Portfolio Contest

2007-12-30 [sequeena_rae]: XD

Right, now to planning this weeks theme.

2007-12-30 [Linderel]: Yes! Make me happy. :P

2007-12-30 [Annie T.]: Ok so....we interpret "Perspective" as we see fit? I mean...it has a lot of different meanings for me... :P

2007-12-30 [Linderel]: Yes. Any and all themes, whatever I may have been thinking about when posting, are to be portrayed as you want. As long as the theme is clear enough in the piece.

2007-12-30 [sequeena_rae]: I really want to do well with contest, push my boundaries as far as I can ^^

2007-12-30 [sequeena_rae]: Question though; For photography, would I be allowed to add textures and such to enhance the mood?

2007-12-30 [Linderel]: Hmm. I'm not sure. Give me an example and I'll decide on that. (Original vs. textured)

2007-12-30 [sequeena_rae]: Okay *hunts* :P http://ppixie.deviantart.com/art/believer-73252600
That's an example of a piece with texture, I suppose you can imagine how it would be without

2007-12-30 [Linderel]: Perhaps a bit could be allowed. I still want them to look like photographs and not manips ;P

2007-12-30 [sequeena_rae]: Oh don't worry, I wouldn't do anything that would completely alter the image :P

2007-12-30 [vegetoot]: If adding textures is allowed, then how about editing levels, hue, saturation or doing some blurring?

2007-12-30 [Jitter]: that's enhancing not manipulation ;) And if you're good at it noone would know :p

2007-12-31 [ForeverNothing]: CRAP! I wanted to join the art profolio

2007-12-31 [Blood Sucking Beauty]: ummm [ForeverNothing] can take my position cuz well...im getting too much stuff on my plate to start drawing. My mom just told me that if i dont start working on college stuff then she is guna kick me out so i kinda have to work on all that before i can worry bout this. So you can hand off my spot to her.

2007-12-31 [vegetoot]: Are there any rules concerning the file-sizes? I'd like to crop them a little :).

2007-12-31 [Linderel]: [ForeverNothing] & [Blood Sucking Beauty]: Roger that. I'll make the change right away. Hope you can participate in some other round, Hitsu. :)

[vegetoot]: There are not. I would, however, prefer them to be neither tiny nor huge. :P

2007-12-31 [sequeena_rae]: If adding textures is allowed, then how about editing levels, hue, saturation or doing some blurring?

If you didn't do that to your images anyway I would be very worried xD

2007-12-31 [Teufelsweib]: ...what are you saying with that?=p

2007-12-31 [sequeena_rae]: That I would be worried if they didn't do that to their photos - obviously xP

2007-12-31 [vegetoot]: I thought I'd better just ask, then to find out I was actually cheating xD. I also think it is a challenge to make photo's you don't have to edit anymore :).

2007-12-31 [sequeena_rae]: I always edit mine, mostly for quality. Photos straight off the camera just aren't nice for me. They need brightening etc.

2007-12-31 [Annie T.]: .> 


<.<


I don't edit my photos very often.......lol. Be worried. :P

2007-12-31 [sequeena_rae]: *worried* XD

2007-12-31 [Teufelsweib]: I never edit my pics, except those on which you can clearly see it (clearly fake pics)
so yah =p

2008-01-01 [Annie T.]: Haha, we're two of a kind. :) I guess I edit a little....like...cropping if I captured something I couldn't get out of the picture. But then again, I wouldn't really consider myself a photographer.

2008-01-01 [vegetoot]: Let's see where the limit is :P, how about gradient filters (photoshop)? (used to replace quite expensive circular polarisation filters)

2008-01-01 [Linderel]: You floor me with all these questions. If it doesn't stop, I'll have to draw the line on basic tweaking like colour balance and brightness/contrast. >_< :P

2008-01-01 [vegetoot]: *shuts up x)*

2008-01-02 [ForeverNothing]: NO sorry i changed my mind! my scaner is down >.<

2008-01-02 [Linderel]: Aaargh. -_- Well, I'm keeping your wiki there just in case you get it fixed. One round takes over three months. :P

2008-01-06 [Linderel]: Second theme up! ^_^

2008-01-06 [Chrysilla]: Yay! ^^

2008-01-06 [vegetoot]: What a surprise, I just came back from work x). Laat de creatieve molentjes maar draaien ^^ [Teufelsweib] will probably translate this :P

2008-01-06 [Linderel]: I think I get the general meaning even without her help. ;3

