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06/29/2020 01:50:44 PM · #1
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Can be standard or expert editing.
06/29/2020 02:18:26 PM · #2
Will a totally black photo work?

06/29/2020 02:30:28 PM · #3
Make it an open challenge.
06/29/2020 02:33:35 PM · #4
Originally posted by Lydia:

Will a totally black photo work?

If that's what you see.

If this is done in Extended I expect some people will interpret the word "see" metaphorically, and not just the result of photons triggering reactions in the visual cortex ...
06/29/2020 03:56:48 PM · #5
Good one.
06/29/2020 05:52:39 PM · #6
Originally posted by Lydia:

Will a totally black photo work?
I'll allow it.
06/29/2020 06:23:23 PM · #7
Originally posted by GeneralE:

Originally posted by Lydia:

Will a totally black photo work?

If that's what you see.

If this is done in Extended I expect some people will interpret the word "see" metaphorically, and not just the result of photons triggering reactions in the visual cortex ...

Yep. Kind of like a "Dream's" challenge.
06/29/2020 06:42:58 PM · #8
Originally posted by GeneralE:



If this is done in Extended I expect some people will interpret the word "see" metaphorically, and not just the result of photons triggering reactions in the visual cortex ...


So could the edit for this read EITHER standard or expert? I know that Expert rules allow standard edit, but some voters don't view it that way.
And for this particular challenge, standard and expert edited images could each be very interesting.
06/29/2020 08:12:09 PM · #9
Originally posted by glad2badad:

Originally posted by GeneralE:

Originally posted by Lydia:

Will a totally black photo work?

If that's what you see.

If this is done in Extended I expect some people will interpret the word "see" metaphorically, and not just the result of photons triggering reactions in the visual cortex ...

Yep. Kind of like a "Dream's" challenge.


Dream’s what?

I’m confused.

Seriously. What’s this about?
06/29/2020 08:37:15 PM · #10
Can we do this in archival? Extended editing.
06/29/2020 09:14:45 PM · #11
Originally posted by Lydia:

Seriously. What’s this about?

Very few people can really "not think of anything" and most people, when they do think of something with their eyes closed, see "pictures" and not text on a page. Take a picture which represents something you "see" when you close your eyes.

Or, make an image of what your retinas tell your brain -- I believe it's typically a mottled purplish color, but I imagine this is mightily affected by your skin color, blood vessel density, eyelid thickness, color and brightness of ambient light, etc.

Or, if you can achieve a perfect meditative state in sensory-deprivation tank submit a totally black frame, though that sounds like an expensive pain in the you-know-what just for a DPC entry ... :-)
06/29/2020 09:25:09 PM · #12
Basically, it's a free study. No problem. Shoot something and slap a title on it that fits your "vision". Easy peasy. :-)
06/29/2020 09:55:59 PM · #13
Originally posted by Lydia:


I’m confused.

Seriously. What’s this about?


That's how I feel when I see Pencils and Erasers VI

so we're even
06/29/2020 10:45:40 PM · #14
I see TROUBLE1
06/29/2020 10:59:03 PM · #15
Originally posted by tnun:

I see TROUBLE1

Right here in River City ...

06/29/2020 11:53:25 PM · #16
Originally posted by Neat:

Can we do this in archival? Extended editing.

No. This one's perfect for ad hoc creativity.
06/30/2020 12:02:44 AM · #17
Originally posted by GeneralE:

Originally posted by tnun:

I see TROUBLE1

Right here in River City ...



folks...

06/30/2020 08:48:37 AM · #18
Originally posted by Bear_Music:

... ad hoc creativity.

WHAT IS THIS ????! Something like toss your camera in the air and use remote to take photos before it hits the ground?
06/30/2020 10:39:04 AM · #19
Originally posted by glad2badad:

Originally posted by GeneralE:

Originally posted by Lydia:

Will a totally black photo work?

If that's what you see.

If this is done in Extended I expect some people will interpret the word "see" metaphorically, and not just the result of photons triggering reactions in the visual cortex ...

Yep. Kind of like a "Dream's" challenge.


No- no- no- no------------, last night my dream was a person cutting off half their skull then filling it with their own brains and eating them and then I was on a date with Joe Biden look alike in Thailand and all the restaurants where closed at 8pm, then he attempted to kiss me,,,,,,,,,,,so nooooooooooooooooo. =P
06/30/2020 11:45:02 AM · #20
This thread reminded me of an exercise I participated in here years ago (2005). It was related to the book "Photography and the Art of Seeing" by Freeman Patterson.

Here's the original thread that jump started it, and some of the follow-up discussion. Even more fun is it led me to something I'd totally forgotten I had out there, and it's still waiting for me to add to it. :-)
06/30/2020 03:24:50 PM · #21
Originally posted by marnet:

Originally posted by Bear_Music:

... ad hoc creativity.

WHAT IS THIS ????! Something like toss your camera in the air and use remote to take photos before it hits the ground?


I'd love to see you at an ad hoc committee meeting
06/30/2020 03:50:22 PM · #22
Originally posted by Bear_Music:

... perfect for ad hoc creativity.

and if you think that's like ham hoc creativity you're bacon a big misteak
06/30/2020 04:45:46 PM · #23
Originally posted by skewsme:

Originally posted by Bear_Music:

... perfect for ad hoc creativity.

and if you think that's like ham hoc creativity you're bacon a big misteak

And when you attend an ad hoc meating you have to butcher money where you mouth is ...
06/30/2020 04:56:05 PM · #24
Originally posted by GeneralE:

Originally posted by skewsme:

Originally posted by Bear_Music:

... perfect for ad hoc creativity.

and if you think that's like ham hoc creativity you're bacon a big misteak

And when you attend an ad hoc meating you have to butcher money where you mouth is ...

and therefore I yam :-)
06/30/2020 05:51:12 PM · #25
Corollary challenge -- What do you want to see when you open them again?
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