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07/15/2002 11:49:55 AM · #1
Well, it seems that with the free study (according to recent posts) people are complaining that people did not take anough risks, that things were not orginal or different enough. So I suggest another possible future idea (I am doing a lot lately) would be:

DIFFERENCE - Originality

The challeneg would be to come up with something that is Different, attempting to not only have an interesting shot but to have a shot that is different from everyone else's shots. Basically if your picture is not like anyone else's picture you will get some points on this one.
07/15/2002 12:22:10 PM · #2
I would LOVE to see this.

Listen..I feel I have some tweaky ways of looking at things but I KNOW YOU GUYS DO TOO!!!! I know it..why?
Because people are weird..period.
07/15/2002 12:26:33 PM · #3
i don't know. if i come up with something that's totally different for me, and someone else comes up with the same, i don't think i should be penalized for that. not sure how this challenge would work ...
07/15/2002 12:26:53 PM · #4
Yeah, but no picture is different or original completely, and no picture is exactly the same as another either. So you''d have all these arguments about "I saw a picture of a green-nosed pterydactyl before, so that''s not original or different" and others who say "yeah you''ve seen pictures of kids, but you''d never seen MY kid, so this is different and original".

* This message has been edited by the author on 7/15/2002 12:27:08 PM.
07/15/2002 12:31:40 PM · #5
On the reverse side of this issue, it could be incredibly fun (but a painful and challenging vote) to have a challenge where everyone photographed the same subject. Something simple.. Something everyone has access to... This would challenge your creativity to come up with a photo that would stand out from the rest... It would make one think.. How can I make a photograph of a fork more appealing than anyone else? :)
07/15/2002 12:36:54 PM · #6
now, THAT, i like :) as close to a level playing field as we'll ever get.

Originally posted by jmsetzler:
On the reverse side of this issue, it could be incredibly fun (but a painful and challenging vote) to have a challenge where everyone photographed the same subject. Something simple.. Something everyone has access to... This would challenge your creativity to come up with a photo that would stand out from the rest... It would make one think.. How can I make a photograph of a fork more appealing than anyone else? :)



07/15/2002 01:07:14 PM · #7
Maybe tge "originality theme" may be titled incorrectly. In some ways the weekly challenge is already this idea. Forcing people to stretch their view of the world to fit the challenge produces interesting results.

What I see in a week of "Free Challenge" are folks springing back to areas of comfort and even regressing in technique in some ways. Almost like if you get lazy around the house and don't zip your fly up or comb your hair.

Maybe very restrictive challenges produce more interesting photos?
07/15/2002 01:13:51 PM · #8
i think almost all the pics i submit are pretty 'tweaky' or 'atypical'.

I've done the typical subject matter, and now I want to do things that are new or a new way of seeing things. I don't know if I'm succeeding, and my scores definitely are all over the place.

But 'better to die on your feet than live on your knees' is my motto : )



Originally posted by hokie:
I would LOVE to see this.

Listen..I feel I have some tweaky ways of looking at things but I KNOW YOU GUYS DO TOO!!!! I know it..why?
Because people are weird..period.


07/17/2002 07:18:24 PM · #9
Originally posted by jmsetzler:
On the reverse side of this issue, it could be incredibly fun (but a painful and challenging vote) to have a challenge where everyone photographed the same subject. Something simple.. Something everyone has access to... This would challenge your creativity to come up with a photo that would stand out from the rest... It would make one think.. How can I make a photograph of a fork more appealing than anyone else? :)



I think this is a fantastic idea.
07/18/2002 08:58:31 AM · #10
No.

What may be original or different to one person might be familiar and typical to another. We have too many people from too many different places here to know what's different all around the world.
07/18/2002 12:17:34 PM · #11
I believe most here were thinking of different shots rather than subject matter.
07/18/2002 01:03:05 PM · #12
Originally posted by jmsetzler:
On the reverse side of this issue, it could be incredibly fun (but a painful and challenging vote) to have a challenge where everyone photographed the same subject. Something simple.. Something everyone has access to... This would challenge your creativity to come up with a photo that would stand out from the rest... It would make one think.. How can I make a photograph of a fork more appealing than anyone else? :)


I like this idea, as long as it is a sufficiently interesting 'simple
thing'. Like a fork would be good, but a bar of soap would be kinda dull.

The only problem is the people who have to vote on 150+ images of the same thing :)
07/18/2002 01:05:41 PM · #13
Originally posted by GordonMcGregor:
Originally posted by jmsetzler:
[i]On the reverse side of this issue, it could be incredibly fun (but a painful and challenging vote) to have a challenge where everyone photographed the same subject. Something simple.. Something everyone has access to... This would challenge your creativity to come up with a photo that would stand out from the rest... It would make one think.. How can I make a photograph of a fork more appealing than anyone else? :)


I like this idea, as long as it is a sufficiently interesting 'simple
thing'. Like a fork would be good, but a bar of soap would be kinda dull.

