Photography contest

[Rudy]

Hello everyone, I noticed the photography assignment thread so I thought some people might be interested in a website I just created. The concept is similar (you post a picture related to the theme of the week/period and people vote for it and the winner is the person with the most votes) so it might interest some of you. Here's the link:

MyFocusPhotos.com

I would love to get feedback from you guys (in terms of the site's design and the contest itself). Now please understand that we've just launched yesterday and we are still in the process of adding features (we want a tutorial section etc) and we do plan on giving prizes to the winners (the current theme won't have any prizes as we're using it to test the site itself....a beta test of some sort)

note: If the admins are not happy with the post just delete it, but I wanted to share it with people and get some feedback

Thank you!

[crazzy88ss]

not a big fan of the green, but the layout is nice.

[Rudy]

thanks for the feedback, we do have a blue color scheme coming up soon and maybe more colors for those who don't like the green :)

[crazzy88ss]

sounds good.

[Rudy]

maybe you'll like the new blue theme better? http://myfocusphotos.com/index.php?theme=blue

Edited August 15, 2008 by Rudy

[crazzy88ss]

ya

[Dev Null Zen]

Yeah, thanks for the blue, the green made my eyes bleed.

[Rudy]

no problem, I do plan on adding more color schemes later (red, black, etc) to try to please everyone. We are considering changing the default theme to blue though (ended up looking better than I was expecting :p)

[PricklyPoo]

Ya, change default to blue, more relaxing on the eyes lol.

[Rudy]

the default theme has been changed to blue

We now have a tutorial section. We would love if those who are more knowledgeable and have some spare time to write some tutorials to help others.

[HTF]

awesome, my gf will love this. she's all into the photo contest thing. i think she is signing up now lol

[Rudy]

We have our first prize, you can win an Apple 1GB iPod Shuffle. (We will ship the prize worldwide)

Enter: http://myfocusphotos.com

Prize:

1 x Apple 1GB iPod Shuffle (any colour)

How to enter:

You must upload a picture (taken by yourself) in the contest (theme: pets) and if your picture is voted by MyFocus Photos users as the best picture (each user can vote for your picture), then you will win the iPod Shuffle. The best picture is the one with the most votes at the end of the contest.

[HTF]

are we able to enter more than one in the pet contest? or any contest for that matter?

[Rudy]

are we able to enter more than one in the pet contest? or any contest for that matter?

Right now we allow only 1 picture / person / contest (so you and your gf can each post a picture, just make sure you took the picture you're submitting)

We do plan on having more difficult themes in the future where we will allow 2-3 pictures / person / contest

[HTF]

ok, thanks. yeah we both do photography. shes just much better than me. lol.

thats cool, so far i'm really liking the site. i was over on soaphoto.com. but lately its been pretty stupid. cause all the people that were on the forums developed there own little clicks, and would only vote on there friends pics. and they also have differnet levels(bronze, silver, gold, ect.) and the higher the level the more points you can give to a pic(like gold=4pts, platnium=10pts, and so on) so most people would only vote for platium, in hopes that they would give a return vote. its just not a good set up.

[Rudy]

We're definitely going to do everything we can to make sure that doesn't happen on our site. We want people to vote based on the picture and not the person, and we also believe everyone's opinion is equal (everyone's vote is worth 1). I hope you're enjoying the site :)

[HTF]

good to hear. i'm def liking the site. now i just have to figure out which shot to enter. lol

[Rudy]

hehe that's the hard part, but if you see your picture isn't doing well after 2-3 days you can always go back and delete it and add a new one

[Gilly]

Like the site, just noticed a bug in Opera:

[Rudy]

Like the site, just noticed a bug in Opera:

thanks for letting me know, I will look into this issue as soon as I get home :p

[Rudy]

we just closed our first contest, congrats on everyone that participated, how did you guys do?

[Alex_is_Axel]

Like the site, just noticed a bug in Opera:

I see this on Firefox 3.01 also

[crazzy88ss]

works fine on safari 3.1.2, FYI.

[HTF]

question, my gf was just on there and she was wondering if theres a way to tell if some one left a comment on a shot, other than going through each one and checking?

and if not, that might be something to add.

[Rudy]

I see this on Firefox 3.01 also

Interesting, I tested it on IE 6/7, Firefox 2/3.0.1 and Safari and it was ok, I'll have to see if I can find a way around it.....I did specify a size of 15 for the 2 boxes but looks like some browsers are not listening

question, my gf was just on there and she was wondering if theres a way to tell if some one left a comment on a shot, other than going through each one and checking?

and if not, that might be something to add.

well it depends, if it's your picture then you should get an email alert (unless you turn it off). If you just want to see all the comments you can click on "Last Comments" in the left menu. Also if you go in an album (eg: pets contest) and click Last Comment you will see the last comments from that specific contest only.