Photos - miscelaneous topics

Ok folks, best photo taken after the announce date is back! DATE RULE: Your photo must have exif data for a date check, otherwise it will be disqualified. SIZE RULE: Maximum height / width of 2048 pixels - common for Facebook uploads.

Ok folks, best photo taken after the announce date is back! DATE RULE: Your photo must have exif data for a date check, otherwise it will be disqualified. SIZE RULE: Maximum height / width of 2048 pixels - common for Facebook uploads.

This challenge involves using a slow shutter speed. Anything captured at 1/25 second or slower required to enter.

This is a simple challenge: Capture an image with a high shutter speed. 1/4000 second is the minimum required for entry.

Enter photo's of posed animals. They should be portraits, not action pictures.

People portrait using a cell phone.

Have some fun with your cell phone and submit an outdoor nature picture.

Another repeat challenge. Show off your pets. This challenge dedicated to dogs.

Anything goes - this challenge is about Halloween. Have fun!

I love cats... It's that time of year, where I re-run a couple of my favorites. Let's see cats.

Black birds can be difficult to capture the detail. Let's see some beautiful Blackbirds and crows. Ravens as well.

Enter any safari photograph and please title it with the location, or add a note in the description to let us know where the picture was taken.

From Deep Purple.. Illustrate the catch phrase and song title "Smoke on the Water".

Enter a photo illustrating the word "Flexible". Please do not enter photo's that have won previous challenges.

Your photo should illustrate the challenge title "The Rock". No previous challenge winners please.

A color challenge. The subject must be primarily the color green. No entries that have won previous challenges.

There are all kinds of puzzles. Submit a photo showing a puzzle. Please, do not enter photo's that have previously won other dpreview challenges.

Your entry may focus on a single musician, or a band. Please limit entries to those that have not won previous challenges.

Illustrate the word "Moss" with your entry. Please limit your entry to photo's that have not won previous challenges.

This is a little different from the theme. I'd like to see silhouettes of birds.

Show me an illustration of the word "dragonfly". Please limit entries to photographs that have not already won a challenge here at dpreview.

Illustrate the word "liquid" with your entry.

I think you can do a lot with this one. Show me an illustration of the word "perspective". Please limit entries to photographs that have not already won a challenge here at dpreview.

Enter your best entry that illustrates the word 'storm' Please do not enter photographs that have already won a 1st place in another dpreview challenge.

Illustrate this word with your entry: Wildcat. (No ferral cats. This is a challenge for lions, tigers, servals, cheetahs, lynx, bobcats, etc) I'd appreciate the type of wild cat in the title or description

Illustrate the word "Infinity" with your entry.

Please illustrate the word "silence" with your entry.

This week's challenge word is "mountain" . If known, add the name and location of the mountain in either the title or description. This makes it more interesting to the voters and the host :) Thank you.

This week's challenge is about art. Please photograph a sculpture. If possible, please provide the artist and or the name of sculpture in the entry description or title.

This week's challenge is not a single word. It is 2 words. Enter something you believe illustrates "water drop".

illustrate the noun "moon" with your entry.

This is a single word challenge. You may enter anything you feel illustrates the word "Simple"

In your view, illustrate this noun with your entry: Train (or Trains)

Show us the beauty of comfortable footwear: Submit an interesting or artistic photograph containing "sneakers". It can be 1 , 2 or more sneakers.

Submit a photo that you think illustrates the word " Castle ". I do not think chess pieces apply. Entries should be of buildings, thank you.

Illustrate this word with your entry: Cabin

I love cat's so I am ending 2016 with a cat challenge. My other series ends 2016 with a Dog challenge so everyone with a pet can have a little fun which is what this is all about.

Tis the season... Holiday bells, or any other bell is suitable for this challenge.

