DPChallenge exists to help both new and experienced photographers hone their skills through focused, weekly challenges that encourage new styles, subjects and techniques with the guidance and feedback of a helpful member community. Our primary focus is digital photography, not digital art, however challenges with varying editing rules also offer variety and allow members to practice critical post-processing skills.
DPC provides an environment in which photographers of all skill levels have opportunities to learn, grow, share and mentor each other through the structure of organized, themed competition. Emphasis is given to excellence, friendliness and fun, and competition takes place in the context of helpful scrutiny and critique by fellow participants. By competing in photographic challenges, leaving and receiving feedback from other photographers, and through other tools provided by the site such as discussion forums, tutorials, and others, participants are encouraged, educated and enlightened in the art and craft of photography. New styles and techniques are learned and photographers are exposed to new subjects in a variety of situations while conceiving and preparing images for public display.
While it is understood that digital photography often benefits from post process editing, the focus for competitions in general leans primarily upon the photographic conception at the time of the capture rather than creating digital art, though there are opportunities for heavy post-capture editing.
Mostly, DPC seeks to foster, nurture and support photographers as they strive to improve both themselves and others in friendly ways in a helpful member community.
(I started out editing Davids and Shannons per the forums. But sometimes, when I get involved editing, I get a bit overinvolved, and perhaps change too much. In any case, I offer this third version, derived from the above and my own thoughts.)
DPC provides an environment in which photographers–from novice to professional–have opportunities to learn and share their passion for photography through themed competitions called “challenges”. Participants get helpful feedback on their photographs from peers, and learn even more by writing critiques of photographs. A wide variety of challenge topics help photographers to explore new subjects, and to learn new styles and techniques. Several sets of editing rules allow some challenges to focus on improving photography at the moment of capture and others to allow practice and improvement in post-processing skills. All the rule sets emphasize developing skills in digital photgraphy rather than digital art.
DPC seeks to foster, nurture and support photographers as they strive to improve both themselves and others in friendly ways in a helpful member community. In addition to the challenges, photographers learn through member contributed tutorials, and share ideas, tips, and friendly chat in the DPC forums.
For many of it's members, DPC goes beyond being an online community or classroom: DPC is like an extended family.
It might be helpful to outline both of these here to show the exact points of the mission we're trying to make, like this:
Shannon's:
David's:
The first question:
1. Are these all the points we want to make in the mission? Do these points comprise the mission of DPC?
2. Are any points repetitive or unnecessary?
3. Are there any points that are missing?
4. Any extra language outside of these points may or may not be “verbosity.”
Picking and choosing what I like here, and leaving what I feel doesn't belong or is redundant:
DPChallenge…
I really like these ideas from Neil's, but don't know how to fit them into this: