Friday 13th May - The Weekend Project!

[Rosie]

Friday 13th May 2011.

Its the weekend again- Lets hope Friday 13th is not unlucky for you. For this weekend project we want you to Photograph 'Red'. The subject matter can be whatever you want.
Images can be entered here. A winner will be selected on Monday and will win a photography book. Good luck.
Image for inspiration...

[VerityWoolf]

My submitted image - Verity Woolf Photography

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Here is my submitted photo for the competition. more of my work is available at http://www.veritywoolf.moonfruit.co.uk.

Thanks,
Verity

[teo]

Typical UK Red

[fatfishphotos]

Brilliant Doros

[newcube]

My entry for "Red"

[newcube]

And another for good measure!

Thanks.

[fatfishphotos]

Nice shots everyone

[ravens-eye]

Some great shots so far guys. Good luck to you all.

[Richampton]

A rather wind swept poppy found during a walk today through the Surrey Hills. Simple I know but I liked the combination of colours and the textures


DSC00794_550px by Richampton, on Flickr

[Nigel West]

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[ALwin]

Well, last weekend before I leave and my gear is packed so I won't be participating. However I do want to leave a comment about the current entries.

Get out of the studio, go shoot in the streets, go add some life, go add something meaningful into your photos. Remember the movie Schindler's List? Remember how the movie was mostly black and white except for some parts, especially the parts in the concentration camps where all the prisoners, dead bodies, etc. were hurdled together and you see this little girl in a red coat walking about, and the last time we see her is as a dead body amongst a pile of other dead bodies.

Found a screen capture of one instance of her appearance in the film on Wikipedia.


Well when I read what the topic was for this week, that was the first thing that came to mind. I remember our Social Studies/History class having a long discussion about this particular choice of imagery when I was in high-school.

Photos of flowers, fruits, vegetables; all these static things have all been done before, go do something dynamic, something you haven't. Something that would reach out to your audience. Good luck and godspeed. Leaving on Tuesday and returning in three weeks so have fun and see you all then.

I'll leave you all with some words from one of my favorite photographers.

The second rant has to do with finding a happy place in between the two toxic poles of mediocrity and snobbery. In the last couple years I attended a photography conference that I ended up referring to as a celebration of mediocrity. Presided over by so-called leaders and teachers and Explorers of Light, etc, I was astonished and disappointed that the bar was set so low. So, so, low. I would never advocate exclusivism nor snobbery. Never. I am the first to acknowledge that we all learn at different paces and in different ways and that art, such as it is, is meant to be about expression and that gives us enormous latitude. However, it’s time we all focused more on growing as artists and less on our egos. When we get serious about our art we’ll start looking for critics, not fans, and right now too many people are Without using the strong language I’d like to, it’s really, really, really, overdue for us to stop the lunacy about gear. Choose your tools, enjoy them, then make something amazing. We need to stop the feeding frenzy. We need to stop patting people on the back for derivative, repetitive, imitative work and lovingly encourage them to move forward. We need to lovingly tell people – and give the same people permission to tell us – when we’re stuck, lazy, or boring. We all do this for different reasons, so not for a moment am I suggesting we become a group of photographic vigilantes. I’m suggesting we ourselves settle less, over the long term, with work that is less than what it could be. But I don’t want to rant about that.

Source: http://www.pixelatedimage.com/blog/2011 ... as-better/

[ALwin]

A rather wind swept poppy found during a walk today through the Surrey Hills. Simple I know but I liked the combination of colours and the textures

Nice photo Ric.

The other week, I was with some friends on the highway at a stoplight and saw this single red poppy growing out of a crack in the sidewalk, a single blossom of life surrounded by all this concrete. If only I could've gotten out and taken a photo... my friends commented how poetic it was.

[newcube]

Each to their own and all that...

If you’ve made it this far and you’re an amateur, keep at it. Live your creative life on your terms. Doing this professionally is a thrill, and I love it. But there are as many liabilities as there are benefits and the same applies to remaining a hobbyist – there are advantages and disadvantages. What matters is that you love and practice your craft without ever feeling the condescension of a so-called professional who doesn’t want you in the club. That kind of exclusivism is a harm to the craft and a denial of the prime mover in art: passion.

Ahem.
http://www.pixelatedimage.com/blog/2009/06/a-question-of-definition/

[peterlyall]

Camaro at the Sharjah Expo, UAE
Suitably red but shot inside the hall then tweeked with Topaz Suite for fun

[newcube]

Little scuffed blacklisted_site. Bit post heavy, but what the heck?!