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2025 - 2026 Contest Year Topics
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Projected
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Golden Hour: Dusk or Dawn
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Music
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View Through a Portal
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Bird's Eye View
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Shallow Depth of Field
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Color Prints
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Golden Hour: Dusk or Dawn
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View Through a Portal
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Monochrome Prints
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Music
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Bird's Eye View
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Golden Hour: Dawn or Dusk: An hour before sunset and the hour after sunrise.
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Music: Performance, such as a concert or festival; musical instruments, musicians
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View Through a Portal: looking through a window, doorway, tunnel, entrance. Should include the area in front of, passageway, destination. Portal acts as a framing element.
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Birds Eye View: point of view in which the image is photographed from the top, high above the subject.
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Shallow Depth of Field: A shallow depth of field means only a small portion of the image is in focus while the rest of the image turns to blur. Usually an f-stop of 1.4 to 5.6.
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Printable version of 2025-2026 HERE
For Members of DCC and PPC 2025-2026 Themes HERE
All Images must adhere to the Competition Rules
Dallas Camera Club 2024 – 2025 Contest Themes
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June
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July
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August
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September
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October
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November
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December
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January
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February
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Projected
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Water
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Low Key
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Negative Space
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Street Photography
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Nighttime
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Color Prints
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Water
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Negative Space
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Monochrome Prints
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Low Key
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Street Photography
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Low Key Photography involves shooting dark colored scenes by lowering or dimming the front light illuminating the scene and emphasizing natural or artificial light only on specific area in the frame. Low key images usually create a mysterious atmosphere.
Negative Space Photography emphasizes not just the subject but also the empty space around the subject. Although the viewer’s eyes may focus on a specific subject, they can’t help but notice the large section of emptiness that surrounds and defines that figure.
Nighttime: A photograph taken between sunset and sunrise.
Street Photography is a photographic practice of shooting in everyday life environments. These photographers commonly aim to capture spontaneous moments of people in a candid state. Street photography is not directed nor staged. It should be unmediated and spontaneous to capture subjects in their most authentic states. It is not limited to busy cities or rural areas.
Water: The main subject of the image is water. It may include moving water, seascapes, water droplets, underwater photography or other scenarios in which water is clearly the primary subject.
Printable Version 2024-2025 HERE
All Images must adhere to the Competition Rules