Illustrate the word "gray" with your entry. (The photo should focus on a "gray" object or subject but the photo does not need to be B/W)

Illustrate the word "clouds" with your entry,

I'm making the word challenge this week "Dock" or "Pier"

Illustrate the word Gear (or Gears) with your entry

Illustrate this word with your entry: Bridge

Illustrate the following word with your entry: Connected

A small deviation within the 1 word challenge series.... Illustrate this object with your entry: Musical Instrument

Illustrate this word with your entry: Waterfowl

Illustrate this word with your entry: Gourd

Illustrate this word with your entry: Clouds

Illustrate this word with your entry: Flag

Illustrate this word "Lamppost".

Illustrate this word with your entry: glass

Illustrate this word with your entry: Fishing

The word to illustrate in this challenge is "Red" Each contestant should enter a photo that they believe illustrates the word "Red". There are no other rules. Enjoy! {(Color challenges are usually popular so I am making this a 75 entry limit.)

Illustrate this word with your entry: Flowing

Illustrate this word with your entry: Widget Since this is a modern word - here is the definition "a small gadget or mechanical device, especially one whose name is unknown or unspecified."

In your view, Illustrate this word with your entry: Circular

Illustrate this word with your entry: Beach

Illustrate this word with your entry: Rowboat

In your view, illustrate this word with your entry: Rock

Your entry should illustrate this word: geometric

Illustrate the word Storm with your entry.

In your view, illustrate this word: Safari

Illustrate this word with your challenge entry: Mechanical

please illustrate the word" sunset" with your entry. no rules for this, just submit a photo that says "sunset" to the voters.

In your view, illustrate this word with your entry: Cliff

In your view, illustrate this single word: Soft

Submit a photograph that illustrates this word: Pasture

The subject is up to you. Illustrate this word with your entry: Simple

In your view, illustrate this word with your entry: Empty

Illustrate this word with your entry: Reflection

In your view, submit an entry illustrating this word: Texture

Illustrate this word with your entry: Homemade

Illustrate this word with your entry: Symmetry

Illustrate this word with your entry: Door

Enter your best picture of a horse or horses

In your view, illustrate this word with your entry: Tower

Illustrate the word "shadow" with your entry.

In your view, illustrate this word with your entry: Glass

In your view, illustrate this word with your entry: Fog

In your view, illustrate this word with your entry: Snow

In your view, illustrate this word with your entry: Shack

Please illustrate this word with your entry: Fruit

Illustrate this word with your entry: Eyes

In your view, illustrate this word with your entry: holiday

Illustrate this word with your entry: Vase

Illustrate this word with your entry: Free

Illustrate this word with your entry:Numbers

What's your view of a City? Illustrate it with your entry

Enter a photograph, which in your opinion illustrated the word: Volume

Illustrate the word "Speed" with your entry.

In your opinion, please submit a photograph that illustrates the word "balance"

In your opinion, illustrate the word "Empty" with your entry.

Illustrate this word with your entry: Fall

Illustrate this word with your entry: Bokeh

Part II - another challenge of the same name since the previous Flower challenge filled quickly. go for it - illustrate the word "Flower" in your entry.

Illustrate this word with your entry: Boat

Illustrate this word with your entry: Flower

Illustrate this word with your entry: Motorcycle

Illustrate this word with your entry: Stars

Illustrate the word "Point" with your entry

Illustrate the word "Green" with your entry

Illustrate this single word with your entry: Three

Illustrate this word with your entry:Curve

Illustrate this word with your entry: Anger

Illustrate this word with your entry:Fruit

Illustrate this word with your entry: Bright

Illustrate this word with your photograph: Tree

Illustrate this word with your entry: Geometric

Illustrate this word with your entry: Quiet

Illustrate this word with your entry: Wilderness

Illustrate this word with your entry: Lightning

Illustrate this word with your entry: Alone

Illustrate this word with your entry: Farm

Illustrate this word with your entry: Texture

Illustrate this word with your entry: Seascape

Illustrate this word with your entry: Twins

Illustrate this word with your entry: Simplicity

Create a still life using Halloween as the theme. Lighting and set up matter. Use decorations, costume or costume accessories, Halloween candy, carved pumpkins, etc.

