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Andy · October 17, 2004

hi guys. post 'em here. the original thread was a bit long in the tooth, so i'm starting a new one. feel free to re-post your ideas in this thread.

make it simple, i'm just one guy! :bash

miketaylor01 · October 17, 2004

Portraits
I would like to see a portraits challenge. Not sure if this has been done in the past, but I know this is an area that I would love to learn how to do better.

wxwax · October 17, 2004

miketaylor01 wrote:

I would like to see a portraits challenge. Not sure if this has been done in the past, but I know this is an area that I would love to learn how to do better.

Good suggestion, Mike. Now, 'splain to me how yer tell a combat hardened soldier that he needs to pose in soft light so that he has lovely skin tones?

:roll

miketaylor01 · October 17, 2004

Thats the trick huh... good reason to do this challenge

writer50 · October 17, 2004

what kind of challenge?
what challenge are you refering to?

wxwax · October 17, 2004

writer50 wrote:

what challenge are you refering to?

Hi writer.

Click on this link. We have a forum here with photo challenges that run for two weeks at a time.

Head in the Clouds · October 19, 2004

macros
night shots
movement
vanishing point (ie drag the viewer into the distance)
portraits (mike's idea is great!)
self portraits
emotions
no photoshopping allowed (including cropping!)
your street
abstract
must use photoshop (or other editing software)

.......
just some ideas.

ginger_55 · October 19, 2004

BLUR, and the effective use of
I was just looking at the "blur" thread. What about blur, effective use of, of course..... Many people do not seem to use it. I think it could be "challenging". And I am also sure that that week, I will have nothing to blur.

That is my suggestion, blur for motion, blur for art, blur for.........blur.

ginger

cowgirl21 · October 29, 2004

I like the idea of NO Editing! Including cropping.

ian408 · October 31, 2004

The article on Richard Avedon's "Democracy" got me thinking that
a challenge telling a story via 2-4 photographs might be interesting.

Andy · October 31, 2004

ginger, we did this already ....

ginger_55 wrote:

I was just looking at the "blur" thread. What about blur, effective use of, of course..... Many people do not seem to use it. I think it could be "challenging". And I am also sure that that week, I will have nothing to blur.

That is my suggestion, blur for motion, blur for art, blur for.........blur.

ginger

right here

Ben:::D · October 31, 2004

I'll second Ian's idea. I like the thought of a multi-shot challenge. Somehow telling a story or conveying a theme. (Maybe "triptychs"??)

Also, I had another suggestion: "3" --just anything involving "3" -- could be a lot of variety, but also interesting.

lambad · November 1, 2004

no cropping??? oh no! Please give us absolute amateurs (well, me at least) a teensy handicap? Before digital, if i were to have some photos developed to frame, i'd cut some outside portions out that didn't quite "do it" for the picture. and i might resend it to the developer to lighten or darken. The other stuff is iffy -- but even before digital film, photographers used lots of different types of filters. Actually, the only thing I'd want to keep is the ability to crop and darken/lighten. Nothing else. (Hmmmm... Because i don't know much about photo editing? Because i'm only a beginning photographer and need all the help i can get? Just because?

gussie · November 2, 2004

False Face - finding facial personalities via abstraction of found imagery
http://gilmore.smugmug.com/photos/9072985-M.jpg

gussie · November 2, 2004

Like this:
[IMG][/img]http://gilmore.smugmug.com/photos/9072985-M.jpg

gussie · November 2, 2004

Oh well, the noob gives up! Y'all get the idea....

landrum · November 14, 2004

How about "Body Parts"? Close-ups of feet, hands, cropped faces?

webwizard · November 14, 2004

Water
Technology
Competition
Weather

happysnapper · November 15, 2004

Portraits is a goer for me too.... good suggestion Mike!

Yvette

winger · November 20, 2004

Sporting life:
Doesnt have to be a sporting event perse.

http://www.eddieadamsworkshop.com/

They have the galleries up from all the students. They were broken up into teams. The oranges team's theme was "a sporting life" so if you look at any of the photos from that you get the idea.

Femme_Photale · November 21, 2004

I second the Blurr idea as I want to enter one of this challenges and Im limited to entering my already existing photos at the moment!!

gus · December 12, 2004

How about 'fear'..always interesting to see how emotions are interpreted

ginger_55 · December 18, 2004

Portraits 2

Portraits 2, since the challenge for portraits came at Christmas time, I would like to explore the craft more thoroughly. Rather than drive myself nuts now, I am going to suggest that we have another portraits challenge sometime before summer: that should be enough time to work it in.

ginger

Andy · December 18, 2004

Humungus wrote:

How about 'fear'..always interesting to see how emotions are interpreted

'gus

i'm leaning towards "fire"

Andy · December 18, 2004

ginger_55 wrote:

Portraits 2, since the challenge for portraits came at Christmas time, I would like to explore the craft more thoroughly. Rather than drive myself nuts now, I am going to suggest that we have another portraits challenge sometime before summer: that should be enough time to work it in.

ginger

portraits are timeless - ginger, keep reminding us, ok?

gus · December 18, 2004

andy wrote:

'gus

i'm leaning towards "fire"

Please Andy....im sweating here. I keep thinking about Quang Duc's self-immolation the most powerfull photo i have ever seen.

Who couldnt remember it ....it was in Vietnam.

judyfuess · December 30, 2004

Though these may be too simple, how about Flowers?

ian408 · December 30, 2004

Humungus wrote:

Please Andy....im sweating here. I keep thinking about Quang Duc's self-immolation the most powerfull photo i have ever seen.

Who couldnt remember it ....it was in Vietnam.

That and the execution photo.

ian

luckyrwe · December 30, 2004

How about a "Portraits" where it tells all about the person, but no person or living creature can be in the picture whatsoever.

Andy · December 30, 2004

luckyrwe wrote:

How about a "Portraits" where it tells all about the person, but no person or living creature can be in the picture whatsoever.

elaborate, please?

fish · December 30, 2004

Here's a suggestion:

Meat.

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