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SO Photography Contest Discussion!!

Sure, I'll try anything once... for a dollar. ;)



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[b]Previous rounds[/b]                                               [B]Future themes:[/B]

Round 1: Macro                                                Cityscapes/Skylines                           
Round 2: Reflections                                          The Colour Pink or Purple
Round 3: Street                                               Fog
Round 4: Patterns                                             Games
Round 5: Landscapes                                           Silhouettes
Round 6: Solitude                                             Mountains and Plains
Round 7: Seasonal Colours                                     View From a Window  
Round 8: Old                                                  Looking Up
Round 9: Food                                                 Still Life
Round 10: Long Exposure                                       Shiny Stuff
Round 11: Curves                                              Love Story
Round 12: Holidays                                            Action
Round 13: Architectural                                       Macro Guessing Game
Round 14: Motion                                              Simplicity
Round 15: Emotion                                             Roads
Round 16: Sunsets and Sunrises                                Wheels
Round 17: Shadows                                             Pubs, Bars and Diners
Round 18: Windows                                             Sky Theme
Round 19: Night                                               Crowds
Round 20: Pets                                                     
Round 21: Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Round 22: Sports
Round 23: Garbage (Rubbish)
Round 24: Adventure
Round 25: Steps, Stairs and Ladders 
Round 26: Street Performers
Round 27: Our Stuffed (Toy) Animal Friends
Round 28: The Colour RED
Round 29: Creeks, Streams and Rivers
Round 30: Birds
Round 31: The Colour GREEN
Round 32: Statues and Monuments
Round 33: Street Signs and Signposts
Round 34: People
Round 35: Fireworks
Round 36: Abandoned
Round 37: The Colour Blue
Round 38: Lighthouses
Round 39: Temples of Worship
Round 40: Black & White
Round 41: Electricity  
Round 42: Eyes
Round 43: Portrait
Round 44: The Colour YELLOW  
Round 45: Great/Funny Signs  
Round 46: Looking Down  
Round 47: Seasons - Autumn (Fall), 2007
Round 48: Rain  
Round 49: Wild Animal(s)
Round 50: Halloween
Round 51: Civilisation 
Round 52: Fire  
Round 53: Rust  
Round 54: Graffiti 
Round 55: Photographer's Choice 
Round 56: Flowers  
Round 57: Alcohol
Round 58: Holidays (festivities)
Round 59: Seasons - Winter

In retrospect, I should have combined Winter with Ice and Rain with Fog. This leaves kind of an unorthodox pairing up of Fog with Ice, as suggested by our participants. Might make it all the more interesting.

Always looking for more theme suggestions.
 
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YAY for anything macro! my favourite. that's a great idea... although i dunno how you would work the 'guessing' part into it. just get people to vote on the one they like best, and after voting people just reveal what it was? that would work. :)


Emergency! (vehicles, fires, lifeboats, people etc.)
Wastefulness
Widescreen
'Create a cool wallpaper'
Bluelight :D
Silly faces
Music
The Sea/Ocean
Beaches
 
tribal girl said:
I for one wasn't suggesting it should be the case for every round. I just think it would keep things interesting if we do an "or" round every now and then.
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yeh same here, i didnt mean to have two themes all the time. but like for the color purple it seems like a not so common color, so partisipation would lack. maybe give the option to choose the more uncommon color paired with a more common color. i dunno.

what about topics such as

"verbs"
"nouns"
"adjectives"

so intead of the topic being "running" you could choose a "verb" such as "walking", sitting smiling ect.. but one would be required to state the verb they chose to depict, AND you could not repeat someones previously posted photo/verb.

is that gay?... or what do you think?
 
IAMTHOUGHTS said:
what about topics such as

"verbs"
"nouns"
"adjectives"

so intead of the topic being "running" you could choose a "verb" such as "walking", sitting smiling ect.. but one would be required to state the verb they chose to depict, AND you could not repeat someones previously posted photo/verb.
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i do like the abstract subjects, but i don't think the highlighted part is feasible. imagine going out, taking a cracker of a photograph, and coming back two hours later to see someone had already taken that theme? (especially if their one sucks? ;))
 
you know the saying: "you snooze, you lose"? i think that aplies here.
i think it would be cool to take a photo and than see that you were too late with your theme, then you would have to re-live the challenge. it would add even more dinamic to creating an origional entry, but thats just my opinion.

we could deff leave that rule out if thats what people wanted.
i love when my theme ideas get used :D
 
i object to it purely on the grounds that it'll possibly give those damn kangaroo-shaggers an advantage, thanks to them being based in the future. :!

and it will also favour people with a large stock of photos, rather than someone who goes out and takes one especially for the contest.

oh, and i meant to say: it'll only be gay if you post a picture of yourself making love to another man. but if that's what you want to do, please remember the NSFW tags. ;)
 
suggestions:

streetlife
history
computer
magic
luck
wish
pray
transcend
vertigo
innocent
belligerent
 
It kind of goes in with "People", but "Crowds" might be a good theme...

Also I don't see anything wrong with doing themes over again as long as people don't use the same photos.

Edit: BTW, did I somehow miss cityscapes? :(
 
it would be nice if there was an index to all the photography poll threads.

and/or perhaps a tally of previous winners
 
L2R said:
it would be nice if there was an index to all the photography poll threads.

and/or perhaps a tally of previous winners
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There used to be an index posted with each new contest, but as the number of rounds increased, they kinda stopped doing it, which I can see as the list would be quite long now. Although it might work as its own thread. Perhaps sometime today I will work on making a list.
 
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