Seburo/Saedaku/Seburo PD Photography Contest Winners!!!

Congrats to all the Winners of the Seburo/Saedaku/Seburo Pixel Dolls Photography Contest!! You all did a fabulous job and forced us to create four more honorable mention categories!! LOL Sooo, without further ado, here are the winners and their wonderful photographs

Best Shirow Reference: Shiryu Musashi's Blazing Street



Most Original: Nethermind Bliss's Women of War 3 - Payback



Most Dramatic: Ryntha Suavage's Apocalypse



Best Video Game Reference: Ciccio Molinari's Splinter Cell



Judges Choice 2nd Place Winner: Queenie Extraordinaire's FantacyQ 012



Judges Choice 1st Place Winner: Torrid Midnight's Tough Love



Good Job to our FABULOUS Runners Up and Judges Choice Winners!!

And here are the winners to the Nonphotoshopped category!! WONDERFUL job you all!!!

3rd Place: Ivie Bijoux's Chinatown



2nd Place: Kris Ritter's Seburo & Saedaku Reflected



and in 1st Place...

Stacy Maraca's Seburo 1

And last but not least, the Photoshopped Category Winners!!!

3rd Place Winner: Maggie Miller & Zebulon Starseeker's Bonnie and Clyde Sepia



2nd Place Winner: Clio Lumiere's Clio Knife



and in 1st place with a THREE way tie...

Aimee Weber's BBQ Kitchen


Launa Fauna's The Breaking Point



Toast Bard's Retreat

Thank you all again to those that participated and voted!!
If any of you would like to be added to the group Third Eye (a photographer for hire's group) send me an IM in world.

Thank you Bel Muse for all the hard work you put into the website that hosted the pictures and the voting!!! You are marvelous!
To view the rest of the photos entered in this contest go to: http://www.2ndlook.org/contest
Or, if just want to post pictures, go to http://www.2ndlook.org, it is a wonderful photo hosting website!!

Thank you to Francis Chung and Nephilaine Protagonist for providing the prize money and other prizes during the entire contest!! You are fabulous!

This was a lot of fun and I am glad that all of you enjoyed yourselves, if not learned a little about photography in SL

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE WINNERS! Awesome stuff and great to see such an ample turnout for this!

I have to say there's a lot of great pictures that definately deserved all they got for this. Congrats guys! But I also have to say that i'm a bit disappointed at how many of the pictures that got up on the winners I would amply describe as winning by popularity contest. I'm not going to name any of these pictures, and no offense to the creators but in terms of quality, there was better pictures around. And it seems to me that this is the product of mass popularity voting (i.e.: tell everyone in a sim or group they own to vote for them).

But I'm not too surprised it turned out to be partially a popularity contest, every contest in Second Life is to some point. But I suppose that's why all these new catergories popped up like "Best Shirow reference" lol.

Yay toast!

... and everyone else.

Lol Artemis So true, but i am happy to see the creativity of so many people stimulated to this point. In this way (and this is probably the only way that really matters) it has been a really great success, and i am extremely happy about it (and anyway i personally absolutely agree with at least 2 of the winners, i couldnt have chosen better myself)
Moreover having the name of Shirow-Sensei associated to mine, for once, is a real honor

hehe you should be your pic was one of my favourites. Same with all the ones that got rightfully first place in the photoshopped catergory.

I'm with you Artemis. It's clear some entries bore more relevance to the subject matter and showed more effort than others.

I'm glad to see the extensive turnout in the submissions. Maybe eliminating prizes and ranking altogether is the best approach in future events.

I am sorry you feel that way, but as with any contest, unfortunately popularity somehow sneaks into the mix of things. While we didnt have any control over the way voting went, I did want to tell you some of the rules we set up to make this contest as fair as possible.

1. One person could only win one prize. Sooooo, if a photographer technically won more then one place, or more then one category, they were awarded the highest prize they qualified for. For example, Aimee's Noir, did technically win 2nd place in the nonphotoshopped category, however, her BBQ Kitchen won 1st in the Photoshopped category, and since that was a higher prize, we gave the 1st place win to her (well and the other two that tied for that place).
This was so that more people's names would be mentioned and more people would win prizes.

2. As far as the categories poppin up, we actually only originally had 2 judges choice spots, however we were unable to decide between the 6 people that we considered for these two categories, sooo, instead of throwing them completely out the door, we created these categories so that we could award them these prizes as well and have more winners.

In the end though, we were able to recognize a lot of wonderful photos by many different people, and that is the best that we can ask of any subjective rating system

Also, for the most part winners were very close, differentiated by only one vote, which is part of the reason that we had a three way tie in the 1st place photoshopped category. Sooo, for the most part, I dont think these people won because they told their friends to go vote, otherwise the margin would be much larger then one vote, and most likely would not have ended up with a tie

Axel, as good as the idea of eliminating prizes and ranking, and in effect taking the contest part out of the equation sounds, I highly doubt I would have gotten quite the response that I did Unfortunately, as in the real world, money IS sometimes the driving force in some of the things we do.

And as far as the photos that you guys felt deserved to win more then others, in the end that is a personal choice, and is different for everyone, which is evident in the spread of votes. The only thing that anyone could have done was to encourage more people to go vote, but unfortunately, during the voting period, I was working 12 hour shifts and was unbable to host more "voting" parties. Although, I was sorta subconciously counting on everyone else to encourage more people to look at all the photos and vote .

And overall, my main goal was for people to have fun, explore their creativity and contribute to the community with this contest, and in that sense, it was a total success

Hi all

First of all, congratulations to everyone who participated. Speaking for myself, I was overwhelmed by the quality of the submissions. I'm glad to have met some more talented artists for this experience.

We weren't expecting so many amazing pictures. At some point, it became clear that we were going to need more prizes to recognize these contributions - there was definately some last-minute scrambling

I just wanted to add that one of our judging criteria was that noone single person should receive more than one prize - there weren't enough prizes as it was.

Anyways, thanks everyone who participated in the contest, as an artist or a spectator Also, special thanks to Ariel Roentgen and Bel Muse for their tireless work in making this contest run at all!

Great pics! And congratz Toasty!

Congrats to the winners!

Oh and thank you to the person who voted for mine

Unfortunately you're wrong... according to this contest i'm not good at photoshop at all, sorry you wasted your vote

w00t toasty!

I had such a fabulous time running around SL taking the pics and then just winging it in PSP (I have no prior experience in photo-shopping). I would love to see more contests like this in the future, of course I don't expect prizes to always be quite so grand though!

I was actually shocked at the pic of mine that was chosen for 2nd Place Judge's Choice....it was personally my least favorite of all my 5 entries, but that just proves again what Ariel said about it all being a matter of personal choices.

Congrats to all the winners and what an awesome job for ALL the entries, its amazing to see the creativity we each have

Hi Everyone, just wanted to let you all know that the gallery will be open for one more day. I will be taking it down tomarrow, sooo, if you have yet to see the gallery and want to, better do it now, before it gets flamed hehe

This contest was a lot of fun and I wanted to thank the folks that voted for me, it really means a great deal to me. I'm sincerely proud to stand shoulder to shoulder with the internet's finest artistic talent.

I would also like to give a super special congratulations to Stacy Maracas, who's staggering vote count on every one of her photos bucked anybody's statistical expectation. I think we will all be keeping an eye on THIS artist in the future

Aayup i agree with you

I thought yours was the best one on display i voted for you

Oh my! Thank you much Aces!!!

I should have entered :/ my Firebat AV looks incredibly cool with its lights on, visor down lighting up part of the sim with the flamebringer.