: Digital Photography Review

Looking down the lens. Submit a photograph of a subject looking straight at the viewer. You must be able to see the subject looking straight at the viewer.

Additional rules: This should be a portrait (but it doesn't have to be a person as the subject). • The subject must be looking straight at the lens and therefore looking straight at the viewer. • Score lower if it is harder to tell if the subject is looking straight at the lens/straight at the viewer. Score if you find the photograph is more creative or more beautiful. • Please title your photo. • Please vote.

My Best Picture of the Week Did you take an interesting new picture, but there's no current challenge suitable for it? Here is an open-themed challenge where you can display it. Please remember that this is a family-friendly site and enter photos appropriate for everyone to view. See full rules for capture date, entry size, watermark restrictions, and more. PLEASE do not comment on your own entry until the voting period is over; your name is then visible and the anonymity rule is broken.

Starts: Thursday, 25 Jun 2020

Processing rules: 1. Pictures must contain full EXIF data, including the correct date of capture. • 2. Size: Longest side of entry to be a maximum of 2048 pixels.

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

Additional rules: 1. Entering an image taken before the announcement date may result in a ban from future challenges in this series. • 2. If your picture fits a theme-specific challenge for new pictures (i.e., with an "after the announcement date" capture rule) that is currently open for submission, then enter it there and not here. • 3. Entries are to be anonymous, so no watermarks or other means of identification. This includes making comments on your own entry before the voting period is over.

Aviation Legends: X-Planes Any X-plane or similar experimental / prototype aircraft. For non-US officially designated X-planes, a brief description is recommended so everybody could learn something on the aviation achievements.

Starts: Friday, 26 Jun 2020

Processing rules: No restrictions

Capture date rule: No restrictions

Additional rules: No restrictions

brown challenge This one is a memorial challenge a recent photographer that is affiliated with the color brown has just passed away so show something with a dark brown color that is in focus. no light brown please, a standard brown or dark brown is asked for in this challenge.

Starts: Saturday, 27 Jun 2020

Processing rules: minimal processing only

Capture date rule: No restrictions

Additional rules: no cheaters • show an image that has not been in challenges .

People and/or Signs People often go where they shouldn't. Signs often tell people what they can't do I am looking for people and / or signs in the wrong place. If you can combine both then that's just fine and dandy How about a family event with one out of place participant ? Someone crossing the road on red...you get the picture

Starts: Sunday, 28 Jun 2020

Processing rules: no abstracts

Capture date rule: No restrictions

Additional rules: No restrictions

-Faces of Ethnicities- (Portrait in Full Colours Only) In this challenge, imagine you're submitting a photo to Wikipedia for an sample photo of one human ethnicity (or a mixture of ethnicities). You are to capture the physical traits of your model's ethnicity(ies) in a well lit photograph of one adult human being (maximum framing = from waist up). He/She has to be still as if he/she was posing for you. What I wanna see : telling facial features, natural facial skin complexion (ideally not altered too much by make up), natural hair texture and colour, eye colour, shape of nose etc. Accessories (except for eyeware) are allowed provided they don't overwhelm the face. Do not - submit shots taken in poor light/ night shot/ shots where the there are other people in the frame. Three entries are allowed per member, but make them of a different ethnicity from one another.

Starts: Sunday, 28 Jun 2020

Processing rules: Please restrain yourselves from going overboard with the post processing. • Avoid HDRs, HDR-looking or excessively shadow-lifted unnatural looking photographs, especially those which glows with halos. • Shots with excessive distortion are also no-nos • Keep it real, simple clean up and dust cloning is allowed, but do avoid cut and paste composites or majorly erased backgrounds • Orientation shall be portrait.

Capture date rule: No restrictions

Additional rules: The total entry limit is now set at 80, I might slightly increase the limit if this challenge is well received. • Do not submit shots used in previously completed DPReview.com challenges. • No political statements please, any photos with the slightest hint of controversial statement or message will be removed without any notice. • Shots I find offensive might be removed. • Make sure the entries look good and tasteful (at least you must find your own shot tasteful). • Complaints might not be entertained after the voting has ended. • The host's action (or inaction) is up to him.

A big year - birds 2020 Capture and Display your best photographs of birds throughout the year 2020. please enter the species of bird, if known. if bird is unknown Will the community leave a comment in the comments section as to the type of bird so we will be able to keep track of the birds spotted. Happy Birding.

Starts: Sunday, 28 Jun 2020

Processing rules: No cutting and pasting

Capture date rule: No restrictions

Additional rules: The shot must be from 2020 • Big Year shall start at 12:00 AM on 1 January of that year and end at 11:59 PM, 31 December of that year, based on the local time of the location of the birder at each time threshold. • if entering 2 shots they should be different species • no photograph should be entered into this challenge series more than once • The bird must have been alive, wild, and unrestrained

first day of summer the first day of summer in the northern hemisphere is june 20th. submit a photo that depicts the summertime (can be shot in any month). BE CREATIVE, HAVE FUN.

Starts: Sunday, 28 Jun 2020

Processing rules: anything

Capture date rule: No restrictions

Additional rules: summer themed photos

Alphabet soup. Letter Y - Illustrate "Yellow" This week's word is "yellow". This is a color challenge. Whatever you enter should naturally be yellow.

Starts: Monday, 29 Jun 2020

Processing rules: Please do not add watermarks that identify yourself or it will be disqualified. Challenges should be anonymous.

Capture date rule: No restrictions

Additional rules: No restrictions

Artfully Out of Focus Can you produce an out of focus image that is still aesthetically pleasing? This is a home lock down challenge and designed for people to get creative. You need to make a photo to enter, you can't just dig through your photo archives. Please do not ask for the date limit to be removed.

Starts: Monday, 29 Jun 2020

Processing rules: nil

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

Additional rules: The photo should be out of focus. • The photo should still be aesthetically pleasing. • Vote low if the subject is in focus. Vote high if the subject is out of focus, creative, and still aesthetically pleasing. • Please title your photo. • Please vote.


Polar night by Kaappo from Olympus m/43	Nature's Little Clowns by cjf2 from Nature	I Feel It. by stickpointed from Story of the pose	Early in the morning by Shoofly59 from Sun	Dyes & Pigments For Sale by poppyjk from Alphabet soup. Letter V - Illustrate "Vibrant"	DSC_0901 by Sagnikroy from Two colors	A Passing Storm by stevewhitemd from What Can I See in the Sky?

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