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Nicole is a DPS Forum moderator and keen photographer from New Zealand. See her Flickr account.
Weekly Assignment This week in the forums we finished up our Doorways assignment. The task was to find a way to photograph a doorway that is interesting and gives some sort of feeling about the doorway or tells it’s own story. The photographs that we picked this week all had something special about them. Our [...]
Weekly Assignment This week we finished up the last of our home life assignments with Leisure Time. We wanted you to show us what you do in your free time, while also keeping the rule of thirds in mind. Our winners this week did both. In first place was Shutterbugdeb‘s “Comics and Caffeine.” One thing [...]
Weekly Assignment During the week we finished up our Workplace assignment. We wanted to see where you work and we got a great glimpse into the lives of our forum members. We had a tie for our winner this week, so first up is jojonac‘s “Start Two” which gives us a glimpse into the workplace [...]
Weekly Assignment Last week you showed us The Marketplace and the places that you shop, whether they are Wal-Marts, tiny corer stores or open air markets. One of the important things with these assignments is that the challenge is to take your shots beyond snapshots and to show your subject in an interesting way. There [...]
Weekly Assignment Our Geometric Shapes assignment finished up this week and we had some fantastic shots. But our winner this week was very clear. Congrats to a_brewley and the shot of squares and circles that really stood out to all of the judges. The use of several shapes rather than just a repetition of one [...]
Weekly Assignment We finished up our Delicate assignment this week, and there were a lot of different ways that people interpreted the theme. Here are our winners for this week. Our winner this week is a_brewley‘s delicate little girl. With delicate lashes, soft, shallow dof, even a delicate flower in her hair, this one really [...]
Weekly Assignment Look down, are you wearing shoes? Well, maybe you aren’t right now, but shoes were the focus of our latest assignment, Shoes. It’s always a challenge to take an interesting shot of an everyday item, but our winners this week succeeded in doing so. Our winner this week was mseigafuse‘s “Crikey it’s Crocks!”. [...]
Weekly Assignment We finished off our Details Assignment this week. This was your chance to look at some smaller part of the whole. There were a lot of macro shots this week, but our favourite ones were the ones that focused on one part of the overall object, whether it was close up or not. [...]
Weekly Assignment We finished one of our most challenging weekly assignments this week, our Recreate the Masters Assignment. For this assignment the goal was to recreate a work of art in your own photograph, which required not only close attention to composition, but also lighting, and even props in some cases. There were some really [...]
Weekly Assignment We finished up The Weather Outside assignment this week. There’s no doubt that the weather is very different throughout the world. Some of us are in summer, some in winter, and even then there are signs of the changing seasons in sight. Our winner this week was belladoja‘s “Rain Rain Go Away”. This [...]
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