INPUT NEEDED: Challenge title theme ideas!

JAG

:ear OK I am all ears! List your best 3 title ideas that you would like to see for possible future challenges! Your 3 ideas must be listed in one post please and try to come up with something we haven't done before or for a very long time!


You can find what we have done in the past HERE.

Cambyses

Here are some categories that quickly come to my mind with each providing for one or more possible challenge themes:

1) Science and Technology: Challenge themes may include various aspects of scientific and technological endeavors and advances (e.g., scientific experiments, sky and star trails, mobile communications, computing, medical and healthcare, etc.)

2) Stuff we eat/drink: Challenge themes may include: in your fridge, general food, breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, fruits, nuts, breads, drinks, etc.

3) Stuff we wear: Challenge themes may include: in your closet, shoes, shirts, pants/skirts, clothing accessories, etc.

4) Stuff we do: Challenge themes may include: work/office space, household chores, leisure, games, shopping, etc.

Will think more about this, and perhaps share some more specific suggestions later.

-K.

kentwaller

1. Overgrown (show nature reclaiming man-made)
2. trees
3. churches/chapels/cathedrals

ShootingStar

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I checked the list of themes already made. I don’t think I have something already done but if this is the case, sorry it was a mistake.<o:p></o:p>
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All sorts of bridges – real structural bridges, bridges between generations, bridges between cultures…<o:p></o:p>
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Clouds dream – remember when you were a kid and imagining shapes in clouds, take the time to stop and watch clouds, show us your best shots that show their beauty<o:p></o:p>
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Stuck – don’t be stuck with this theme, you’ll find a scene where something/someone is/seem stuck!<o:p></o:p>
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Parallelism – an element in the photo should show parallelism<o:p></o:p>
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What’s your job? – Share with us your day-to-day activity in one photo<o:p></o:p>
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Recycling garbage into art<o:p></o:p>
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Winning hand – snap a winning moment: sport, lottery, cards etc<o:p></o:p>
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The magic of electronics – open something and show us how magic it seems<o:p></o:p>
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Watching the music – make us hear the music just by looking at a picture<o:p></o:p>
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Looking forward to seeing others’ ideas.

I like the Overgrown one from Kentwaller

Claire

JAG

We are off to a great start! Awesome suggestions!

dnie

1. Patterns
2. In/From a Child's Eye (Looking at things the way a child would or from their point of view)
3. and one of my favorites that I still think about from past challenges, "Round #29 They're Playing Our Song"

kdotaylor

1.) MOVIE TITLE

2.) YUMMY! or narrow this down to BACON!

3.) HOLY PLACES

I'm sorry...I have three more:

brotherhood / sisterhood
musical instruments
seeing faces in inanimate objects

grandmaR

I haven't been here long enough to know what has been done before but

1) Illustrate a cliche - such as Where there's smoke there's fire. You can pick the cliche, or you can ask people to tell you which one they are doing. I think having everyone doing the same one would be more fun. And this one can be recycled.
2) Reflections that are NOT reflections in the water
3) Morning pictures (taken in the early morning). Everyone does sunsets - not so often do they do sunrises. Since you have the exif data, we can't cheat.

Geek

"Toys" - open to interpretation

"Motion Blur" - I'm sure it is done in many forms but I need to work on my moving object photography

"Editing" - Post two photos - before and after; showing how you improved it with post processing?



has HDR ever been done? We could end up with the ugliest batch of photos ever

ian408

Products: Sell us something in a photo.
My town: Show us something in your town.
Food: Let's see your restaurant meals. Smartphone pictures encourage.

Shearer

Music
Music
Music
Music

tinamarie52

Most of mine have been covered, but I like

product photography
peak action/winning moment
something to do with learning a new lighting technique...though I don't know what it would be
High Iso photography
sports and recreation

altho, this doesn't seem very innovative, I think that mixing in a simple object or color for the topic every now and then gives everyone a breather: trains, orange, glass bottles, pastel, books, etc.

Chris

Tango

• (round #44) Silhouettes, but in B&W only
• doorways
• time

JAG

Thank you all for great ideas! I am making the list for future challenges.

kwickers

pets specifically DOGS
fire and smoke
time exposures

sweetharmony

Some great ideas here!
Poetry -illustrate a poem or lyric with a photo (think we've probably done it before, but interesting things pop up as participants come and go)
Repetitive elements - an object or shape repeated in a frame
A year in history: the challenge would be to catch the feeling of a certain decade in history.....for instance, the theme might be 1925.
Broken
Fixed
Laughter
SOOC at an exact minute....for instance, all entrants must be taken at 6:37 pm.

rteest42

not even gonna try! There are SO many awesome thoughts here already, a lot I would love to try!

Geek

ooh.. how about tilt-shift?

it can be with a til-shift lens... with an uncoupled lens... or in post.

PedalGirl

Geek wrote: »

ooh.. how about tilt-shift?

it can be with a til-shift lens... with an uncoupled lens... or in post.

That's a good one!

WhatSheSaw

grandmaR wrote: »

I haven't been here long enough to know what has been done before but

1) Illustrate a cliche - such as Where there's smoke there's fire. You can pick the cliche, or you can ask people to tell you which one they are doing. I think having everyone doing the same one would be more fun. And this one can be recycled.
2) Reflections that are NOT reflections in the water
3) Morning pictures (taken in the early morning). Everyone does sunsets - not so often do they do sunrises. Since you have the exif data, we can't cheat.

I like the morning pictures idea. A good title might be First Light.

WhatSheSaw

I like words that have multiple meanings, like Present. It can mean a gift or now or make a presentation.

Or Invalid - a sick person (could be stretched to an animal) or untrue. I could see a Norman Rockwell style entry for this one.

Or words like Stick that can be both an action or a thing. A challenge title might be "Stick It".

Or Trying - could be troubled or attempting.

Or Missing - could be something missing from the frame, missing someone, an engine misfiring.

I also think it is good to mix up challenging abstract, conceptual themes with more concrete themes, like the current mini of Windows or Doors. I think the concrete themes are more likely to bring in first timers and expand the challenge community.

And I really enjoyed the Cliché theme from a couple of years ago. It really got ideas flowing. And the album cover SP theme. Along those lines, maybe one around making an advertisement for a place or product.

I also really liked the style/processing themes, like the Orton challenge, the Norman Rockwell Style challenge and the Frank Miller Style challenge.

billseye

WhatSheSaw wrote: »

I like the morning pictures idea. A good title might be First Light.

I remember a challenge from another (nameless) photo forum that required the shot to be taken between 4:00 - 5:00 a.m.

I like the "first light" idea MUCH better....

JAG

Ok, so now we have enough ideas for the rest of this year plus! Thank you all for your help!

Tango

somemore just incase....

• Broken or Fixed
• Mood
• Street Light/Lamp