2008-01-06 [Chrysilla]: I don't :p

2008-01-06 [Triola]: Let the creative something (mills?) turn nevertheless? Or something. I suck at Dutch :P

2008-01-06 [Linderel]: Something like that. :o

2008-01-06 [Teufelsweib]: let the creative mills turn/spin =p

2008-01-06 [Triola]: I am so awesome :D

2008-01-06 [Linderel]: What about me, then? Eh? <_<

2008-01-06 [Triola]: Fine, you're awesome too :P

2008-01-06 [Chrysilla]: we're all awesome :p

2008-01-06 [Linderel]: That didn't sound very convincing, Trin :P
*slobber*

2008-01-06 [Triola]: Well, believe it! :D

2008-01-07 [Angelic nightmares]: Kinda glad I signed back in. Hadn't noticed the contest started already.

2008-01-07 [Linderel]: This is why you should check back often enough if you've signed up in a contest :P

2008-01-08 [vegetoot]: This ET-noob found the 'watch wikibutton', it's quite handy x).

2008-01-08 [Teufelsweib]: isn't it?? XD

2008-01-08 [Chrysilla]: yesh it is, long live that watch button!

2008-01-08 [Linderel]: Even more handy is that when you edit a page, you automagically start watching it. :P

2008-01-08 [sequeena_rae]: That's a godsend :P I often forget to watch pages

2008-01-08 [Teufelsweib]: me too, and then... well, forget the wikiname =p

2008-01-08 [iippo]: And nobody ever adds keywords to their wikipages so searching is of no help either :P

2008-01-08 [sequeena_rae]: I keep forgetting you can do that. Tagging would be an awesome system, for diaries too actually o.O

2008-01-09 [Angelic nightmares]: I've been watching this wiki since it first started. I left ET for a while, because I graduated, went to my moms, came back to NC and got a job. I'm sorry my life has kept me away from here.

2008-01-09 [Linderel]: Well, congratulations for graduating! :)

2008-01-10 [Angelic nightmares]: Thanks.

2008-01-10 [Annie T.]: Man...I just can't get into this week's theme. I'm still trying to figure something out, lol.

2008-01-11 [Linderel]: Added rule #4. Can't believe I forgot that for so long. Grah. Apparently I just take it for granted...

2008-01-11 [vegetoot]: That's a clear one :). I won't ask anything this time xD

2008-01-12 [Annie T.]: Blast...well I have a question then. I haven't been uploading mine to ET because it scrunches the images up and makes them look bad. Is there somewhere I can upload them here that won't do that?

2008-01-12 [Linderel]: You have priv 99, [Annie T.]. You can upload straight to a wiki page and thus won't have to deal with Elftown resizing your images. It works like this: at the bottom of every wiki, or at least every wiki you're able to edit, you should see an upload form. Choose the correct image, click 'upload a file' and Elftown will redirect you to the wiki edit view with the <img:> code already added.

2008-01-12 [Annie T.]: Wow, ok. I'll go do that.

2008-01-14 [Linderel]: Sorry for being late with the theme, was... hehe... busy. :P

2008-01-14 [sequeena_rae]: oo, hard theme

2008-01-14 [Linderel]: You know you like it. >:D

2008-01-14 [sequeena_rae]: I do actually, I think I have something in mind ^^

2008-01-14 [Jitter]: Uhm... Interesting... Now to find something to do about it :s

2008-01-14 [Linderel]: You can doo iiiit!

2008-01-14 [vegetoot]: That's an awsome theme for manipulation x), but the creative photographymill is spinning again^^ Nice theme, I think it's easier then the second >.<

2008-01-14 [Jitter]: I thought about making ALL the themes song illustrations but either my muse or my music aren't helping me :p

2008-01-15 [Chrysilla]: This theme is so vague, it's difficult to find a good idea *pouts* Wish you luck with it, I'm gonna need some :(

2008-01-15 [Triola]: It's so vague you can draw anything and pull it off ;)

2008-01-15 [sequeena_rae]: It's a brilliant theme. Just like [Triola] said you can practically do anything you like :P

2008-01-15 [Linderel]: Be careful, I might put up something highly specific next just to make you suffer. :P

2008-01-15 [sequeena_rae]: You do that :P

2008-01-15 [Linderel]: You got it. >:D

2008-01-15 [Annie T.]: Haha...I'm just glad this word doesn't start with the letter P. :P

2008-01-15 [Linderel]: Pfff. :P

2008-01-15 [Chrysilla]: Well it's a general theme, and way too many choices, and me not like many choices :S

2008-01-15 [Linderel]: I'm afraid you'll just have to deal with it. ;)
Roll some dice if nothing else works!

