Brainstorming for photo contests

[morea]

Ok folks, ideas for the next photo contest? Post them here! :p

[ikyut]

abstract or long esposure?

ikyut:cool:

[G-Man79]

How about shooting photos at our work place? Desks, bathrooms, lunch rooms, etc.

[keith1]

how about a nude self-portrait?

[Neballer]

lol @ keith.

How about "Your Neighborhood" - or "Da Hood" for all you old school players out there.

[cjoe]

Clothing, delicious clothing! - Dr Zoidberg. Ummm... food could be good.

[G-Man79]

lol @ keith.

How about "Your Neighborhood" - or "Da Hood" for all you old school players out there.

Neighborhood photos would be good. Mmmm...tractors and cars on cinder blocks. I think I might need to work some zoomage to capture the full scope of my hood...

[keith1]

So I guess it's unanimous, nude self-portrait it is!

[MD]

How about a photo scavenger hunt? You could make the rules kinda open ended - say "flowers" was on the list, It could be actual flowers, a photo of a Georgia O'Keefe painting, or the pattern on your paper towels.

[keith1]

Can someone tell me what is the final theme...?

ikyut:cool:


Nude self portrait. Just kidding.Yeah what is the final theme?

[morea]

some great ideas here, folks... it looks like "your neighborhood" has the most support at this point, we'll have to keep these ideas on the back burner for future contests.

Same rules as last time?

"Editing software may be used for usual processing (cropping, tonal and color adjustments, resizing), but no outside elements, objects, or images can be pasted, drawn or added into the original image. No elements, objects, or images can be cloned, cut out, or taken out of the original image other than what occurs from cropping."

[cjoe]

can you do an 'outside looking in' perspective?

[morea]

brainstorming for the next one:

wildlife
nature
textures
summer

[morea]

psst... it's more effective if other people post their ideas too...

[Eraser Nubbin]

What about a sexy photo, with no nudity or sex in it.

[chalsema]

I like the texture idea. Or maybe patterns...

[Neballer]

How about a specific color theme:
Purple
Orange
Green

[G-Man79]

how about favorite food?

[keith1]

I like the color theme, i think it could get very creative & interesting especially if we pick an uncommon color, like purple or orange. Not green because everyone will be taking pictures of trees & foliage unless we say nothing in nature.

[Kool]

How about extreme weather?

[Kool]

True, the only extreme weather we're having here is extreme heat and thats kind of hard to take a picture of. :D

I have this cool pic of a Navy ship going through two waterspouts that I took many years ago in the North Arabian Sea that I want to enter. LOL

[morea]

I thought "water" would be a neat idea too... it could be done so many different ways!

[Mynock]

how bout fall colors? sorry Floridians. It took me until like the fourth post to realize this was an old thread. I was like NOOO, we already did neighborhood. Then I looked at the date, DOH!

[Neballer]

I liked the textures/pattern idea posted earlier.

[Neuro]

I know I know! Shooting with the lens cap on?! Is that a good option because I think I could win this one. :P

[Drorain]

themes:

Why I'm thankful.

or

The Harvest (interpert as you like)

[Mynock]

Music would be a cool idea.

[Neballer]

How about great out of focus shots? I have some of those.
How about a depth of field assignment? ;)

[Neballer]

how about:
Silhouettes
Interiors
Contrast
Depth of Field
Odd Angles
Boobies

[morea]

neat ideas there, Neballer.

Here's one that just popped into my head... we could pick a short (3 or 4 letter) word, and everyone's photo would include those letters... for example:

"but" could yield butterfly, halibut, butter, etc.

[grfxboy]

How about some type of metal, shiny, rusted or painted doesnt matter as long as the subject is made of metal

[angerisagift]

...

Here's one that just popped into my head... we could pick a short (3 or 4 letter) word, and everyone's photo would include those letters... for example:

"but" could yield butterfly, halibut, butter, etc.

thats a pretty cool idea...you could get some pretty creative ones with that...a real diverse selection..

-sean

[vtwin_gary]

how about Backlighting?

[Mynock]

trees

[plasticboy]

Ah. Then how about minimalistic shots ?

