Empty Room

Challenge #1 in the Art of the Mundane series. Hosted by Slynky.

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Find the artistic value of an empty room. This means no furniture, storage, people, animals, and other things left in the room. You should make use of light, shadows, color, contrast, angles, geometry, openings etc. to create your photo.

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Announced:

Thursday, 26th April, 2012 (GMT)

Submissions:

Thursday, 3rd May, 2012 – Wednesday, 9th May, 2012 (GMT)

Voting:

Thursday, 10th May, 2012 – Wednesday, 16th May, 2012 (GMT)

Processing rules:

PHOTO – No digital art; photo must be taken with a camera.
POST PROCESSING – Minimal. This means you may make basic adjustments to the photo by changing exposure, color balance, sharpness, contrast, hue, etc. The intent is that the photo looks nice but realistic. No composites.
SIZE – Submitted photo must not be larger than 1600 pixels on the longer side.
BORDERS – Photo must not have a border.
IDENTIFICATION – Photo must not contain a signature, copyright notice, watermark, or other similar way of identifying the author. Author must not identify him/herself in the photo’s title, description, comments, or notes.

Capture date rules:

No restrictions.

Additional rules:

AUTHORS – Expect entries which do not follow the rules to be disqualified.
VOTING – Please view the photo before voting. Using only the thumbnail to decide your vote may not give the best representation of the photo. Voters are encouraged to vote on every entry in the challenge for the sake of fairness.
VOTING – Vote manipulation is strongly discouraged and may result in disqualification.
COMMENTS – Please hold all comments for entries until after the voting period ends (so other voters are not influenced).
CHEATING – Cheating your fellow human beings in order to gain a higher finish in a DPR challenge is disgusting and will be punished. If I can determine (with little doubt) someone has cheated, I will automatically disqualify that entry and all entries by that person into any of my future challenges.
VOTE SOLICITATION – Is not fair and will not be permitted. If I find evidence of asking friends and family to vote for your image, I will disqualify it.

Maximum number of entries per user:

Maximum number of entries in challenge:

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30 entries

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640 votes

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Challenge comments

Total comments: 3

There are some great photos here :)
Many compliments to the Autors!
...And "BRAVO!" to Slynky...You have managed the first challenge (as an Host) with great expertise!
...It's a pity I haven't got any suitable photo :(

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If you take a look at the Challenge forum, you will find a lot of posts about the problems with challenges. One of the problems is annonymity.

You see, DPR tries to keep the entries anonymous so voters can't tell who submitted the photo. Then, hopefully, they can only vote on the photo and not who submitted it. You probably didn't know it but DPR even keeps the equipment a secret until after the voting! Once again, some people will vote against (for example) Canon photos and vote big for Nikon photos.

What we really want is to vote on the merits of the photo and not have the issue "clouded" by what equipment was used, who took the photo, etc.

I hope this explains. In effect, it's not a big thing to fix if your photo already has a border--just crop it out. On the other hand, it saves you time if you have no border. ;)

To turn the question around, why would a person want to identify himself in an anonymous contest?

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Hi,

Can you explain why such a rule is imposed ? <Photo must not contain a signature, copyright notice, watermark, or other similar way of identifying the author. Author must not identify him/herself in the photo’s title, description, comments, or notes>..

By explain, I mean express: the added value / the advantage / being totally anonymous brings xxxx / etc...

Thanks in advance

Philippe

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