2008-01-16 [Simply_Jen]: I like the themes so far. Challenges can be a good thing.

2008-01-20 [The Scarlet Pumpernickle]: awww can I join for the next one? ... or can I start late?

2008-01-20 [Linderel]: The sign-up for the next round starts when this round ends, which will be a couple of months from now. As for starting late... based on your profile, you'd be in the art section, aye? Unfortunately that one's full. :3

2008-01-20 [Linderel]: Fourth theme up. Ha! xP

2008-01-20 [Triola]: You do keep your promises, my dear :P Specific indeed

2008-01-20 [Linderel]: Told ya. :3

2008-01-20 [The Scarlet Pumpernickle]: um... well I'm dabbling in Photography and I have a lot of time on my hands... can I pleeeease? :)

2008-01-21 [Linderel]: Oh, fine. xD (Nah, really, I'm happy to get a full roster.)
I'll set a wiki up for you now.

2008-01-21 [The Scarlet Pumpernickle]: Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooot!!!!!!!!

2008-01-21 [Annie T.]: HAHAHAHA! You kept your promise/threat. ;)

2008-01-21 [Simply_Jen]: omg....I'm so glad I have ten weeks to catch this one.

2008-01-21 [sequeena_rae]: Lmao! Ah okay then, sunrise on a bridge it is :P

2008-01-21 [Linderel]: Just be glad I didn't make it anything harder. :P

2008-01-21 [sequeena_rae]: I never said it was hard in the first place XD

2008-01-21 [Linderel]: You upping the ante, eh?

2008-01-21 [Triola]: I actually kind of pity the photographers, as it's way harder for them, because they actually have to seek out a bloody sunrise on a bridge :P

2008-01-21 [Linderel]: Haha :P

2008-01-21 [sequeena_rae]: Eh eh eh :P

2008-01-21 [Chrysilla]: I have a nice bridge and a nice river not far. Been awake in time today, and... the sun missed the rendez-vous! Argh!

2008-01-21 [Annie T.]: I don't have a bridge anywhere nearby so I'm gonna have to come up with something...lol. :P I have an idea though.

2008-01-22 [The Scarlet Pumpernickle]: lol well I'm going to have to pray for a sunny day! It's been snowing like crazy..

2008-01-22 [Simply_Jen]: I don't think it's as hard as it is trying to find the time. I think it was funny and great. There is a bridge I've been wanting to photograph so now I get an excuse to drag my butt down there and do it.

2008-01-25 [Chrysilla]: Heh, I got sun, but I didn't get up in time XD Oh my XD

2008-01-27 [Linderel]: Ahahaha... hope that one doesn't kill yous people. :P

2008-01-27 [The Scarlet Pumpernickle]: Damn. Got up at 6 on Sat to take a pic.. and it was FRICKEN CLOUDY!!!! AAARRRRRRGGGGGGGGGG!

2008-01-27 [Triola]: Waaah, has it been a week already? >.< Darn it.

2008-01-28 [vegetoot]: You're not the onlyone, I almost went back to bed when I returned home x).

2008-02-03 [Chrysilla]: I got the sunrise photo!! Yay! *dances all over the place*$

_{P.S. I'm totally frozen too. Big cup of coffee time now, before everything else.}

2008-02-03 [Jitter]: Awww *hugs Chrys* I can't wait to see :3

2008-02-03 [Chrysilla]: Me too. But I have quite a feeling that tomorrow I'll go back there, earlier than today XD
*hugs back* Coffee?

2008-02-03 [Jitter]: Ooh thanks! *sips virtual coffee*

Mmm thanks! It's been a while xD _{(I have had only 4 cups since July... Can't wait till I can start having coffee again ^_^)}

2008-02-03 [Linderel]: *devilish grin*

2008-02-03 [Jitter]: I thought it was "jacta" -.-;;;

2008-02-03 [Linderel]: So did I.

