Weekly challenge Black and white street photography Oct. 8 to 15

weebee

Senior Member

Black and White street photography
Chosen by Just-Clayton

DO NOT SHOOT OR POST IMAGES UNTIL Wednesday Oct. 8

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 00:00 UTC of the end date.



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This photo challenge is "Black and white street photography". Photos should black and white. Let's see how creative you can be! But the picture needs to be in black and white.

The Rules

1. Photos must be posted to the thread in order to be considered for the challenge. No gallery images or off-site links (flickr, 500px, etc) will be accepted.

2. Any photo submitted for a weekly challenge must be taken during the dates specified in the challenge thread.

3. Only one photo entry per member for each week, unless otherwise noted.

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

Voting

During the submission & like periods, please click the Like this post 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 again 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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Blacktop

Senior Member
It would be great if you included the contest winners name who picked the theme.:encouragement: I forget easy.:indecisiveness:
 

Bob Blaylock

Senior Member
This theme had me thinking in terms of very old-style photographs, black and white, grainy, soft focus, not a lot of sharpness or technical quality. With the aperture wide open, my ancient Vivitar 85-205mm zoom lens is perfect for that. At smaller apertures, it takes nice, sharp pictures, but at larger apertures, it yields an interesting combination of distortions and soft focus that was exactly what I had in mind for this picture.

With that in mind, I mounted the Vivitar to my D3200, and wandered out to the street, to take some pictures. Some pictures I took with the lens zoomed all the way to 205mm, and others I took zoomed all the way the back to 85mm; alas, I do not remember which pictures I took with which zoom setting, so I don't know which way I was zoomed when I took this picture.

I did have the lens wide open to ƒ3.8 the whole time, and the shutter at 1/4000 of a second, varying only the ISO setting, as needed, to get a reasonable exposure—ISO 1600 in this case.

I'm rather pleased with the result, and even with the suggested anachronism—a quality that suggests to me a photograph taken, perhaps, in the 1910s or 1920s, but with automobiles, signs, traffic lights, and other elements that are obviously much more modern.

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cwgrizz

Senior Member
Challenge Team
This is across the street (dirt road), so I guess it will qualify for a "Street" photo.
It is about as close to Street Photography as I can get out here in the boondocks. HA!

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