Welcome to Mini-Challenge #167: Faces - Real and Imagined
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Howdy! The theme for Mini-Challenge #167 is: Faces - Real and Imagined
It seems that the face - human or otherwise - has captured the artistic imagination of people and cultures since the dawn of history.
Studies have shown that we are "hardwired" to get information about each other from what we see in faces.
This effect has led to the creation of many iconic, personally meaningful, and often compelling photographs of faces, both:
Real (direct capture) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_afghan_girl
and Imagined (capture of another's art-work) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Tut
So, please feel free to interpret this theme as you wish - no restrictions - but please keep a face(s) essential to the composition - something the image features, and somehow, cannot do without.
Thanks in advance for participating and I look forward to seeing your photos! Have Fun!
This challenge starts now and will close at 11:00 PM (Pacific Time) on Sunday, June 30, 2013. (Continuing the recent trend to shorten the time frame for the mini to about ten days instead of two weeks.)
OUR UN-OFFICIAL GENERAL RULES
1. Have fun sharing and seeing what others share!
2. The host supplies a topic and YOU POST 1-3 IMAGES. The host judges the winners (1st, 2nd and 3rd) and is not eligible to enter. The 1st place winner becomes the next host, chooses the next topic and becomes the next judge.
3. Any photo you’ve taken is eligible, regardless of when taken or camera used.
4. Any amount of post-processing is allowed. However, it is helpful if you list your camera and lens along with your photo.
5. You may comment on other contestant's images. If you want someone to leave you some critique or criticism, just ask within your post.
6. The winner has up to three days (72 hours) to begin a new mini-challenge, or the honor goes to the #2 finisher and so forth.
Guidelines:
1. Enter 1-3 photos and put them in a single post.
2. Either embed your image in the thread or, if you must, supply a link to it. Keep in mind, however, most people don't want to click to open photos hosted elsewhere (i.e. on your website).
3. Also try and resize your photos prior to posting so they're sized appropriately for viewing without having to scroll (~800 pixels on the longest side works best.)
4. Give each image you enter a title.
5. Enjoy discussion with members about their images, don't let this just be an entry thread!
6. When quoting a post, change the IMG urls to a 200x200 size picture so it is clear your post is feedback and not another entry. (See here for help).
7. Don't be hesitant; share 'em and enter!
Mini-Challenge pointers:
1. Upon winning a mini-challenge round, your first step is coming up with a new theme and starting a new thread using the same format as others have used.
2. Make sure to notify the admin of this thread to update the main thread links with your entry thread.
3. Feel free to watch the thread as it grows or wait to the end time and look at all the entries all at once.
4. After the time/date has passed, then officially close the thread with a single post notifying everyone of the fact.
5. After you're finished judging, start a new thread (again using the prior formats) and post your Winner and runners-up. It is important to have runners up in case the winner does not show within the 72-hour window.
6. PM the winner with this info above and let them know they have 72 hours to set up the next mini-challenge.
7. If the winner does not show/start the next mini-challenge after 72 hours, notify the next runner-up and post a message on the Winner thread of the fact.
8. Remember, if you're the Winner, you run the next mini challenge!
Some examples:
It seems that the face - human or otherwise - has captured the artistic imagination of people and cultures since the dawn of history.
Studies have shown that we are "hardwired" to get information about each other from what we see in faces.
This effect has led to the creation of many iconic, personally meaningful, and often compelling photographs of faces, both:
Real (direct capture) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_afghan_girl
and Imagined (capture of another's art-work) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_TutSo, please feel free to interpret this theme as you wish - no restrictions - but please keep a face(s) essential to the composition - something the image features, and somehow, cannot do without.
Thanks in advance for participating and I look forward to seeing your photos! Have Fun!
This challenge starts now and will close at 11:00 PM (Pacific Time) on Sunday, June 30, 2013. (Continuing the recent trend to shorten the time frame for the mini to about ten days instead of two weeks.)
OUR UN-OFFICIAL GENERAL RULES
1. Have fun sharing and seeing what others share!
2. The host supplies a topic and YOU POST 1-3 IMAGES. The host judges the winners (1st, 2nd and 3rd) and is not eligible to enter. The 1st place winner becomes the next host, chooses the next topic and becomes the next judge.
3. Any photo you’ve taken is eligible, regardless of when taken or camera used.
4. Any amount of post-processing is allowed. However, it is helpful if you list your camera and lens along with your photo.
5. You may comment on other contestant's images. If you want someone to leave you some critique or criticism, just ask within your post.
6. The winner has up to three days (72 hours) to begin a new mini-challenge, or the honor goes to the #2 finisher and so forth.
Guidelines:
1. Enter 1-3 photos and put them in a single post.
2. Either embed your image in the thread or, if you must, supply a link to it. Keep in mind, however, most people don't want to click to open photos hosted elsewhere (i.e. on your website).
