You had more than a couple of weeks to go out and buy, then photograph, some “fast food” for Contest Corner Challenge #77… I guess it’s a busy time of year (or you’re just sick of fast food?), because we got less than 10 entries for this contest. There are some pretty good ones, though - check them out in the Contest Corner Challenge #77: Fast Food Photo Gallery. You have until the wee hours of September 8th to cast your vote here in the voting thread.

The contest is being sponsored by our friends at MOO.com - a new kind of online printing business, born out of a love of beautiful, high-quality print. Handing out a business card is often the first impression people take of your business, so you need to get it right. Using your own photography to create custom business cards can help you stand out, and MOO makes the process easy with their simple online tools and templates. It’s often difficult to describe your work, so why not show it? When you meet a new contact, show them your work right there, and leave a photo business card with them as the perfect reminder. Using MOO’s Printfinity technology, you can print up to 50 different images in one pack of cards, allowing you to showcase your whole portfolio - the prefect Portfolio for your Pocket! For a limited time, MOO is giving every a totally free ‘trial pack’ of 10 Business Cards to members of PhotographyCorner (MOO will even pay for delivery) - no strings attached! Go get your free Business Cards trial pack now!

The winner, regardless of if they are a Premiere Member or not, will receive a MOO Pro-Photographer Pack: 1 × 200 Business Cards (classic or green stock), 1 × 100 MiniCards, 1 × 20 Postcards, 1 × 25 Greeting Cards and FREE Shipping!

Every vote counts - so take a couple of minutes, browse the entries, and cast your vote today! Read more »

It’s usually not that good for us (our wallets or our physique), but most of us, probably on a more regular basis than we’d like to admit, eat at fast food restaurants (or pick something up via drive-through). The latest Contest Corner Challenge CCC#77: Fast Food asks you to photograph some of that “fast food” before you scarf it down. Try to make it look “appetizing” like they do in commercials (if you can). Think of it almost like a product shoot for your fast food meal of choice.

Entries are due in by Monday, August 30th, 2010, and make sure to read the Contest Corner Rules & Regulations before taking and entering a photograph (we hate sending out rejection letters to those photographs that don’t meet all the guidelines).

The contest is being sponsored by our friends at MOO.com - a new kind of online printing business, born out of a love of beautiful, high-quality print. Handing out a business card is often the first impression people take of your business, so you need to get it right. Using your own photography to create custom business cards can help you stand out, and MOO makes the process easy with their simple online tools and templates. It’s often difficult to describe your work, so why not show it? When you meet a new contact, show them your work right there, and leave a photo business card with them as the perfect reminder. Using MOO’s Printfinity technology, you can print up to 50 different images in one pack of cards, allowing you to showcase your whole portfolio - the prefect Portfolio for your Pocket! For a limited time, MOO is giving every a totally free ‘trial pack’ of 10 Business Cards to members of PhotographyCorner (MOO will even pay for delivery) - no strings attached! Go get your free Business Cards trial pack now!

The winner, regardless of if they are a Premiere Member or not, will receive a MOO Pro-Photographer Pack: 1 × 200 Business Cards (classic or green stock), 1 × 100 MiniCards, 1 × 20 Postcards, 1 × 25 Greeting Cards and FREE Shipping!

So go read through the contest thread to make sure you’ve got all the details, and go buy yourself some fast food and photograph it! Read more »

While most of our Contest Corner Challenge contests are ‘photography-theme’ based (ie - take a photograph of _______), every once and a while we like to do a contest for those that love the digital manipulation side of the art of photography. About once a year we try to do a “Digital Darkroom” Contest Corner Challenge where we supply a dozen or so photographs, and then ask the community to take at least 3 of those photograph (or all of them), and meld them together to create a new “digital creation.” The entry period came to a close a couple of days ago, and 18 people stepped up to the plate and merged the photographs together, and now it’s time to vote on who did the best job.

You can browse through the entries, as well as the original photographs here in the CCC#76: Digital Darkroom #4 Photo Gallery, then head on over to the voting thread to cast your vote.

