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04/16/2004 05:23:09 PM · #1 |
This one confuses me. How is it possible to stumble upon a discovery, on accident, and record it? You could take any kind of picture basically, and use it as Serendipity. Argh! I have an idea, but not too sure it would work. blah!
Anyone have any ideas they can share?
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04/16/2004 05:25:02 PM · #2 |
I think anything that looks planned will score poorly.
Look for a lot of macro coin shots with insects crawling over them |
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04/16/2004 05:55:15 PM · #3 |
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
--A. A. Milne (1882 - 1956)
Message edited by author 2004-04-16 17:55:47. |
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04/16/2004 06:17:55 PM · #4 |
| I posted some ideas in this thread. |
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04/16/2004 06:36:04 PM · #5 |
Originally posted by scalvert:
I posted some ideas in this thread. |
lol Shannon.... now tell me where to find Bigfoot! |
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04/16/2004 06:39:30 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by garrywhite2:
lol Shannon.... now tell me where to find Bigfoot! |
Los Angeles. I think he plays for the Lakers. |
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04/16/2004 06:43:06 PM · #7 |
Actually, as John Setzler hinted in that thread, Serendipty might not be the classic definition I was thinking of. For photographic purposes, serendipity would include spotting something great in your image that you hadn't noticed when you shot itor a surprise intruder like this one...
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04/16/2004 07:21:04 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by scalvert:
Actually, as John Setzler hinted in that thread, Serendipty might not be the classic definition I was thinking of. For photographic purposes, serendipity would include spotting something great in your image that you hadn't noticed when you shot itor a surprise intruder like this one...
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Yes, but that's not what Kavey said she meant when she wrote the challenge (I am quoting this from the other thread):
Originally posted by Kavey:
John that's not how I read the description (nor how I intended it when I wrote it) - for me the idea is to REPRESENT serendipity rather than submit an image of which the taking was serendipitous...
Shrug... |
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04/16/2004 07:47:16 PM · #9 |
Nor is that picture easy to replicate...
I am hoping to be surprised when looking at the entries, but I still think 90 percent of the photos will look staged and not real. |
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04/16/2004 08:04:19 PM · #10 |
Originally posted by garrywhite2:
Nor is that picture easy to replicate...
I am hoping to be surprised when looking at the entries, but I still think 90 percent of the photos will look staged and not real. |
Thats why I dont think I want to enter, because really its hard to capture something "by discovery"
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04/16/2004 08:08:07 PM · #11 |
It may not be what Kavey had in mind, but I think John Setzler's idea of what serendipity means is the closest anyone has got.
I'm not really convinced one can go out looking for serendipity for a challenge - this is one where one really would be better off going back through old photos. I doubt I'll be entering either.
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04/16/2004 08:52:21 PM · #12 |
i would consider this shot to fit the Serendipity challenge
then again, it may be more of, what we here in Louisiana call, lagniappe (pronounced lan-yap )...an unexpected gift; something extra.
regardless, it's one of those once in a lifetime shots that i'll never be able to duplicate...sigh. :)
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04/16/2004 08:55:25 PM · #13 |
| it took me a minute but now I see it-- little bugger is camo'd good! |
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04/16/2004 08:56:22 PM · #14 |
Originally posted by sher9204:
i would consider this shot to fit the Serendipity challenge
then again, it may be more of, what we here in Louisiana call, lagniappe (pronounced lan-yap )...an unexpected gift; something extra.
regardless, it's one of those once in a lifetime shots that i'll never be able to duplicate...sigh. :) |
Very nice. However, in the speed of voting, I bet half the voters would not even notice the "gift" |
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04/16/2004 09:02:57 PM · #15 |
| It took me awhile to find the visitor but when I did I could even see it well in the thumbnail. Great shot! |
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04/16/2004 09:16:15 PM · #16 |
| Exactly what I was thinking, Sher. Nice shot- and tough to replicate in a week without staging it. This is a Challenge that will get a wide range of scores with a low average. Even those that 'get' the concept may breeze through the photos and not notice the surprise. |
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04/17/2004 08:42:29 PM · #17 |
It's funny, really. This was the challenge I thought I didn't stand a chance of entering, yet a day later I'm sitting with a series of pictures, struggling to choose one to enter. I'm not sure how people would vote on them, but they are photos I'm unlikely to ever get a chance to repeat, so to me they fit the challenge.
Now if I could just come up with a Silhouette shot that I like...
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04/17/2004 10:08:57 PM · #18 |
My dad had an idea but I wasn't able to carry it out... I don't have anyone to help play my subject! Anyway.. it was a person standing in a long line to a baseball game or movie theater, a box of cracker jacks in their hands, pulling out a ticket to a movie or baseball game. If only cracker jack prizes were that good!
Better yet, if a "sold out" sign were up, I suppose, though that's pushing it a bit. Anyway. That was the idea. I thought it was cute. |
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04/17/2004 10:27:34 PM · #19 |
The crackerjack idea sounds like a good one... somewhere in between serendipity and coincidence. Here's another photographic example:
 With a tighter crop, the mosquito would be the unintended discovery. |
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04/18/2004 05:18:16 AM · #20 |
Originally posted by nshapiro:
Originally posted by scalvert:
Actually, as John Setzler hinted in that thread, Serendipty might not be the classic definition I was thinking of. For photographic purposes, serendipity would include spotting something great in your image that you hadn't noticed when you shot itor a surprise intruder like this one...
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Yes, but that's not what Kavey said she meant when she wrote the challenge (I am quoting this from the other thread):
Originally posted by Kavey:
John that's not how I read the description (nor how I intended it when I wrote it) - for me the idea is to REPRESENT serendipity rather than submit an image of which the taking was serendipitous...
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What I was trying to say was that to me it was about creating an image that represented serendipity (hence the word represent included in the description) rather than the unlikely event that something serendipitous would actually happen during the week and could be recorded by the camera.
BUT IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT I MEANT ANYWAY - I'M JUST ONE VOTER AMONGST ALL THE REST AND MY INTENDED INTERPRETATION HOLDS (QUITE RIGHTLY) NO SWAY WHATSOEVER.
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04/18/2004 07:19:40 AM · #21 |
Another idea I was going to submit (I found something better):
A photo of a Cornflakes bowl with a winning ticket in it. I was going to make a ticket that said "You won a NEW Canon 300D".
Now - whether this makes a nice photo is another question...
To get a winning ticket or amoulette etc. in a Cornflakes box when you actually bought it for food (not a chance to win) is considered serendipity.
Message edited by author 2004-04-18 07:20:13. |
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04/18/2004 07:53:03 AM · #22 |
Would twins be considered serendipitous?
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