Welcome to the Fortnightly Challenge Topic Thread
The purpose of the Fortnightly Challenge is to help photographers of all skill levels improve and evolve in their photography. Anyone who is willing to take a photo or offer a comment is welcome to participate.
About the Topic Thread:
• This is a collaborative topic thread to be posted every six weeks. Participants will suggest and discuss topics, and a poll at the end will determine which three are the most popular. Those three will constitute the next topic schedule. Any forum member may post a new topic thread upon seeing that the current schedule of topics is about to run out. The last week of the running Challenge is a good time to do this. That will allow plenty of time for discussion.
• Topics on the schedule will appear in succession as active Challenge threads for two weeks (one fortnight) per topic. Any forum member may post the new fortnightly challenge thread once the current one has expired.
• Topics should be general enough to apply to at the wide range of photography talent on the MR Digital Photography forum. Keep them as open to creative interpretation as possible.
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Hi all, it's time to discuss new topics for the Fortnightly Challenge. It might be interesting to base some of the topics off generally accepted rules of composition. Below is a list of what I have been able to gather together after a Web search:
Composition Guidelines
We could alternate a rule with a creative topic to keep things from feeling too much like school. Post your opinions on this and add your suggestions for creative topics as well. This would be one entry in the poll called Composition Guidelines
.
My creative topic suggestions:
Black & White
Geometry in Action (Geometric shapes in Nature or man-made things)
The next Challenge starts October 30.
Dale
The purpose of the Fortnightly Challenge is to help photographers of all skill levels improve and evolve in their photography. Anyone who is willing to take a photo or offer a comment is welcome to participate.
About the Topic Thread:
• This is a collaborative topic thread to be posted every six weeks. Participants will suggest and discuss topics, and a poll at the end will determine which three are the most popular. Those three will constitute the next topic schedule. Any forum member may post a new topic thread upon seeing that the current schedule of topics is about to run out. The last week of the running Challenge is a good time to do this. That will allow plenty of time for discussion.
• Topics on the schedule will appear in succession as active Challenge threads for two weeks (one fortnight) per topic. Any forum member may post the new fortnightly challenge thread once the current one has expired.
• Topics should be general enough to apply to at the wide range of photography talent on the MR Digital Photography forum. Keep them as open to creative interpretation as possible.
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Hi all, it's time to discuss new topics for the Fortnightly Challenge. It might be interesting to base some of the topics off generally accepted rules of composition. Below is a list of what I have been able to gather together after a Web search:
Composition Guidelines
- Rule of Thirds
- Balancing Elements
- Leading Lines
- Symmetry and Patterns
- Viewpoint
- Background Depth
- Cropping
- Framing
- Experimentation
- Simplicity
- Texture
We could alternate a rule with a creative topic to keep things from feeling too much like school. Post your opinions on this and add your suggestions for creative topics as well. This would be one entry in the poll called Composition Guidelines
.
My creative topic suggestions:
Black & White
Geometry in Action (Geometric shapes in Nature or man-made things)
The next Challenge starts October 30.
Dale
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