2008-02-03 [Jitter]: alea iacta est
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alea iacta est (also seen as alea jacta est)

I guess it's both :3

2008-02-03 [Linderel]: Aye, I looked at Wikipedia too. :P

2008-02-03 [Chrysilla]: where do you find these theme ideas?! XD

2008-02-03 [Linderel]: ...in my head? :P

2008-02-03 [Linderel]: Is it just a feeling I have, or am I making this round the most difficult so far? <_<

2008-02-03 [Chrysilla]: Well I didn't see the other rounds so I couldn't say *shrugs*

2008-02-03 [Triola]: Wikipedia has a spelling mistake >.<

2008-02-03 [Linderel]: *points at links to archive pages*

Trin, hmm? What do you mean?

2008-02-03 [Chrysilla]: *goes check* hmm-mhm
Yup seems that this one is more difficult.

2008-02-03 [Triola]: Sorry, just very random, went to check what it meant and there was a spelling mistake, which annoyed me :P Not on the English version though, so no worries :P

2008-02-03 [Linderel]: Haha, okay :P

2008-02-04 [Jitter]: It *is* harder than the other two :P

Especially for the photographers *hugs them* But to be honest the new theme gave me more ideas for photographs so far ;p

2008-02-04 [Linderel]: Heehee, sowwies. :P

2008-02-04 [Triola]: I don't think it's really all that hard, I mean, 'the die has been cast' you can take literally and do a picture of a game of dice, or you can see it as 'the point of no return', which can mean thousands of things, so no, I honestly think everyone should be able to pull this one off :P

2008-02-04 [Linderel]: I guess it's very individual what is seen as hard. None of these themes would be, for me. :P

2008-02-04 [Triola]: Maybe because you made them? :P

2008-02-04 [Linderel]: Uhhh no, that has nothing to do with it. xD I do not choose themes that would be easy for me - I choose randomly. :P

2008-02-04 [Triola]: You choose randomly, yes, but because you are the one to choose them, they obviously are themes you can think up on your own, and which seem doable to you :P

2008-02-04 [Linderel]: Possible. :P Though I do try to torture you.

2008-02-04 [Triola]: Yet we love our torturer <3 :P

2008-02-04 [Linderel]: *giggleslobber*

2008-02-04 [sequeena_rae]: erm, what does the new one mean?

2008-02-04 [Triola]: Google is your friend ;)

2008-02-04 [Chrysilla]: A friend answered that once: "I don't google with people I don't know" XD *goes google "giggleslobber"*

Result:
Your search - giggleslobber - did not match any documents.

Suggestions:
Make sure all words are spelled correctly.
Try different keywords.
Try more general keywords.
*shrugs*

2008-02-04 [sequeena_rae]: It would be easier if they just said what they mean >_<

2008-02-04 [sequeena_rae]: Oh, I see. Never knew what 'the die has been cast' meant anyway xD

2008-02-04 [Linderel]: Oh, Squee knows what slobbering is. She's been a victim of it before.
I'm disappointed. I thought 'alea iacta est' is common knowledge. :( Then again, I also thought it was a given everyone would read Bram Stoker's Dracula. Oh, well.

2008-02-04 [sequeena_rae]: slobber? I'm subject to that every day XD
Never read Dracula, probably why ;)

2008-02-04 [Chrysilla]: I read it, but not in English, that must be an important detail, cause I don't see what it has to do with the topic XD

2008-02-04 [Linderel]: It has absolutely nothing to do with this theme - it has to do with the fact that I tend to assume things are common knowledge when they apparently aren't. :P

2008-02-04 [sequeena_rae]: I'm not a scholar like you Lami *wail* but now I know what it is I can get down to it XP

2008-02-04 [Triola]: I'm kinda scholarly, and I still had to look it up :P

2008-02-04 [Linderel]: Haha xD *snuggles* I love you :P

2008-02-04 [sequeena_rae]: I quite like the theme actually. I has ideas floating around x)

2008-02-04 [Chrysilla]: me too me too ^_^

2008-02-05 [sequeena_rae]: I don't think 'sunrise on a bridge' is feasible for me :( not with my working hours. I'll try and come up with a concept though :/

2008-02-05 [Triola]: Cheat and do sunset without telling anyone >.>

2008-02-05 [sequeena_rae]: No doubt I'll be sleeping by sunset xD

And you've let the cat out of the bag anyway! XD

2008-02-05 [Triola]: I most surely have not, you're the cat person, not me >.> :P

2008-02-05 [sequeena_rae]: Really bad joke :P

2008-02-05 [Triola]: Well, I've just finished the first obligatory assignment of the semester (which, might I add, was bloody hard >.<), I am entitled :P

2008-02-05 [sequeena_rae]: No, no you're not xP

2008-02-05 [Triola]: ... psschhh, you didn't do the assignment, so you don't get a say >.<

2008-02-05 [sequeena_rae]: Don't need to. Nobody is ever entitled to make a bad joke xP

2008-02-05 [Triola]: Of course they are. And besides, who are you to judge whether a joke is bad or not? That is a matter of opinion *nodnod*

2008-02-05 [sequeena_rae]: Perhaps, but that joke was plain terrible :p

2008-02-05 [The Scarlet Pumpernickle]: I have to agree... it was pretty awful, but most puns are...

