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Project Educate: Expressing and EmotingEssentially, these are mostly the same thing with a few minor differences which are explained below. But before we move onto that, there's an important message to share when it comes to categorising your work. To get the best out of the photography galleries it's vitally important that you categorise your work properly. That' why these weeks exist in some respects, to help educate you through that. With regards to Daily Deviations - Community Volunteers will not give features to pieces of work that are mis-categorised. They might assist you by moving your work or explaining where it should go, but seeing a deliberate miscat is a bit off-putting when it comes to choosing pieces to showcase. Take some time to have a look through your gallery (I'm going to do the same!) and figure out if everything is in the right place. If you're struggling, just ask. We're here to help. What we won't do is rearrange your whole gallery for you. We will however, work with you to try and straighten things

Project Educate: People and Portraits IntroductionPortrait or Portraiture Photography is about a person or a group of people arranged in a certain way to convey the mood, emotions and possibly even a story. On DeviantART there are many sub-categories within the People & Portraits Gallery and some of those are self explanatory whilst others take a little bit more planning and thinking about to achieve. Throughout this week, we'll be working to hopefully clean up misconceptions and straighten out parts of the People & Portrait Galleries. So here's what's happening...

Shoot Yourself - Photography Contest

Open Forum - Throw your questions to the photography CVs and expect the answers (as much as possible) by the end of the week!

Getting your Emotive on - Definition

Everyday we're CV'ingAs a Community Volunteer - I do as much or as little within the community that I feel comfortable doing. We're not pressured to do this and that, we don't even have to give a Daily Deviation every day, we choose how we promote our selected galleries/chats and forums and we're not fixed to any specific rule on how much or how little we do. But I do believe that it's important to share with you just what the community volunteers do and why we do it. More importantly it's so easy to get lost on this site full of many people - and miss out on the awesome that's going on. So I'm going to share with you exactly what the latest awesome is...
Project Educate
Almost every week since October last year the Community Volunteers have been working hard both independently and as part of small teams to bring You Project Educate.
Project Educate is about bringing forward art forms whether they are popular or overlooked and giving

Make a Difference #166Artists join deviantART to share their art and appreciate others. Due to the many artists out there, it's easy to get towed under and generally obscured from the public.
Make a Difference aims to do exactly that. This series of articles will hopefully make a difference to you as well as the artists featured weekly. Just by giving one minute of your time to write constructive comments, favourites and even watches will make a difference to these artists.
:icongotiika: is an amazing deviant who shows potential in her photography, especially her latest, though there is an awesome consistency in the way the focus is great, the colours are wonderfully saturated to really create an impact, and the photographs are well executed all in all.

~Gotiika's Gallery
:iconcrazy-poet808: engages us in the story an

CR Newsletter - May & June 2012Table of Contents
1. New Faces
2. Daily Deviations: Listing Suggesters
3. Volunteer Openings
4. Share Your Opinions
5. Community Projects
6. Official Contests
7 Project Educate 2011/2012
8. Art History Project
9. News from the Chats and Forums
10. News from the Galleries
1. New Faces
We welcomed many new faces onto the Community Volunteer team this month! Please join us in welcoming them and I encourage you to reach out and get to know these fantastic people:
^ladygagz - DeviantART Related
`IsacGoulart - Photography
`RockstarVanity - Darkroom Photography
^laserbeast - Chat & Forums
^Athos-of-Light - Chat & Forums
^JZLobo - Fan Fiction
^SylwiaTelari - Traditional Art
^DaPineapple - Chats & Forums
`dekorAdum - Chats & Forums
^Talty - Artisan Crafts
^princepal - Designs & Interfaces
^SRudy - Traditional Art
`krazykel - Chats

Photography Weekly: Edition ThirtyPhotography Weekly Header created by ~TouchedD
"A photograph says that you were so important, I stopped everything else to come and preserve you."
This week Horacio Coppola died. Many will not know the name, but in the Photography world he was pretty awesome. He died age 105, and was famous for taking Black and White photographs of Buenos Aires in the 1930s. But he also photographed normality. Some of his works included egg and twine - quite simply an egg and a piece of twine. Others featured a typewriter, but ultimately he shot normality, the everyday things that people overlooked. He's said to be one of very few photographers who manage to capture the romance, vitality and squalor of a great city. So a legend has died, but somewhere another will rise up through the ranks. Who inspires you? Which historical Artists have provoked you to reach the place where you are now? Or who you aspire to be?
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R&S - Font Gallery Update!!I am very happy to make an announcement today that is something that I have been eyeing suspiciously for a while and now am very relieved to see it done:
The Resource & Stock Images > Fonts gallery has been relaunched!
Take a look at the changes here!
Now, without going into much detail, it used to be subpar. The category names were unprofessional and confusing, leading to frustrating search results and many many miscats.
Over the last month there has been a lot of work put into changing this status.
So first of all I’d like to thank ^Elandria and `Dan-Heffer who were very much in favor of the change and supported me in my endeavours to come up with a good gallery tree, despite being no experts on the topic of fonts, but giving me an outsiders input

