I didn’t have a Contest Corner Challenge idea for CCC#51 when it came time to post up the contest earlier this afternoon, so I was doing what I normally do when I haven’t come up with an idea: wandering around inside and outside the house with a camera in my hand looking for inspiration. I stepped outside, and the wind blew the door right out of my hand. Voilà! The wind! But how does one photograph the wind? Read more »

As I mentioned in the email I sent out a couple of days ago (which you only would have received if you’re a member of the PhotographyCorner Forums - you can register here), I’ll be out of town at a conference most of this week (May 4th - 9th), so, unfortunately, the winner of Contest Corner Challenge #49: Play Ball won’t be announced until I get back into the office. To make up for that, though, I’ve announced Contest Corner Challenge #50 a couple of days early. Read more »

As always, when the entry period for a Contest Corner Challenge is over, we go to a 5-day voting period to decide the winner of the contest. The voting thread and poll for Contest Corner Challenge #48: The Path was put up today, and we have until approximately 6:45pm EST on Sunday, April 13th, 2008 (that’s 10:45pm GMT with all the daylight savings time stuff accounted for). There are a total of 24 entries for this contest which can be seen here in the CCC#48: The Path Photo Gallery. The contest is sponsored by our good friends at SmugMug.com, who are offering a SmugMug Power Account (1-year free subscription) if the winner is not a Premiere Member or a SmugMug Pro Account (1-year free subscription) if the winner is a Premiere Member (just another great reason to become a Premiere Member, eh?). In addition, the winner will also receive 5 of the new PhotographyCorner.com Pens! So what are you waiting for? Cast your vote today!!  Read more »

It seems like it was just yesterday that I announced CCC #47, but here we are, 3 weeks later, and we’re onto our next Contest Corner Challenge (just 2 away from the half-century mark!). CCC#48: The Path is all about leading lines. Leading lines are lines within an image that leads the eye to another point in the image, or occasionally, out of the image. For this challenge, you need to use a path (road, walkway, bridge, etc) as a leading line. The path should comprise most of the photograph. You can read all the details about the contest here.

The contest is sponsored by our friends at SmugMug.com. If the winner is not a Premiere Member, they will receive a SmugMug Power Account (1 year free subscription) - a $59.95 value! If the winner is a Premiere Member, they will receive a SmugMug Pro Account (1 year free subscription) - a $149.95 value!! In addition, the winner will also receive 5 of the new PhotographyCorner.com Pens!

Entries are due by 11:59pm GMT, Monday, April 7th, 2008. So go find your path, photograph it, and get your entries in! Read more »

With over 30 entries, CCC#47: Digital Darkroom #2 made for an interesting twist on our regular Contest Corner Challenges. Instead of taking a photograph, you got to “make” a photograph from at least 2 of 10 provided photographs (you have to be logged into the forums to see them), and what a wide array of entries we received! In the end, however, Tyger, with his photograph “Forgotten Railway,” came through as the winner, with over 21% of the votes. Read more »

About a year ago we ran a “Photoshop” Contest Corner Challenge. It was a really popular one, and I promised we would do it again sometime. Sometime is here! Simetime is now!! Start your photo-editing programs!! Here’s your chance to show off some of your “photoshopping” abilities! There was a bit of a controversy last time we did a digital darkroom challenge, but I think in the end, everyone really enjoyed the change. You can read more about the discussion we had about it last time here. This contest (CCC#47: Digital Darkroom #2) gives us 10 photographs to choose from. You need to use at least 2 of the attached photographs to create your own “photograph” (you can see the 10 photographs here in the contest thread - note: you have to be logged into the forum to see the photos). Read more »

It’s been over half-a-year, but lucipaz has done it again! Lucy, with her FOURTH Contest Corner Challenge win, has won Contest Corner Challenge #46: Facial Expressions with her photograph “Suspicious.” Read more »

The entries are in, and now it’s time to vote for the winning photograph of CCC#46: Facial Expressions. The contest asked you to capture a close-up of someone’s face, with the face filling up most of the frame. In addition, the title of the photograph was to be the emotion the person’s face is expressing. And what a great collection of photographs we received! Read more »

Every three weeks we announce a new Contest Corner Challenge, and late last night, CCC#46 was announced. The subject is “Facial Expressions,” so this should be a popular one with all the people photographers we have floating around the Corner. Read more »

I’m trying not to sound like a broken record here, but Spicoli has won Contest Corner Challenge #45: Musical Visualizations. This marks his NINTH (yes, 9th!!!) CCC victory, giving him a full one-fifth of the CCC’s since we started them 3+ years ago. Read more »

There’s a new top dog in the world of Contest Corner Challenges: Karen Sykes of Spokane Valley, Washington. With her third CCC win (and SECOND in a row!!), Karen is becoming a dominate force here around the Corner (don’t forget she also won the PhotographyCorner/Kodak Contest a couple of months ago too). Read more »

While there were fewer entries than we are used to, the quality of the entries to Contest Corner Challenge #42: Window to the Soul were fantastic! That being said, there was 1 photograph that received more than 1/3rd of the votes: A Thousand Stories by fa1sal.

Congrats to fa1sal for winning his second Contest Corner Challenge, with one of the most sweeping wins in recent CCC memory, garnering almost 38% of the votes! Check out the voting results yourself! Make sure you check out the other entries as well in the CCC#42: Window to the Soul Photo Gallery. Read more »

You know how the saying goes: “The eyes are the window to the soul.” In photography, the eyes, especially in portrait photography, make or break the photograph. Contest Corner Challenge #42: Window to the Soul challenges members of the Corner to photograph someone, and make their eyes be the main subject of the photograph. When someone looks at this photograph, the first thing they should notice is the eyes (no selective color allowed). You think you’re up for the challenge? Read more »

Just when you were about to give up hope of ever winning a Contest Corner Challenge again, Spicoli goes and doesn’t win (just kidding Carl… sort of). That being said, the winner of CCC#41 is no stranger to the CCC Winners Circle, either. With a total of 36 entries, and one of the best group of entries in recent memory, Jeff Frey (aka JustJerk) received almost a quarter of the votes, winning his THIRD CCC! Read more »

It’s been a while - all the way back to CCC#22: Place of Worship since lucipaz won a Contest Corner Challenge, but 15 contests later, Lucy Paz of Golan Heights, Israel has done it again… Read more »

Alright, I’m back from my vacation. Man, can you guys send anymore emails and PM’s?  Read more »

What? A blog post? Isn’t Tim supposed to be on vacation… Read more »

It seems like I’m posting about a contest every couple of days lately. In actuality, we run close to 30 contests a year. THIRTY CONTESTS A YEAR. That’s crazy. These Contest Corner Challenges, in fact, run every 3 weeks, which brings us to tonights WORD (oh wait, this isn’t the Colbert Report)… Read more »

Get closer. No, even closer than that. Then get closer one more time. That’s what you’re going to have to do to enter Contest Corner Challenge #35: Fill the Frame. Read more »

I’m beginning to feel like I’m repeating myself over and over again, but Carl has pulled off another CCC win, easily taking Contest Corner Challenge #34: Product Placement with his photograph titled Aquafina “The Taste of Purity”. Read more »