008-12-21 [Linderel]: *stalks*

2008-12-21 [Chimes]: *looks over her shoulder...* I get the feeling people are watching me... XD

2008-12-21 [Chimes]: Ooo! That would be brilliant! Thank you, Artsie!

2008-12-21 [Yuriona]: This does sound neat. =) I've got lots and lots of stock type photos that I keep meaning to post but never do.

2008-12-21 [Tynuka-Rhytishy]: -watches- I don't have any experience in this, but there's no reason why I can't give it a try. =]

2008-12-21 [Chimes]: Oooo! Yay! <3

Tynuka, you don't need experience, not really. I've seen your submissions for Reference Pictures and I like what I see. :]

2008-12-21 [Yuriona]: Alrighty then. I'm in the process of uploading a bunch of stock photos so hopefully I'll have a stock pack ready for ya soon! ^__^

2008-12-21 [Chimes]: Oooo! Yay! That makes me excited!

2008-12-21 [Tynuka-Rhytishy]: Lol, thank you.

2008-12-21 [Khronos Atmosphaera]: *watches* I believe I'm gunna do this. I've been wanting to make stock photos for a long while, I've just not had a reason to get off my butt and do it.

2008-12-21 [Chimes]: Excellent. :D Glad that I can make a sufficient form of motivation. :]

2008-12-22 [Captain Rachel Black]: *haunts* :D

2008-12-22 [Chimes]: Hooray! Another haunter! :D Welcome!

Wow, Yuri! You're fast!

2008-12-22 [Yuriona]: Fast? It took me a while to set up my stock pages! :O I had 5 years worth of stock photos to sort through.

2008-12-22 [Chimes]: Yeah but normally contests (non-official ones, anyway) don't tend to see entries until their third day, at least. Maybe. XD So, by those standards, you are fast. :]

2008-12-22 [Flisky]: Have to go throw my stock photos. But in the meantime...

*stalks*

2008-12-22 [Venus 53]: hmm I may have to have a look through my photos and see what (if anything) decent I can come up with.. =)

2008-12-22 [Chimes]: Excellent! :D

2008-12-22 [Rook.]: you may use ANY of my photos, Chi... I dont really have time to make a seperate wiki pages...so go through my pics, I'll have them on my page in a moment....

2008-12-22 [Chimes]: Well, this is a contest, so the aim is for you to submit, not for me to choose images. It would be unfair on anyone else who enters.

2008-12-22 [Rook.]: oooh... I didn't see the contest part..sorries... ^^ I think I shall have to bow out of this one...

2008-12-22 [Chimes]: Alright. :] Maybe, we shall see you in the next round? (There will hopefully be one.)

2008-12-22 [Rook.]: *nods* most likely

2008-12-22 [Chimes]: Yippee!

2008-12-22 [Rook.]: ^^

2008-12-22 [Duke Devlin]: *Entering* :D Eventually.. When I have time to photograph thingers. :D :)

2008-12-22 [Rook.]: ^^ *laughs*

2008-12-22 [Chimes]: Yay! Well... No deadline is being set until I have at least five entries... so you have a fair while, m'dear.

Wow... this wiki has more watchers than any wiki I have ever created... maybe I should invite people more often. XD

2008-12-22 [Rook.]: ^^ lol

2008-12-22 [Chimes]: HOORAY! Thank you! <3

2008-12-22 [Chimes]: Oooh. I was wondering what that was for. XD

2008-12-22 [Duke Devlin]: Aha! That's sly! :P

2008-12-22 [Chimes]: Excellent. :D Seeing as this is a sneaky stunt to help Reference Pictures ... as well as getting me some stock... and getting the entrants some artwork dedicated to them. :D It's a win-win situation, really.

2008-12-22 [Duke Devlin]: Hahaa You are far too sly. ;)

2008-12-22 [Chimes]: 'Cept it's not really sly, as it is written up there in more words. :P

2008-12-23 [Duke Devlin]: Well, fine. Disprove my point all you like. *wails*

2008-12-23 [Chimes]: Awwwh! Dukey! *glomp*

Yay! I'm clever. XD

2008-12-23 [Duke Devlin]: *wails moar* D:
Hmph.