[Broacher]

"Through the Windshield Glass: our daily commute and what we saw there"

[Anyone drive a white Rabbit?]

My guess is that even though at first glance, the results might look sorta the same, that the most engaging part as a 'collective' exhibition would be the subtle differences. In fact, at some scale, it might work a whole lot better if we DIDN'T try to go a spectacular 'designer' shot.

Man, I should apply for an Arts Council grant.

[balou]

I'll be the cliche one. April Showers bring May Flowers. How about April:Weather and May:Flora.

[willy_flew]

how about bugs:eek:

[cjoe]

skyscapes

[Neballer]

What do we have coming up for may?

flowers, farm girls, friends, family, fire

[beano]

How about night photography... I quite like the neighbourhood idea as well, although i'm a bit worried about being mugged and losing my new camera lol!

[morea]

we did neighborhood already. Here's the list of topics covered so far:

Self Portrait
Your Neighborhood
Water
Texture
Fall Colors
Depth of Field
Motion
Backlighting
Silhouettes
Weather

[morea]

May will be flora, and after that we can do bugs or birds or something.

[plasticboy]

architecture !

[JPnyc]

I still like favorite foods. I've seen some killer shots on megapixel with that subject.

[Tyger]

*psssst* Stay away from the Birds theme.... Tyger has an Eagle, no way we could compete with that! ;)


LOL! Birds would be great! I've had alot of practice :p

How about a......

-Summer Theme?
-A bugs life (macro type pics)
-Architecture
-Your City
-Product Photography (pick any product or item in your house, work, wherever and take a pic as if it will be in a magazine or ad. This may encourage people to be creative with composition, lighting etc.)

[vtwin_gary]

while looking through some of the past photography mo's train gave me the idea of

Panning:
Moving the camera so that the image of a moving object remains in the same relative position in the viewfinder as you take a picture.
it's a little more difficult than flowers but not everyone has one on there hard drive.

[Broacher]

How about, 'Scenes from a commuting life'.

I'd like to see what other people see on their way into work.

Even if that's just your neighbours backing out of their driveways for you stay-at-homers.

This morning I had a fawn stumble across the road about 50 feet in front of me. No camera around though. Or momma deer in sight. Gee, maybe it was Bambi!

[urstwile]

I can't participate (no digital camera, and I can't afford to develop film for projects), but I will suggest.

Someone on here recently posted a site where they had you print out a picture and take it with you everywhere you went and take a picture of you with the picture. On a similar note, a friend of mine at work a couple of years back went to France, surreptitiously "borrowed" a little Felix the Cat toy I had on my desk (I have a lot of toys on my desk so I didn't notice right off the bat), and photographed Felix in a bunch of different settings...in France. It was great. He e-mailed me the pictures while he was on his trip, and it was really fun.

So...you take your (fun desk toy, favorite hat, unique stapler, etc., etc.) and travel around with it and pose it in different situations wherever you're at.

[Craig B]

Wait, is it just me or did Mac.FINN jsut hit 1000 posts earlier today 9or was it late yesterday ... and now he's up to 1100??!

Mac ... you're part of the borg, aren't you ... admit it.

Um, so, uh .... photo contest ideas ... um ... "spam"? or how about, "perspective" (in the sense that the photo is taken to make small things appear much bigger than they are.)

It's a sad day when I quote the disclaimer on a car's sideview mirror.

[Jalan]

I've always been a fan of close-ups, plant life and small animal life.

[Neballer]

hot.
red.
naked.
new.
ducks.

[Red Kittie Kat]

Being summer

roses
beach scenes
Boats
Water sports ....... water skiing, jet ski

[Broacher]

I've got an idea: gray.

Why not? Let's get colourblind. November is good for that. Celebrate tonality. Think of the great black and white work that's been done in cinema, TV, print. It's out there. It can be a real challenge and a way to go beyond the distraction that colour throws at us.

[artistsdad]

for future consideration:

How about the earth one month, then wind, then fire.

Then segue into "Chicago" (anything associated with) and "Blood, Sweat and Tears" (any combination of the three)...

Hows about something really head-scratchy? "Air".

Maybe "interiors". Interior of what? Who knows--that's part of the appeal.

Bald? Hairy?

