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Hello everyone and we are now on week three of the third Scenic Cycle! This week the theme was “Starry Night” and we have five gorgeous shots submitted by our photographers. Please enjoy these amazing night time scenes and enjoy some tranquility under the stars.
Our photographers submitted six great shots this week, taking us down pipes inside factories and out into the open prairies along a winding road. This week’s winner took us up the down staircase, edging out a win by just one point.
Congratulations to Schan Starfall for Traveling up the Stairway! The judges appreciated the interplay of light and shadow and the inclusion of the clockwork cogs and waterfalls that beckon you to explore this delightful area further.
Happy weekend, everyone! It’s time for Round 2 of Scenic Cycle III! For this week, I asked our photographers to snap a shot on the theme of “Traveling.” They had to use Echo filter in Gpose, but there were no other restrictions, so our photographers had a wide field to play with for this shot.
Here are this week’s entries!
Happy Wednesday everyone! Our third Scenic Cycle is starting out with the usual judges disagreement and the voting was SO SO CLOSE. So close, in fact, that we are starting out this first round with an actual three way tie.
Congratulations to Simwell Waverider for “As Wisteria Blooms,” Schan Starfall for “Fancy Wedding Venue,” and Lucifer Mourningstar for “Look Gently and Smile Upon Me.”
To all the entries this round: Don’t worry, I’m gonna drag my waifu to every location in the game for screenshots for our vow renewal ceremony!
Hi folks! The theme for the monthly challenge for August is going to be Olympian Task in honor of the Olympics! This theme is otherwise completely open ended, so take the name for inspiration and run with it!
Entries for this challenge will be accepted until August 20th, 2021 at 11:59 PM. To enter, send your screenshot and your character name to host Katarh Mest on the ENTM Discord server.
Please >>>click right here<<<< to join the ENTM Discord community if you have not done so already!
As usual, the prize for winning the monthly challenge is your image on the banner of our website, the right to pick the theme for the next month, and a minion or other item of similar value from the Mogstation.
ENTM contests are open to the general screenshot community. You do not have to have participated in any ENTM contest before. You must, however, be a member of our Discord community to see the winner’s announcement. ENTM monthly contest screenshots must be “vanilla” – no mods, no Reshade, and no post processing allowed. You must include the FFXIV copyright notice on the shot to allow us to post on our website for voting. Please submit one (1) original screenshot for this contest, not used in any other contest before or posted on social media. Also please include the character name for voting. No other restrictions apply beyond these and the challenge theme as described above. Do not taunt happy fun ball.
We had a lot of votes for the month of July, so thank you to the community for giving us your voices! The winner for the theme of Lost In Time was Daiyu Elani, with a fantastic custom set that immediately gave us a full episode preview in one picture.
Congratulations, and please stick around for the August challenge soon!
Welcome to the first round of Scenic Cycle III! July 30th is my wedding anniversary, and that served as the inspiration for this round. After all, in the real world, photographers are expected to take wedding photos as their bread and butter.
For this round, we asked the photographers to take a photo anywhere in the game world that wasn’t in Sanctum of the Twelve, using the Eternal Bonding frame. Each entry provided is a lovely example of a place in the game world that future couples might consider if they want something different from the stock cutscenes from the in game wedding!
Note that because Scenic Cycle is anonymously judged, we do not have community voting. However, we have our public critiques channel on Discord if you want to say something nice about any of the shots directly to the secret photographers! Critiques will also be provided by our judges for each shot each week.
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We have six photographers for Scenic Cycle III. Because this cycle is judged anonymously, this will be the only post where we have each of the shots listed with the names of the photographers in the captions!
Their first shots will be coming this weekend, but in the meantime, here are their audition portfolio shots! Click on an image to view it in a larger size. Use your browser’s back button to come back to this page.
We’ll be meeting our photographers tomorrow, but for today we’re going to talk about our judges, who will be graciously providing feedback to our contestants each week.
Odharnait “Ona” Greene – Previous judge, host of Scenic Cycle II and most recently Fresh Faces, failed model, Challenge Winner of 2018, poet, mom friend, and avid drunk, Ona has agreed to give loving tribute to the shots each week this cycle. Welcome back Ona!
Elessia Sedai – Fat Cat Chronicles veteran and most recently Ona’s partner in crime, as well as our Challenge Winner of 2019, Elessia started out as a community judge and is now one of our MVPs on the judging and hosting team. Welcome back, Elessia!
Ni’ko Shae – Host of Runway Cycle, and winner of Classic Cycle 11, Ni’ko is temporarily back from a nice vacation in PSO2 to give the photographers some flowery feedback and prolific puns every week. Welcome back, Ni’ko!
And introducing our newest community judge, Reese Direson – A participant in Fresh Faces Cycle 2, Reese is joining us as a judge to bring us a fresh perspective to Scenic Cycle III as well. Reese has worked on set design and fabrication out in the offline world, and we’re excited to see what advice and thoughts he will bring to the table!
Katarh Mest – Your host! ENTM veteran, and winner of Runway Cycle 1, Katarh started out as a community judge in 2014 thanks to her penchant for glamour design, and became the co-manager of ENTM with Kai Ulric in 2017. Now she manages the website, in addition to hosting cycles and judging.
We had five submissions this month for the theme Lost In Time. Take a look at these shots of our confused time travelers, and then vote for your favorite using the Google poll below!
Voting will be open until Friday, July 30th at 11:59 PM EDT.
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