The contest sponsor is none other than Amazon.com - find and discover anything you might want to buy online at the lowest possible prices. Amazon.com and other sellers offer millions of unique new, refurbished and used items in categories such as beauty, health and personal care, jewelry and gourmet food, sports and outdoors, apparel and accessories, books, music, DVDs, electronics (cameras & photography equipment!), office, toys and baby, and home and garden. In addition, a portion of the cost of every product purchased through this link goes to support PhotographyCorner.com (what are you waiting for, go buy some stuff!!)! If the winner is a Premiere Member, they will receive a Slik Monopod 350. If the winner is not a Premiere Member, they will receive a Lifetime, Level I Premiere Membership.

We’ve got until approximately 2:15am EST (6:15am GMT) on Thursday, August 12th, 2010 to cast your vote, so decide who did the best job, and cast your vote here. Read more »

We try to do at least one “Photoshop” contest per year in the themed photography contests called Contest Corner Challenges - we call them “Digital Darkroom” challenges. Unlike our regular Contest Corner Challenges, where you’re asked to take a photograph with a certain theme, the Digital Darkroom challenges have you take at least 3 of the provided photographs, and use your post-processing skills (with programs like Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro) to combine them into one completely new image. It’s been over a year since our last Digital Darkroom Contest Corner Challenge, so it’s been a long time coming: Contest Corner Challenge #76: Digital Darkroom #4. You can see the photographs you’ll have to work with here in the contest thread, (also thumbnails on the right —->) or you can download all the full-size photos here (a ~16mb file).

The contest sponsor is none other than Amazon.com - find and discover anything you might want to buy online at the lowest possible prices. Amazon.com and other sellers offer millions of unique new, refurbished and used items in categories such as beauty, health and personal care, jewelry and gourmet food, sports and outdoors, apparel and accessories, books, music, DVDs, electronics (cameras & photography equipment!), office, toys and baby, and home and garden. In addition, a portion of the cost of every product purchased through this link goes to support PhotographyCorner.com (what are you waiting for, go buy some stuff!!)! If the winner is a Premiere Member, they will receive a Slik Monopod 350. If the winner is not a Premiere Member, they will receive a Lifetime, Level I Premiere Membership.

You’ve got a couple of weeks to put your “photograph” together, so head on over to the contest thread and download the photos, then open up your favorite post-processing program and start being creative in the digital darkroom! Entries are due in by August 3rd, and voting will begin on the 4th. Read more »

For the second Contest Corner Challenge in a row, nrshapiro has come away with a victory. In Contest Corner Challenge #74: …Bring May Flowers, Neil won by a mere 1 vote, but in CCC#75, it was a landslide victory with over 40% of the votes. Check out the voting results for yourself here in the voting thread.

The contest was sponsored by Amazon.com - find and discover anything you might want to buy online at the lowest possible prices. Amazon.com and other sellers offer millions of unique new, refurbished and used items in categories such as beauty, health and personal care, jewelry and watches, gourmet food, sports and outdoors, apparel and accessories, books, music, DVDs, electronics (cameras & photography equipment!), office, toys and baby, and home and garden. In addition, a portion of the cost of every product purchased through this link goes to support PhotographyCorner.com!

Since Neil is a Premiere Member, he will receive a Slik Monopod 350. Congrats, Neil! Make sure to congratulate him in the award thread.

Oh, and don’t forget to check out the CCC#75: Pretty Faces Photo Gallery to comment on the photos and find out who took each photograph. Read more »

Some great photographs have been entered, and now it’s time for the community to cast their votes. Every contest here around the Corner, judges don’t sit around and decide which photograph wins the prize - the community gets to decide. If you’ve got a free account here at PhotographyCorner, that means YOU! The entries for Contest Corner Challenge #75: Pretty Faces have been taken, submitted and posted up in the Corner Contest Galleries - check them out for yourself here.

Then head on over to the voting thread to cast your vote - which one do you think deserves to win Contest Corner Challenge #75: Pretty Faces? Your vote may be the deciding vote, so make it count and choose wisely.