3. Also try and resize your photos prior to posting so they're sized appropriately for viewing without having to scroll (~800 pixels on the longest side works best.)
4. Give each image you enter a title.
5. Enjoy discussion with members about their images, don't let this just be an entry thread!
6. When quoting a post, change the IMG urls to a 200x200 size picture so it is clear your post is feedback and not another entry. (See here for help).
7. Don't be hesitant; share 'em and enter!
Mini-Challenge pointers:
1. Upon winning a mini-challenge round, your first step is coming up with a new theme and starting a new thread using the same format as others have used.
2. Make sure to notify the admin of this thread to update the main thread links with your entry thread.
3. Feel free to watch the thread as it grows or wait to the end time and look at all the entries all at once.
4. After the time/date has passed, then officially close the thread with a single post notifying everyone of the fact.
5. After you're finished judging, start a new thread (again using the prior formats) and post your Winner and runners-up. It is important to have runners up in case the winner does not show within the 72-hour window.
6. PM the winner with this info above and let them know they have 72 hours to set up the next mini-challenge.
7. If the winner does not show/start the next mini-challenge after 72 hours, notify the next runner-up and post a message on the Winner thread of the fact.
8. Remember, if you're the Winner, you run the next mini challenge!
Some examples:
Eric ~ Smugmug
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One of these days I'll have to figure out what my "style" is..
1) Very Concrete Faux Rock Face
2) Faces in the ice!
3) Tree Sea Horse, Smoking?
Don
'I was older then, I'm younger than that now' ....
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2 I Can't Hear You
3 Painter of Faces
#1 Girl with the Amazing Lashes
#2 The Look of Love
#3 Young Kate
www.katetaylor.smugmug.com
"You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." Mark Twain
2. Frozen
3. What are you looking at?
http://snaptx.smugmug.com/
Light is everything in life and photography.
masquerade 1
stilt dancer
masquerade 2
I am thinking about eating a flower!
I should be a model.
White Kitty.
#2
#3
http://lrichters.smugmug.com
It's only the second day, and there are so many wonderful images and diverse interpretations submitted
that - as the current "Baton Carrier" - I'm experiencing the old adage; "Be careful what you wish for - you might just get it" :-)
I'm not complaining, because I love looking at (your) photographs - just feeling the onset of the terror (often expressed by those before me) of knowing I'll have to pick favorites.
It's quite a happy problem though, so, please keep 'em coming!
1. Hungry Face
2. Cake Face
3. Stone Face
www.lisaspeakmanphotography.com
“PHOTOGRAPHY IS THE ‘JAZZ’ FOR THE EYES…”
http://jwear.smugmug.com/
“PHOTOGRAPHY IS THE ‘JAZZ’ FOR THE EYES…”
http://jwear.smugmug.com/
“PHOTOGRAPHY IS THE ‘JAZZ’ FOR THE EYES…”
http://jwear.smugmug.com/
Sorry but I have do enter 3 separate photos.
Market Trader
Market Trader.jpg
1) Puma
2) Tough Childhood
3) African Buffalo
Good luck everyone.
Alan.
PS - Changed my mind and put a person in.
Not very good with people shots either...
Here are my entries
1. So tired to be followed by those paparazzi
2. Peekaboo!
3. Why didn't I choose the chocolate one?
Claire
Travel Blog English: http://www.zigzagonearth.com
Travel Blog French: http://zigzagvoyages.fr
Infoproduct Creation Blog : https://structurinfo.com
http://lrichters.smugmug.com
Thanks Linda, much appreciated.
I've decided to at least try and put something human in so will probably swap out one or both of the other shots ... I'll let the Buffalo run though (so to speak).
Alan.
#1. Obvious message
I don't read Russian, but I'll hazard a guess that this is an anti-smoking message. Ya Think???
This is a picture of a poster I saw in a shop in Baikonur. The shop sold--you guessed it--cigarettes.
2. Revenge will be mine
Skitz isn't happy about this forced modeling gig...
3. Le Nain Jaune
A bar with live music in Toulouse.
Maybe I should crop it to just show the mural, or maybe the mural and the blue door, but what little context remains after I corrected perspective would be gone. Any thoughts?
Here are my 3:
1. Laro-owin, Panamanian, Kuna Yala girl
2. Mayan face - Tulum archeological site
3. The art of arranging furniture - Dali Museum, Figueres, Spain
TravelwaysPhotos.com ...... Facebook
VegasGreatAttractions.com
Travelways.com
Check out billseye photos on SmugMug
http://tonycooper.smugmug.com/
1. Baker
2. Zombies
3. Thoughtful
Taken summer of last year. I have always liked this image and decided to share for this mini challenge.
Canon 60D/50mm 1.4
2. Freshface
3. Furface
my facebook page:http://www.facebook.com/pages/Zoomnphotography/172598842787303
"Josie"
"The Scot"
"Scotland the Brave"
Lauren Blackwell
www.redleashphoto.com