SC4 Picture Competition

[art128]

I vote for Ennedi's picture:
aroch - 4
Ennedi - 9

[MandelSoft]

I like both pictures, but my vote goes to Paroch

Paroch - 5
Ennedi - 9

[vester]

My vote goes to paroch

9-6 in Ennedi's favour

[thundercrack83]

As much as I'd like to vote for Adam and finish this round off, I have to vote for Paul, since I love that stadium and its surrounding areas.

9-7, Ennedi.

[stewart_garden]

I will finish it off.  Sorry paul, I like the stadium - but Ennedi's rural scene is just so well put together.

10-7, Ennedi wins

[Simpson]

I am the next with this pic:

Simpson


VS
Ennedi

[vester]

I will open the dance. My vote goes to Simpson

1-0 in his favour

[stewart_garden]

Hmm.  very tough one.  My vote goes to Simpson, although I think some people in the shot would make it even better.

Simpson 2
Ennedi 0

[paroch]

That was a good round - congrats to Adam on your second victory - it was a pleasure to go head to head with you.  Thanks to everyone who voted, for Adam or for me.  And Stewart, no worries, it's no disgrace losing to Adam in the picture comp

It's always interesting to read the comments - threestooges often gives a detailed and balanced view of the pics here, so thanks Matt they're always useful.  Some people commented on the level of zoom and focal point.  I used the stadium as the focal point of the pic and chose this zoom level to give the overall feel for the peninsular.  And yes, it did take quite some time to build and get it how I wanted.  As Adam mentioned, a mix of things is what I wanted, parking, transportation, commercials, parks and residentials.

History tells us that zoom in too far, or zoom out too much and it's difficult to win here, so I knew it would be difficult to beat Adam's great pic.

And with that, I have to say that in this round, for me Paul's (Simpson's) pic is just one level of zoom too much.  A big problem with SC4 is if you go in too close you lose definition.  It is a really good picture and I find myself wanting to know what is just around the corner.  Whereas Adam's pic is just right.  yes the Swedish house looks different but that kind of thing happens in RL.  So I have to stick with Ennedi's picture.

Simpson 2-1 Ennedi

[Chrisadams3997]

Hate to break up the party, but... That's three wins for Ennedi's pic, once against Simpson(in which case simpson couldn't re-challenge the pic anyway), then Etherian, then Paroch, so, we need one more new challenger for Simpson's pic

[Ennedi]

Chris is right, we need a challenger for Simpson, I have three rounds here yet 

Thank you all, these were good rounds. I must say that I often hesitate to put picture into the competition, because I don't have a nature of somebody who always wants to win  I want to make everything better, but not better than somebody. But it is very personal and subjective point of view. And first of all I think our competition is something different than similar events in RL - we have winners and losers, but we want to help one to another and we enjoy if yesterday's loser is today's winner. This is something I like much more than usual RL rivalisation.
And this is an interesting experience because of all these analyses and explanations. We can learn here much more than in other places, and we can see here many different opinions - maybe because of this thread's popularity. Viewers are demanding here - and it is very good. Thank you all, it was a good playtime

[HandsOn]

What the heck, I'll give it another shot, might as well collect another drubbing..

[bwatterud]

HandsOn for me. 
1-0

[N1_2888]

I'll bring Simpson's picture down ...



... and vote for HandsOn ...

Simpson => 0-2 <= HandsOn

... although there some oddities on his pic (e.g. the grey street in the top left-hand corner).

[flame1396]

HandsOn 2 - Simpson 1

Removed unneeded comments. -Alex

[Une_ame]

Simpson, that's a nice one (BTW, what buiding is that ?) :

HandsOn 2 - Simpson 2

2 great pics!!!

[CasperVg]

I vote for HandsOn, I like the lay-out of your picture, Simpson, but the grid, the zoning end the pavement texture around the SAM-street doesn't go well with the red tiles that you used in the rest of the picture.

3 HandsOn - Simpson 2

[girlfromverona]

HandsOn gets my vote this round - nice use of diagonal W2W buildings. I like your pic too, Simpson, but it's just a bit dark and pixelated.

HandsOn - 4
Simpson - 2

[superhands]

well they are both teriffic but ill vote for handson

Handson - 5
Simpson - 2

[lax28100]

Handson - 5
Simpson - 3