Vegetable? Fruit?--No, it's not the same as self portrait...

How about just "opposites"? Opposites in one picture...

Guess it depends how far out there this is supposed to be?

Ooooohh, I got one! How about "fried"? Think of the possiblities...

[Virgo Nightingale]

Perhaps the contest can be silliest cat, or weirdest place you found your cat. My avatar is my little girl just waking from a nap on my friend's carseat that he left at our house. Since I just put up the Christmas tree, that's her new place to nap (under it, not in it thankfully).

Edit: Okay, my avatar WAS my cat napping in a child seat...

[morea]

I just want to be careful not to exclude anybody... if we use "pets" that pretty well makes it wide open for anybody, right? Because it doesn't have to be your OWN pet...

[Drazan]

'tis the season

Could be religious, shopping, holiday lights, family, kids, pets and the decorations, or just the decorations, shopper punching out other shopper for the last ps3....

Something related to this holiday season.

:)
Jade

[Exodus]

I want to do something along the lines of City/Town Contrasts. What I mean by that is...

Take a picture of what makes the city/town you live in nice. Then, take a picture of what makes your city/town crap. Put the two pictures together side by side. This will illustrate the vast contrast of that particular city/town.

[artistsdad]

Well, since December is the end of the year--wait, what about the Chinese calendar--or is it only ritualistic and they use the same as everyone else day-to-day?--how about "endings"?

Seems to be open to lots of possiblities and a chance to use our noggins, since there was disappointment expressed with our literal interpritation of "gray".

Please note that the idea is "endINGS", not "ends":p --I shudder to think of the entries for "ends":rolleyes: ...

[Broacher]

In honour of New Year's, why not the theme 'resolutions'?

But I think we should add an additional limitation: all images must be no larger than 1 x 2 or 2 x 1 (pixels).

Who's in?

[morea]

how about "endings" OR "tis the season" for December
and "resolutions" for January.

after that, a lot of the other ideas will be useful. These are just a little more time-sensitive, as topics go.

Thoughts?

[morea]

it's that time again.

Here's what we've already done:

Self Portrait
Your Neighborhood
Water
Texture
Fall Colors
Depth of Field
Motion
Backlighting
Silhouettes
Weather
Flowers
Odd
Hot
Small
Gray
Tis the Season
Resolutions
Cold
Imperfection
Reflections
Angles
Journey


here are some unused ideas from this thread:
- perspective
- earth / wind / fire
- interiors
- wildlife
- color (purple, orange, green, golden)
- music
- food
- pets
- pick a short (3 or 4 letter) word, and everyone's photo would include those letters... for example: "but" could yield butterfly, halibut, butter, etc.


here are some new ideas:
- alone
- fresh
- stillness
- chaos
- full
- neglected
- night
- distorted
- plastic
- soft
- crowded
- domestic
- light / heavy
- joy
- zoom


other ideas are certainly welcome.

[budafist]

Joy

Anything that give you joy or someone else joy.

[Virgo Nightingale]

With my boyfriend being a musician, I got PLENTY of shots for music! :D

[MyST]

interiors

[Samakimoto Graphics]

Stiff
Light (as in weight)
Heavy as in weight)

[esu]

how about "my city space" ? I mean not shooting 360" around you ,standing in middle of the street, but what is the city for you, what are you stand face to face everyday, begining with touthbrush, same street you are going everyday, public transport, park you like to hangout, friends, sidewalk you rub every day, shoes you are wearing, your workspace and so on... I mean you private city, you space.. what about that?

I really don't know how everthing is going on here , how does the contest runs, where you publish photos and so on,, (A signed in only today) , but I think it would be interesting and closeup to publish your "city space"

[TriciaLynn]

How about zooming? Focus on a subject and zoom in or out on a slow shutter speed.

[morea]

thoughts for August? Can we get a consensus?

