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*** CTF Challenge 73 - Body Language ***

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rod,

At least I did'nt post my HDR pic of Lonnit in my post above,

then she would definitely give me that glare like the girl wearing the coconut shell did :-)

Kind Regards
Richard Higgs
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“Don’t feel you have to take photos of impressive subjects….
Rather, try to take impressive photos of any subject”.

Photography is 50% photographer, 40% light and 10% equipment.

 
lonnit said:
http://www.pbase.com/ctfchallenge/c73_eligible

me!

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Lonnit,

Just beautiful, should give the boys some stiff competition to beat!

Just one thing Lonnit, don't you feel that entring 3 pics or variations on the same subject will lessen your chances of winning?

I would pick one (I like the B&W the best) and replace the others with other pics giving you a better chance of 1st, 2nd and 3place :-)

I'm still thinking what to enter for this challenge, as I bombed out badly in the last one with my electric fence entry.

Regards

JennyR
Canon G6
 
JennyR said:
Lonnit,

Just beautiful, should give the boys some stiff competition to beat!
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Thanks, but I think the proper phrasing on that is that I just made the competition stiff! LOL!
JennyR said:
Just one thing Lonnit, don't you feel that entring 3 pics or
variations on the same subject will lessen your chances of winning?
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JennyR said:
I would pick one (I like the B&W the best) and replace the others
with other pics giving you a better chance of 1st, 2nd and 3place
:-)
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Sometimes I put up 3 similars (or just 3 of anything that fits the theme) to see what response they get and then replace the less popular ones as or if I have the oppptunity to shoot more for the challenge.
JennyR said:
I'm still thinking what to enter for this challenge, as I bombed
out badly in the last one with my electric fence entry.
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LOL! I've been doing some more experimental stuff for me lately, which seems to be going over like a lead balloon. I usually have at least one in top ten, and it's not rare for me to have 2. Since I've been playing around my status has been dropping. I dont' even know what to do with that information! LOL! I mean, I can shoot straight and unaffected and get the popular vote and enjoy the wonderful compliments, or I can experiment and I enjoy that, but there go the points. If it were all for fun it wouldn't matter and I could do what I want. But, I'm trying to get into stock and so I do have to care waht buyers would want, so other people's opinions are important. So, I guess I shoot for me for fun and for others for "work". Perhaps continued experimenting will lead me to something that has style and popularity. :)

Lonnit
JennyR said:
Regards

JennyR
Canon G6
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nico blue said:
Hello everyone!
The new challenge is...

Body language -

As always, I am a firm believer in not restricting creativty so
your interpretations can be as open as possible. However the three
collective things that I would like this challenge to focus on are
people, non verbal emotions, and conveying mood through the medium
of digital photography. Good luck everyone!
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My dictionary defines body language as: changes in your body position and movements that show what you are thinking or feeling. In other words, body language is, well.... a language and is supposedly used to convey some kind of message or at least an attitude. However, so far many image titles don't show much of this 'message' thing. To me, no matter how good an image may be photographically, if there is no message or emotion expressed, it's not body languge.To all who have entered images in this challenge, I would like to ask to take a second look at your titles and let them express what the message, emotion or attitude is you are trying to convey.
Are there others who have been wondering about this?

Cheers,

Julian
 
JulianH said:
My dictionary defines body language as: changes in your body
position and movements that show what you are thinking or feeling.
In other words, body language is, well.... a language and is
supposedly used to convey some kind of message or at least an
attitude. However, so far many image titles don't show much of this
'message' thing. To me, no matter how good an image may be
photographically, if there is no message or emotion expressed, it's
not body languge.To all who have entered images in this challenge,
I would like to ask to take a second look at your titles and let
them express what the message, emotion or attitude is you are
trying to convey.
Are there others who have been wondering about this?
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Yeah, me. I was thinking body language as being exactly what you've described......captured by a facial expression along with an hand gesture; a stance; a particular stride or hip movement etc. Or a pictorial dialogue between two or more people. And it should be obvious in the photo.

Gayle
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Thanks for the comments on this one. Rod - I had a go at a B&W conversion and put that in as well. Thanks for the idea and I'd appreciate any comments on how to improve the conversion as I simply used a PSE greyscale and then adjusted levels.

