#CasualPhotography

Photography for its own sake.

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#CasualPhotography is the group for everyone who loves photography for its own sake. We try to be as inclusive and unpretentious as we can and we especially try to encourage and support beginner photographers here on dA.

Super Group
Until Jan 20, 2014

Founded 3 Years ago
Apr 2, 2010

Location
Global

Group Focus
Art Creation

Media Type
Photographic

2,825 Members
2,488 Watchers
41,878 Pageviews

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Welcome!

This group is unlike any other, in that we take the time to tell you why your submission has been rejected in great detail and often by two or three different people. We try to be as inclusive and unpretentious as we can and we especially try to encourage and support beginner photographers here on dA.

This group is a wonderful learning experience. If you love photography for it's own sake and want to improve your skill, this is the group for you!

Members can submit up to 2 deviations per week. Please note that only photographs will be accepted, anything else will be automatically declined.
Submissions are then reviewed by members of the Admin Team to decide if they should be included in the gallery.

There are four very simple things to know:

Please note we do not accept heavy photomanipulations in the group gallery. That's not to say all photos that have the word "Photoshop" in the data are automatically rejected! Everyone touches up their work a little, it's the painfully obvious edits that we try to weed out - edits which put a cosplayer into a still from a video game or the person hovering in the air firing lightning bolts out of their hands that we don't permit. It should be pretty clear what we allow by just browsing through the group gallery.

Although we don't expect a submission to be a complete photographic masterpiece, we do have basic criteria by which to judge it. The deviation should show evidence that the photographer has thought carefully about such things as composition, focus, lighting and depth of field. In other words: it isn't just a snapshot, and the artist has put forth the effort to produce a photograph to be proud of.

Please pay attention to the gallery you're submitting to! We have a wide variety of folders with clear titles for all sorts of photography; some shots can easily fit in to more than one gallery so keep in mind what the focus of the photograph is when you're submitting.

Please note that we do not accept any submissions to the "Featured" folder. Submit your work to an appropriate gallery folder and if the admin team comes across a photograph showcasing exceptional skill, capturing emotion in a spectacular way or one with an amazing story behind it, we will move it there ourselves.

Newest Members

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Best of Feb' 2013 | 1,000 Point Giveaway | News

by *Akuard, Mar 11, 2013, 11:19:21 AM
Journals / Personal

Best of Casual Photography, February 2013This is a feature for the group :iconcasualphotography:
by :IconEstruda:
This is a wonderful series of contrasts and framing. Nothing in the rule of thirds point we have a figure looking right at as. In the second panel we have two people away from us, and in the third we have one and a half people looking away from us. The scene is broken up with a great since of highlights, contrasts, and natural framing. This is the kind of shot that screams "casual photography" but it also screams a sense of majesty.
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by :IconMad-Identity:
The silhouette is wonderful on this, as well as the wide variety of textures that exist on the wall, blanket, light in the background, etc.
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by :icontanikel:
Not a lot to say about this photograph. It's a soldier and a child – they're engaged in one another. There is this weird sense of innocence and danger associated with the image. While the weapon is pointed away from the child, it is still in the im

Information on the Best of Casual Photography February 2013:

My plan was to do one of these every month so that I could create a larger sense of community within the group, I thought it would be fun. Unfortunately, I've had little support from the rest of my Moderators, so it will be impossible for my to continue with these. I apologize for this but its simply too much work on my end.

News:

This group has evolved into something that is far past what it was when I originally joined. There are no other admins left from when I joined and I am admittedly disheartened with that fact. I feel that I am going to distance myself from the group (in one way, or another) and pursue other projects.

1,000 Point Giveaway:

The random number generator picked out

for the 1,000 point give away. Go to her portfolio and comment on her wall, photos, etc. Show her some love - shes a new member. I'll be more than happy to do more give aways. Write on the journal that I posted up there that you'd be interested in a give-away. If I get 50ish people interested then I'll be more than happy to do more.