Naturally I have to thank $Moonbeam13 as well, as she supported the idea as well and made t

Literature DD Roundup: June 2012 June Literature Daily Deviations
Hello Everyone!
Why is this year moving so fast?
I have received several notes from people asking why we have dropped from 2 DDs a day to just one in Lit (with the exception of Saturday), so I thought perhaps it is worth explaining publically our reasoning.
As you all know, it can be really difficult to find a good range of Literature deviations that we can feature and trying to find one every single day is a painful task and we would be concerned that the quality of our choices could dip if we pushed ourselves to find one every single day. With just 2 of us now, we have to work harder to find the ones we do. Unlike visual art, we have to spend time reading every single piece we make a decision on and this is time consuming.
If we received more suggestions from the community, we would perhaps consider increasing some days to two, but for now it will remain on one until a third CV joins the team. Please do keep your s

Nom Nom #6Everyone is complaining about how hungry I make them each time I submit a Nom Nom Article. Well it's now time to put a stop to that. Without further ado I give you...
Brussel Sprouts

Apples
Chicken
Strawberries
Cinnamon
Chocolate

Famous Photographs: The Afghan GirlIf you run a google search on what are the top famous Photographs of all time, The Afghan Girl is sure to appear. She is truly a face from History and one that many across the globe have tried to capture within others time and time again. But what exactly has made this image and its photographer so captivating?
Source: Daily Mail/National Geographic/Steve McCurry
Eyes, they say, are the window to the soul. And capturing such a piercing and expressive look in a photograph is a highly sought after skill. The Afghan Girl exhibits suspense, suspicion and a sense of distrust at the person behind the lens, she gives off an air of maturity, a foreboding feeling - a vulnerability behind years of strength. That, is what makes her so captivating.
Sharbat Gula is her name, although few even know this rather important detail. Sh

November Daily Deviation RoundupsOnce again we've compiled a blog of all of our Daily Deviation Roundups so that you can browse the articles much easier! Enjoy

General Photography from 3wyl

General Photography from Kaz-D

Conceptual Photography

Cosplay

Darkroom Photography

Horror & Macabre Photography
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Photography Weekly: Edition Forty FourPhotography Weekly Header created by ~TouchedD
"Creativity, like human life itself - begins in Darkness "
-Julia Cameron."
I read a very interesting article this week debating Photography Vs Literature and which one of the two tells us more. Of course there is always the element that a picture could be accompanied by words but neither aspect is enough to tell a whole story. But as the article says, Photography has become a universal constant in the world today and is accessible to nearly everybody. Yet many still believe that only pure narration can truly tell a story. What are your thoughts? As Photographers we can choose to limit what we tell or show with a photograph, we can even mislead. Can we convey more with words? Or more with an image? You could describe a person with words but never truly give an accurate picture of who they are visually without a photograph...

Community Relations News
It's sp

Photography Weekly: Edition Forty TwoPhotography Weekly Header created by ~TouchedD
“Everyone talks about the weather, but no one does anything about it.”

― Mark Twain
The sky is so often underestimated in terms of Photography that I felt compelled to give it a bit of love and talk about it in this weeks article. I've been following UK Storm Chasers on facebook who have been documenting the arrival of the 'demon child of Nadine' as it has been deemed. Hurricane Nadine is still out there in the Atlantic Ocean spinning around and preparing to send the UK another demon child (which is really just a tropical storm to us) and with it comes a plethora of opportunities to snap some stunning skies and horizons. But do we appreciate the sky enough? I don't think we do. When was the last time you stopped shooting at eye level and looked up? Often, there's nothing there - but often too, there's something worth capturing. The general rule when capturing la

Photography Weekly: Edition FortyPhotography Weekly Header created by ~TouchedD
"Replace Fear of the Unknown with Curiosity..."
As the year crawls into the final quarter - lots of challenges and daily photo tasks and so on begin to conclude. I have personally been challenging myself with the 365 Photography challenge - a photo a day for a whole year. It has been tricky to say the least, especially as I set myself a high standard of capturing more than one Photo a day - but also rewarding. Setting yourself a challenge, whether it's following the 52 week photography challenges that are out there, or doing a themed challenge such as 365 breakfasts - is a great way of expanding on your portfolio. Whilst it sometimes means that you struggle to find anything interesting to photograph or share, on the days that you do, you're one step closer to building another aspect of your portfolio.
Next week in Photography Troubleshooting - we will be looking at Money Matters and so

