Digital Grin Photography Forum - The Dgrin Challenges http://www.dgrin.com/ Step outside your comfort zone. en Wed, 08 Sep 2010 22:22:10 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.dgrin.com/images/misc/rss.jpg Digital Grin Photography Forum - The Dgrin Challenges http://www.dgrin.com/ Vote for the DSS #58 (...OUCH! Dude, that hurt!) Winning Photo! http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=177437&goto=newpost Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:02:53 GMT Thank you everyone for voting. The evolution of how the public vote is working out seems to be going quite well.
It was a very close race for at least 4 of you.

Your "Master" judge tinamarie52 (Chris) and the public vote, agreed on 5 images, giving you 15 finalists to choose from.
Congratulations to all of you! :clap :thumb
The poll will remain open for 72 hours, and any previously registered member of DGrin may vote. :D

ilbcnu - ouch-this is no fun


oldtown_dreamer - don't touch me! don't you dare touch me!


ghinson - Dude! That's gonna hurt.


LifeHappens - I am a master of ...OUCH! Dude, this is gonna hurt!


Kronk - Master of the Street Martial Arts


Tylwydd - Turn. Turn ! TURN !!


nightpixels - No Words ...


Jeff_Milo - You can call me Sensei


SeascapeS - Broken Heart


dls - oop! ack!


jwear - gonna wipe that smile off your face


JAG - Just before the worst hangover ever begins...


WhatSheSaw - Go Ahead. Try it.


JR303 - Stay Down


bmlynn - That will leave a mark!!


Thanks for voting! ]]> The Dgrin Challenges sherstone http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=177437 23 hour Vote for DSS #58 (...OUCH! Dude, that hurt!) CLOSED http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=177353&goto=newpost Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:24:31 GMT Vote for the DSS #58 (...OUCH! Dude, that hurt!) Choose your top 10! The full phrase is: *Sure go ahead, try to hit me. But I must warn you, I am a master of the martial ar...OUCH! Dude, that hurt! * Another round where *YOU* get to guest judge. You have the ability to choose your top 10... Vote for the DSS #58 (...OUCH! Dude, that hurt!) Choose your top 10!

The full phrase is:
Sure go ahead, try to hit me. But I must warn you, I am a master of the martial ar...OUCH! Dude, that hurt!

Another round where YOU get to guest judge. You have the ability to choose your top 10 choices by selecting them from the poll. Hurry there is only 23 hours to vote.

The top 10 highest voted photos will be compiled together with this rounds judge, tinamarie52. Which will give between 10 and 20 photos that will go on to the top 5 final vote.

Hurry you only have 23 hours to pick your top 10
Warning you will not be able to come back and add more choices after you click the voting button.


P.S. If your observant you will see that more than 10 can be chosen. Just remember if you vote for all of them its like you didn't vote :wink *Also you are able to see any photo in its large form by clicking on it. ]]> The Dgrin Challenges sherstone http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=177353 *ENTRY* Thread DSS #59 (signals) http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=177350&goto=newpost Mon, 06 Sep 2010 05:45:51 GMT *Dgrin Sharp Shooters Challenge #59* Welcome to Round #59 of the Dgrin Sharp Shooters Challenges. *This challenge is open to any Dgrin member that is not eligible to compete in Mega Challenge #9*. It will run from Monday,September 6, 8:00am PST time (GMT -7) on through Monday, September 20,... Dgrin Sharp Shooters Challenge #59

Welcome to Round #59 of the Dgrin Sharp Shooters Challenges. This challenge is open to any Dgrin member that is not eligible to compete in Mega Challenge #9.
It will run from Monday,September 6, 8:00am PST time (GMT -7) on through Monday, September 20, 8:00am PST time (GMT -7).

The topic ready for your interpretation: signals
There are no editing restrictions for this round.

This is your chance. Show us your creativity while all the last quarter previous winners are battling it out in Mega #9

Your Judges:
kidzmom (Winner of Round 57)
Guest Judge: 23 hour (Public Vote)

IMPORTANT NOTE: Your entry is to be submitted directly into a SmugMug gallery. It's pretty simple, just go to the gallery link below, and follow the upload instructions at the top of the page:
DSS#59 Entry Gallery
Remember, the basics stay the same: 1 entry per person, and the photo must be fresh, taken during this contest period. Do not use a minimal save method (such as "save for web"), and your EXIF will be embedded in your image, no worries!

