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When a car dies (ONLY FULL FRAME DSLR cameras) Show us your power and your very best photographs of an old(new!)-dead car. Photographs taken only with a camera that uses a Full Frame sensor (ex.Canon 5D,Nikon D700 etc).
Starts: Wednesday, 25 Nov 2009
Processing rules: No restrictions
Capture date rule: No restrictions
Additional rules: The content in the picture must therefore be a scene from the real world, not an artificially created one. • No B&W/tint photos.We want colour. • No extreme close ups please! • ONLY ABANDONED cars.NOT rusty and old family cars in garage.
B&W with ONE element of color left in. For those that like to try creative effects, this one is for you. One very common effect is to produce a B&W photo with one element of color left in..See Additional rules also.
Starts: Wednesday, 25 Nov 2009
Processing rules: Whatever method you need to use to achieve the requested result.
Capture date rule: Images must be shot after the announcement date of the challenge
Additional rules: Make sure it is only one color and all its shades. • The balance of the image "MUST" be Black and White.
Sony Alpha Only - Slow Shutter - Hand Held Steady Shot INSIDE stabilisation is a feature on all alpha cameras, helping both reduce camera shake and allow you to use much lower shutter speeds without ruining your images. It also opens up a whole world of creative flexibility. In this challenge we are looking for the best hand held image that shows use of a slow shutter speed.
Starts: Thursday, 26 Nov 2009
Processing rules: Only minimal post processing please.
Capture date rule: No restrictions
Additional rules: No tripods allowed.
My own backyard From the grand to the sublime, we will shift our focus from volcanoes to the natural world in your own backyard. Defining "backyard" (a North American term) for the world is a bit difficult as not everyone has a "backyard" or "back garden". So let's define it and make it the same for all: the photos entered into this challenge must be made within 10m of your primary residence (your home, not your cottage!). The photos must also be of naturally occurring subjects or phenomena. In realistic terms, this may also include garden plants and animals but no people, swings or sprinklers, please!
Starts: Thursday, 26 Nov 2009
Processing rules: To keep with the character of the "Art of Earth" series, only minimal processing may be used to correct exposure and white balance and create black-and-whites. No radical shifts in hue/saturation and no composites, please.
Capture date rule: No restrictions
Additional rules: I reiterate: the photos entered into this challenge must be made within 10m of your primary residence (your home, not your cottage!).
Police @ Work Show us police officers in the line of duty - whether hanging around lazy, or solving situations.
Starts: Thursday, 26 Nov 2009
Processing rules: None
Capture date rule: No restrictions
Additional rules: No restrictions
"H..." Like Hotel rooms... from inside ! Show us pictures taken inside some nice hotel room you stayed at.
Starts: Thursday, 26 Nov 2009
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
Monolithic Color: Gray Show us a color image that says "Gray!" Show us lots and lots of gray. Multiple shades of gray is ideal, but make sure we can tell that it's a color image. Is your image gray enough? If a viewer doesn't say "Whoa, that's almost depressing it's so gray!" then it's not gray enough. Ideally, aim for 18% gray, but just make sure it doesn't look mostly black or mostly white (or mostly black and white). Be careful not to include too much color otherwise the viewer's eye is drawn to that color and the gray effect is diminished.
Starts: Saturday, 28 Nov 2009
Processing rules: No borders or watermarks. • No composite images. • Color images only, no B&W or toned images. • No artificially colored images (you really have to capture a gray image, not just create one in your editing software (e.g. desaturation)). • Retouch as required, but avoid flattening the image with curves and level adjustments (really photograph something gray).
Capture date rule: No restrictions
Additional rules: If your image looks like it's B&W even though it's color, include a note to that fact otherwise a complaint might be issued against your image. • If you see an entry you feel is not qualified, use the Complaint button, but do so well before the challenge ends. • Comments and questions are addressed in the Challenges and Galleries forum.
Missed It by THAT much, Part 1 Everybody has photos where they juuuust missed the perfect moment. A blink that spoils a portrait. Someone turns away right as the shutter is tripped. A capture made just after the peak of action. Sometimes, however, these "failures" can be more interesting than the "keepers". Show us your "just missed" shots that you find are more interesting than if you'd "nailed it" as you originally intended. Please read and follow the additional rules. Thanks
Starts: Sunday, 29 Nov 2009
Processing rules: No composites or "digital art" effects
Capture date rule: No restrictions
Additional rules: "Set up" shots not allowed. Entries should be "honest mistakes", not an attempt to recreate a spontaneous event. • The "miss" must be on the part of the photographer. In other words, a shot of someone missing a soccer kick on goal, or dropping an object, or missing a train, doesn't fit the challenge. Save them though, because those types of shots will be just right for "Missed it by THAT much Part 2".
Slide or Film scans - The early you Did you start on film? Do you still have a great film library that you are trying to move to digital media? Show us the oldest shot you can find that you are still proud of and did a nice recovery of with a film or print scan or even copied a print with your digital camera and good software. Tell us about the shot and what it means to you. Tell us what you did to scan and fix it up. Original shot has to pre-date modern digital photography equipment, but can benefit from modern digital processing - you're on your honor, here. Previous DP Review challenge entries NOT ALLOWED.
Starts: Sunday, 29 Nov 2009
Processing rules: Whatever it too to clean up and even improve an old negative or slide, but not an over-cooked total transformation.
Capture date rule: No restrictions
Additional rules: Nothing offensive, no gratuitous nudity.
Smokers Post your best pictures of smokers or about tobbaco. You love it? You hate it? Nevermind.
Starts: Monday, 30 Nov 2009
Processing rules: None
Capture date rule: No restrictions
Additional rules: No restrictions
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