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Bluelight weekly photography contest Round 40: Black & White

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Black & White (non-colour)

RULES
1. Any photograph or variation of a photograph which has been previously submitted for one of the contest rounds cannot be used in subsequent rounds of the contest.

2. Photographs must be your original work and that has never been copyrighted or, if copyrighted, that you are the sole copyright owner of.
2a. No submitting pictures for other people, for friends, etc. Your OWN work, very simple.

3. Only one photograph may be entered per contest.

4. All photographs must be free of watermarks, signatures and borders

5. Photographs must be no wider than 700 and no higher than 700.

6. Deadline for entries is 12am eastern on the posted deadline date.

7. Voting ends at 12am eastern on the posted end date.

8. Post your images in the appropriate thread in the form of an image, not a link to click on.

9. Don't be a dummy and vote for your own photo, try and make it fun.

Be reminded that this is a photo contest and so images which have been heavily manipulated through an image editing software will not be accepted. To put everyone on a level playing field, editing should be restricted to cropping and resizing.

Images which are not relevant to the week's theme will be automatically removed.

If you have a problem with another contestant's entry adhering to the contest guidelines, please PM the forum moderators. Do not try to begin a debate about the issue within the contest submission or poll thread! There will be zero tolerance towards any attempts to devolve a contest thread into a bash-fest or witch hunt.

We will pick the next theme and post it the night a contest ends for the next round so people have a full 7 days to take pictures and submit them. After all the entries have been posted, a poll will be added on the last night, so people can vote. Voting will take place from midnight to midnight over the following 2 days (12am Sunday - 12am Tuesday).

Those who wish to participate in sharing full versions of their entries may do so by providing a link only to the full sized version in the same post as their entry.

Thank you and have fun!
 
Please submit your photos in this thread and a mod will re-post them when voting starts in a separate voting thread.

Submissions: August 27 - September 02
Voting: September 03 - 04


Next theme is Electricity
followed by Eyes
 
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alasdair
 
[edited: don't go down this path]
 
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Question: Can we desaturate photos? I haven't taken a photo that's B&W out of the camera since I got a digital camera. For any given photo, I check out how it would look in B&W as well as color in post-processing.
 
Personally, I have nothing against it. I guess if we get some serious challenge to the idea, we'll have to address it. In many of today's digital cameras, one can change a photo from colour to B&W to sepia right on the camera, before even downloading it to a computer. In that light, I don't see a problem.
 
SillyAlien said:
Personally, I have nothing against it. I guess if we get some serious challenge to the idea, we'll have to address it. In many of today's digital cameras, one can change a photo from colour to B&W to sepia right on the camera, before even downloading it to a computer. In that light, I don't see a problem.

This should be the most open contest yet, as there is no actual subject matter. It will be interesting to see what everyone puts in this time, From the 3 entered, it's great to see such diversity already. Personally, I see nothing wrong with with changing a colour photo to b&w. It's either a good photo or isn't & there's plenty of people who will notice if there is too much photoshop being used anyway!
 
alasdair, what is that a photo of?

I've got nothing on you guys, but I'm going to enter my favorite b&w photo anyway.:)

My babies' hands two years ago, taken with a crappy 35mm camera.
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ninjadanslarbretabar:
Whenever I go to canada I get that beer but i can never drink more than 1 or 2. im just not used to that strong nutty taste since i usually drink xxx. but just drinking one of those guys fast makes me feel it, I love that shit for that reason alone. its not just strong its got a lot of substance to it also which makes it hit hard=D
 
alasdairm said:
it's lighter fuel on fire on my kitchen counter top :)
alasdair must never get in my kitchen. :|

i've got no inspiration for this one. i think it'll just be a case of choosing a photo i like and black-n-whiticising it. :\
 
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I took this photo a few years back by candlelight. I was really interested in shadows and low light photography at the time. And I still am really.
 
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