*** post your suggestions for future challenges here ***

AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
edited February 25, 2007 in The Dgrin Challenges
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
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  • miketaylor01miketaylor01 Registered Users Posts: 318 Major grins
    edited 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.
    Mike

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  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited 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? rolleyes1.gif :roll


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  • miketaylor01miketaylor01 Registered Users Posts: 318 Major grins
    edited October 17, 2004
    Thats the trick huh... good reason to do this challenge
    Mike

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  • writer50writer50 Registered Users Posts: 2 Beginner grinner
    edited October 17, 2004
    what kind of challenge?
    what challenge are you refering to?
  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited 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.
    Sid.
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  • Head in the CloudsHead in the Clouds Registered Users Posts: 376 Major grins
    edited 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)
    headscratch.gif .......
    just some ideas.ne_nau.gif
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  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited 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
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  • cowgirl21cowgirl21 Registered Users Posts: 56 Big grins
    edited October 29, 2004
    I like the idea of NO Editing! Including cropping. thumb.gif
  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,937 moderator
    edited 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.
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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited 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

    :D
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  • Ben:::DBen:::D Registered Users Posts: 76 Big grins
    edited 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.
    ne_nau.gif
  • lambadlambad Registered Users Posts: 43 Big grins
    edited 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?ne_nau.gif
  • gussiegussie Registered Users Posts: 21 Big grins
    edited November 2, 2004
    False Face - finding facial personalities via abstraction of found imagery
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  • gussiegussie Registered Users Posts: 21 Big grins
    edited November 2, 2004
    Like this:
    [IMG][/img]http://gilmore.smugmug.com/photos/9072985-M.jpg
    "The man who cannot imagine a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot."
    Andre Breton
  • gussiegussie Registered Users Posts: 21 Big grins
    edited November 2, 2004
    Oh well, the noob gives up! Y'all get the idea....
    "The man who cannot imagine a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot."
    Andre Breton
  • landrumlandrum Registered Users Posts: 285 Major grins
    edited November 14, 2004
    How about "Body Parts"? Close-ups of feet, hands, cropped faces?
    Laurie :smooch

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  • webwizardwebwizard Registered Users Posts: 73 Big grins
    edited November 14, 2004
    Water
    Technology
    Competition
    Weather
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  • happysnapperhappysnapper Registered Users Posts: 224 Major grins
    edited November 15, 2004
    Portraits is a goer for me too.... good suggestion Mike!

    Yvette
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  • wingerwinger Registered Users Posts: 694 Major grins
    edited 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_PhotaleFemme_Photale Registered Users Posts: 24 Big grins
    edited 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!!
    There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs. ~Ansel Adams
  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited December 12, 2004
    How about 'fear'..always interesting to see how emotions are interpreted
  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited December 18, 2004
    Portraits 2
    thumb.gif 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
    After all is said and done, it is the sweet tea.
  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited December 18, 2004
    Humungus wrote:
    How about 'fear'..always interesting to see how emotions are interpreted

    'gus

    i'm leaning towards "fire" lol3.gif
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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited December 18, 2004
    ginger_55 wrote:
    thumb.gif 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?
    Andy

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  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited December 18, 2004
    andy wrote:
    'gus

    i'm leaning towards "fire" lol3.gif
    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.
  • judyfuessjudyfuess Registered Users Posts: 259 Major grins
    edited December 30, 2004
    Though these may be too simple, how about Flowers?
  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,937 moderator
    edited 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
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  • luckyrweluckyrwe Registered Users Posts: 952 Major grins
    edited 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.
  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited 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?
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  • fishfish Registered Users Posts: 2,950 Major grins
    edited December 30, 2004
    Here's a suggestion:


    Meat. deal.gif
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