Focus on creating a still life centered around an empty bottle OR create something interesting with lighting and an empty bottle. Be creative, but I must be able to see that the bottle is empty and the bottle should be the focal point of interest.

The very basic color Yellow or Gold please. You may do something artistic with an everyday object that is yellow or gold, but please do not change the subject with software. You may use black and white with yellow or gold as well.

You decide what to do here. Are they sitting on a book, a counter, or someone's face, or even your pet's face? Are they part of a still life? Are they Sunglasses? Are you in the reflection? If so, all of that is OK! Try to be artistic in your creation/submission.

Have some fun with the holidays…. and capture the holiday in a photograph of a decoration, light, candle, ornament, etc.

Leaves are popular! I was asked to do one more Leaf challenge, so here it is. This is the last one, so make it good! The leaf in your photo should be the focal point. More than one leaf allowed but 1 leaf should stand out.

You decide how to frame it, pose it, light it, photograph it. More than 1 is OK, but make just one as the focal point. No entries that have won a DPR challenge in the past please.

Have you been to an F1 race, local demolition derby, NASCAR, Rally racing up a mountain? Submission must contain one or more competing vehicles and must be processed in Black & White or Sepia.

My recent 1 leaf challenge filled up quickly, and so, here is part 2. Not quite the same. This is for 1 leaf, inside, outside, alive or not, and where the leaf is the focal point. More than one leaf allowed, but one must be the focal point.

and photograph Sports action. Football, baseball, soccer, basketball, etc. It can be at your local school, town ball field, or a world series photo.

Outside or inside. Alive or not. Let's see the detail and beauty of just 1 leaf.

Show me pastel colors.

Use a doorway as a frame for a photograph. It can be a view that looks out or sees in. That is your choice. The doorway itself should not only frame your photo but make it more interesting. Good luck and have fun.

Make an interesting still life arrangement centered around flowers and or plants (freshly cut or potted). Submit your photo as Black and white please. Remember that a still life is a grouping of inanimate objects. Try to be artful, not random with your creation and use lighting to add interest. Experiment, have fun, and good luck!

Something red must be the focus of your photograph.

Present a Still Life in Black & White. It must contain exactly 5 objects and no more than 5 objects.

The photo you enter must have a zipper or zippers visible (preferably as the subject), and the photo must have the color blue as a dominant color. Other colors and other objects may exist. There are no other restrictions. I hope you have fun creating an interesting entry.

Illustrate the title "The Pensive Cat". The cat should not be playing, grooming, or sleeping. Cats love to think, meditate and reflect on their lives, so photograph your feline in a pensive mood. Domestic cats only please.

Someone recently mentioned the boredom of a Cat Challenge in a forum thread. I like cats, so, here it is. Enter a photo of a domestic cat or kitten. The cat must be awake. Eye's open and visible.

This is a wide open color challenge but no post processing to create red and yellow. Photograph a scene or object(s) that have Red and Yellow as stand out colors. Yes, you may have other color in it, as well as black and white.

The photograph must be black and white. No sepia please. The subject of your photo must be a car. No people in the photo. Other cars in the background are OK, but the main subject has to be 1 car. Dramatic views are encouraged.

The photograph must be black and white. No sepia please. The subject of your photo must be a zoo animal whose color is not black and/or white. (no zebras, black panthers, white peacocks, etc). No people in the photo, just 1 colorful zoo animal.

I've done cars in HDR - now have sonme fun with Trucks. Pick ups to tractor trailers. No cars, no SUV's please.

We love photographing the rich colors of birds. Work with a colorful bird (like a parrot) and create an interesting black and white entry. (No sepia, no color please). Entry must state the color(s) of the bird in the title or description and the color must not be a black or white bird. It must have other color to fit the challenge. I feel voting helps the challenges, so this challenge is...

The entry must be black and white. No sepia please. The subject of your photo must be a dog or cat (not both). No people in the photo, just a dog or cat.

