Bluelight weekly photography contest Round 40 (Black & White): POLLING

[SA]

This week's theme was Black & White


alasdairm

IAMTHOUGHTS

ninjadanslarbretabar

QuestionEverything

Caroline

tribal girl

PlurredChemistry

L2R

Johnny1

CletusVanDow

felix

Raving Loony

frizzantik

thujone

HisNameIsFrank

pr0ficient

tambourine-man

SillyAlien

 

[SA]

Next theme is Electricity and can be found here...

 

[tambourine-man]

It was between Johny1 and PC's.

I went for Johnny's because... well, I dunno really. It's just got a certain "captured" quality about it. Possibly the guy mid-drag of his fag. Nice shot.

 

[QuestionEverything]

tg, PC, and SA were among my favorites, but I had to go with alasdair in the end. Great photographs.

 

[tribal girl]

HisNameIsFrank for me.

 

[cletus]

HisNameIsFrank - Stunning pic.

Reminded me of this as well:

Loved Alasdairs & IAMTHOUGHTS

 

[Klue]

Go Plurredchemisty!

FORD POWER!

:D

 

[Mazey]

Raving Loony

 

[felix]

i dig the NAZI HEFFALUMPS very much, but i had to go with TG's self-portrait

 

[~*geNeRaTiOn E*~]

SA for me. very close between him and alasdair.

 

[MazDan]

I went with Frizzantik.

The way I see it the topic was Black and white. Not fancy photos. And from that point of view, frizz was the only one to really meet that in my opinion.

 

[Raving Loony]

This is such a tough round. Although on my screen HisNameIsFrank's picture is too large (although my browser is known to resize pictures at random).

 

[L2R]

felix ftw!

 

[SA]

I'll take the blame for missing the oversized image this round. I made a point of looking up the properties of every image submitted and didn't notice anything wrong. Must have been the damned browser resizing. I should have caught it with plenty of time for the OP to have a chance to correct it.

HNIF's image now edited/resized.

Let's keep an eye on those rules, please gang. I'm still catching one or more size violations per round behind the curtains (and missing some too, as witnessed).

Thanks.

 

[QuestionEverything]

To me Black & White = colorless.

Thanks to whoever voted for me. :D

SA, your photo reminds me of this picture from Yamahata's Nagasaki photographs.

 

[DG]

triablgirl gets my vote...that shot is so in your face

 

[MazDan]

To me Black & White = colorless.

I cant argue with that.

Same as you cant argue with what I thought.

And thats why I love the contest so much cos its totally up to your own impression.


I was planning on taking a photo of one of those checkerboard floors.........like this.....

but with a tiny red rose in the middle somewhere.

 

[frizzantik]

The way I see it the topic was Black and white. Not fancy photos. And from that point of view, frizz was the only one to really meet that in my opinion.

cheers btw if you didn't see in the other thread, the picture was taken like that by the camera - there was no post processing to convert it to two-tone.

And I tend to agree with your sentiments regarding the theme; it's kinda a shame so many people interpreted the theme in the same way -- specifically that black & white meant 'gray scale'. Obviously not every camera has the feature mine has to take pics in just black and white but gray scale pics with more emphasis on contrast, or even color photos of black and white objects would have been interesting

that being said i voted for plurredchemistry.. i liked the way only a bit of it's in focus and the retro styling makes it seem like it should be in an old school black and white photo

 

[alasdairm]

to be fair, the phrase "black & white" has had the same (less than literal) meaning in photography since photography began...

alasdair

 

[SA]

MazDan, the theme was specific - "Black & White (non-colour)". I made sure the part in parentheses to rule out any confusion. As mentioned in the previous round, a separate black and white (representing colours) round(s) would come later.

QE, I wasn't familiar with that, thanks for the link.

Thank you to those who voted for me.

I was sooo hoping to see a chess/checkers board too. I don't have one, or I would have definitely spent some time on some angles.

Oh, and my vote went to the very first entry - alasdair.