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Nicole is a DPS Forum moderator and keen photographer from New Zealand. See her blog and Flickr account.
Weekly Assignment
And The Eyes Have It in this week’s assignment. You got up close and personal and showed us what eyes can do for a picture. And there were a lot of really great entries to choose from this week! As a matter of fact, we wound up with a 4 way tie among the [...]
Weekly Assignment
This week we finished the Affirmative assignment where the goal was to show us affirmation or approval of something. Affirmation was shown in a lot of different ways, but we managed to pick our favourite three. Our winner was jojonac for his thumbs up picture which pretty much showed the typical affirmative pose of [...]
Weekly Assignment
This week’s assignment was Auto-Mode, and the goal of the assignment was to “forget” about using manual for a few shots and show us something that you took in auto mode that still blows us away. The shots that we saw this week really did show that it’s not always mandatory to set everything [...]
Weekly Assignment
This week we finished the X-tych assignment. The goal was to put together several shots into a single shot. There were lots of shots that were very interesting, and lots of varied subjects, but we managed to pick out a few that we really liked. Our winner was duna for the shots taken before [...]
Weekly Assignment
This week’s assignment was 10 Minutes from Home and the challenge was to take a shot, you guessed it, 10 minutes from your home regardless of your mode of transportation. From this assignment you might think that everyone lives 10 minutes from a derelict building, but there were plenty of other types of photos [...]
Weekly Assignment
We finished off the food assignment last week, and boy did it make us hungry. There were a lot of pictures I wish were taken in my kitchen! And boy was it hard to pick a winner! Our winner was, however, zetson because that dessert really made our mouths water. Almond tart with raspberries, [...]
Weekly Assignment
Well, this week, we finished the Sunny Days assignment, which may have been difficult if you’re one of those people in the middle of winter. But if you’re stuck in winter, these sunny pictures should be just the ticket to warm things up a bit. Our winner this week was MatthewBotos for his wakeboarder [...]
Weekly Assignment
We finished the Sense of Scale assignment this past week, and saw many interesting ways to play with the perception of size using different angles and perspectives. It was incredibly hard for us to agree on a winner this week (really, it was a 3 way tie at first, and then one vote tipped [...]
Weekly Assignment
This week we encouraged everyone to look down because we finished our Feet assignment. Our winner was dlaf because she managed to show off two types of feet in a single photograph! The creativity of the shot really made it stand out. We also had two fantastic runners up. The first runner up was [...]
Weekly Assignment
We framed our pictures this week using Natural Framing for the assignment. The goal was to use frames within the picture to help isolate the subject and draw your eye to it. There were a lot of great entries this week, but several of them really captured the idea of natural framing well by [...]