One Week, and Anything Goes….. Or Photography, My Art – Week 3

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The idea of this challenge is to not only test your technical ability and your ability to ‘see a picture’, but also to develop your imagination in creating a piece of artwork, and to encourage lateral thinking. Please note, that a straight picture can be just as pleasing artistically as a highly manipulated one, so this challenge should be open to straight and manipulated images, and judged on their artistic merit


  1. You have exactly 1 week to come up with an idea, photograph it and submit it. Start date Monday – Judging to be some time between Sunday Night and Monday morning. Then the new subject to be posted some time on the Monday.
  2. Entries should be new images, and not ones that have previously been seen on TP (Unless the image has been significantly altered in some way by PP which makes it a new image.)
  3. Any and all photographic technique at your disposal is allowable to create your image. Judging should be based on the final image, regardless of the technicalities of how the image was created.
  4. Images can be posted at any time during the week up until a cut off time determined by the judge on Sunday evening.
  5. Winner to choose a title for the next challenge and judge it at the end of their week.
  6. Titles and Subjects can be interpreted however the photographer sees fit, thinking both inside and outside the box should be encouraged. (If you feel that your image could be misinterpreted as not being relevant, a short accompanying explanation note is permissible/encouraged.)

This Weeks Challenge

LIGHT

A nice open subject - painting with light, fading light, strobe light, light as a feather, strike a light, headlight - your call - after all - where would we be as photographers without it?

Lets see what you can come up with.

Jump in as soon as you like - cut off time about 9pm on Sunday 12th July Judging to take place some time Sunday night, with result posted asap after.

Good luck everyone, and here's hoping for a few more entrants.



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Prior Subjects...
Week 1 title - FALLING.
Week 2 title - CHAIN.
 
I couldn't make Le Mans this year, but still managed a little bit of late night racing action...

 
I'm really struggling with time again this week. I'm going to try my hardest to get something done for this challenge, but will apologize now if I don't make it in time.
 
I've been intending to photograph this bridge in Newbury for ages... I think about it every time I see it, so this subject gave me the excuse to make my way down town at midnight last night.


bridge2.jpg


Bridge-smll.jpg
 
Does the above bridge photo class as HDR?

I don't have any HDR software, but did the following processing on Photoshop LE.

I bracketted the shots at 1, 2 and 4 seconds, then layered all together. the blocked in shadow areas were retrieved in the 4 second shot, and the bleached out areas come from the 2 sec image. All layers were then blended and erased as neccesary.

The close up shot has been sharpened quite a bit, but no other processing has been done.
 
Gentle reminder - you've all day today and until 9:00 pm tonight to get something in for this week. (Yes - 9pm - i've a busy day of watching LeTour and a friends birthday Barbecue booked, so i'll be judging après une bière ou quatre ;) )
 
What a choice - 2 images of Ferrari's and 2 of Bridges... :lol:

Okay, here goes...

in :3rd: place
Light3.jpg


Brought back happy memories of post-pub slot racing sessions at a mates house back in my dim-and-distant. Not to mention shades of that Santander advert with that Hamilton chappie.

in :2nd: place
Bridge-smll.jpg


Loved the colours and reflections of the bridge in the water. Shame it was a trifle noisy, but i'd imagine the exposure would have been a bit long at 100 iso... Still - definitely a strong image.

which leaves our winner today...

:1st: goes to Kiwi Jaz with
20090704-IMG_2773.jpg


I liked this for a number of reasons - first it fit the subject in more than one interpretation - the straight out one - it's a headlight, and the slightly deeper way - the light reflecting from all the curved surfaces... Plus the slight vignette focusing attention into the lighter centre of the image. It would even qualify as a self-portrait ;)

Right - that's enough arty-farty waffle from me... Over to you Jaz..

Now - where's my bière... :lol:
 
Well done Kiwi Jaz on a well thought out and executed picture.:thumbs:

Hopefully this anything goes challenge will gradually pick up more entries, and with your excellent LINES title, I can see loads of potential. :clap:
 
Thanks for that CrazyJay. Would be good to get more entries eh.
PS Loved the fantastic range of colours in your entry.
 
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