Photography Challenges

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Calling all the photographers on this forum! I have decided to start a weekly challenge of photography.

Rules
1. The challenge is just for fun.
2. All images must be taken after the theme is announced.
3. The challenge runs from 9pm on the Sunday and runs until 9pm the following Sunday.
4. Only one upload per member.
5. Please feel free to comment on the entries once judging is complete.
6. The person who hosts is the judge for that week challenge and the judge’s decision is final.
7. The winner gets to create, run and judge the challenge for the following week.
8. Have fun

oh great. so the first challenge will be issued by you?

Looks good. Why don't you start ?

Nice initiative.

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Yup. I was waitng for some response to start.

ok we are ready....lets start

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OK challenge for this week is silhouettes, landscape, portraits, abstract, let's see what you come up with, have fun Grin

As usual the rules are:

1. The challenge is just for fun.
2. All images must be taken after the theme is announced.
3. All images must be uploaded by 9pm on Sunday
4. All uploads must be B&W (or sepia toned)
5. Only one upload per member
6. The person who hosts is the judge for that week challenge and the judge’s decision is final
7. The winner gets to create, run and judge the challenge for the following week
8. Have fun
9. You can choose any one of the given 3 topics or can include 2 or more topics in your picture

^ Gen,
Photographers shouldn't pull one from his archives and post it for the challenge

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pardon?

nothing its the reaction to deleted post dont worry about it
black and white abstract silhouette portrait + landscape eh. Challenge accepted.

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Here's my pic for the week to start off the challenge for the abstract topic.
Abstract has a very wide meaning so I'm not sure if this works

*farm4.staticflickr.com/3855/14839591163_bf0ef6deac_b.jpg

Sorry for the deleted post before.

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As you said, Abstract is a very broad topic, so i would say your entry is just fine

Hey this should be fun

experimented for abstract, its a panorama of the inside of a muddi, don't know english word for it

*i.imgur.com/zYcTbWK.jpg

BTW, what is muddi?

Anorion said:
experimented for abstract, its a panorama of the inside of a muddi, don't know english word for it

I wouldn't recommend searching its meaning in Telugu language.

Muddhi? That cane stool? Nicely shot, would love to know how you shot this

I put the stool on top of a rotating chair, then used lines in viewfinder of mobile camera to position the photos parallel to the edge. turned chair, took shots, stitched panorama using AutoStitch. The black hole in the middle came naturally from this, evened it out a bit in pixlr. After that took top shot of cane stool for the iris.

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Its an interesting shot but i still cannot grasp your subject

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Aren't we supposed to comment on the entries once judging is complete and not before ? Rule #5 , Post #1

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Yes i wanted to post that, but as everyone had commented, and the damage was done, i too wanted to know what was his entry.

But i do hope from the next entry, it wont happen.

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Bump, very few entries..

Cmon guys, its such a broad topic.

But narrow time frame

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1 week is quite enough, i think. Considering its such a broad and simple topic.

so less entries..

From iphone's cam :

*i.imgur.com/AgmoEzc.jpg?5165

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Times up. ! No more entries now.
Sad there were not more entries to choose from

Back in a few with the result

- - - Updated - - -

So the result:

Firstly
Gen.Libeb's Entry: Nice shot, bt mono didnt suit it much. I would have preferred the natural colors.

ashs1's Entry:: A great attempt, very soft though. Had you snapped in mono or converted?

Anorion's Entry: : A very different, interesting and great capture. Leaves the viewer in mystery of what exactly it was, and some ( including me ) broke the rule too

So i choose your entry as the winner.
Congrats

Over to you for next challenge.

Rules you can take from my post, and theme you have to choose your own.
Its not mandatory for B/W only. You can choose any, Macro's etc.

Yay! expected [MENTION=154968]Gen.Libeb[/MENTION]'s entry to win because was easily the best technically

Rules are same. Theme for this week's challenge is "shoot from the hip". You have to keep the camera at waist level, and you are not allowed to look through the viewfinder!

edit : or live view, or screen

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lol! good one.! tough too!

you are not allowed to look through the viewfinder!

cant cheat on this one! my camera has none

Ash, Nice IQ.

Congrats Anorion.

Photographing without viewing viewfinder/live view - Nice challenge.

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Congratulations to Anorion. Still not sure what muddi is, It looks like Godzilla's eye
ashs1 - nice, what is it ?

Gen, Amlan said it's a stool and Anorion confirmed it in his next post.

Gen.Libeb said:
ashs1 - nice, what is it ?

its a lantern

ishan99 said:
ashs1's Entry:: A great attempt, very soft though. Had you snapped in mono or converted?

Converted it

nac said:
Ash, Nice IQ.

Congrats Anorion.

Photographing without viewing viewfinder/live view - Nice challenge.

thanks bro.

Gen.Libeb said:
Congratulations to Anorion. Still not sure what muddi is, It looks like Godzilla's eye
ashs1 - nice, what is it ?

Anorion said:
its a lantern

yup..its a lantern..got it for diwali last year..
Here's the original pic :

*www.digit.in/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=14631&d=1407696305

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ssup with you all guys? Went to Delhi, thought this challenge would have been completed by now, but i see there wasnt a single entry.. :/

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You need to make the contest simpler. Don't start with such difficult topic. Start with easy one's. And once it gains momentum you can start increasing difficulty. Now 2-3 people see the topic and give up. After a while 10-20 will see and atleast 2-3 will take part.

change the challenge? thought this one was terribly easy

will add an option

shoot from waist level, without looking at viewfinder or screen

OR

shoot a common, everyday thing that is just lying around, something that is not generally thought of as being attractive or special in any way

It's not difficult. It's either we're busy with our work or we're lazy.

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yup, its really strange. Not tough by any standards :/
But ti think we really should start from fairly easy challenges ( Insect macros, flowers, etc )

It's not tough, just that most of us seem to be having a creative block

or there are just too many ideas floating and we miss out on these

For me i travelled with family, but got almost no artistic shots. Will process and share