2008-12-23 [Skydancer]: Hmmmm. Makes a note....

2008-12-23 [Chimes]: :] Excellent.

2008-12-24 [Duke Devlin]: Quite. >=3

2008-12-26 [Mordigen]:
I really want to get some stuff together for this, but I do not have a suitable camera. Though, I've got my eye on a huge liquidation sale that's this Saturday on a really really good camera for $39 bucks -- it's usually a $300 cam. Hopefully I can get there early enough to get it before they're sold out, and take advantage of this contest to break it in right ;D
I've been waiting to do more photography anyhow, and I like sharing stock images, so hopefully I can get something together for this :)

2008-12-26 [Chimes]: Yay! That's great, Mordi!

2008-12-28 [Jitter]: Buy one for me as well will ya? :P

2008-12-28 [Chimes]: *hugs her camera*

2008-12-29 [Keir Devlin]: wut?
:)

2008-12-29 [Chimes]: Contest, m'dear. :P

2008-12-29 [Mordigen]: I would have Jitter - I really would have, but my friend who was suppose to go to the liquidation sale with me totally stood me up --- she *never* showed up the entire damn day, and I've yet to hear from her or get a call back from any of my messages...... >:(
She was suppose to get a new laptop on Saturday before she came over, and seeing as how she's been without a computer for a couple of months, and she is very immaturely self-centered at times when she shouldn't be, my guess is she locked herself in her room with her new toy and told the rest of the world to fuck off........

I'm greatly, greatly peeved off......severely >:(

But I am keeping an eye out for good deals online :) I'll forward them on to ya if I find any amazing ones :D

2008-12-29 [Jitter]: Heehee, thanks :)

My cam died a just a nick before I left for my hometown so I was asll miserable and whiney but my brother gave me his old 4mp one. It's still better than nothing and there's still small hope for my camera to be fixed so it's ok really :)

I saw a nikon 7mp one online for 70-something euro.

2008-12-29 [Mordigen]: that's not a bad price - at all. But it's still a bit more out of my budget unfortunately :(
Hopefully I can find a good deal though somewhere about the net, there's gotta be one hiding out there somwhere ;P

2008-12-29 [Chimes]: ... Uh... There was a really cheap site somewhere ... I'll see if I can find it.

2008-12-29 [Mordigen]: you mean ebay ? *snorts* XP

2008-12-29 [Chimes]: Nope. :P I mean something else. :P Electronics and cameras and stuff. :)

2008-12-29 [Mordigen]: haha, I know. I just had to poke fun ;P
If you happen to actually find it, that would be awesome to check out :)
especially since I don't trust ebay so much every since they charged me twice for the same object - charged my card once, then charged my paypal account for the same thing, and since I had already paid it with my card, I had no funds in my paypal account to make up for it, so that sent me into and endless battle of owing money/interest and locked account shit with paypal >:( gggrrr.

2008-12-29 [Chimes]: EEEP! Whoooa.
I'll ask my mum... she has it in her emails somewhere.

2008-12-29 [Mordigen]: yea, big whoa. Especially since it was Ebay's screw up, not the individual seller. made me real angry >:(
and I never got a resolution either, after weeks of fighting with them - I had to suck it up and end up paying paypal off for the Item AGAIN plus pay off the fees and interest to paypal too.....thanks to friggen ebay....jackasses

2008-12-29 [Chimes]: Whoa... O.O

2008-12-29 [Chimes]: Thank you for entering [Rebulous]!

2008-12-29 [Rebulous]: My honour and pleasure. Yes, they may be used for the Reference. Sorry I forgot to put that in there. I'm still struggling with the pseudo html stuff.

2008-12-29 [Chimes]: It's all good. :] I ask anyway. ^^

2008-12-30 [Easterling]: I see - there should be at least three images, but it could be much more than that?

2008-12-30 [Duke Devlin]: That is correct, [Easterling]. The stock pack may contain far over three images. :) Or so sayeth the rules. :P

2008-12-30 [Skydancer]: Currently uploading. :)

2008-12-30 [Skydancer]: Two good places to keep an eye out for inexpensive cams. KEH.com which is based in Atlanta, and of course Newegg.com.

