Empty Room

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

Challenge has finished

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.

Show full rules

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:

submission
phase has

ended

30 entries

voting
phase has

ended

640 votes

Voting results: 30 entries Slideshow of 2 2 Page: 4 Rows:

17^th

18^th

19^th

(joint)

19^th

(joint)

Entry has been withdrawn

21^st

22^nd

23^rd

(joint)

23^rd

(joint)

25^th

26^th

27^th

28^th

29^th

30^th

31^st

CIVIL WAR FORT AT MOUTH OF MOBILE BAY,ALA.

32^nd

2 / 2

Sample entries

These entries were provided by the challenge host(s) as samples and cannot be voted on. Upload sample image.

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 :(

0 upvotes

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?

2 upvotes

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

0 upvotes

Total comments: 3

Shortcut keys:

p previous

n next

Editorial content

Product database

Community

Finishing today
Homeless	69/100 entries
Temples	83/100 entries
"My town"	131/ entries
1 day left
Moths, The Modest Beauties	45/100 entries
Wall Lights	50/100 entries
2 days left
Old is Gold	58/100 entries
3 days left
The Silent Language of Hands	46/100 entries
1979 (Please Review Post Processing Rules Before Posting)	11/50 entries
Animals on the Run	45/50 entries
- Bi-racial Friends : Part 2 - (Full Colours Only +Border+Title)	3/40 entries
4 days left
Tundra	6/ entries
5 days left
Conchs	2/100 entries
Photographer audition: Jewelry	10/100 entries
Feminine picture of a woman (or part of), without the face visible. B&W	20/ entries
WildAnimals: camouflaged	40/50 entries
6 days left
Pink and/or Purple Flowers	43/100 entries
Mongolia: Anything goes	1/35 entry
-Traditional Roof Ornaments- (Full Colours Only +Border+Title)	7/55 entries
Full challenges
Bridges	125/125 entries
Rich high quality color landscapes.	100/100 entries
Digital wallpaper	100/100 entries
Candid Street Fashion	50/50 entries

Finishing today
Asian food	540 votes, 42 entries
Cloud Shapes	814 votes, 50 entries
Martial Artists	179 votes, 19 entries
Babies!	1211 votes, 102 entries
View from the top - Bridges	165 votes, 13 entries
Pocket knives	359 votes, 20 entries
1 day left
Imperfect Beauty	1082 votes, 99 entries
Door Ajar	656 votes, 44 entries
landscape with total absence of the color green	1637 votes, 99 entries
Low key portrait	575 votes, 50 entries
2 days left
Fort Worth, Texas	0 votes, 0 entries
3 days left
LIttle Boys	309 votes, 50 entries
Artificially Created Paradise	335 votes, 36 entries
One Dead Tree	487 votes, 49 entries
- Composition Challenge - People at Sunset/Sunrise - (Full Colours Only +Border+Title)	494 votes, 65 entries
4 days left
The Prairies	227 votes, 54 entries
Machines of Yesteryear	276 votes, 42 entries
5 days left
Magazine editorial: Philately will get you nowhere	70 votes, 24 entries
Green valley	667 votes, 116 entries
Unemployed	212 votes, 42 entries
WildAnimals: Battle	250 votes, 49 entries
6 days left
- The Green Scenery - (Full Colours Only + Border, Title)	98 votes, 49 entries
Nepal--anything goes	137 votes, 19 entries
Birds	358 votes, 100 entries


	Voting results 30 entries My entries Login required My votes Login required