October challenge
Hello all. As you know, I’ve become a crazy photographer. I’m dragging my dSLR around with me everywhere. If they’d let me take it into the jail, I would. As I progress, there are areas of photography that used to be foreign to me that I’m not playing around with. I would have never been interested in wide-angle architectural photography just a few months ago. Now I’m planning a while business plan around it.
Another area that is new is Black & White photography. I’ve known that every photography student starts there, shooting in B&W like crazy. I have messed around a little, with my infrared shots, but that’s kinda specialized.
So, I’ve decided to shoot only B&W photography for the month of October. I’ll exclude any professional shoots, but all of my photowalking and personal shooting will be B&W. Because I want control over the output, I’ll shoot normal, but convert all in Photoshop. I like to use the Channels tools to get the best look.
Why not join me? You don’t have to shoot B&W, but maybe there’s a genre of photography that interests you, something new, why not give it a try? I think limiting yourself can actually unlock creativity that you’ve never had before.
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Comments
Comment from Kevin Devin
Time: September 24, 2007, 5:11 pm
Hey Trevor!
That sounds like fun… I’ll join ya. I too will maintain control and convert in LightRoom. I enjoy little challenges / themes like this.
-KHD
Comment from Brian Auer
Time: September 24, 2007, 9:48 pm
Great stuff Trevor — awesome example of applying yourself in a focus area. I’ll join your challenge, but I’m going to continue my exploration of minimalism. I wasn’t planning on spending an entire month going after it, but hey… why not?
Why not conduct a project around this? See if you can get people to commit to a topic, and at the end of October you could gather up everybody’s links to their “October Challenge” galleries on Zooomr or Flickr.
Comment from Brian Auer
Time: September 25, 2007, 7:53 am
Almost forgot, here’s an article to keep you busy with black & white conversions.
Comment from trevor
Time: September 25, 2007, 8:52 am
Brian,
Thanks for the B&W link. Also, thanks for your ideas. I just may turn this into a project. The only problem is that the last couple of times I tried contest/projects, no one participated. So I’m a little gunshy.
We’ll see.
Kevin,
Thanks. I look forward to our outcome. I’ll tag all of mine with “OctoberChallenge”
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Comment from Ian Crane
Time: September 30, 2007, 4:16 pm
this is a great idea. i have needed to do some b&w projects for awhile, i’m completely inexperienced in it.
i think i’m going to join you in only turning out b&w during the month of october!
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