About Dyxum Photo Contest - DPC

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.

Edited by brettania - 25 March 2013 at 00:21

It is mentioned in the voting thread here. under the last pic.

Cekari wrote: Shouldn't we change the rules a bit?

Yes, more or less, the rules are changing constantly as DPC grow. Any suggestion would be welcome.

Cekari wrote: 1. Like in DPreview, the winner chooses the next topic, and are not allowed to participate (can ofc post pics, but out of voting).

Well, we have invited all participants to enter subject suggestion for the next round in case they win. That's fine.
However, I don't like the idea not to allow to the winner to participate in the next round. At least not at the moment (we still need more entries). Of course, if more users suggest that, this will be the rule :)

Cekari wrote: 2. That person along with either brettania or kiklop takes out the finalists for woting. (So even brettainia and kiklop can be in the contest too... seems unfair else :)

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. We only need to wait a round or two and this will be official.
I'm glad you have suggested this and just wait a bit before it gets official :)

Well, the site is dedicated to ALL KM dslr cameras. That's the key point of all contents one may find on dyxum forums included.
Is this a restriction?
Well, yes it is .. but with a purpose … dyxum.com is intended to present a small community of KM DSLR users. We aren't the only community based website of this type, and this isn't certainly our invention. There are some trade-offs (as in your case) , but at the same time there are some benefits (community is smaller which allows members to know each other better).
The fact that "contestants pay for their own bandwidth and storage" has nothing to do with this and, while I can understand your points, IMHO it's not fair to make similar statements.
Happy shooting

Johnyp wrote: Here is the question that i have... Do the judges have their monitors calibrated? if they don't, i think they should do so.

If you are reffering to our admin group that is selecting the finalist then the answer is yes, we have our monitors calibrated.

Just a thought...

What makes a 'good' photograph is rather subjective - would it be possible, when setting the theme for a DPC, to also indicate the criteria that will be used for judging entries? For example: technical expertise, conformance to theme, artistic creativity, emotional impact of subject matter, visual appeal of image, etc.

I have searched the Dyxum website and the Dyxum photo contest site but sill have not found where the subject (topic) of the next photo contest is shown.

I am new to the site, hence please forgive if I overlooked the location of the heading for the current contest topic.

I recently purchased a like new used A700 with two Minolta lens (17-35mm f:2.8 & the "beercan" f:4) and one Tamron 28-75mm f:2.8 lens. This is my first venture into DSLR photography after working with a Sony F828 to produce my "fine" art B&W work. Prior to the digital age, I worked with a 35mm SLR.

Thanks,

RodB