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02/09/2009 09:14:29 PM · #1 |
Challenge:The Brightest Spot
Description:Take a photo by making your focus on the brightest available spot within your frame.
The strong contrast resulting from this will have to underline a strong subject/content as well.
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The idea is based on a Flickr group I enjoy called the Brightest Spot and and you can see its most popular images on FlickRiver. This is a very effective way to make a dynamic image.
You can also see some images from DPC in this side challenge I started that died a slow death, The Brightest Spot and Reflected Light Images. |
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02/09/2009 09:40:49 PM · #2 |
I clicked on your FlickRiver link, I've never seen so many Posthumous Ribbons in one place!
Could you explain this better? Do you mean expose for the brightest spot, or simply to make the bright parts the focal point? |
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02/09/2009 10:12:38 PM · #3 |
If the idea fly's, keep it a natural light Challenge.
There's clear poetry in the randomness of where the light falls and how the main subject is by chance in "the brightest spot".
For me that's what gives those images impact. Set-ups would be gross and an easy way out.
Message edited by author 2009-02-09 22:14:36. |
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02/09/2009 11:52:04 PM · #4 |
Originally posted by pawdrix:
Set-ups would be gross and an easy way out. |
so, score them low. It's possible to do this right with a set up. See the FlickRiver link for examples. |
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02/10/2009 07:13:42 AM · #5 |
I looked at the FlickRiver page amd saw maybe 5 set-ups out of the lot which I didn't notice before. I thought the charm and skill was in the spontaneity but I suppose you could pose someone in a breaking shaft of light and it will work.
My guess is that a set-up will be easy to produce, perfect and wow people with. A sure way to the front page...with a sexy model per se, where I think the essence of the style is in the purer images. It takes a keen, skilled eye where the photographer has to be really tuned in to his/her surrounding to get a good image. I personally, don't see or notice those images when I walk around, where guys like nixter or boysetsfire (for those who remember him) do. It's quite different and that's the stuff we're talking about, right?
 
It's a unique way of looking, which is very cool. Forget my vote. I don't matter in that regard but if you want to see the same models, styling and stuff on the front page, I'm sure it can and will be pulled off, no doubt in my mind. Wouldn't it be great if a waterdrop won?
My cents.
Message edited by author 2009-02-10 16:44:48. |
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02/10/2009 08:47:15 AM · #6 |
Here's a shameless self plug... My highest scoring entry:
Edit to spell.
Message edited by author 2009-02-10 08:47:46. |
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02/10/2009 09:19:55 AM · #7 |
I love those. Thanks for sharing. I was trying to do something similar on Sunday:
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10/21/2009 01:20:00 AM · #8 |
I think this would still be a good challenge, bump for langdon to see. :)
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