5 Day Black & White Challenge

BackdoorArts

Senior Member
Note - Change in rules effective immediately - Only Nominate One Person

OK, there's this thing going around on Facebook where photographers are challenging someone to post a B&W picture every day for 5 days. The idea is that most of us almost never think to shoot in B&W, and it's a medium that forces us to consider different things than normal so that we wind up with a photo that is visually appealing.

I don't have many photographer friends on Facebook mainly because my circle of friends there consists of people I am personally connected with in some way other than purely virtual, so I've decided to bring that idea here.

I will be posting a new B&W photo every day for the next 5 days. I'm supposed to nominate someone each day to participate. The FB thing is very unclear in that it seems that photographers can post from back catalogs and whatnot, so it's more to promote B&W shooting than actually do it. But I'd like to change that here. I will post a new B&W shot here every day for the next 5 days, and at least 2 of those will be purposefully shot for this challenge. The others, if not also shot within the 5 days, will be shots from my catalog of shots that I have never processed before, or at least not processed in B&W. The idea being I am going to take the time to process a new B&W image each of the next 5 days.

I do not want to force anyone to participate, so I'll make this semi-voluntary. When you post your first image, nominate 1 person not currently posting who have posted likes to photos in the last 5 days - then you're done with nominations. The new nominee begins the challenge the next day. Now given that this is the first day, and I don't necessarily want folks to have to wait for 24 hours, I've decided to be fair and choose the two people with the current highest "Activity" scores on the forum, figuring if they're posting here constantly then they (a) should be out shooting more, (b) are posting because they have stuff to post and therefore likely have shots to work with, and/or (c) care about this place enough that they won't say, "Screw it, I'm not playing". So, my nominees are @J-see and @mikew.

If you Like one of the images posted from this point on it's like raising your hand in class, so the next set of nominees will use those likes to determine who they are nominating to begin participating the next day.

And when we're done with our 5 days I see no reason we can't "get back in line" and volunteer for another go if we're having fun. Just try and pull someone in who hasn't been doing it for at least a couple days before sucking someone back in.

B&W Challenge - Day 1
: Recharging

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mikew_RIP

Senior Member
I accept your challenge,one B/W each day for the next five days,are we using this thread to keep them together
Wish i had bought NIK now i keep finding other things i need/want :D
 

BackdoorArts

Senior Member
Am i understanding this right,at the end of my 5 days @siamthai1 takes over from me and although i clicked like first on @J-see we would expect @paul04 to take over from him.

Yeah, I wasn't really clear, and got it a little garbled. Technically what you're supposed to do is nominate 2 people with your first post, and then you're done. I was going to nominate 2 people each day to try and keep that going, but with more and more people joining each day it seems that we'll run out of people in short order.

So let's do it this way...

RULE UPDATE!!!!!!

When you post your first image, nominate 2 people not currently posting who have posted likes to photos in the last 5 days - then you're done with nominations. You can pick any two, either the first two likes or whatever. New nominees begin the challenge the next day.

What I'm hoping to do in order to keep this going is to have new nominees wait until the following day to begin posting so it continues on instead of having 20 of us post for 5 days and we're done.

So since both you and J-see posted today, you can both nominate 2 people from among the likes you've received (or me) and those folks will begin tomorrow.
 

J-see

Senior Member
I'm getting confused. I still need to post a B&W the next 4 days?

I'll have to nominate two so I'll continue the "active" trend; [FONT=\]Marilynne and paul04.

I have no idea how to do the "mention" so I hope both notice.[/FONT]
 

paul04

Senior Member
I'm getting confused. I still need to post a B&W the next 4 days?

I'll have to nominate two so I'll continue the "active" trend; Marilynne and paul04.

I have no idea how to do the "mention" so I hope both notice.

Do we then take over in 4 days time, still with the black and white theme??
 

Marilynne

Administrator
Staff member
Super Mod
I'm getting confused. I still need to post a B&W the next 4 days?

I'll have to nominate two so I'll continue the "active" trend; [FONT=\]Marilynne and paul04.

I have no idea how to do the "mention" so I hope both notice.[/FONT]

For a mention, just add @ in front of the handle - @J-see.

If I understand the new rules, I think you still have to add a shot for the next four days and I believe @paul04 and I start tomorrow.
 

BackdoorArts

Senior Member
It's not complicated. 3 step process:

1. When you like a photo you are declaring yourself eligible for nomination.
2. When you are nominated you are responsible for posting a B&W photo for the next 5 days, starting with the day after you are nominated.
3. When you post your first photo you will also nominate 2 new people to participate. These people will be from among those who have Liked any photo in the last 5 days, and who are not already nominated.

If for some reason the same person is nominated by multiple people (please check first to see if anyone was nominated by anyone yet before posting) we won't worry about it - it'll all work out eventually. If we get this going perfectly then by the end of 5 days we'll have close to 30 people participating, so we may need to throttle back to nominating only 1 person if we run out of folks.
 
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