2008-02-05 [Linderel]: Some puns can be brilliant.

2008-02-05 [sequeena_rae]: Yes they can :D

2008-02-05 [The Scarlet Pumpernickle]: brilliant.. but still evoking groans. :P

2008-02-05 [Triola]: But it's impossible to be brilliant after writing an OA :( you use everything on that, and then you're empty

2008-02-05 [Angelic nightmares]: What does Alea iacta est mean?

2008-02-05 [Triola]: The die has been cast, or something to that effect :)

2008-02-06 [The Scarlet Pumpernickle]: or the point of no return...

2008-02-11 [Linderel]: Pardon me, late again. <_<

2008-02-11 [vegetoot]: No problemo, cause this one seems to be doable xP.

2008-02-11 [Jitter]: I think in my case it gets harder and harder... xD

2008-02-17 [Linderel]: Oh I'm evil. :P

2008-02-17 [Chrysilla]: I'm 4 weeks late >.>

2008-02-17 [The Scarlet Pumpernickle]: O.o .. ok. Time to rack my brain. *takes it out and puts it on the rack* "Any ideas yet!? 'no..' *Streeeeeeetch* :P

2008-02-18 [blu.nation]: :} I like this week's theme... heheh.

2008-02-18 [Annie T.]: lol, I'm 4 weeks behind too. :P

2008-02-18 [Easterling]: I'm waayyy behind. These weeks there have been chaos around me and I haven't got time left to work on the themes. I'm not sure that I'll get time to keep up either. I'm thinking of giving up and try some other time to participate in a contest when I've got more time and energy... :P What is the best thing to do?

2008-02-18 [Annie T.]: Well..I know I'm gonna catch up. Life has been hectic here too, but I'm gonna try to catch up.

2008-02-18 [Linderel]: [Easterling], you do remember that after the last theme, there is still about a month to do everything, right? :) So there's no panic yet. See how it goes, at your own pace. It's your call, of course.

2008-02-18 [Galatea]: I'm going to keep trying as well, so encouragement encouragement!!! :D Keep trying we would love for you to stay in. 

2008-02-18 [Easterling]: Oh, I must have missed that information...! :D I will still have a chance, then. *happy*

Thanks for the encouragement, Gal. :)

2008-02-19 [Galatea]: No problem love, I want everyone to keep trying for this one. Its a challenge but worth it!

2008-02-21 [sequeena_rae]: Man I'm so sorry I'm falling behind :(

2008-02-28 [Jitter]: Now the baby is here I'll try and paint traditionally a bit at home while I stay computer-less :) So I'm not sure if I'll have to quit here. If I do drop out in the future, my deepest apologies.

<3 Lin

2008-02-28 [Triola]: You have half the pictures, so you'd still be in no matter what happens, isn't that right, Lami?

2008-02-28 [Linderel]: This is correct. :3

2008-03-01 [Annie T.]: Inspiration struck me... :) I got another picture in, woohoo!

2008-03-02 [Linderel]: To clarify: For the last week, you may choose one or several of the themes given. Go ahead and portray them all in your piece if you can pull it off.

2008-03-02 [Galatea]: Thank you for the clarification!

2008-03-08 [Chrysilla]: Phew, added 2 more photos, I feel a bit better now XD

2008-03-08 [sequeena_rae]: *is ten million years behind*

2008-03-08 [Teufelsweib]: further than I am ><

2008-03-08 [sequeena_rae]: oh dear :P

2008-03-08 [Annie T.]: This is the last week?

2008-03-08 [Linderel]: Yes. Tomorrow, I'll set the final deadline approximately a month away. Everyone remember that you need two of your own themes, too.

2008-03-09 [Annie T.]: Okie dokie.

2008-03-15 [Chrysilla]: Yay added the "bare" picture and the portfolio picture for the extra credits, I'm catching up!

2008-03-16 [Galatea]: Great work! I am trying to catch up as well.

2008-03-16 [Chrysilla]: thanks and good luck ^^