Perusing for pretty pics? Searching for sweet snaps? Foraging for phenomenal photos?
BrokenVegetable, JacNorwood, PTG Stuzib85 and Yaachts are here to help!
The Photo Review will spoil your eyes with some of the most beautiful Forzatography from around the community! And bonus for Forzatographers, each week the 5 winning photos will be featured in the game.
Each Monday at 9am Pacific (5pm UK time) winners will be announced on twitch.tv/Forza or you can find them in the weekly update on this thread.
Also, if you like paints on cars why not check out the Weekly Livery Review here
Got a photo you’d like to submit? Add it to the thread but please check below for: - The Spirit of the Competition - Rules - Submission Guidelines - Judging Process - Prizing Details Have fun!
The Spirit of the Competition
As with the Forza Enforcement Guidlines the mission statement of this competition is to make a safe, secure, inclusive and enjoyable experience for everyone. Please take it to heart and remember it whenever you are interacting with the competition.
Unless otherwise stated (e.g. Holiday Events) there is no theme to the contest and all creativity is welcome
Anyone can submit as many photos as they like, with two caveats:
The same winner will not be considered in the week following their win.
You cannot re-enter photos that have previously won.
Edited photos are allowed, with two caveats:
A source photo for your edited photo must be shared in-game (keep in mind that the feature prize will be applied to this source photo).
At minimum 2 of the 5 winners from each week will be an unedited photo.
While you can submit a friend’s work for consideration, you may not submit someone else’s work as your own. Submission Guidelines
Submissions that do a better job of folloing the submission guidelines will have a better chance of being chosen, so please read carefully. We encourage all entries to follow in-game guidelines and also can either submit via the Forums or Twitter.
In-Game Submission Guidelines (for all entries):
Make sure your photo or source photo is shared in game
Include the weekly code in the Photos description, this takes the form “PhoRev001” (the number being updated to correspond to the week you are submitting on)
Submitting via the Forum:
Reply to this thread with:
Gamertag of the Forzatograher
In-game Share Code of the photo(s) or source photo(s) in the case of edited photos
Submitting via Twitter:
Post the photo(s) on twitter, include in the tweet:
Gamertag of the Forzatographer
In-game Share Code of the photo(s) or source photo(s) in the case of edited photos
The weekly code as a hashtag, this takes the form “#PhoRev001” (the number being updated to correspond to the week you are submitting on) Judging process:
Submissions close each week at the end of the day on Wednesday (Seattle time) from there a short list of entries is selected which is sent to the judging panel. Judging is conducted ‘blind’, meaning the judges do not know who the work is by.
After one week, so on the following Thursday, the scores are returned from the judges and winners are announced on stream and in the forums the following Saturday.
The weekly submission window runs from Thursday to Thursday, so there is always a window open. But we recommend that you submit from Mon-Weds otherwise you run the risk of having to wait up to 3 weeks from the time that you might submit a work to the competition to the time you will know if it won.
Prizing Details
Photos are featured in game for 1 week.
Winners are gifted a car of their choice, not including DLC or not publicly available content. Winners are required to message with their choice.
Use in official Forza Streams and potentially in other social channels
Want to suggest a Photo for the Photo Review? Don’t forget to read the first post in this thread and feel free to post photos/edits below (and include in game sharecodes)!
Gallery Link: https://twitter.com/Merginator As Merg didn’t have this saved as an in-game shot this photo couldn’t be featured in game, but it’s featured in all our hearts.
Hi Alie and BrokenV. Dont sure how that Photocomp works exactly but if want to choose something please check my in-game gallery under my GT “W89 PL”.
There is not many photos yet but maybe some of them are worth to sahre in game top
This is just the 2nd week of the Photo Review but it’s already the last round before our holiday break… I wanted to thank Forzatography Central (FTC) who helped with the judging this week, you can check out everything they’re up to here including their #FTCAdvent competition in the run towards Christmas.
Changing topic slightly, it has been awesome that this small contest received so much excitement so early on and we wanted to honour that by making sure that things are a little more organised when we return in the new year. I also wanted to thank the community for all the questions and suggestions I’ve received, and with that in mind and in the spirit of open discussion I wanted to introduce some of our leading ideas for new/different rules and see what you all think:
Feel free to respond with your thoughts or additions, but keep in mind that despite our best efforts we may not be able to incorporate them all.
As always you can look back at the stream VoD at Twitch and feel free to submit paints for next time in the thread!
Happy holidays everyone!
Notes: - Honorable mention for ForzaFourFotos, which I couldn’t find in game but made this amazing set https://twitter.com/professorteddi1/status/1468868477624754176?s=21 - SkySpeed872 your post was received too late to be considered in this round but will be after the holidays!
In regards to rules, the only thing I would change is making it at least 2 unedited shots out of the 5. There’s something to be said for getting the most out of the game settings vs post processing. Both have their place of course, there’s some fantastic edits in this thread alone that are just impossible with in game settings and deserve recognition, I just think it should be a little more even than a 4:1 minimum ratio.
We’re starting up the engine for the Photo Review in 2022 and officially opening submissions (although all photos submitted over the break will also be considered)! Although there are no winners to announce today this is a chance to talk about changes to the weekly competition in 2022. Here’s the news!
New faces
I (Yaachts) am really excited to announce that from here on I’ll be joined by BrokenVegetable and PTG Stuzib85 in organising both the weekly Livery Review and the Photo Review. Both are hugely well known figures in Forza’s creative community and do awesome work at Turn 10 so I feel very lucky. We have big plans for both of these competitions, so stay tuned.
Great Chat
Although there wasn’t a huge discussion here (Exit0rbit representing!) the Livery Review thread saw a hearty discussion over the break into how best to put these weekly competitions together. The topic of rule changes is never closed, so please do let us know if thoughts come to mind.
Spirit of the Competition
Alongside the new rules we have added a Spirit of the Competition section. This is really important to us, in fact I’m including it as a quote at the bottom of this message. Please read it.
Rules and Details
The original post in this thread has been updated with new rules and details. For the sake of brevity these are not copied into this message but I strongly recommend that everyone check there to get a picture of changes to the competition.
The three of us are really excited to get the ball rolling, next Thursday we will be sending the first shortlist out for judging and the first winners of 2022 will be announced on Saturday the 22nd Jan!
