There’s a great website out there, dpchallenge.com For newbies and experienced digital photo buffs alike, this site offers weekly challenges on a wide variety of themes, some for paying members and some for anyone. There’s also a lively community. Paying members can even sell prints via the site.
I submitted a photo for the rust competition. I already knew about the location of this rake (underneath the brown line between Damen and Western), so I went down there last night to photograph it while the sun was setting. Right now the photo is getting a 4.5 rating. Which is just below average. (top voters get around a 7, the last placers get like a 3). I suppose I should not have included so much of the white background, and more of the rake.
The next competition is “Opposites: Black and White. Left and Right. Take a photo of two opposite things.” I wonder what I should shoot. Any ideas?
Oh, i guess you have to sign up first to view the photo. For those who don’t wish to sign-up (even though you should, it’s a great site), here’s a link to the actual photo submitted:
a 4.5 rating would approximately put me in 357th place out of 447 entries.
Thanks for my new addiction. What started out as an innocent peek…has turned into my second career, as a professional voter and commentor on people’s photos…aiiieee.
that site is great. It’s like a hotornot for real photography
for opposites how’s about: a loaf of bread and a hunk of meat.
Those don’t seem so opposite to me. A loaf of bread and a Rock maybe?Opposites in the food category…?hmm..that’s a toughy. Maybe a bowl of soup and a bowl of ice cream?
Opposites in the food category aren’t [i”>too[/i”> difficult Onions and Ice Cream Broccoli and Cheesecake Sausage and Chocolate … do you see a trend here? heh heh ;^”>
The voting has finished for this photo, and now you can view it directly by this link: http://www.dpchallenge.com/image.php?IMAGE_ID=74349 The opposities challenge is now closed for submissions, but you can vote on the 301 photos entered. http://www.dpchallenge.com/challenge_vote_list.php?CHALLENGE_ID=215 The open challenge is now “Habits.”
oh btw, i landed 269th place out of 443 (39 percentile). The user comments on that site were right, my photo was too busy. I was trying to capture the area were that rack is in, but it resulted in a photo that was too complex.
Habits … like Blogging? ;^”>