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I grabbed random photos from my reviews for the community icon and banner so we'd have something right away, but I think it would be fun to have rotating community contributions.

Post flashlight-related images that are your original content in replies. Upvote images you like. The image with the most upvotes on Monday, June 19 will become our banner for at least a month.

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  • Images should be suitable for the roughly 3:1 crop of the desktop banner and the squarer formats used for mobile and the sidebar
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Meta thread: reply to this comment to discuss the contest. Post only submissions as top-level comments.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I actually pretty much liked the banner we had at Reddit, the one with the dragons or whatnot being zapped with light beams from the guy on the ground... not sure it fits well here with the cropping etc.

Failing that, I vote for the picture of the petal-like TIR, really beautiful.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a screenshot from The Lord of the Rings. While I agree that it was, indeed, hilariously awesome, I could also see some change being good as well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for the reference, I actually don't remember any particular scene from LOTR with quite that look

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

With 19 upvotes, this is the winner.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

That is mega

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

squarer formats used for mobile and the sidebar

https://imgur.com/a/Vwc3H4h

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

To clarify, it must be one image, which the Lemmy software will crop automatically. If we use this image, the desktop banner will be cropped like this (which may be acceptable, just to make sure you understand).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Got it. Was thinking it might be used for a squarer sidebar img, but that looks kind of cool as well. Thanks Zak!

Edit- 3:1 crop of original

https://imgur.com/qnpGunC

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It's a Noctigon KR1 with the reflector swapped for a LEDiL TIR.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I approve of this one 🦀🦀🦀

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

🔦🔦🔦

🦀🦀🦀

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Three of the four horsemen right there!

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

My brass D4

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

It's hard to make something work with a 3:1 and a square crop. Edit: changed the crop.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yes, the approach I took was to use an image with the subject smaller in the frame and a lot of foreground/background that's arguably pleasant to look at, but irrelevant.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

3:1 scale, perfectly crop-able (OC)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

cropped to 3:1

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Squarer format (3:2) for mobile¿?

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