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Nicole is a DPS Forum moderator and keen photographer from New Zealand. See her Flickr account.
Weekly Assignment Whether the weather was warm and sunny or rainy and frightful, we saw all kinds of it in our Weather assignment this week. It seemed like everyone had some weather to show off, which made our choices difficult. But we were still able to pick some favorites. Our winner this week was MatthewBotos‘ [...]
Weekly Assignment We doubled it up this week with our Two for One assignment. The goal was to take two photos and change one key element between them. Our winners this week were people who used this technique really effectively to not only demonstrate a difference, but to use that difference in a creative way. [...]
Weekly Assignment Last week we mixed it up when we Mixed Elements in our weekly assignment. The goal was to mix at least two of the elements of earth, air, fire, and water. Fire featured prominently in our elemental photos this week. Our winner was Astrus‘s burning match. While there were other match photographs, this [...]
Weekly Assignment This week we completed the Album Cover assignment. In picking the winners this week, we kept a few things in mind. First, we looked at how well the photo fit a CD cover (square shots). Next, we looked at how well text would fit on there or if the text had been used [...]
Weekly Assignment Trucks were the subject of our last assignment and we saw all kinds of them. Old, new, rusted and pristine. The goal of the assignment was to take shots that were more than snapshots and were good photos of trucks. Our winner this week was Dr_Drill‘s 1950′s truck that has been sitting in [...]
Weekly Assignment We finished the Machinery assignment this week in the forums. Some machines we like, other machines we can’t live without, and some we probably curse regularly. But there were some wonderful photos of machines this week nonetheless. Our winner was Jamfke‘s time machine. This shot was nice and clear, captured excellent details of [...]
Weekly Assignment This week’s assignment was Humor. Everyone needs a laugh some times, and this week’s photos were just the thing to help with that. There was one photo that really stood out and just cracked all of us up. In fact, I think it may have been our clearest winner ever this time! So [...]
Weekly Assignment This week we wanted you to show us aMistake that turned out to be a shot that you really liked. The catch this week was that each shot also needed to explain the mistake that had been made. Our winner this week was monkey_soup’s guitarist. monkey_soup explains that it was a mistake because [...]
Weekly Assignment This week we completed our B&W Portraits assignment. This was one of those weeks where there were so many high quality shots that we had a hard time picking. But this week’s winner’s shot has such a story behind it, we couldn’t help but be moved. ggannell‘s photograph of his Dad had a [...]
Weekly Assignment This week’s assignment was f/16. The goal was to create images with a very large depth of field and we saw some really good uses of it. Our winner this week was Cadira‘s lampshade. The lampshade had a very abstract quality that we liked. The details are nice and crisp and it shows [...]