The FZ150 is so impressive. Now I am curious to see what Panasonic has done with the FZ200. The photo should include any living Non-human creature and must be taken with the FZ200.

Small shacks in any condition. The photo should highlight the structure. Tasteful HDR is welcome here.

Owls please. Flying, sitting, sleeping… The subject is owls for this challenge. You may also consider living as well as non-living entries which can include a toy owl, an owl in jewelry, or an owl found in a museum, or in a work of art. If it's an owl of any kind, you may enter this challenge.

Very simple: Close up or macro shot of any fruit. Please be as artistic and/or creative as you can.

Enter this challenge with a photograph containing 3 objects. It can be anything from a still life, to an outdoor shot, or action photo, but it must have 3 things in it. You, as well as any DP review member are encouraged to critique entries by adding comments on how you think the image could be improved. The entrant, after reading comments may opt to make modifications, and replace the first...

Cars, bikes, trikes, kids toys, steering wheels, rubber wheels, Ferris wheels, roulette wheels, etc. Ordinary subject... yes! But make sure the wheel(s) are prominently displayed, a key element, where your eyes are drawn to them yet you also have an interesting photograph. With any challenge, you can make the ordinary, interesting. An everyday snapshot won't do well so think about what you...

Enter this challenge with a photograph of a single flower. You, as well as any DP review member are encouraged to critique entries by adding comments on how you think the image could be improved. The entrant, after reading comments should make modifications, and replace the first photo if they think the suggestions have merit. Simply withdraw, and immediately re-enter with your modified...

Repeat challenge Blue: Fish, flowers, eyes, jewels, jeans, birds, water, etc… but do not enter a nature photo that uses the sky as the blue element. The sky can be in the photo, but something else must be the point of interest and it should be blue. The 1st challenge filled up in just a few hours. This one will open up with 5 as the limit for entries, and 12 hours after it has opened, I...

Photograph something where there is framing within the photo. It does not have to be fully framed on all sides but the frame must be part of what you photographed. I am not asking for post processed borders or frames. Examples: Photograph through a tunnel, an archway, under some tree branches, through a hole in a wall, through a hole in a seashell, looking out a door as long as the doorway...

Cross or Crosses...Crosses are found on jewelry, on steeples, gravestones, inside and outside churches, etc. Let's see your skillful photo of one or more.

The 2012 color green challenge. Please show us a green subject or a strong green background highlighting the beauty of your subject. Photo's from 2012 please.

3 colors must standout in your photo. Also - Black and white are both allowed but are not counted as part of the 3 colors. Shading of the colors is OK, a tiny bit of other color is also OK. But, the idea is a colorful photo where the viewer easily sees 3 colors and you must list those colors in the title. Otherwise a DQ.

Simple challenge - Submit a color photo where you have a subject with a noticeable background and the background must be white. Sorry, No landscapes.

Simple challenge - Submit a color photo where you have a subject with a noticeable background and the background must be black.

The subject is up to you, but the photo must have exactly 2 colors, not more. Shading of a color, or intensity of a color in the photo is fine. Black may be one of the colors, White may also be one of the colors, but the only 2 color combo that is not allowed is black/white.

Outside or inside. Show the architecture or photograph books on shelves, or an exhibit. Your goal is to show the voters an interesting view into your library.

Beer or Soda bottles. One or many. Make a still life, or capture someone drinking but make it an interesting photo. No Facebook broadcast before challenge completes please. Win with your talent, not with your friends.

This challenge requires varied shades of any color or colors as the background. Try to showcase a subject by having a background that does not distract, is not absent, yet adds interest to the picture by it's varied color, tone or shadowing. See examples. You might achieve it with lighting or a shallow depth of field to create the bokeh. Natural outdoor backgrounds may work too. Good luck!

Dominate your photo with the colors of Yellow and Green in equal parts. The photo may include other color, but the main object or point of interest in the photo must be yellow and green. The challenge is to have equal part yellow and equal green, or as close to equal as you can.

