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Nicole is a DPS Forum moderator and keen photographer from New Zealand. See her Flickr account.
Weekly Assignment February marked the start of our month of food photography, and our first assignment was Desserts. We saw all different manners of sweet treats this week. There was some classic food photography, there was some creative food photography, there was funny food photography, and there was a lot in-between. Our winner this week [...]
Weekly Assignment We finished up a weekly assignment that took us back to the basics and looked at how different compositions can create an entirely different feel to a photo. We focused on photos with Centered Compositions. Having a centered composition can be dangerous because it can make your subject look very static, but used [...]
You may have noticed that we’ve shifted things around over in the forum this week. We’ve split up the Share Your Shots section into categories, much like those in Critique. So if you haven’t had a chance, come check out the new sections and share some of your shots. Weekly Assignment This week’s assignment was [...]
Weekly Assignment You can tell it is winter for a lot of our forum members if you look at the Landscapes assignment we finished this week. There were a lot of snow covered landscapes out there. Our winner this week was one of those snow covered landscapes, lisa‘s Lonesome Tree. The soft colour palette, composition, [...]
Hi everyone, I’m back from traveling, and a big thanks to Sime who kept the weekend update going while I was spending hours on planes. Now on to the weekly assignment. Weekly Assignment This week’s assignment was Show Us Your Camera. We wanted you guys to make your camera star in the image, and the [...]
Weekly Assignment Our most recently finished challenge was Technology. What we really enjoyed about this assignment was the human element that was added to so many of the technology shots. Our choices this week were all very similar, but our clear winner was Boscopix‘s Keeping in Touch. As the holidays come around, we know it’s [...]
Weekly Assignment One of the things that we can do with photographs is tell a story. Sometimes a story can be told quickly in a single shot, sometimes it can be told in several frames. This week we finished our Storyboards assignment where we wanted you to tell us a story in 3 images. One [...]
Weekly Assignment This week we wanted you to show us something you were Thankful for, and shoot it at 50mm (if possible). Our winner this week was overwhelmingly clear. Congrats to galaxygal for her shot of her daughter who is getting healthier and healthier every day since her botulism scare. The brightness of the shot [...]
Weekly Assignment First, Happy Thanksgiving to all our American readers. I hope you had an enjoyable holiday! We finished our Kinetics assignment this week, and one of the things that really showed up was that you can create great abstract shots with a little thought and some interesting techniques. Our winner this week was Keikyu‘s [...]
In case you hadn’t heard, one of our forum admins is a new dad! Congrats Sime, Mum and Baby. Weekly Assignment Things got noisy for this week’s assignment which was Sound / Noise. We had a real variety of shots, but what made us pick the ones we did was most often because of the [...]