To avoid disqualification, read, in full, the Dgrin Sharp Shooters Challenge Rules, there have been some slight modifications ]]> The Dgrin Challenges sherstone http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=177350 *ENTRY* Thread DSS Mega-Challenge #9 (Déjà vu) http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=177349&goto=newpost Mon, 06 Sep 2010 05:32:50 GMT *IMPORTANT NOTE:* If you are eligible to enter this round (see below) you are not eligible to enter round #59 Welcome to the ninth Dgrin Sharp Shooters Mega-Challenge! This contest will run from Monday, September 6, 8:00am PST time (GMT -7) on through Monday, September 20, 8:00am PST time (GMT... IMPORTANT NOTE: If you are eligible to enter this round (see below) you are not eligible to enter round #59

Welcome to the ninth Dgrin Sharp Shooters Mega-Challenge!
This contest will run from Monday, September 6, 8:00am PST time (GMT -7) on through Monday, September 20, 8:00am PST time (GMT -7)

Your theme ready for wide open interpretation: Déjà vu

A perfect quote from Bruce Schockett on his home page
Quote:
There's a moment the French call Deja Vu - a fleeting sliver of time that usually passes quickly, a time outside of time, when suddenly, sometimes quite unexpectedly, you find yourself feeling familiar feelings and thinking familiar thoughts that belong to an experience already experienced. Those feelings, those thoughts, can be evoked by a scene, touch, sound or scent from your past. The feeling of Deja Vu can also be evoked by a really good photograph - created by an artist, whose sole purpose is capturing the essence of a moment on film and paper, so that years from now, maybe even lifetimes from now, someone who views that picture will feel at least a little of what was felt when the photograph was taken...
Déjà vu

There are no editing restrictions for this round.

Your awesome and gracious judges are:
Llywellyn
schmoo
sherstone
You (public vote)

The contest is open to the following eligible photographers ONLY:

sweetharmony
jwear
ic4u
Tlvodra
AirThom
WhatSheSaw
JR303
pyroPrints.com
ghinson
lkbart
tinamarie52
nightpixels
photo-bug
AaronNelson
SeascapeS
ilbcnu
sgonen
The Curious Camel
Johnrog
Jeepzj94
Kidzmom
skris10jo
dnie
(the top 5 from round 58 to be announced)

Click here for the DSS Mega-Challenge #9 ENTRY GALLERY

Remember, 1 entry per person, and the photo must be fresh, taken during this contest period.
Please read the DGrin Sharp Shooters Challenge Rules.
All official stuff (entry thread link, etc.) are here. ]]> The Dgrin Challenges sherstone http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=177349 #58 - thoughts... be PAINFULLY honest http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=177317&goto=newpost Mon, 06 Sep 2010 01:52:41 GMT Two concepts and two executions.

First: "Oop Ack!"


Second: "So you no likee my photo... take dat... hiyayayah"


Concerns on one: Hopefully it will convey medical pain and some orthopedic mishap. However, does the needle make poor Bill the Cat look like a junkie? And am I in peril of a suit from Berke Breathed for besmirching his beloved feline? Also... I am not certain if the concept is treading too close to another that is being submitted.

Concerns on two: Does it look like what I think I want it to look like? Is the technical quality remotely adequate? I fear it might be technically subpar, given that it is rather difficult to shoot oneself and toggle the zoom at the same time.

Regardless, this has been a fun theme to shoot. ]]> The Dgrin Challenges dls http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=177317 #58 New idea http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=177088&goto=newpost Fri, 03 Sep 2010 02:09:04 GMT I got this scene last night. I don't have a macro lens, so I did my best with the telephoto:

"Sorry but I'm hungry"

#1



#2



Please tell me what you think :)

Thank you, ]]> The Dgrin Challenges photo-bug http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=177088 DSS #58 - Why Bruce Lee movies are no longer shown in 3D http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=177063&goto=newpost Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:45:05 GMT The demolition of this old theater moves me, and I've been waiting for a contest topic to use it in before they finish the job. Don't know if people will find it on-topic enough, but what do you think?

Thanks!
Mike


Why Bruce Lee movies are no longer shown in 3D...
]]> The Dgrin Challenges MikeK http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=177063 Ouch! Coming http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=177025&goto=newpost Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:25:08 GMT I've been stumped by this challenge, which is silly, since it is wide open for interpretation. But I am directly in line for a hit from Hurricane Earl's eyewall, likely at midnight tomorrow night. So I'm thinking there may be a chance to interpret the theme in the storms aftermath! Flashlights. Check. Bottled Water. Check. Charged camera batteries. Check. ]]> The Dgrin Challenges ghinson http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=177025 <![CDATA[#58 only idea i've had so far]]> http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=176996&goto=newpost Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:58:21 GMT new cat in my household (Madrigal, tabby). by and large he's getting along well with my old cat (Stormy, black and white), but every so often they still have some disagreements... (they're both boys)

#1 - the stare down


#2 - I'm warning you...


