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December Challenge and November Winners! The Theme
Being that December, for many, is the month of festivity, creativity and craftiness we decided that we'd have a 'sort of' Christmas Theme. We appreciate that not everybody celebrates Christmas and so our technical term for this months challenge is 'Festive.' That way you can create anything that has a sort of festive feel to it. See the examples if you're confused!
Dates
The contest folder will be open on 1st December 2012 and will close on 29th December 2012. Be sure to get your submissions in before the closing date! Judging will commence soon after with winners announced on 1st of January with the next new challenge! We're tightening up on submissions now and your work will be declined if it doesn't follow our submissions rules!
Submission
The Submission folder can be found right Here!

Did You Know? - Browser Scripts, Notes Icons

A History of Photography (Mostly)Art History Photography Month has begun and where better to start than with the History of Photography! I appreciate not everything is included, but here are some key main events and features, images and happenings that have impacted Photography across the years. If you don't want to read it all, scroll to the bottom for my tl;dr handy summary

1000AD
This is said to be where it all began with Alhazen inventing the first pinhole camera - known as Camera Obscura. Heard the phrase before? Now you know where it originates from! Aristotle observed and noted in around 330BC the optic laws that made pinhole cameras possible and questioned why the Sun could make a circular image when it shined through a square hole.
Source:LOC
1794
The First Panorama opens - the forerunner of the movie house invented by Robert

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Troubleshooting:How to Photograph Christmas Lights

I recently read an article on Reddit that explored the best way to photography Christmas lights and it raised some interesting points. Rather than re-hash what has already been said, I've delved into a few tutorials around the web to give an overview of some hints and tips - and will link them all at the end of this article so that you can investigate for yourself.

When you take a Photograph, the camera will often over-compensate with the colours that it's trying to capture and objects that look fairly white to the naked eye don't appear so in the photo that you've taken. White Balance aims to override that. But just setting your camera to Auto White Balance and hoping for the best is not good enough...

The above shots show the same location taken firstly with auto white balance - and then secondly with the white balance set to shade. Setting Shade me

Seasonal People + Portrait Contest Now Open!~PeopleAndPortraits has well and truly launched! In conjunction with that, we wanted to bring you a fantastic shiny new contest to see you through October.
We recognize that across the world people are entering all sorts of seasons right now...which is why this isn't just about Autumn. You can utilise any season you want - and if you're extra creative, how about combining all four into one image?

The idea of a Seasonal Portraiture Contest is for you to experiment and explore whatever season you happen to be in right now - through portraiture photography! The contest is open to all categories within the People and Portrait Photography Gallery:

Infants and Children

Glamour
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#deviant365 For 2013! Tell your friends!Hello Deviants!
We are so excited that the new year is almost upon us! On January 1st, 2013 the fun begins! Weekly tasks start flowing and we start handing out prizes!
But before the new year, we would like to get the word out that #deviant365 is up and running for 2013! Please consider sharing this journal with your friends, watchers and groups. We really want to be there for as many deviants as we can.
#deviant365 aims to bring the deviousness to the deviantART community one week at a time, 365 days a year. deviant365 is deviantART's official 365 Project where you will be provided with weekly tasks for the whole year. The aim of this is to give you motivation to participate in areas of our community that perhaps you have never experienced before, make new friends, work on your art, learn more about deviantART and enhance your experience on deviantART.
So without much more waiting, we are looking forward to the 1st and hope you a

Friday Feature: Issue 008A Collection of -
Recent Discoveries

:iconConceptualMiracles: :iconCarlosMoreira: :iconeintoern: :iconencorine:
:iconfr31g31st: :icondilekgenc: :iconpurplesplee: :iconinfunkwetrust:
:iconsnowfall-lullaby: :iconLeMatos: :iconboiledfrog: :iconadibudojo:
:iconkonspix: :iconrawangtak: :iconwritto: :iconjane-beata:
Featured Artists
Other Entries

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With a touch of gold

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An Absurd Interview with dekorAdumWelcome to Absurd Interviews: They're To Any One

Hello ladies and gentlemen and people. Today I bring you a special guest.
He's a decorator student so he comes to decorate our lives with his words of wisdom and decoration.
He comes from Hungary and did you know that Hungary is home to the largest thermal water cave system and the second largest thermal lake in the world? That's hot.
But behind all that, he's also a cool guy who likes to help people, so next time you have an issue you know where to go!
So without further delay, here comes:
`dekorAdum
Hello Adam! What is a gentleman like you doing in an interview like this?
-This is my second or third interview so I don't really know

You know, I felt so proud of myself when I wrote your username right at first try without looking the other day! What does it mean?

Photographer of the week: Lieveheersbeestje

Despite the fact that =lieveheersbeestje is a very well known photographer here on DeviantART, I really want to feature her. She is an inspiration for me and for a lot of other people too.
Not only her photographs are lovely to watch, but also her Photoshop actions she is making for all of us. So, Thank you Megan, for all your lovely effort and you're beautiful photography!
Congratulations =lieveheersbeestje
Sincerly,
=xOronar

Note me If you would like to suggest a still-life photographer!
Previous weekly photographers:

:iconorwald: :iconugurdoyduk: :iconrabbitka: :iconandokadesbois: :iconfra-emer: :iconbwoman2008: :iconhayzy:

Cup FeatureHows everyone doing these days?
All is going well over here. 16 weeks pregnant already. It's going so fast!
In about 4 weeks I will know if it's all healthy and if it will be a boy or a girl. But that would be a secret!

Anyway, due to pregnancy I didn't feel like taking pictures lately. I can't do much when I get home from work, so yeah.
But I did upload a new picture I shot today

So! Time for a new (small) feature too! And yes, another tea/coffee cup feature, because I love them :iconawwplz:
Enjoy!
:iconcoffeeplz:

Thank youThank you so much for all the Birthday Wishes !
I guess i am officially an adult now . . . but i really don't feel like it.
There is only 1 and a half year left to go till i am finished with school. This means that i have to decide on my future soon....but i really have no idea what i want to do

But anyways, thanks for all the present

Thanks to `dragonfly-oli for giving me a cake-badge

Thanks to ~TheShadow777 ~malesx and ~joergens-mi for giving me points

Thanks to the dear *hayzy and her adorable cat for doing a really cute animation for my Birthday
( She only uploaded it to stash so i can't show it to you, but it was so adorable

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And of course, here are the Entrys for my Contest
Every single Entry made me really happy, thank you very much

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~mrausrau Feb 7, 2013 Hobbyist Photographer

<3

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~PlainWeird Feb 3, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

All of them are beautiful

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*AlicjaRodzik Jan 19, 2013 Professional Photographer

thank you..

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*BrightStar2 Jan 14, 2013

some wonderful images......

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~Inguan Jan 12, 2013 Professional Photographer

amazing

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~malesx Jan 9, 2013

Awsome my dear X3

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*darkn2ght Jan 6, 2013

wondrously splendid

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~Sparkle-Photography Jan 2, 2013 Student Photographer

_{Those are all excellent photos.}

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