2008-12-30 [Easterling]: This seems to really be a contest for you, Skydancer! :) If I'm not wrong you like doing these photomanupilation things youself..

I'm also going to participate, actually, I'm soon finished with uploading some more files for my own photo album, and new I'll upload something for you, Chimes.

2008-12-30 [Skydancer]: Oh, I do photo manips too, though these are supposed to be for Chimes and to help the stock galleries. I just picked out an assortment. :)

2008-12-30 [Chimes]: Thank you for answering, Dukey! You were right, as usual. :D

Oooo! *runs to look at the pictures* *is excited* ^^

Awesome, [Easterling], I can't wait. :)

2008-12-30 [Easterling]: I'm just going to take a second look at the others' wikis so that I understand more what you're looking for..

2008-12-30 [Yuriona]: Dang it [Skydancer]! Now I have to add more photos to my stock pack! LMAO!

2008-12-30 [Skydancer]: {Grins} Need a bunch of you in there too. Mix it up lots. :D

2008-12-30 [Mordigen]: ooo, thankyou sky :) I like the based in atlanta part, because that means it's easy access for me XD

I hope I can find one, and recieve it before there gets to be too many entries and a deadline set so I can participate :) of course, I'm not going to ask for anyone to wait on me, because that's not fair and there's no guarantee that I can get one that quickly because I'm on a very very very strict budget, but I hope! I hope I can make it XD *crosses fingers*

2008-12-30 [Chimes]: Well, you never know... I might make the deadline waaaaaay off. I haven't even nearly decided on a date yet. :P

2008-12-30 [Yuriona]: LOL! I'll see what I can find but they'll all be clothed pics of me. :P

2008-12-30 [Skydancer]: sad, sad... but hey , you take what you can get. :D

Mordigen if you found the fuel to get up here, we could do a photo adventure. Take a few thousand shots of everything in sight including each other. :D

2008-12-30 [Mordigen]: The fuel we can get, gas has become a beautiful price here, it's the time I am lacking, especially with the lil one and no means of babysitting

2008-12-30 [Chimes]: You could take the little one with you? :]

2008-12-30 [Skydancer]: True, I suspect we could make arrangements for some help there and they might very well enjoy taking photos with them too. We have some very baby happy moms and grandmums up here. :)

2008-12-30 [Mordigen]: Yes, but running haver a rambunctious over-excited 2 1/2 y/o through the woods doesn't make for a very productive photo shoot XD, unless the photo shoot called for cute pics of a kid trying to escape his mommy LOL

2008-12-30 [Chimes]: That could actually be really really cute. :)

2008-12-30 [Skydancer]: hmmmmm nude nymph with antlers and trailing vines chasing a tiny faun baby through the forest... :) nah, more likely have arrangments for say Thea to come along and help with the little one or entertain them while we go shoot.

2008-12-30 [moira hawthorne]: give the little one a cheep camera... Eirikr still loves takin photos...

2008-12-30 [Yuriona]: Take the little guy with you! Its good for him even if it means lashing him to the stroller! *shakes fist* My little ones love the dollar store keychain digital cameras. Of course I rarely remember to unload them but they still love them.

2008-12-31 [Jitter]: I think this means I should get cracking before my son starts demanding actual stuff xD

2009-01-01 [Chimes]: Woohoo! :] Thanks for entering [Easterling]!

2009-01-01 [Easterling]: :)

2009-01-01 [Chimes]: *prances around* I'm reckoning I will have to do a public vote to decide this when the deadline rolls around... by the way things are looking I would never be able to decide. :] *ponders about deadlines*

2009-01-01 [Jitter]: I will make a pack. I need to find my battery charger though :s

2009-01-01 [Chimes]: You have all the time in the world for the moment :P

2009-01-07 [Chimes]: WE HAVE A JITTER! Woo! Awh, man. This means I actually have to think up a deadline. XD

2009-01-07 [Rook.]: what is a jitteR?

2009-01-07 [Chimes]: A Jitter is a [Jitter]... >.> Quite simply.

2009-01-07 [Rook.]: ooooh...