Here's what we've already done:

Self Portrait
Your Neighborhood
Water
Texture
Fall Colors
Depth of Field
Motion
Backlighting
Silhouettes
Weather
Flowers
Odd
Hot
Small
Gray
Tis the Season
Resolutions
Cold
Imperfection
Reflections
Angles
Journey
Full
Chaos


here are some unused ideas from this thread:
- perspective
- earth / wind / fire
- interiors
- wildlife
- color (purple, orange, green, golden)
- music
- food
- pets
- pick a short (3 or 4 letter) word, and everyone's photo would include those letters... for example: "but" could yield butterfly, halibut, butter, etc.


here are some new ideas:
- alone
- fresh
- stillness
- neglected
- night
- distorted
- plastic
- soft
- crowded
- domestic
- light / heavy
- joy
- zoom
- loud / quiet
-sweet / sour

[Two-Toe Tom]

could i add loud and/or quiet? i think it'd be an interesting challenge to try t capture a feeling of sound in a photo.

[morea]

sounds good, Tom. I added it to the list.

[Two-Toe Tom]

i am voting for either neglected or chaos, i think those would be fun to do.

[Tea]

Conformity.
Diet.
Danger.
Homeless.
1980's.
Jam.
Secret.
Greed.
Horror.
Magic.
Tattoo.
Waiting.
Crowded.
Call Me.
Time.
Girl Power.
Lost.

Oops.

That's enough for today.

[morea]

can we reach a consensus on August's theme?

[Two-Toe Tom]

i vote for trees that could pass for rocks :p

[Two-Toe Tom]

it's september! what's this month's theme gonna be? :D

[yarusskii]

'change'? =)

[Two-Toe Tom]

great suggestion yarusskii! :D

[JPnyc]

I have no idea which ones we've done already, but what about stopping motion?

[morea]

Here's what we've already done:

Self Portrait
Your Neighborhood
Water
Texture
Fall Colors
Depth of Field
Motion
Backlighting
Silhouettes
Weather
Flowers
Odd
Hot
Small
Gray
Tis the Season
Resolutions
Cold
Imperfection
Reflections
Angles
Journey
Full
Chaos
Change
Alone
Waiting
Delicate
Glass
Quiet

here are some unused ideas from this thread:
- perspective
- earth / wind / fire
- interiors
- wildlife
- color (purple, orange, green, golden)
- music
- food
- pets
- fresh
- stillness
- neglected
- night
- distorted
- plastic
- soft
- crowded
- domestic
- light / heavy
- joy
- zoom
- loud / quiet
- sweet / sour
- conformity
- diet
- danger
- jam
- secret
- greed
- horror
- magic
- crowded
- time
- lost
- pick a short (3 or 4 letter) word, and everyone's photo would include those letters... for example: "but" could yield butterfly, halibut, butter, etc.

Some new ideas:
- family
- architecture
- airborne
- old
- insignificant
- comfort
- smell / sound / taste / touch

[JPnyc]

I don't see sport listed, or is that too confining...
family comes to mind, also airborne, holidays, architecture... just a few off the top of my head.

[icekitty37]

ugly!

painted

fascination

architecture

[balou]

How about the other 4 senses?

taste
smell
hear
touch

[DesignerScott]

I like that idea balou. It's a good exercise in communicating an idea vs. an image. (If that makes sense.)

[JPnyc]

I'd still like to see sport as a category. Sports photography is a huge field.

[Mynock]

I'd still like to see sport as a category. Sports photography is a huge field.Yeah so you can post pictures of the NY Rangers :P

[JPnyc]

I have more'n just those :) If I went into photography, that's the type I'd like to do :D

[frankster]

"Jam" was a bit of a weird suggestion. If that flies then I suggest "bread" and "legs", but on a more serious note I'd offer up "falling" and "forgotten"

[icekitty37]

when does the vote thread get posted for march??

[Red Kittie Kat]

Patience young grasshopper lol ;)

It should be up soon. Mo is kinda swamped with work right now. I'm sure she will get it up as soon as she has a couple free minutes :)

[Neballer]

Cut off date for submitting photos will be April 6th.
So..probably sometime after that.

[artistsdad]

How about "the last generation"? Multiple interpretations spring to mind...

[garricks]

Lonely.

[Neballer]

no pants

[Red Kittie Kat]

:eek:


lmao Nebs ;)

[willy_flew]

no pants

I second no pants.

[Over Actor]

I have a list if any one is interested. I'll post them up later after work

[Virgo Nightingale]

distressed
tired
careful