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 10/27/2004 02:12:52 PM · #1
I didn't want to hijack the other thread...

Submit the best photo you've taken in 2004 that hasn't already been submitted to a challenge. (It can be a reshoot or an outtake from a challenge though, if that's your best!)
 10/27/2004 02:22:20 PM · #2


Gawd I'd love that!



Message edited by author 2004-10-27 14:23:13.
 10/27/2004 02:24:06 PM · #3
Yeah...good idea!
 10/27/2004 02:48:17 PM · #4
Excellent idea! Since we already have the quarterly -Month- Free Study, this would be the start of a -Year- Free Study!? I'm sure we've all taken shots during the course of the past year that either didn't fit any specific challenge, or else just missed the timeframe for a challenge, ...that we'd love to show off!

Great idea, Neil!

Message edited by author 2004-10-27 14:48:49.
 10/27/2004 03:52:32 PM · #5
If you knew that this was coming at the end of the year would you hold back from sharing at least one of your better shots all year? And how much of a challenge, as challenge is defined at DPC with it's time limit connotations, is it to come up with a great shot if you have a year to work on it? In a year's time you could submit it elsewhere on the web or in a real life competition (like a county fair) to get the critiques and suggestions of others (including perhaps experts and professionals); and then incorporate that wealth of knowledge into a revision of your shot to submit here at year's end; but would it still really be your own original work? If you are the kind of person who wouldn't do that, do you want to compete against someone who did?

I'd rather not have a year long free study but if we must, at the very least, limit it to users who have been here for a year to prevent the professional photographer who would sign up just to get a ribbon for their resume. A Photo Of The Year sounds a lot more prestigeous than a weekly ribbon.
 10/27/2004 04:08:28 PM · #6
Originally posted by coolhar:
If you knew that this was coming at the end of the year would you hold back from sharing at least one of your better shots all year? And how much of a challenge, as challenge is defined at DPC with it's time limit connotations, is it to come up with a great shot if you have a year to work on it? In a year's time you could submit it elsewhere on the web or in a real life competition (like a county fair) to get the critiques and suggestions of others (including perhaps experts and professionals); and then incorporate that wealth of knowledge into a revision of your shot to submit here at year's end; but would it still really be your own original work? If you are the kind of person who wouldn't do that, do you want to compete against someone who did?

I'd rather not have a year long free study but if we must, at the very least, limit it to users who have been here for a year to prevent the professional photographer who would sign up just to get a ribbon for their resume. A Photo Of The Year sounds a lot more prestigeous than a weekly ribbon.


Well, I would like to see such challenge. It would've been something like a Christmast gift for all DPCers. I don't really believe professional photographers will jump like that in. Even if they do, well... We have many people here on DPC that are claiming they are professional photographers, so what's the difference?

If somebody is to "incorporate that wealth of knowledge into a revision of his shot to submit here at year's end" so what? Aren't we learning all the time? And if we make it 24h speed challenge is it still possible to make an outstanding shot overnight?

I wouldn't be so scared. What do we have to loose?
 10/27/2004 04:55:32 PM · #7

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If somebody is to "incorporate that wealth of knowledge into a revision of his shot to submit here at year's end" so what? Aren't we learning all the time? And if we make it 24h speed challenge is it still possible to make an outstanding shot overnight?
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I think it is a great idea,, esp. if it is a speed challenge. Sure maybe we would anticipate it happening. Just make it a very short time frame to submit your work.

One twist could be, that since we have to submit the exif data anyway, I know that my images when I process them in PS, have metadate that includes altered dates too.