The only problem is the people who have to vote on 150+ images of the same thing :)[/i]

I think this would really test your creativity even more. I like the idea.
07/18/2002 01:11:41 PM · #14
Originally posted by KDJohnson:
Originally posted by GordonMcGregor:
[i]Originally posted by jmsetzler:
[i]On the reverse side of this issue, it could be incredibly fun (but a painful and challenging vote) to have a challenge where everyone photographed the same subject. Something simple.. Something everyone has access to... This would challenge your creativity to come up with a photo that would stand out from the rest... It would make one think.. How can I make a photograph of a fork more appealing than anyone else? :)


I like this idea, as long as it is a sufficiently interesting 'simple
thing'. Like a fork would be good, but a bar of soap would be kinda dull.

The only problem is the people who have to vote on 150+ images of the same thing :)[/i]

I think this would really test your creativity even more. I like the idea.[/i]

I do agree that it would be a very taxing vote... no argument there. i think it would be fun to see who comes up with the most intriguing photo of the specified subject as well... :)


07/18/2002 01:38:35 PM · #15
I would have a photo of myself throwing a fork away, I would title it "Fork Off" ;-)
07/19/2002 07:45:04 AM · #16
DIFFERENCE - Originality

The challeneg would be to come up with something that is Different, attempting to not only have an interesting shot but to have a shot that is different from everyone else's shots. Basically if your picture is not like anyone else's picture you will get some points on this one. [/i]

I like this idea a lot
07/19/2002 07:47:31 AM · #17
Originally posted by jmsetzler:
On the reverse side of this issue, it could be incredibly fun (but a painful and challenging vote) to have a challenge where everyone photographed the same subject. Something simple.. Something everyone has access to... This would challenge your creativity to come up with a photo that would stand out from the rest... It would make one think.. How can I make a photograph of a fork more appealing than anyone else? :)


Hmmmm I like this idea a lot too...some good thinkers here for sure.. :-)
07/19/2002 07:51:48 AM · #18
Originally posted by gr8photos:
[i]now, THAT, i like :) as close to a level playing field as we'll ever get.

Hey speaking of leveling the field...My local photography club is having an interesting competition this monty. We are all being given a disposable camera and are to use it at the club picnic. Should be interesting. I, for one, have often responded to people, when they like my pics and say "wow, you must have a good camera!" I tell them "you can take a good photo with any camera." Well me and my peers will be put to the test.
07/19/2002 08:08:23 AM · #19
Having everyone submit a photo of the same subject in different settings could work out nicely. In a creative photography class of mine the teacher had us all do photos of up to 3 pears. Out of many many students, nobody's pears were even remotely the same. You weren't limited to keeping the pears whole and you could do whatever you wanted to them as long as you could remotely tell that it was a pear in the picture.

Just because people have the same idea for the subject of a picture doesn't mean that we're gonna have 250 identical submissions and the challenge would be boring. I'm sure everyone around here has access to a pear.. or an egg or something of that nature
07/19/2002 08:25:37 AM · #20
I think that the ideas expressed here represent two different challeneges.
07/19/2002 08:29:00 AM · #21
Originally posted by gracious:
DIFFERENCE - Originality

The challeneg would be to come up with something that is Different, attempting to not only have an interesting shot but to have a shot that is different from everyone else's shots. Basically if your picture is not like anyone else's picture you will get some points on this one.


I like this idea a lot[/i]


i think i'm lost on the point of this challenge.. is the point simply to have a photograph that is not of the same subject that anyone else has?
07/19/2002 08:37:12 AM · #22
The point is that everyone has the same subject all represented differently. Essentially you'd have 250 pictures of pears but they'd all be different yet the same. Some ppl might choose to cut up the pears in an interesting way.. someone might choose to throw the pear off a building and photograph the mess. Things like this.
07/19/2002 08:46:06 AM · #23
Originally posted by BigSmiles:
The point is that everyone has the same subject all represented differently. Essentially you'd have 250 pictures of pears but they'd all be different yet the same. Some ppl might choose to cut up the pears in an interesting way.. someone might choose to throw the pear off a building and photograph the mess. Things like this.

I understand this one and i agree with it... I hope it will make it to be a challenge one day...



07/20/2002 04:04:55 PM · #24



i think i'm lost on the point of this challenge.. is the point simply to have a photograph that is not of the same subject that anyone else has?
[/i]

Well I think we will have our monthly competition the following month, and the entries will be exclusively images we captured with the disposables. I'm not sure if, at the picnic, we will be given a theme or not. I think we might. It might be combined with the "savenger hunt" we will be having too. Should be fun.
07/20/2002 04:22:42 PM · #25
Two ideas have been discussed on this thread.

It started out with me suggesting that we have a week in which people go all out to have the most original photograph. This would be trying to do something different, in terms of how you took the picture what it was ect.

The second was to have a single, specific object that everyone would phtograph, attemtping to get something diffewrent out of it.
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