Spring Contest Winners
Contest #14: "Color Splash"
Contest #13: "Books"
Contest #12: "Sweet"
Contest #11: Texture
Contest #10: "Selfies"
Contest #9: "Peace"
Contest #8: Triangles
Contest #7: Rule of Odds
Contest #6: "Get Down"
Contest #5: "Clashing Colors"
Contest #4: "Curves"
Contest #3" "Love"
Contest #2: "The Eyes Have It"
Contest #1: "feet"
Fall Contest Winners
Contest #13: Black and White Portraits
Contest #12: Zoom While Shooting
Contest #11: "Doesn't Quite Belong"
Contest #10: Shapes-Circles
Contest #9: "Spooky Portraits"
Contest #8: "Spooky"
Contest #7: "Blue"
Contest #6: Forced Perspective
Forced perspective is a technique that employs optical illusion to make an object appear farther away, closer, larger or smaller than it actually is. It is used primarily in photography, filmmaking and architecture. It manipulates human visual perception through the use of scaled objects and the correlation between them and the vantage point of the spectator or camera.
Contest #5 (Week of September 30th-2013): Cell Phone Shots
Contest #4 (Week of September 23rd-2013): Doorways
Contest #3 (Week of September 16th-2013): "Bokeh-Portraits"
Bokeh: In photography, bokeh (Originally /ˈboʊkɛ/, /ˈboʊkeɪ/ boh-kay — also sometimes heard as /ˈboʊkə/ boh-kə, Japanese: [boke]) is the blur, or the aesthetic quality of the blur, in out-of-focus areas of an image. Bokeh has been defined as "the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light". However, differences in lens aberrations and aperture shape cause some lens designs to blur the image in a way that is pleasing to the eye, while others produce blurring that is unpleasant or distracting—"good" and "bad" bokeh, respectively. Bokeh occurs for parts of the scene that lie outside the depth of field. Photographers sometimes deliberately use a shallow focus technique to create images with prominent out-of-focus regions. -Wikipedia