Maybe that would be a way to be sure these were images done over the course of the year, and just pulled from our portfolios to submit.
 10/27/2004 04:55:38 PM · #8
Originally posted by coolhar:
If you knew that this was coming at the end of the year would you hold back from sharing at least one of your better shots all year? And how much of a challenge, as challenge is defined at DPC with it's time limit connotations, is it to come up with a great shot if you have a year to work on it? In a year's time you could submit it elsewhere on the web or in a real life competition (like a county fair) to get the critiques and suggestions of others (including perhaps experts and professionals); and then incorporate that wealth of knowledge into a revision of your shot to submit here at year's end; but would it still really be your own original work? If you are the kind of person who wouldn't do that, do you want to compete against someone who did?

I'd rather not have a year long free study but if we must, at the very least, limit it to users who have been here for a year to prevent the professional photographer who would sign up just to get a ribbon for their resume. A Photo Of The Year sounds a lot more prestigeous than a weekly ribbon.


That's the trick. We will never know if this will ever take place or not, until we see it running. It will not be a challenge like all the other it will be something different, we all take all sort of pictures during an year and many of them are never submited in a challenge for whatever reason... Why not give everyone a chance to enter one of those shots in an open challenge. The one they like most. I think it would be great, we will see some really beautiful images, I mean during an entire year even the stupidest blindest photographer thakes a good one by mistake :))
My vote for this!
 10/27/2004 05:02:34 PM · #9
I would rather see a free study every month...
 10/27/2004 05:08:51 PM · #10
Originally posted by tyt2000:
I would rather see a free study every month...


Me too, but that's not an option as we've been told.
 10/27/2004 05:10:49 PM · #11
make it an open challenge and I´ll vote for the idea!
 10/27/2004 05:18:03 PM · #12
How about for non-ribbon winners of 2004. To show that some of us lousy photographers have something to offer. :)
 10/27/2004 06:25:43 PM · #13
The problem with that challenge is that my best image of the year has already been posted to DPC (not in a challenge, though) and so everyone has already seen it. I cant imagine that someone has taken an image they consider to be the best and not already shared it with others.
 10/27/2004 06:43:15 PM · #14
Learning, as in aquiring knowledge and expertise, is not the same as showing a photo and having people more advanced in their learning give specific suggestions on what would improve that specific photo, then incorporating those suggestions into a later version of that same photo. I'd call that getting outside assistance on your entry, even though you may learn from it.

A year is just too long of a time period for a dpc challenge. It's no longer a challenge, just an ordinary photo contest. Combining it's results into the database would skew the statistics.
 10/27/2004 07:04:12 PM · #15
Originally posted by nshapiro:
Originally posted by tyt2000:
I would rather see a free study every month...


Me too, but that's not an option as we've been told.


I too want a free study every month!!! Huttah!
 10/27/2004 07:39:45 PM · #16
Originally posted by moodville:
The problem with that challenge is that my best image of the year has already been posted to DPC (not in a challenge, though) and so everyone has already seen it. I cant imagine that someone has taken an image they consider to be the best and not already shared it with others.
That would make it just another element of the challenge. I think I could come up with a few.
10/27/2004 07:56:52 PM · #17
Originally posted by coolhar:
If you knew that this was coming at the end of the year would you hold back from sharing at least one of your better shots all year? And how much of a challenge, as challenge is defined at DPC with it's time limit connotations, is it to come up with a great shot if you have a year to work on it? In a year's time you could submit it elsewhere on the web or in a real life competition (like a county fair) to get the critiques and suggestions of others (including perhaps experts and professionals); and then incorporate that wealth of knowledge into a revision of your shot to submit here at year's end; but would it still really be your own original work? If you are the kind of person who wouldn't do that, do you want to compete against someone who did?

I'd rather not have a year long free study but if we must, at the very least, limit it to users who have been here for a year to prevent the professional photographer who would sign up just to get a ribbon for their resume. A Photo Of The Year sounds a lot more prestigeous than a weekly ribbon.


what if the challenge requires a photo taken in the year before the challenge is started? as in you still have a week to submit it (to be sure everyone sees the challenge) but once its out, its too late to go and shoot. so it actualy has to be a shot taken before.
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