This contest is over. Go to the next contest http://www.gog.com/forum/general/game_photography_contest_2_june_edition/page1

Contest: Take a photo from a game, and put it here. At the end of the month, I will select three favorites from these pictures, and gift games to owner of them.

Rules (important):
1- These pictures must look like a real photograph and without the game interface, chat panel or any similar panel.
2- This is not a screenshot contest, so "hey look at my high score" or "phear mai l33t skillz" type of screenshots will not be counted as a photograph.
3- You can use minimal photo editing, like contrast, sharpness, hue, brightness adjustment, but please no photo montages.
4- Suitable photography forms and techniques will be accepted, aerial, architectural, cloudscape, landscape, street, wildlife photography etc... Treat the contest as an art contest, so you don't have to do things like photojournalism, documentary photography.
5- Don't cheat. If you put a picture that doesn't belong to you and this is detected, your picture will be out of contest. Take new pictures for this contest.

Prizes:
First prize: Maximum $20 (19.99) amount of games from Steam or GOG
Second prize: Maximum $10 (9.99) amount of games from Steam or GOG
Third prize: Maximum $6 (5.99) amount of games from Steam or GOG

Bonus: Your friendly neighborhood hero Grynn will also gift a game in this contest (however he wants).

How do you take a photograph of a game without using a screen shot?

And how do you know that someone hasn't just gone out, found a nice image, and passed it off as their own?

And why do they call them Grape Nuts? You open the box, no grapes no nuts. What's the deal?

also this

with a camera

I think he meant we shouldn't do "look how big my cock is" type of screenshots.
But yeah, it is confusing, nonetheless.

Please look at the rule number 3:
"3- You can use minimal photo editing, like contrast, sharpness, hue, brightness adjustment, but please no photo montages. "

I said no photomontage, but you can use photo editing. Cropping the picture to remove the hud, will not be counted as photomontage.

What I mean with "photo montage" is this:
http://i.imgur.com/KVYmuxj.jpg Well, it depends on the game and your skills. For example if you google Another World, this picture comes, and I would count this picture as a "photograph":
http://i.imgur.com/G6EJjOd.jpg

And you don't have to restrict yourself with 20+ year old games, even GOG now has 2005+ release date games.

I appreciate your effort muratogut and a big +1 for your creativity and generosity, but I think I'm going to have to sit this one out. I seem to have done too many drugs as a kid to completely grasp the instructions. :P

You will take the picture as a screenshot. But you will not put the picture here as a screenshot.

I thought It was easy to understand, but unfortunately it seems it is not.

Look,

I will count this as a "screenshot":

http://i.imgur.com/TqNQ9oa.jpg

And this one as a "photograph":

http://i.imgur.com/r2kIIkt.jpg

I hope this will clarify.

Let me repeat the first two rules:

1- These pictures must look like a real photograph and without the game interface, chat panel or any similar panel.
2- This is not a screenshot contest, so "hey look at my high score" or "phear mai l33t skillz" type of screenshots will not be counted as a photograph.

What these rules mean?

1- When you took the screenshot from the game, you need to remove the HUD from the game. In some games, you can toggle the HUD on and off with a hotkey (Alt+Z for WoW). Or you can crop the hud with a picture editor (Photoshop, Paint.Net, etc...)
2- Please do not put your screenshots just to show your Latency number, your high scores, kill streaks, and similar show offs.

So, again.

This picture will be counted as "screenshot":

http://i.imgur.com/GKEYkLd.jpg

But this picture will be counted as "photograph":

http://i.imgur.com/iE3HHP9.jpg

+1 for your generosity though

Edit saw Benderz and remembered some I did for Evil Genius so I think I am in after all
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=121276315

Thanks for the chance muratogut ! :-)
I like this kind of contest !
This is mine, from this summer :

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=87028550

And an other, last week or something :

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=140591805

EDIT 29/05

Two more photos, from my run on the trial version of Call of Juarez Gunslinger :

http://steamcommunity.com/id/b3nderz/screenshots/?appid=222400&sort=newestfirst&view=imagewall

Hmmm... That sounds interesting.

And are all parts of the game allowed, e.g. intro, video scenes etc., or does it have to be in-game footage?

Thanks for the contest!
Something like these (they are all from my steam's screenshot folder)?

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3
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5

I'm not able to editing photo, so if they are ok, I'm in, otherwise thanks anyway =)

I think im following, the problem is im struggling to pick just one game to find an image from lol!
Love the idea idea for this giveways though, its even fun and interesting without the giveaway!

short version (of how i understand it): if you can toggle off the hud etc in game then do so, take a screenshot.
OR if you cant (toggle off the screen elements) screenshot and crop.

Think the images you see in advertising / game reviews they tend not to have the hud elements etc but show some epic moments in game. Thats how i understand it anyways.

.[url=is it wrong i have the urge to take a Halo Reach / Halo 4 one for sheer derailment? :P][/url].