Have you ever been invited to a party where you brought something uncommon that guests examine and guess what it is? Show that kind of object, the whole object, not a closeup macro. Plan your photo as if you were creating a still life. Lighting and composition are important. This challenge is not a snapshot guessing game. It's about a well executed photograph.

Cars and SUV's processed with HDR, Topaz adjust, or any tone mapping software. This is about making your car look like it could be in a poster. Clear, crisp, vibrant. Color or B/W. Creativity and fun are encouraged here.

Wet. The subject must be visibly wet. This is not a water challenge, so NO swimming. Examples: Dew on a spider web, a child or dog playing in a sprinkler, raindrops on flowers or other objects, beads of sweat on an athlete. When framing your picture, keep in mind, the water is not the subject.

Show a photo where these 3 colors dominate the photograph: Red, White, Blue A dark background to highlight your subject is allowed. No flags on flagpoles. Flags elsewhere are allowed, such as on a casket, printed on a tee shirt, painted in a mural. All other Red, White and Blue ideas are welcome.

Capture your subject looking at us, the viewers. I'm not sure what you can get for an emotional look from an insect, pet or wild animal but you should be able to get something that has the subjects eye's staring right into the lens plus, try to show us an interesting pose or facial expression on the non-human. (Humans may be in the photo, but they are not to be the main subject).

Dominate your photo with the colors of Red and Green. This does not need to be Christmas related. Other color may exist, but it should really be a Red/Green picture. And, the challenge is to have equal parts red and equal green, or as close to equal as you can. I don't want to see a thin red ribbon on a big green package. But, you could zoom in an crop a red bow on a green package so you...

This is a very broad theme. I'd like to see a macro shot , preferably something new , and please submit it processed as Black and White. Choose carefully. I hope to see some good contrast in the submissions. Have fun and good luck!.

Have your subject look at us, the viewers. Show me a piercing stare, or an "invite me in" look, or the "I hate you and your camera" expression. Maybe a teasing look, an "I want you" look. Capture emotion in the eyes. Other people and animals in the photo are OK, but the main subject should be looking into the camera and should be human, of any age or gender. Try not to present an ordinary...

You may enter a photo of anything (OTHER THAN PEOPLE) as long as it is in the air. Examples: Toss or drop a ball or toy, find a great looking cloud, a rain drop, an airplane, a flying bird or bug, etc. after entering, on your honor, please go vote on an open challenge. This is the last of the voter series with title rules or vote count qualifiers. Plenty of people have a hard time...

No entry limits... THERE IS A TITLE REQUIREMENT: Append your vote count from the challenge section of your profile to the title. It should be like this: " Green Coke , votes 14356". See example photo. Please enter a photo that clearly shows something is inside something else and the pair weren't originally meant to be coupled. Examples: If you have a soda bottle inside a fish bowl,...

Easy! Check your profile. If you have 500 votes cast, you can enter. If you don't, then go vote on some challenges, and bring your count up to 500. Then enter a picture of something that looks like something else. Title it as what you think it looks like. That's it! Look at the example.

TO ENTER: Your profile must show # votes cast are at least 10 times the number of challenges entered. EXAMPLE: If you entered 100 challenges already, you need to have 1000 votes in your profile to enter this. TITLE rule: Entry must contain the 2 numbers from your profile: # challenges you have entered and # votes you have cast. Otherwise it's a DQ. Submit a photo where something is...

I'm looking for photo's that have 4 objects. They can be identical, similar, or opposite. 4 bags of chips, 4 dancers, 4 cars, etc. 4 of something. Entry to this challenge is limited. Look at your profile. It lists # challenges entered and total votes placed. "Total votes" must be at least = to your "Total Challenges X 25" to qualify. If we all vote on a few challenge topics that...

Entry to this challenge is limited to those who are active voters. I'm hoping to encourage more voting. Look at your profile. It lists your votes per challenge average in parens, under your vote count. 25 or greater qualifies for entry. If we all vote on a few challenge topics that interest us, we might have a better outcome overall. So, if you want to enter here, and you haven't voted...