The contest is being sponsored by Amazon.com - find and discover anything you might want to buy online at the lowest possible prices. Amazon.com and other sellers offer millions of unique new, refurbished and used items in categories such as beauty, health and personal care, jewelry and watches, gourmet food, sports and outdoors, apparel and accessories, books, music, DVDs, electronics (cameras & photography equipment!), office, toys and baby, and home and garden. In addition, a portion of the cost of every product purchased through this link goes to support PhotographyCorner.com!

If the winner is a Premiere Member, they will receive a Slik Monopod 350. If the winner is not a Premiere Member, they will receive a Lifetime, Level I Premiere Membership.

Voting ends at approximately 6:00pm EST, Wednesday, July 14th, 2010 (10:00pm GMT), so get on over to the voting thread and do your thing. And if you’re not a member of the Corner yet, sign up here so you can cast your vote! Read more »

It’s a couple of weeks late in being announced, but you’ve got some extra time for this contest - and we’re expecting a lot of photographs for this one. The theme? Pretty faces. Your entry for Contest Corner Challenge #75: Pretty Faces should be a portrait/head shot. Not a group of people - just one person - and not even all of one person - just a head shot. We’re looking for pretty faces here, folks. Get all the contest details in the CCC#75: Pretty Faces contest thread in the Corner forums.

The contest sponsor is none other than Amazon.com - find and discover anything you might want to buy online at the lowest possible prices. Amazon.com and other sellers offer millions of unique new, refurbished and used items in categories such as beauty, health and personal care, jewelry and gourmet food, sports and outdoors, apparel and accessories, books, music, DVDs, electronics (cameras & photography equipment!), office, toys and baby, and home and garden. In addition, a portion of the cost of every product purchased through this link goes to support PhotographyCorner.com (what are you waiting for, go buy some stuff!!)! If the winner is a Premiere Member, they will receive a Slik Monopod 350. If the winner is not a Premiere Member, they will receive a Lifetime, Level I Premiere Membership.

Entries are due in by July 6th, and voting will begin on the 7th. Make sure to read through the Contest Corner Rules & Regulations before entering your photographs, though. We will reject your photograph if your submission does not meet all the requirements.

There are lots of pretty faces in your life - they’re all around you - so what are you waiting for? Go take a picture of one of them! Read more »

Over 50 photographs (you can check them all out here in the CCC#74: …Bring May Flowers Photo Gallery), and a new way to vote (the ability to vote for multiple photographs instead of just one), made for an exciting conclusion to PhotographyCorner’s 74th Contest Corner Challenge: nrshapiro claimed his 2nd CCC win (by 1 vote, I might add), with his photograph “Wild Beauty” (pictured right). You can check out the voting results here in the voting thread.

The contest was sponsored by our good friends at Red River Paper - Inkjet paper from inkjet paper experts. Look for reviews of new photographic paper and greeting card paper available from Red River Paper coming soon to the Corner Resource Center. In addition, a portion of every purchase made at Red River Paper through this link goes towards supporting the Corner - get some great paper and support your favorite photography site at the same time! Since Neil is a Premiere Member, he will receive a prize pack of a variety of greeting card and paper products courtesy of Red River Paper. If you haven’t already, make sure to drop by the award thread to congratulate Neil on his win. Read more »

The entries kept pouring on in, and when the entry period came to a close, the Contest Corner Challenge #74: …Bring May Flowers Photo Gallery filled up with 54 entries to weed (pun intended) through. Grab a cup of tea or coffee and take a little time to browse through these fantastic flower photographs here.

That’s when the hard part begins, though, as it’s up to the PhotographyCorner community to vote on a winner. Instead of voting for just 1 photograph, however, because there are so many entries, we’ve tried to make it a little easier on you. Now, vote for as many photographs as you’d like. Head on over to the voting thread to check it out for yourself. Put a check mark in the box next to the photos you’d like to vote for, press vote, and voila! - your votes are counted towards each of the photos.