Photography Weekly: Edition Thirty NinePhotography Weekly Header created by ~TouchedD
"Let your words be few - and your exposures many"
-Unknown
Earlier this week I was stalking a photography forum (because it's where all the cool kids are) and I noticed somebody claiming to be a fairly professional photographer angling for information on the best mega-pixels D-SLR camera they could get in order to stabilise their images. Well anybody who knows even a tiny inkling about Photography will very quickly jump on that as most of us know full well that no matter how many megapixels you've got, they aren't worth a thing without a steady hand or more importantly a good sturdy tripod. I never was a firm believer in a tripod and even now, I rarely use it. However I use any number of things to stabilise myself when shooting whether that involves lying in a bed of flowers, resting against a wall or indeed using the nearest person (which I don't recommend - people sway!) However it's not difficult to get

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Suggesting Darkroom Daily Deviations

Sun Jul 15, 2012, 1:49 PM

#projecteducate will soon be hosting a special Daily Deviations week. In honour of the event, here are my Daily Deviation suggestion guidelines with additional detail and musings for your information and entertainment. Keep calm and suggest Darkroom DDs!

Daily Deviation suggestions MUST be from Photography > Darkroom. This is the only gallery which I feature from.

To find out more about the Darkroom Photography galleries, please see this journal with detailed gallery descriptions and examples.

To help promote the intriguing creative processes involved in both Traditional and Digital Darkroom photography, I would like to shine a light on images which show skillful use of these techniques. Please bear this in mind when suggesting.

I especially love featuring images which have an explanation of techniques and materials in the Artist's Comments so viewers can learn more about how the photographs were created.

While I don't mind featuring images which use a stock texture every now and then, I prefer not to feature pictures which involve major photographic elements created by someone other than the person who submitted the piece to dA.

While I have nothing against featuring regularly explored subject matter, I also love to bring more exposure to unusual and unexpected imagery. Your suggestions can help create beautiful scenery on the photographic road less travelled!

I rarely choose Daily Deviation features based on my own personal taste. While I obviously have to be impressed by the impact of an image to feature it, I never make my choices based on how attractive I find a person in a photograph or whether my favourite animal, flower or place is depicted. Daily Deviations are about the art and the artists who create it, not about me.

I also never choose Daily Deviations based on life events. DDs are an art feature, a way to share amazing creations with the dA community, not a birthday present.

While I do not feature work from artists who have had a Daily Deviation in the last 6 months and I enjoy promoting photographers whose work you probably haven’t seen all over dA already, I would never reject a suggestion purely based on how many views, comments or favourites the photograph has had.

I don't reject suggestions based on how many Daily Deviations an artist has had previously either. That said, I won't give two Daily Deviations to the same person, ever.

You're welcome to suggest your own work if you like. I admire people who have the guts to promote themselves and their creations. If you suggest your own work, I appreciate you taking the time to include a reason why you're suggesting that particular image or your work in general but please make it about your art, not the fact that it's your wedding anniversary next week or you're sad because no-one comments on your pictures.

If I don't feel that the image you suggested is the best representation of your work, I may choose another from your gallery. I wouldn't reject you as an artist based on one image. If you're having trouble choosing one image to suggest from your own gallery, just send me a note and say that - I'm happy to take a look at your body of work and see if I find something suitable for a feature.

To suggest a Darkroom photograph for a Daily Deviation, simply send me a note with DD Suggestion as the subject and include a thumbnail of the image in the note. You don’t have to explain why you think the work should be featured, but you’re very welcome to.

I read and reply to ALL notes but if your suggestion (of someone else's work) isn’t selected to be featured as a Daily Deviation, I won’t go into details as it doesn’t feel right to critique someone’s work to another person.

Please don't repeatedly suggest the same image or the same artist for a Daily Deviation. The volume of suggestions makes no difference to me. If I want to feature something, I'll feature it whether one person or a hundred suggest it. If I choose not to feature something, I have my reasons. Sending twenty more notes or having a bunch of your friends suggest the same thing will have no effect.

If more than one person suggests a piece, I credit the first person to suggest it. This is in no way a slight against any of the other suggesters - it's just the fairest and most simple way to do things. Please don't be offended if you suggest something and see it appearing on the DDs page with someone else's name on it - chances are, they just suggested it before you did.

You can see all the photographs which I've already featured as Daily Deviations here.

FAQ #61: What is a Daily Deviation?
FAQ #18: Who selects Daily Deviations and how are they chosen?
FAQ #313: How can I find out if someone already has a Daily Deviation?
FAQ #873: What do I do when I disapprove of a Daily Deviation feature?

Remember, anyone can suggest a Daily Deviation. You don't have to be a Community Volunteer (or friends with one), a staff member, a senior member, a premium member...everyone's suggestions are welcome and no-one is ever given preference based on their membership status.