2009-01-08 [Jitter]: I'm a JITTERRR xD

2009-01-08 [Chimes]: :P Yes, yes you are.

Oooo, [Skydancer], another? Wowsa. I will look at it when I'm not in college. :P

2009-01-08 [Skydancer]: Just something to nudge folks to stretch themselves and get busy creating. :D

2009-01-08 [Rook.]: nice tom eet you jitter...

2009-01-08 [Jitter]: tom eet..?

2009-01-08 [Rook.]: to meet. sorry I was in a rush when I typed it down *bows* my apologies

2009-01-08 [Jitter]: haha, nice to meet you too :) I read it as "Nice Tom Eet, jitter" and`I was like "wtf is a Tom Eet?" o_O xD

2009-01-08 [Rook.]: *giggles*

2009-01-17 [Chimes]: Dealine announced: Midnight (your local time) of March 26th. :]
Purely because that's my birthday XD

2009-01-17 [Jitter]: Amagad :D Mine is on the 25th :D

Go Aries ^_^

2009-01-17 [Chimes]: *happy dance of pride*

2009-02-11 [Jitter]: I have more stock but I need to find my camera first x)

2009-02-11 [Chimes]: *grin* Yaaay!

2009-02-11 [Jitter]: FOund it!!

2009-02-11 [Chimes]: So I see. :P

2009-02-11 [Linderel]: I'm pondering on this, finally.

2009-02-11 [Chimes]: YAAAAY! *prances* Well, you still have over a month. ^^

2009-02-11 [Skydancer]: Grins, Lin does wonderful stock.. and is a great muse.

2009-02-11 [Chimes]: I know :] I've used her for a manip before. ^^ A manip that was entirely her idea but it was fun.

2009-02-11 [Skydancer]: nods, she is quite inspirational, and becoming one of my steady muses.

2009-02-11 [Chimes]: :) Giving her wings was a wonderful experience, I learnt a lot from it, having never given anyone wings with the parts where they attach to the body in plain view. ^^ She suits wings. Black, feathered ones especially.

2009-02-11 [Skydancer]: that she does. all sorts of wingssssss :)

2009-02-11 [Chimes]: ^^
WHOA! The amount of people watching this page has gone up O.O;;

2009-02-11 [Linderel]: I think you two are making me blush. <_<

2009-02-11 [Skydancer]: Now that would be an interesting photo.....

2009-02-11 [Chimes]: Haha. XD If I had a photo of your face... I could make you blush. :P I'm just that cool. XD

2009-02-11 [Linderel]: :P

2009-02-11 [Jitter]: Lami suits everything \m/

2009-02-11 [Skydancer]: Well, I have never had the privilege of doing a Chimes Fae, but both Jitter and Lin are just marvelous subjects.

2009-02-11 [Chimes]: Chimes may be taking some stock photographs next week. :] I am fulfilling some of my challenges and doing a load of photography work... so I may as well. XD I still need a remote though...

2009-02-11 [Jitter]: <img:stuff/sh-gif.gif>

2009-02-11 [Rook.]: okay...sorry guys...but I have to tellyou this story...
There’s this older man, and he’s on his deathbed. He’s a Christian, and he’s ready to go, so, as he’s laying there, he sitting quietly, pondering life, when he smells his favorite food in the entire world.
Chocolate chip cookies.
So, he sniffs again. Yep, still there.
So he slowly gets out of bed and slowly, step by step, makes his way to the bedroom door, where he stands. Eh sniffs. “yep, still there.
So, being almost dead, he takes an agonizingly long and slow time walking downstairs to the kitchen,
Where,
As he pushed open the door, he sees hundreds and hundreds of chocolate chip cookies, laying there on the table.
He reaches out for one, drooling, ready to go the happiest man alive.
His wife comes in and slaps his hand away and says. “Don’t you touch those they are for your funeral.”
^_^

2009-02-11 [Chimes]: :P
Did you haaave to put all of those linebreaks in? DX

2009-02-11 [Rook.]: kind of, yeah...
ive got another XD but if the linebreaks drive younuts...this one will too XD

2009-02-11 [Chimes]: Well... it's the mass of space that you didn't use that drives me nuts... could you not have left that bit out? DX *makes the comment section look ugly, also shunts comments that are related to this wiki off of the page*

2009-02-11 [Rook.]: okay... I'll clear it out/

2009-02-11 [Rook.]: better?