Voting ends around 3:00am EST on Friday, May 21st, 2010 (7:00am GMT), so make sure you take some time to check out the photographs and cast your vote before then. The contest is being sponsored by Red River Paper - Inkjet paper from inkjet paper experts. Look for reviews of new photographic paper and greeting card paper available from Red River Paper coming soon to the Corner Resource Center. In addition, a portion of every purchase made at Red River Paper through this link goes towards supporting the Corner - get some great paper and support your favorite photography site at the same time! If the winner is a Premiere Member, they will receive a prize pack of a variety of greeting card and paper products courtesy of Red River Paper. If the winner is not a Premiere Member, they will receive a Lifetime, Level I Premiere Membership.

So what are you waiting for??! Check out the entries and cast your vote today! Read more »

As I’m sure many of you have guessed because of the popular saying “April showers bring May flowers,” Contest Corner Challenge #73: April Showers… leads us directly into Contest Corner Challenge #74: …Bring May Flowers. This time, instead of photographing rain, your challenge is to photograph the “flowers” portion of the saying. No special requirements or restrictions (though, of course, you have to follow the Contest Corner Rules & Regulations) - just take a photograph of flowers. Simple as that. Get all the details on the contest in the Contest Corner Forum and specifically in the contest thread here.

The contest is sponsored by long-time partner Red River Paper. Look for reviews of new photographic paper and greeting card paper available from Red River Paper coming soon to the Corner Resource Center. In addition, a portion of every purchase made at Red River Paper through this link goes towards supporting the Corner - get some great paper and support your favorite photography site at the same time!

Now, if the winner is a Premiere Member, they will receive a prize pack of a variety of greeting card and paper products courtesy of Red River Paper. If the winner is not a Premiere Member (you can find out how to become a Premiere Member here), they will receive a Lifetime, Level I Premiere Membership.

Entries are due in by May 12th, and voting will start on the 13th, so get out there and start snapping pics of flowers and get your entries in! Read more »

We’ve just announced the winner of the 73rd Contest Corner Challenge. That means, over the past almost-six years, we’ve run over six dozen Contest Corner Challenges. And from those 73 contests, Spicoli (Carl) has won eleven of those - that’s 15%!! You heard read that right, Carl won Contest Corner Challenge #73: April Showers… with his photograph “Flower Drops” (pictured right), marking his 11th CCC win. And he’s not even a “professional” photographer; he’s got a day job, and just takes photographs for fun - just a regular ol’ amateur photographer (albeit a fantastic one).

You can check out Carl’s winning photograph in the CCC#73: April Showers… Photo Gallery, and see the final voting results (Carl’s photo received almost 22% of the votes from 21 qualifying entries) in the CCC#73 voting thread. Then, make sure to stop by the award thread to congratulate Carl on yet another CCC victory.

The contest was sponsored by our good friends at Daymen Photo Marketing, who have awarded Carl with a Lowepro Camera bag for his victory (he also picks up some extra PhotographyCorner Pens).

Congratulations on your eleventh win, Carl!! Next one makes an even dozen!  Read more »

In case you weren’t hanging around the Corner over the weekend, here’s a quick post to give you a run-down of the voting for Contest Corner Challenge #73: April Showers…. Pretty much for the past 2-3 weeks, people have been sending in their April Showers entries, and a couple of days ago, we posted up those entries in the Contest Corner Galleries and got the voting process started. Check out the entries in the CCC#73: April Showers… Photo Galleries, then head on over to the CCC#73 voting thread to cast your vote.

The contest is being sponsored by Daymen Photo Marketing - since it’s inception in 1981, DayMen Photo Marketing LP has enjoyed an exceptional reputation in the photographic and consumer electronics industry as an innovative manufacturer and distributor of high quality imaging products and accessories. If the winner is a Premiere Member, they will receive a Lowepro Camera Bag with a bunch of PhotographyCorner Pens. If the winner is not a Premiere Member, they will receive a Lifetime, Level I Premiere Membership.