#3 - I'm not warning you again...


love Madrigal's expression in #3, but unfortunately, Stormy came out rather blurry on that one, so i had to crop him out.

re-shooting may be possible, but it's entirely up to the subjects...

as always thanks in advance for looking and for any and all input. ]]> The Dgrin Challenges oldtown_dreamer http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=176996 #58 Fishing http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=176697&goto=newpost Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:00:20 GMT I got some shots yesterday: 1. Oh, boy! Image: http://allbiz.smugmug.com/Photography/Photo-of-the-day/phil-fish-cropped3/989397300_dFjcC-L.jpg 1a. Image: http://allbiz.smugmug.com/2010-Canada/Atlantic-Canada/Fishing/fish-3/988020198_ynwMn-L.jpg I got some shots yesterday:

1. Oh, boy!



1a.



2. Predators can get caught



2a.



2b.



3. Fighting for life



4. You got me baby



Please tell me what you think.

Thank you, ]]> The Dgrin Challenges photo-bug http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=176697 #58 idea http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=176675&goto=newpost Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:33:58 GMT Would this qualify for this challenge?

"... missing steel-toed boots..."
]]> The Dgrin Challenges Jenn http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=176675 #58 http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=176663&goto=newpost Mon, 30 Aug 2010 02:02:08 GMT do not be a pain in the neck or cant we all just get along do not be a pain in the neck or cant we all just get along
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]]> The Dgrin Challenges jwear http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=176663 Mini Challenge #104 - Pink Floyd song titles. http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=176644&goto=newpost Sun, 29 Aug 2010 23:24:50 GMT I thought that I'd try something a bit different this time around.

Title your shot with one of Pink Floyd's song titles.
It doesn't really have to connect fully with the song, but it must relate to the title.
It should be fairly easy to match up some shots with a title, the group has been around for over
40 years, and have a wide variety of titles.

Like most people my age, I became "aware" of Pink Floyd when the song Money hit the airwaves.
I bought the "Dark Side Of The Moon album, and pretty much wore it out.
My friends and I, when we got bored some nights, would go to the "Laser Floyd" show. (many nights of this)
Their music was always on my cassette deck while driving around at night.

So lets see how you can interpret a song title.

A complete list is here: LINK

Once again, have some fun with this and comment on other folks shots.

Here are the rules: http://digitalgrin.com/showthread.php?t=168929
Mini-Challenge #104 will end Tuesday, Sept 7th 2010 at Midnight in the Midwest. (Central daylight saving time)
This runs for just over one week. (because of Labor Day in the U.S.)

Here are some examples from me.

Echoes


Sheep


Dogs


Welcome to the Machine


The Great Gig In The Sky


You get the drift.

One last note, all song titles may be used more than once.
Just because someone else has used it, feel free to make it your own.
You could even use it more than once in your own post.

Have some fun and comment on your fellow Dgrinner's shots. ]]> The Dgrin Challenges davev http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=176644 DSS 58 - Options http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=176624&goto=newpost Sun, 29 Aug 2010 19:22:36 GMT It was a busy week. Work was intense, so I just got out shooting this weekend. What do you think? Do any of these work for the theme? Any suggestions? #1 Airborne Master Image:... It was a busy week. Work was intense, so I just got out shooting this weekend.

What do you think? Do any of these work for the theme? Any suggestions?

#1 Airborne Master


#2 Airborne Twist


#3 Watching the Master


#4 Uh Oh!


#5 It's Only a Flesh Wound


#6 Rough Landing
]]> The Dgrin Challenges WhatSheSaw http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=176624 Winners Of Mini Challenge #103 - Two is a party, three is a crowd http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=176596&goto=newpost Sun, 29 Aug 2010 11:28:18 GMT First of all, it was *very hard* to make a desission amongst all these wonderwull pictures, I have seen some stunning photo-art!!! But after long delibetation I have finally made my choice! Some of the pictures, I thought were not according to the task I had given. 3 :scratch ore more is not... First of all, it was very hard to make a desission amongst all these wonderwull pictures, I have seen some stunning photo-art!!!
But after long delibetation I have finally made my choice!

Some of the pictures, I thought were not according to the task I had given. 3 :scratch ore more is not the same as 2 and I often did not see the similarity between the 2 on the picture:dunno so I judged them first according to wheater ore not the challengetopic was in the picture, and then I sorted them by beauty, artlevel and quality.
Not easy at all!!

I have put the best pictures in cronological order:

starting with the last but not least



















































Third place: Jwear



Second place: Raf F.




And the winner is, at first place: Davev

]]> The Dgrin Challenges korandoke http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=176596