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Seagate Fall Photo Contest Winners

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First Place – Seagate FreeAgent Go Drive 500GB ($240 value)

November Sunrise

Second Place – Seagate FreeAgent Go Drive 320GB ($140 value)

Fall

Third Place – Seagate FreeAgent Go Drive 250GB ($120 value)

Glory Road

Congratulations to the winners.  I will contact you via Flickr to get your addresses and color preferences for the shipment of your Seagate FreeAgent Go Drives.

Thank You

First off, thanks to all the Photography Bay readers for getting involved in this contest.  We had approximately 400 photos submitted (and tagged properly) for entry into the contest.  Hopefully, we can do it again soon. You can peruse all of the entries (and more) in the Photography Bay Flickr Pool.

Thanks to the judges for lending their time and expertise:

Rich Legg of LeggNet’s Digital Capture

Brian Auer of Epic Edits

Jeff and Lisa (jointly) of Beyond Megapixels

Darren Rowse of Digital Photography School

Please take the time to visit these great photography resources.  I read everything these guys publish and they are all truly top notch sites.  Again, thanks for the help guys.

And finally, thanks to our sponsor, Seagate, for providing the FreeAgent Go Drives as prizes.  So much goes into the digital photography workflow that storage and file management solutions are often overlooked.  Visit Seagate’s website to learn more about the FreeAgent Go Drives and other storage solutions.

 

Seagate Fall Photo Contest Top 10

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The contest is closed for further entries.  All I can say is “WOW” – there were some really awesome entries.  I had a terribly difficult time culling the entries down to the final 10.  If you look through the Photography Bay Group Pool, I’m sure you’ll find some that you think should be in here.  I went back and forth on several of these; however, I think all of these are fantastic “Fall” images that deserve to be in the top 10. [Read more…]

Seagate “Fall” Photo Contest – Last Day

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Which One?

Today, November 24, 2008 is the last day to enter the “Fall” Photo Contest – hit the link for details.

I’ve been looking at the awesome photos that are in the pool already and I’m going to have a tough time culling them down to the top 10.  The judges, however, have really got their work cut out for them picking the 3 winners for the Seagate FreeAgent Go Drives.

  1. First Place – Seagate FreeAgent Go Drive 500GB ($240 value)
  2. Second Place – Seagate FreeAgent Go Drive 320GB ($140 value)
  3. Third Place – Seagate FreeAgent Go Drive 250GB ($120 value)

Group Pool:

http://flickr.com/groups/photographybay/

Read the Rules and Details:

http://www.photographybay.com/2008/10/27/seagate-freeagent-go-drive-fall-photo-contest/

The 4 Judges:

1. Rich Legg of LeggNet’s Digital Capture (Subscribe to LeggNet’s Feed)

2. Brian Auer of Epic Edits – (Subscribe to Epic Edits’s Feed)

3. Jeff and Lisa (jointly) of Beyond Megapixels – (Subscribe to Beyond Megapixels’ Feed)

4. Darren Rowse of Digital Photography School – (Subscribe to DPS’ Feed)

Sharing and Learning

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DIY Photography has launched a new photo project with some nice camera/lens rental prizes. It involves (1) finding a partner, (2) exchanging camera gear for a short time and (3) writing a short review of that new (to you) gear.  Pretty cool if you ask me.

Oh, and the prizes… How about a free 2 week rental of the body/lens combo of your choosing from BorrowLenses.com?

Head on over to DIY Photography to get the full scoop on the “Sharing and Learning” contest and figure out how to get your hands on your dream camera and/or lens for a 2 week test drive.

Got Any Fall Pics?

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Keep’em coming folks.  You’ve got a week to go until Fall photo contest is over and it’s in the hands of the judges.  Do what you can get your shot at the prizes between now and then.

  1. First Place – Seagate FreeAgent Go Drive 500GB ($240 value)
  2. Second Place – Seagate FreeAgent Go Drive 320GB ($140 value)
  3. Third Place – Seagate FreeAgent Go Drive 250GB ($120 value)

Group Pool:

http://flickr.com/groups/photographybay/

Read the Rules and Details:

http://www.photographybay.com/2008/10/27/seagate-freeagent-go-drive-fall-photo-contest/

The 4 judges are as follows:

1. Rich Legg of LeggNet’s Digital Capture (Subscribe to LeggNet’s Feed)

2. Brian Auer of Epic Edits – (Subscribe to Epic Edits’s Feed)

3. Jeff and Lisa (jointly) of Beyond Megapixels – (Subscribe to Beyond Megapixels’ Feed)

4. Darren Rowse of Digital Photography School – (Subscribe to DPS’ Feed)

Seagate Fall Photo Contest Update

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Some great entries are rolling into the Seagate Fall Photo Contest.  See them here in the Photography Bay Flickr Group Pool.

Don’t miss out on your chance to win a Seagate FreeAgent Go Drive by submitting your best “Fall” photo in accordance with the contest rules.  Seagate is giving 3 of these drives away.

You can learn more about the Seagate FreeAgent Go Drives here.  You can also connect with Seagate via their Facebook page and win a number of other prizes in the FreeAgent Inspires Locker Art Design Competition.