So what are you waiting for? Check out the photos and cast your vote today! Read more »

You know the saying: “April showers bring May flowers…,” right? The challenge for CCC#73 is to photograph the “showers” part of the saying. Go find some rain, and photograph it - be creative! If there’s no rain in the 14-day forcast where you live, feel free to “create” some rain to photograph (but don’t make it obvious that you’re faking the rain - we don’t want to see the hose or sprinkler in the photo).

Entries are due in by April 15th, and voting will begin on the 16th. The contest is sponsored by our good friends at Daymen Photo Marketing, and they’re offering a Lowepro Camera Bag with a bunch of PhotographyCorner Pens if the winner is a Premiere Member, or a Lifetime, Level I Premiere Membership if the winner is not a Premiere Member.

All the contest details can be found here in the contest thread in the Contest Corner in the forums. Before submitting a photograph, make sure to take a look-see at the Contest Corner Rules & Regulations. Now put on your rain jacket and get out there and photograph some H₂0 falling from the sky!  Read more »

The 72nd Contest Corner Challenge here on PhotographyCorner challenged photographers to take a ‘high key’ photograph. ‘High Key Photography’ is all about using lighting that produces tones that fall mostly between white and gray, with very few dark tones. Though you will find many photographers calling high contrast and overexposed images ‘high key,’ these are not actually high key images. The CCC#72: High Key winning photograph (pictured right) is none other than Pale by Michelle (chellezfotoz) - her first CCC win!

For winning Contest Corner Challenge #72: High Key, Michelle will receive a 24” × 36” gallery wrap (a $170 value) courtesy of Mpix.com.

You can browse through all the photographs submitted for the contest (as well as find out which photographer took each photograph) in the CCC#72 Photo Gallery. Make sure to drop by the award thread in the Corner Forums to congratulate Michelle on her win.

Way to go, Michelle!! Read more »

For those that are new here around the Corner, throughout the year, PhotographyCorner offers a bunch of “themed” contests called “Contest Corner Challenges.” The contest is announced here on the Corner Blog, as well as in the Contest Corner forum, and once the entry period is complete, we begin a 1-week-long voting period. Our current contest has the theme of “high key” (‘High Key Photography’ is all about using lighting that produces tones that fall mostly between white and gray, with very few dark tones).

23 photographers entered photos into the contest, and you can browse through them in the Contest Corner Challenge #72: High Key Photo Gallery. The contest is sponsored by one of our preferred sponsors - Mpix.com - an online digital imaging lab for the both the professional photographer and the advanced amateur. With an internet connection, a digital file and a credit card, photographers can upload their images, order professional photographic prints ranging from mini wallets to 24×36, specialty photographic items, and press products. Use coupon code “photoc09” to receive 10% off your next order. If the winner is a Premiere Member, they will receive a 24” × 36” gallery wrap (a $170 value). If the winner is not a Premiere Member, they will receive a 16” × 24” gallery wrap (a $100 value).

Once you’ve checked out the entries in the CCC#72 Photo Gallery, make sure to drop by the voting thread to cast your vote. Voting ends at approximately 5:30pm EST, Friday, March 26th, 2010 (9:30pm GMT), and the winner will be announced on March 27th.

So what are you waiting for??!? CAST YOUR VOTE TODAY!!! Read more »

‘High Key Photography’ is all about using lighting that produces tones that fall mostly between white and gray, with very few dark tones. Though you will find many photographers calling high contrast and overexposed images ‘high key,’ these are not actually high key images. To create a ‘high key’ photograph, you don’t have to put more light onto the background than what is on the subject, but for a pure white background you will need to. Your challenge for Contest Corner Challenge #72: High Key, obviously, is to take a ‘high key’ photograph. If you need some help or clarification on setting up your photograph, feel free to ask and discuss in the contest thread.

The contest is again sponsored by our friends at Mpix.com - an online digital imaging lab for the both the professional photographer and the advanced amateur. With an internet connection, a digital file and a credit card, photographers can upload their images, order professional photographic prints ranging from mini wallets to 24×36, specialty photographic items, and press products. Use coupon code “photoc09” to receive 10% off your next order. If the winner is a Premiere Member, they will receive a 24” × 36” gallery wrap (a $170 value). If the winner is not a Premiere Member, they will receive a 16” × 24” gallery wrap (a $100 value).