2009-02-11 [Chimes]: Much better, thank you. :]

2009-02-11 [Linderel]: Zere we are.

2009-02-11 [Chimes]: :D!

2009-02-28 [Chimes]: Just under a month 'til voting time!

2009-02-28 [Easterling]: I can't wait for the voting time! :P

2009-03-18 [Mordigen]: *SOBS* I don't have a camera yet :C *sad panda*

2009-03-18 [Chimes]: Don't worry, there will be more rounds after this one :D

2009-03-18 [Mordigen]: yay!! ^_^

2009-03-18 [Chimes]: The others may have themes though... but they will be vague. XD More moods than anything.

2009-03-18 [Mordigen]: fine by me -- I don't have issues with themes. themes go well - I just need to get a good camera sooner than later now!

2009-03-18 [Thunder Cid]: You and me both sister.

2009-03-18 [Chimes]: I send my sympathies... and... a mimble! (Don't ask me what one is, they're very secretive creatures and their reactions are unpredictable)

2009-03-18 [Mordigen]: is that in the mugwhie (Sp?? - i suck at spelling, btw) family?....

2009-03-18 [Chimes]: It's possible I suppose, I do have a Mogwai obsession. XD My laptop is called Gizmo. :P But I can't be sure.

2009-03-18 [Skydancer]: We need to have you drive up [Mordigen], and do a photoshoot, you can borrow my camera to shoot with. :)

2009-03-18 [Mordigen]: Mogwai, see, I would have never have spelled it right XD

I, personally, have always been a fan of the mome raths. *nods contently*

2009-03-18 [Skydancer]: Was there not a toy that was like that a bit? Furby maybe??

2009-03-18 [Mordigen]: Yes - Furby! I sooo wanted the Gizmo furby!
and, in that case, then we need to get me a new car then, too....because I...er....*ahem* .... can't drive a manual *SHAME FACED* XD *hides*

I am always too scared that I will do something wrong, and the tranny will fall out x_x

2009-03-18 [Chimes]: Mome raths are awesome. :)
I wanted one too... I want a gizmo plushie... or a gizmo something. XD I am yet to get one.

Mordi, I can't even drive. :P

2009-03-18 [Mordigen]: well, I'm not too far behind - I didn't start driving til i was 20, and HAD to because my hubby got his licensed revoked :S

2009-03-18 [Skydancer]: ah, well, hmmm. Maybe we can get Shaun involved, he lives in Donelaga?? ermm .. Dahlonega and could do a road trip.

2009-03-18 [Mordigen]: I dunno who Shaun is?

2009-03-18 [Skydancer]: Shaun is a good friend, he runs the network for the Isle of Wyrms, and is the reason I managed to get from Augusta back to NC. He is also a celestial dragon. :)

2009-03-18 [Mordigen]: ew.
Augusta is not fun to get stuck in

2009-03-18 [Skydancer]: no, its not, it was toxic. There was some interesting stuff to photograph, but the sheer pollution was killing me.

2009-03-19 [Mordigen]: Yea, Augusta is a nasty lil place.
nasty nasty

2009-03-29 [Linderel]: Oh damn. I forgot the deadline was in March already. >_<

2009-03-29 [Chimes]: Awwh.

2009-03-29 [Linderel]: Oh well. At least I got something in. :P

2009-06-02 [Chimes]: I haven't forgotten about this. :P I'm just busy. Prizes and things will be dealt out when my exams are done with. Sorry for the wait!

2009-06-03 [Aeolynn]: Who won? I want to gz the winner :\

2009-06-03 [Linderel]: Surely you have some patience.

2009-06-04 [Aeolynn]: I do, but I was just asking.

2009-06-23 [Akayume]: Oh... I was going to enter this. DX

2009-06-23 [Chimes]: There will be another round after I have finished making prizes and badges and things for this round :) I already know the theme too.

2009-06-23 [Akayume]: Awesome! I shall wait for that then!

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