Digital Photography Review: Challenges

"S..." Like equestrian Statue Only statues with horses in this challenge

Starts: Thursday, 11 Feb 2010

Processing rules: No borders • No watermarks • Light, constrast and cropping only • Pictures aspect ratio shall be preferably 2:3 or 4:3 or 16:9 or 1:1

Capture date rule: No restrictions

Additional rules: No restrictions

At the marketplace Although many city dwellers do their shopping in a shopping mall or large supermarket, the lucky ones go shopping in the market. Life is always exciting at the marketplace. Please show us something exciting in your local city market.

Starts: Thursday, 11 Feb 2010

Processing rules: as you wish

Capture date rule: Images must be shot after the announcement date of the challenge

Additional rules: Please be sure to enter a photo which was taken only in the city in which you live (ie. no vacation pictures).

Anthropomorphism Anthropomorphism is the attribution of uniquely human characteristics to non-human creatures and beings, natural and supernatural phenomena, material states and objects or abstract concepts. Subjects for anthropomorphism commonly include animals and plants depicted as creatures with human motivation able to reason and converse, forces of nature such as winds or the sun, components in games, unseen or unknown sources of chance. Make sure you explain (either in the title of description) what we're supposed to see.

Starts: Thursday, 11 Feb 2010

Processing rules: None.

Capture date rule: No restrictions

Additional rules: No restrictions

In the Grocery Store Show a Photo from a Grocery Store, particularly interesting and representative for the Country it's located in.

Starts: Thursday, 11 Feb 2010

Processing rules: No merging of Photos. No HDR.

Capture date rule: No restrictions

Additional rules: Images which are not obviously from a Grocery Store will be disqualified. • Images must contain some sort of Food and/or drink.

Avatar! Take a picture of someone that you think could be your avatar. You are allowed to use photoshop to alter the image to depict what you truly think your alter ego might look like. Do you see yourself as a deity? Go crazy with the theme. Having said that, you don't have to alter the image digitally if you don't want to. Be adventurous and innovative. For this challenge, the image must be taken AFTER the announcement date of the challenge. Note: Any complaints about the entries, must be submitted ONLY during the submission phase. Once the submission phase ends and voting starts, complaints will not be entertained.

Starts: Friday, 12 Feb 2010

Processing rules: You are allowed to use Photoshop or other retouching software to alter the image to conform to your perception of the theme

Capture date rule: Images must be shot after the announcement date of the challenge

Additional rules: The avatar must dominate the image (i.e. must occupy more than 50% of the frame) • The image must be taken AFTER the announcement date of the challenge • Please fill in the image details when submitting the photo • No watermarks or frames please. During the voting process the photographers' names are hidden. Adding a watermark allows easy identification, and can create an unfair advantage

Chrome Remember polishing that chrome bumper that seemed to go on for ever? Driving at night and seeing the colors twist and dance across it? Little by little chrome is slipping into history... bumpers, fins, hood ornaments, motorcycles, accents....even blenders and malt mixers!...what is left is getting harder to find. Be creative...show how reflections in the chrome can change perspectives and bend reflections

Starts: Friday, 12 Feb 2010

Processing rules: Basc PP / cropping

Capture date rule: No restrictions

Additional rules: No restrictions

Break the rules: Travel Landscape This idea is totally stolen from a post by Thom Hogan: Break the photography rules, but make a better image by doing so. No rule of thirds? no problem. Best shot wins, but break the (composition) rules okay? Break as many composition rules as you want. Sometimes, you need to know that the rules won't work. VOTERS: Vote low for any image that has perfect rule of thirds, balance or imbalance by way of rule of thirds, etc. The more perfect the composition fits the (normal) rules, the lower you should vote.

Starts: Friday, 12 Feb 2010

Processing rules: Anything goes except manipulation of the image.

Capture date rule: No restrictions

Additional rules: None, just remember, it needs to be a landscape, NOT A CITY SCAPE it needs to be as good of an image as possible and IT SHOULD BREAK AS MANY COMPOSITION RULES AS YOU WANT. Best shot wins.

Just too funny! Show us something really funny that you have captured. You can go back through your archives if you would like, but let's see the funniest photos you have taken. Yes Photos, I am opening this one up to 2 submissions per entrant.

Starts: Saturday, 13 Feb 2010

Processing rules: You can edit away, with one proviso, you have to really edit if you are going to. Do not just use basic Photoshop skills to twist a face or enlarge a head, there has to be something truly funny in what you have done, and the basis of the photograph has to be funny.

Capture date rule: No restrictions

Additional rules: Have fun as always and keep the spirit of the competition in mind.

The Land That Time Forgot... Grap your cameras and check your hardrives for this chllenge. Try and come up with a suitable image for the title. It doesnt have to be a literal interpretation , be as creative if you wish. However , remember the title is just as important as your image in this challenge. Viewers / voters must still be able to see a link between the title and your image. Good / Great images with no real link to the title should be marked low. Good / Great images with clear links to the image should be marked higher.

Starts: Saturday, 13 Feb 2010

Processing rules: Basic Post Processing only

Capture date rule: No restrictions

Additional rules: Please use an image not previously submitted in another challenge • No Nudity or pictures that viewers may find offensive. • Only images not complying with the above two points will be disqualified.

Dramatic Light: Film Noir Film noir usually refers to Hollywood films of the 40's and 50's that dealt with "hard-boiled" characters and featured lots of shadows. For this challenge, read up on the film noir movement and submit an appropriate image. Make it dark, make it gritty, make it heavy, cool and dramatic - and be sure to de-emphasize colors.

Starts: Saturday, 13 Feb 2010

Processing rules: No watermarks or borders.

Capture date rule: No restrictions

Additional rules: The image must look cinematic, not like a snapshot. • If you see an entry that you feel doesn't qualify, use the complaint button and state your case ... but do so well before the submission deadline ends. • Questions and comments are addressed in the "Challenges and Galleries" forum.