Entries are due in by March 18th, so you’d better get cracking! Get all the contest details here in the contest thread. Read more »

The first Contest Corner Challenge of 2010 kicked off with a bang - with a topic like beer, I guess we shouldn’t have been surprised. We received 19 thirst-quenching entries (you can browse through them in the CCC#71: Beer Photo Gallery), but once voting was complete (check out the voting results here), “With Lime Please” by JustJerk was the majority favorite with almost 15% of the votes.

The contest was sponsored by Mpix.com - an online digital imaging lab for the both the professional photographer and the advanced amateur. With an internet connection, a digital file and a credit card, photographers can upload their images, order professional photographic prints ranging from mini wallets to 24×36, specialty photographic items, and press products. Use coupon code “photoc09” to receive 10% off your next order. Since Jeffrey is a Premiere Member, he will receive a 24” × 36” gallery wrap (a $170 value).

Drop by the award thread in the Corner Forums to congratulate Jeffery on his fifth Contest Corner Challenge win!! The next Contest Corner Challenge will be announced in the next 24 hours - make sure you’re subscribed to the Corner Blog or you follow @thecorner on Twitter to get notified when the contest is announced! Read more »

It doesn’t happen very often (at least we try to plan it so it doesn’t), but this month, voting for the Photograph of the Month contest and the Contest Corner Challenge are happening at exactly the same time. To find out more about the March 2010 Photograph of the Month voting and contest, check out this post on the Corner Blog: Cast Your Vote for the March 2010 Photograph of the Month.

Contest Corner Challenge #71: Beer has been our first CCC since the conclusion of the 2009 Photograph of the Year contest, and there are a lot of great entries. The challenge, obviously, was to photograph beer, and 19 photographers managed to capture their favorite brew; check them out here in the CCC#71: Beer Photo Gallery. Read more »

It’s been several months since our last Contest Corner Challenge (we had to make way for the 2009 Photograph of the Year contest), but we’ve got a great topic for the first CCC of 2010: Beer. It could be a photo of someone drinking beer, it could be a product shot, it could even be of it spilt on the floor (though that would be sad). Even if you don’t drink beer, with hundreds, if not thousands of varieties out there, pick up a bottle (or can, or pitcher, or glass, or pint…) of a local brew and show off some beer from your neck of the woods. Photograph your favorite local beer.

The contest is being sponsored by one of the Premiere Sponsors of the 2009 Photograph of the Year contest: Mpix.com. Mpix.com is an online digital imaging lab for the both the professional photographer and the advanced amateur. With an internet connection, a digital file and a credit card, photographers can upload their images, order professional photographic prints ranging from mini wallets to 24” × 36”, specialty photographic items, and press products. Use PhotographyCorner-Exclusive coupon code “photoc09” to receive 10% off your next order. If the winner is a Premiere Member, they will receive a 24” × 36” gallery wrap (a $170 value). If the winner is not a Premiere Member, they will receive a 16” × 24” gallery wrap (a $100 value).

You’ve only got 10 days to enter this contest, so you’d better get on it… Read all of the contest details here in the CCC#71 contest thread. Read more »

Although there weren’t many entries, Contest Corner Challenge #70: Shopping didn’t fail to deliver some fantastic photographs. With 9 entries, the reigning Contest Corner Challenge Champion Carl Chalupa (aka Spicoli) picked up his TENTH CCC victory with his photograph titled “The Christmas Rush.”

Garnering almost 40% of the votes (check out the final voting results here), and his first CCC win in almost 2 years, Carl finally hit double digits running away with CCC#70. Since Carl is obviously a Premiere Member, he picks himself up a Lowepro Nova 180 AW camera bag courtesy of Daymen Photo Marketing.

Check out the 9 entries in the CCC#70: Shopping Photo Gallery, and be sure to congratulate Carl on his tenth CCC win in the award thread. Read more »