Thanks
Bigpikle said:
I too was enticed to post an image for the first time. It's not a
current shot so is in the Exhibition, and while not technically
excellent, I'd appreciate any comments.
I had the option to include the rest of the kitchen but felt it was
rather distracting, so instead cropped tight. I'd particulary like
to know if you think this works or would be better 'in context'.

Thanks

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Gayle and Julian,

I agree with both of you. Most of the pictures submitted so far are IMHO just off target. They're close but just not there. There are a few that are dead on topic. Mind you, some of these off target pictures are beautiful shots that I'd be proud to call my own.

When all is said and done it's the vote that will, as it has in the past, show what photo's are best and on topic.

Pops

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I've seen a couple of your entries here where you used flash on some street photos at night. I find the effect very nice. Could you please give us some pointers as how you achieved that effect.

Thanks
 
JulianH said:
Are there others who have been wondering about this?

Cheers,

Julian
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Yes, I have been feeling the same way after viewing the current entries in both galleries. I hope this doesn't come across as rude, but sometimes I think people are too literal when submitting pictures in these challenges.

blade
 
I agree with Julian,

but blade, sometimes it's hard to express a topic in a photo. This is my hardest challenge of all.

Hope I can make something work, so far my shots for this topic suck and thats why nothing uploaded as of yet. But I will not upload until I feel I am on topic and the photo is creative and worthy of an upload.
Blademeister said:
Blademeister said:
Are there others who have been wondering about this?

Cheers,

Julian
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Yes, I have been feeling the same way after viewing the current
entries in both galleries. I hope this doesn't come across as
rude, but sometimes I think people are too literal when submitting
pictures in these challenges.

blade
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PhotoNUT said:
I agree with Julian,

but blade, sometimes it's hard to express a topic in a photo. This
is my hardest challenge of all.
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I agree PhotoNUT; and sometimes for challenges I have not entered, simply because I haven't taken anything worthy. I hope I didn't come across as sounding harsh. I really enjoy everyones contributions.

blade
 
aam1234 said:
I've seen a couple of your entries here where you used flash on
some street photos at night. I find the effect very nice. Could you
please give us some pointers as how you achieved that effect.

Thanks
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I'm glad you like the effect. It hasn't been all that well received here. There's really not much to it at all. I shoot in AV mode with flash. Perhaps the secret is shooting from the car. The shot is rushed so there's probably a bit of camera movement in it even if the car happens to stop for a moment. The subject's motion is frozen at the moment of the flash, but then ghosts for the rest of the exposure.

Have fun!

Lonnit

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Pops said:
Gayle and Julian,

I agree with both of you. Most of the pictures submitted so far
are IMHO just off target. They're close but just not there. There
are a few that are dead on topic. Mind you, some of these off
target pictures are beautiful shots that I'd be proud to call my
own.

When all is said and done it's the vote that will, as it has in the
past, show what photo's are best and on topic.
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Relying on the voter’s expertise for the cream to rise to the top is a forlorn hope. Quite often the top ten is weighted towards pretty pictures, not powerful photographs that are on topic. I have no problem with this as this is the way these challenges are structured & we have lots of fun. To get the cream to the top we would have to get a group of experts judging the results, not without controversy of course. I've often thought when seeing a very good shot with positive comments under the photo not getting many votes that we should have a posters award for best shot. (I’m assuming that posters may know more about photography than non posters) as a lot of people that don't submit shots are regular voters. I haven't suggested this as it would take some of the glory from the popular vote winners. I bet if someone posted a nice sunset or close up flower shot in every challenge it would get lots more votes regardless of the topic
Regards Rod
 
rodbam said:
Me & Lonnit thought it meant "Get yer gear off"
Looks like we will have to reshoot:-)
Regards Rod
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Naw, mine has attitude! M saved your butt in your shot b/c she is overflowing with body language there! It was mostly her image that sent me over the top laughing. She obviously had a very good time with the shot and was quite a sport about it! How much convincing did it take?

Lonnit

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Please visit my gallery at http://pbase.com/lonnit

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When one has lived with an artiiiiist for over 35yrs one gets used to furthering the artiiiiists creative desires & wants.........................I had to wash the dishes to get a yes:-)
Regards Rod
 
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