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<blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 674570" data-attributes="member: 9240"><p>Sure, it's dpchallenge.com. I've posted about it before here when talking about sites that give you categories to shoot in fixed time limits. It's been around for a while and I believe it's outlived its usefulness in its original form and the owner of the site and software seems want to make some of the changes necessary to keep it from failing. There used to be well over 100 submissions for each of the 3 weekly challenges but now they're lucky to get a couple dozen, which makes a 5th place honorable mention more of a participation trophy. I could get into more about what I believe works and doesn't work over there, but suffice it to say that the 1-10 voting scale has no definable parameters behind the "Bad" and "Good" at the two ends, so your photo is at the mercy of the voter who can give you a "2" with no explanation or need to critique just why they thought your image was such crap. I quit the site a year ago because of all this, but they restarted the 4th edition of a team competition and the folks that I had participated with in the past were the one great thing that I took away from the place because we would honestly evaluate the photos taken for each week's challenges and to a person we would finish well above our solo effort averages because we were all blind to flaws in our images or image choices that the others saw.</p><p></p><p>I encourage anyone wanted to participate in challenges like that to give it a shot, but the reason I didn't mention it is that I suspect that after the league competition is over most of the people who came out of the woodwork for it will sink back into it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BackdoorArts, post: 674570, member: 9240"] Sure, it's dpchallenge.com. I've posted about it before here when talking about sites that give you categories to shoot in fixed time limits. It's been around for a while and I believe it's outlived its usefulness in its original form and the owner of the site and software seems want to make some of the changes necessary to keep it from failing. There used to be well over 100 submissions for each of the 3 weekly challenges but now they're lucky to get a couple dozen, which makes a 5th place honorable mention more of a participation trophy. I could get into more about what I believe works and doesn't work over there, but suffice it to say that the 1-10 voting scale has no definable parameters behind the "Bad" and "Good" at the two ends, so your photo is at the mercy of the voter who can give you a "2" with no explanation or need to critique just why they thought your image was such crap. I quit the site a year ago because of all this, but they restarted the 4th edition of a team competition and the folks that I had participated with in the past were the one great thing that I took away from the place because we would honestly evaluate the photos taken for each week's challenges and to a person we would finish well above our solo effort averages because we were all blind to flaws in our images or image choices that the others saw. I encourage anyone wanted to participate in challenges like that to give it a shot, but the reason I didn't mention it is that I suspect that after the league competition is over most of the people who came out of the woodwork for it will sink back into it. [/QUOTE]
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