DP Challenge

Posted on June 20th, 2009 in MicroStock, Microstock markets, News, Sites, image management

I highly recommend a website I have just found called Digital Photography Challenge (www.dpchallenge.com). This site is a single destination workshop slash participation portal slash community. Stunning photos as well as professional encouragement make a welcome change from sales vendor sites. Enjoy microstock for a change.

Microstock hobbyists and amateur low cost legal image photographers will find a lot to do and keep them interested at this site. The challenges range from silent image contest (that speak to being silent) as well as an old cars challenge.

Microstockers will find great challenges for submission of their various images and get valuable feedback. The challenges are like contests.

The registration process reflects just what a different site this is. There are two fee-paid options to join, and one free (reduced-privilege) option. Before offering any images for submission in the challenges one must add into their profile their camera and lenses.

I actually had to email the websiteÂ using the Â ’Contact us” option to mention that my camera was not among those in the pulldown list.The website and image portfolio inclusion makes this a very savvy site to join for beginning photographers and budding spec or microstock photographers. There are challenge archives to look through, as well as the submission content of all current challenges.

Unlike a general Internet hobby board or forum, Digital Photography Challenge has a more formal participation path. Submitting photos and getting critiques and feedback on editing decisions can make for some real money making advice down the line. There is a forum as well which allows informal chat between members on various digital photography topics. This website makes a unique dialogue occur after a productive walkabout or editing upload to your personal gallery. I particularly wish I had found this site before the architecture topic challenge closed.

The Challenges at www.dpchallenge.com make it amusing to dive through your image portfolio and come up with submissions.there is a challenge for cliche images, one for perspective images from the ground up, and “Free Study” challenge options. These challenges also make quick freelance assignments for your photo walkabouts. If you happen not to have a viable community or peers for your personal photography mission, check into www.dpchallenge.com for some serious “me” time as a photography professional. Each blurb window shows how many people have submitted an image to that Challenge.

There are also opportunities to vote on the challenge submissions of other contests. Top galleries can provide inspriation and tutorials share advanced and beginning digital photography tips tricks and techniques.Shopping and learning lenses, cameras and photography equipment can become mutually informative activities. Community Projects, Poll Archives and photographer interviews expand the microstock or hobbyist photographer’s comprehension of the subject.