About Dyxum Photo Contest - DPC

I found it, thank you.

RodB

I agree. Newbies are at a disadvantage assuming that most have a limited archive.

When did Kiklop's original statement' change ?

"Another thing we (cam and I) have agreed about is that once we get some winners they will become "the judges" for selecting final images."

Roy

Edited by badlydrawnroy - 15 April 2009 at 20:35

Hello.
Recently I made a homemade lens with fixed focus, aperture, and focal length.
Just to be sure, can I use such a lens for DPC? I read the rules, and there is no lens limit. Only cameras.

"The pics must be taken with an A-Mount cameras (either film or digital),
Photos that have been winners or finalists in previous DPCs (or shots that are similar) are not eligible."

The thing that make me wonder if I can use such a lens or not is the lens itself are clearly not a "REAL" a-mount lens, which is autofocus. Well, it is even not another brand's lens or manual lens hacked to a-mount since it is a homemade lens.

Thank you. :)

Kiklop wrote: The main purpose of DPC is to share our images in an effort to present ourselves as a photographers. At the same time I hope that we will share our comments and experiences with each other so each of us can benefit and improve our photographic skills. The rules are quite simple: - at about two-weekly intervals we will open a new topic and all registered users are invited to participate. Once a topic is closed and replaced with the new one we at Dyxum will select the best images and open a voting period. - voting remains open as long the next topic remains open. The winning image is the one with the best voting score and it will be moved to a DPC winners dedicated thread. - images containing nudity, violence or and any kind of provocative subjects are not allowed. How to submit images - at this time we don't have sufficient web space to host your images. For that reason, you will need another hosting space for your images and to post them by entering the image URL in the post (with a the help of dedicated button) - please give your post an image name (which will be used for voting later) such as "Sunset over Pebble Beach" - we recommend to keep image size around 1024 pixels wide for a horizontal and 900 pixels deep for a vertical. - we encourage all participants to submit as much data as possible (lens, camera setting, file format, post processing info etc) - All participants are invited to suggest the next topic of the contest in their submission. To do that simply add your suggested topic on the end of your post.

These contest rules clearly do not state anything about having an @@ in front of the title of the entry.

Sorry to say, but you might have noticed that each individual DPC has at the very beginning a clear notice about the contest subject as well as the specific rules which apply to this dedicated contest and one of them is that in recent DPCs the title of the entry needs to be preceded by the "@@" mark

Kevin, the "About Dyxum Photo Contest" post has never meant to be a set of rules for DPCs. It is rather broad (and rather vague) explanation about DPCs. Rules are stated in each DPC and nowhere else. So for each DPC you have everything at hand - it is enough to read the first post (which, I'm pretty sure, nobody cares to ) and you are fine.

Having said that - I can see that we need to rework the "About Dyxum Photo Contest" text to make it more clear for everybody. I'll do that at the first opportunity.

You could subscribe to the contests forum - you would receive an email for each and every post then (new contests, submissions and votes).    That may be a bit of an email overload for some tastes though...