Weekly Photo Challenge Jan 1st - Jan 7th "Your first photo of 2025"

Needa

Senior Member
Challenge Team
"Your first photo of 2025" – nikonbill's Choice


Subject: Your first photo of 2025" (does not have to be the first one you take) Essentially an open challenge, with your own twist. Whatever you like to photograph, the way you like to show it.

Added note from nikonbill:
Lets start the new year with lots of submissions, if you might be watching the weekly challenge and are hesitant to enter please jump in (remember any style or subject). Since this challenge opens at the start of 2025 lets kick it off in style.

Let's see how creative you can be! Color, B&W, HDR...anything goes!



DO NOT SHOOT OR POST IMAGES UNTIL WEDNESDAY January 1st.
This early announcement of the topic is to give a little think time, before the challenge begins. Photos must be taken and submitted between 00:00 UTC of the start date and 23:59 UTC of the end date.


The Rules

1. Any photo submitted for the Weekly Photo Challenge must be taken using a Nikon Camera! Any photo submitted for a weekly challenge must be taken during the dates specified in the challenge thread and taken by YOU including all parts of composites!

2. If the EXIF does not show using a browser EXIF app, listing the camera and capture date/time below the photo is required. Listing exposure info, lens & focal length is encouraged so others can learn.

3. Photos must be posted in this thread to be considered. Links to photos will not be considered an entry (In other words, no Flikr, Photobucket, or similar links)

4. Only one photo entry per member for each week, unless otherwise noted. It is acceptable to delete a post and submit a new entry, replacing the image within a post is not.

5. All regularly active members of Nikonites are allowed to participate, including moderators and administrators.

Voting

During the submission & like periods, please click the Thanks/Like button to vote for your favorite images. You can vote for as many as you want! At the end of the week, you will have the opportunity to vote for the top 3 photos for this challenge!


There will be no cash or prizes awarded for the Weekly Photo Challenges, unless specifically noted by the site administrator.

Any photo will be accepted for the challenge. Edited or straight out of the camera, it does not matter. You are left with complete freedom to do whatever genre of photography you wish to do, and your own interpretation of the challenge subject.
 
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nikonpup

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NEW YEARS GIFT
 

Bob Blaylock

Senior Member
I love how well his blue eyes show up!

I recently replaced all the light bulbs in my house with bulbs having a 5000K color temperature. I've always hated the dingy yellowish color of most indoor lighting, even when I am not taking pictures in it. But when taking pictures, it distorts the colors in a manner that I do not seem to be able to adequately repair in postprocessing.

Buddy's eyes, in particular, are badly affected by dingy yellow lighting. I previously could only ever get his eye color to show up correctly, if I could get natural daylight on him. Under the dingy yellow lighting, his eye color always came out looking entirely wrong, and nothing I could do in postprocessing was ever able to get them to look right. This picture was taken under our newer 5000K lighting, and I didn't do any color correction at all on this image.
 

Robin W

Senior Member
I recently replaced all the light bulbs in my house with bulbs having a 5000K color temperature. I've always hated the dingy yellowish color of most indoor lighting, even when I am not taking pictures in it. But when taking pictures, it distorts the colors in a manner that I do not seem to be able to adequately repair in postprocessing.

Buddy's eyes, in particular, are badly affected by dingy yellow lighting. I previously could only ever get his eye color to show up correctly, if I could get natural daylight on him. Under the dingy yellow lighting, his eye color always came out looking entirely wrong, and nothing I could do in postprocessing was ever able to get them to look right. This picture was taken under our newer 5000K lighting, and I didn't do any color correction at all on this image.
I think we have 3000K in our house. But the 5000K seems to be really working for you.
 
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