Expressive Black & White

Challenge #14 in the Let the Image Speak series. Hosted by onlooker.

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Show us your best expressive black & white photo (definition: "Expressive - Effectively conveying meaning, feeling, or mood"). Per series' theme, let the image speak: *NO TITLES OR DESCRIPTIONS* (put a single dash "-" in place of title). PLEASE READ ADDITIONAL RULES (pay attention to image size rules). To preserve anonymity, please no visible copyright with author's name. -- Voters: Please vote in a slideshow.

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Announced:

Monday, 12th December, 2011 (GMT)

Submissions:

Monday, 19th December, 2011 – Sunday, 25th December, 2011 (GMT)

Voting:

Monday, 26th December, 2011 – Sunday, 1st January, 2012 (GMT)

Processing rules:

Black and White only. No toning or tinting. Please do the best you can to support the mood of your photo. Just "desaturating" a color original is rarely an optimal post-processing method. Be proud of what you submit.
No composites.

Capture date rules:

No restrictions.

Additional rules:

Submitted photograph must fit into a rectangle of 1000 px horizontal and 750 px vertical, with one of its dimensions being exactly that of the rectangle (1000 px horizontal or 750 px vertical). Photos that do not comply will be disqualified.
Submitted photograph must not be larger than 500 KB (saving at 80% should provide room to spare).
No embedded copyright notices or watermarks with author's name.
No titles or descriptions (put a single dash "-" in place of title).
Absolutely no snapshots of homeless people or street snapshot portraits of third-world children staring into the lens.

Maximum number of entries per user:

Maximum number of entries in challenge:

200

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Challenge comments

Total comments: 12

For summary and comments, please see this thread:

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1044&message=40210077

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.....nie zawsze temat " człowiek" nadaje zdjęciu ekspresję ..... czasami " martwa nautra" jest nie tylko miłym dla oczu widoczkiem .......Zgadzam się z przedmówcą , dobry zestaw interesujących zdjęć . Fajny temat . Ciekawe ktore ze zdjęć stanie na podium ?

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> Ciekawe ktore ze zdjęć stanie na podium ?

#1, #2, & #3. ;)

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Excellent challenge, Onlooker! There are some really interesting images here - IMHO.

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Thanks. I will still have to work on the theme for the next one to attract even more good, thought-provoking entries. Learning one challenge at a time. :)

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When voting, please remember the objective of the image is to be expressive. The more thought provoking the image, the better. If it causes you to go back to it and look again, it probably achieved that objective.

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For more discussion about voting in this challenge please see this thread:

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1044&message=40160285

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Never mind.

Comment edited 6 minutes after posting

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I'm glad it worked.

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I am new to this....
I saw it says to pay attention to size. How do you size it to the dimensions?

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The simplest approach, if you do not own any post-processing software yet, would be to use one of the free programs on the net, like Irfanview. One of these two forums would be good to ask, depending on whether you use a PC or a Mac:
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/forum.asp?forum=1004
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/forum.asp?forum=1017

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I am going to make a ruling based on what I believe is the spirit of this site - only photographs taken with a camera (even if heavy post-processing is later involved) will be allowed. No digital art, sorry. And if besides digital art there are elements taken with the camera, then it is a composite, already explicitly disallowed in the rules.

Please add your comments and questions regarding this challenge to this thread:

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1044&message=40110720

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