Project Guidelines - Team Dyptics

Each submission for this project must meet the following requirements:

1) Pictures must be uploaded as so-called diptyches, which means the upload must consist of (at least) two pictures, next to (or below) each otha.
if this sounds like ancient greek to you, please click here for some eggsamples of diptyches on this site..

(please upload your diptyches big enuff to make the magnifying symbol appear below. In contrast to what the upload page says, diptychs can be up to 960px width - lazy sloth WM just never took the time to add this info to the "Image Requirements" box)
2) One of the two pictures has to be(en have) shot and uploaded by anotha polanoid user, this means for your submission you must first download one of the existing 180sumfinthousand wondaful polaroids on this site (simply pick one you find suited), combine it with your (freshly shot) picture, and upload the resulting diptych as your submission.
2a) a step not really necessary, but making sense with respect to 2b (might spare you some wasted time and disappointment)
Before downloading the pic of your fellow noider, that you wanna work on, you should ask the author of the otha pic for permission to use his pic for this project
2b) an absolutely mandatory step!
Before uploading your submission, you must ask the otha noider for permission to submit this very dyptichon (half consisting of his/her picture) to the project!
(by sending her/him a preview by email or some otha "private channel")
3b) The description text of your submission must include credits to the author of the "used" picture, the polanoid username of the author and a link to the "original" picture here on polanoid.net
(in case you don't know how to link otha pix: simply copy/paste the "/jump/?to=" link, that is displayed in the black bar below each pic on polanoid.net, into the description text of your pic)
3) The complete diptych must form a "coherent scene", this means that some object on the first picture has to be continued or completed on the second picture.
This is an absolutely mandatory condition, your second half of the diptych must not only be "somehow fitting" thematically or mood-wise, it really has to continue/complete an object on the first pic.
(see eggsamples below)

Please note that submissions that don't meet these requirements will be removed without the blink of an eye and the submitter will be laughed at sneeringly.

Good luck and mucho much fun!

webbbo

Feel free to have a look at the eggsamples below, that WM generously created to inspire the uninspired and thick-witted (..and to demonstrate the mandatory parts in the description of your submission..)

Fig 1.

Eggsample 1, a quite obvious approach - continue letters from the first pic.

Tips: try to find a similar font, letter-spacing and try to also continue/complete otha aspects/objects from the source pic (please note my ingenious shift in perspective on the shadows of the letters and the anatomically correct position of doc's left hand)

Correct text in description:
left shot by doc (link)

Fig 2.

Eggsample 2, a rather lame example of how to continue/complete the first pic.
of course you should be more fanciful and original than this example with your submissions, of course it's not really witty to shoot dumbo on the second pic, if his ear is already visible on the first pic...

..in fact this is just to show you once more how to credit correctly in your description..

Correct text in description:
left shot by doc (link)

Fig 3a.

A far more interesting example, cause it demonstrates that - even if the connection between the two pix is mainly "thematically" (the donkey featured on the first pic (in pic), presenting a pic (in pic) of the woman who presents him on the first pic), -there still must be an object continued/completed on the second pic.
(please note how the waves ripple in eggzactly the same position on the second pic as they do in the first)

Fig 3b.

Just to demonstrate that also vertical dyptichs are ok.

Again: please note that without the wristwatch on the second pic, the submission would be invalid.
(..cause not too many folx remember the old humanic logo..)

Fig 4.

Again a rather un-original, less witty example, cause it simply shows what really was going on where the left image area ended in the original pic.

(but I just had so much fun drawing it)

Fig 5.

To demonstrate that also triptychs are ok, if the "source pic" justifies it.

Please note that - even you may arrange/stack the pics however you like - the frames of the pix must stay intact..
(one pic can cover the frame of the otha pic, but the result has to resemble a physical arrangement of "real, physical polaroids" - no "seamless" photoshop arrangements please..)

..I'm sure you got the idea by now..
..much luck and good fun once more..

W