What Is The Digital Diner?
The Digital Diner is a monthly photo challenge open to all ECC members. The aim is to try to improve our ability to create interesting images by taking photos on a given theme, providing a chance to experiment with different techniques and subjects. The images are uploaded to the ECC website and a Zoom meeting is held at the end of each challenge for viewing and discussion. It's not necessary to have contributed any images to take part in the meeting.
The Diner is completely non-competitive and provides an opportunity for members to share with others how and why they took their images, and to get some feedback. Although some images have gone on to ECC competition, many are less polished. The only requirement is to be willing to pick up your camera and experiment!
There are a few standing rules:
- Images are to be taken during the time frame of each challenge - generally one month. The intent is to give some thought to a new project, so submitting older images is not encouraged.
- Unless otherwise specified, you can upload up to three images per challenge.
- Maximum image size is 1600 x 1200 pixels.
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Theme For November 4, 2026 Meeting - 7:00-9:00 PM EDT: "It’s Autumn"
The theme for the next Digital Diner is "It's Autumn".
October always provides lots of potential subjects for photography - which is why we usually have an autumn-related Diner challenge.
This year, try getting more creative than just taking a photo of a beautiful red tree. Keep in mind the advice of David duChemin, our presenter a few weeks ago, about making creative decisions in the use of your camera, and try something different like intentional camera movement or long exposure, or even black & white. Depending on the weather this month, you could also incorporate this year's ECC themed competition, "Wet". (Images submitted to the Digital Diner are eligible for club competition.)
Members can upload up to three images. Each one should be no larger than 1600 x 1200 pixels. (The name of the photographer is now automatically displayed, so it's no longer necessary to include your name in the file title or a watermark.) All images should be taken during the time frame of this challenge - from now till the next Zoom meeting.
Images must be uploaded before the next Diner Zoom - Wednesday Nov. 4th at 7 PM.
The viewing and upload links are now available on the club website in "Digital Diner" under the Programs tab. You must be logged in to upload images. A video on how to upload your images is available on the upload page.
Upload/View Your Images
Meeting Zoom Link
- Go to the menu Zoom Links, Digital Diner Zoom Link, and click on the current date to join this month's zoom meeting. As this is only available to ECC club members, you must be logged in to gain access to this link.
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