IMPORTANT NOTE:  Please don’t forget to read the rules.  Entrants may only submit one photo to the contest.  I’ve seen a few duplicate submissions and I would hate for anyone to miss out on the contest by doing this.  So long as they are removed by the time the contest closes, you will be ok.  Just don’t forget to remove the duplicate submission and post your single best photo.

Seagate FreeAgent Go Drive “Fall” Photo Contest

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Photography Bay and Seagate invite you to bring your best “Fall” photo for a chance to win 1 of 3 Seagate FreeAgent Go drives – a 500GB, 320GB and 250GB model for first, second and third place, respectively.

How To Enter

  1. Take your best “Fall” themed photograph.
  2. Upload it to your Flickr account. (Don’t have one?  Sign up.  It’s free.)
  3. Tag your photo “seagate” and “fall”.
  4. Add your photo to the Photography Bay Group Pool.
  5. That’s it.  You’re entered.
  6. You may only enter once for this contest.  Any more than one entry will result in disqualification.  You may submit as many photos to the Photography Bay Group Pool as you wish; however, you should only tag your entry photo as “seagate” and “fall”.  You may tag other photos as “fall” – just don’t add the “seagate” tag and the photo will not count as an entry.  The contest is limited to North America (Canada, US & Mexico) only.

Deadline for Entries

You have until November 24, 2008 at 11:59p.m. Eastern Time to submit your photo for the contest.

Prizes

  1. First Place – Seagate FreeAgent Go Drive 500GB ($240 value)
  2. Second Place – Seagate FreeAgent Go Drive 320GB ($140 value)
  3. Third Place – Seagate FreeAgent Go Drive 250GB ($120 value)

I’ve been using the FreeAgent Go Drive for a few weeks now and I’ve got to say that it’s very convenient.  It’s so portable that it’ll slide right into just about any camera bag or laptop case and almost goes without notice.  It’s so convenient to be able to dump a few gigs worth of photos from my memory cards to the FreeAgent Go drive while I’m away from home.  When I get back home I can just plug the drive into my desktop and drop the images in Lightroom (or even work on them directly on the drive while I’m away from home).

Additionally, Seagate will be running a campaign this holiday season where everyone that registers a Seagate product from November 28th through the end of January will get a free digital movie rental from CinemaNow, 50 songs from eMusic and (a big one in my opinion) 50% off a subscription to SmugMug.

To learn more about Seagate FreeAgent Go drives, visit Seagate.com.

To learn more about file management and safety for your photos, you can check out the ongoing Epic Edits article series on Photo Backup.

Judging Criteria and Process

Judging criteria will be based on the best expression of the theme “Fall” with due consideration give to technical proficiency and execution.  Layman’s terms – a great Fall photograph.

Please don’t limit yourself with the Fall theme.  Just because the leaves don’t change colors where you live doesn’t mean that you can’t think outside the box and come up with a killer “Fall” themed image that blows away a Fall leaves shot.

After the November 24 deadline for entries has passed, I will select 10 finalist images and announce and display the finalists in no particular order on Photography Bay.

I will then submit the images to 4 judges independent of both Photography Bay and Seagate.  The 4 judges are as follows:

1. Rich Legg of LeggNet’s Digital Capture (Subscribe to LeggNet’s Feed)

2. Brian Auer of Epic Edits – (Subscribe to Epic Edits’s Feed)

3. Jeff and Lisa (jointly) of Beyond Megapixels – (Subscribe to Beyond Megapixels’ Feed)

4. Darren Rowse of Digital Photography School – (Subscribe to DPS’ Feed)

These four judges will then rank the images based on their own independent judgment in 1st through 10th place.

After they return the rankings to me, I will then determine the three winners based on the average rankings of the images.  In the event of a tie, a reader poll will be used to resolve the tie.

The winners will be announced and displayed on December 1, 2008 on Photography Bay.

Winner Notification

Since we will be using a Flickr Group Pool for this contest, I will send the winners a notification by Flickr mail requesting their contact information, which I will then forward to Seagate for shipment of the prizes.  Winners will have one week to respond to my Flickr mail or their prize will be redistributed to the next contestant in line based on the Top 10 images.

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Rights in and to Images

Photographers retain all copyrights in and to any images that are submitted for entry into this contest.  By entering, however, you grant Photography Bay and Seagate the right to display the images on their websites in conjunction with the announcement and promotion of this contest.  Basically, we want to be able to show off who the winners are and how awesome your photos are.  We don’t and won’t use your images for any for any other commercial purposes other than the announcement or promotion of this contest.

Which One?

ColorRight Winners

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Thanks to everyone who participated in the Photography Bay Forum over the past couple weeks.  Based on the posting rules in the ColorRight contest, we now have our three winners of new ColorRight white balance tools.

  1. Defiant00
  2. JohnnyA
  3. TexasAg03

Congratulations to each of you and thanks to everyone for being members of the Photography Bay community.  I’ll be contacting each of the winners via email to work out the details of shipping the ColorRight tools to you.

Again, I’d like to thank our sponsor, ColorRight, for providing the prizes.  If you haven’t read it yet, I would encourage you to read our ColorRight review.

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