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
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.
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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