Thread: May Prompts Challenge begins

pictogramx......there's no one "right" way. My plan (totally not thought out at all) is to go out walking with a couple of the "easier" ones in mind and try to get a few shots for each, and one challenging one to be my main focus. And hopefully, I'll bag the tough one, but if not, I'll get some contenders for the other ones. There's certainly no rush to post if you're not happy with any. Having said that, I certainly don;t expect to get 37 masterpieces. I'm hoping for 2 really great ones, 10 pretty good ones, 10 that aren't quite right, but show promise and around 15 that could have been shot by a monkey with a camera.

The most important part is to get out and get shooting. I find that while I'm on the forum or reading reviews or the classifieds, I get zero great shots ;)

Originally Posted by Luke

I wanted to leave a comment on the photo in the gallery, but there was no comments box.

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This is going to be a tough one. There are some very challenging themes in the list.

Cheers,

Antonio

Originally Posted by pictogramax

What is your strategy? Posting one as soon as you have it, check it off and move on?

There is no real contest here, just a friendly exercise with fellow members that will help to train our eyes and get us out shooting. Still, I don't want to put boring snapshots up either. My technique if you want to call it that is that we have a month to do this. I am going to check off the list as I find suitable photos to represent each prompt, however, I am not going to post them until I'm near to end of month just in case I come up with something I feel is better executed, processed, etc. If I nail one then I will post it immediately. This is by the way more exercise for the photographer as 37 topics is already a lot [not to mention processing], however, if I am going to make an effort then I might as well make an effort. I have done these kinds of challenges so often [just not in such a compressed time] that I could probably crack the list in few days or so otherwise. So I am aiming, personally, for doing my best, not just completing it. --and hoping there aren't too many monkey shots when I am done.

Also adding that I don't live in a very scenic area so there won't be beautiful sunsets over mountains or glorious sunrises over grassy fields. But the list allows for interpretation and is quite broad so that should make a difference. You have to figure that many of these like "in the kitchen", "food and drink", simpler things like "black" or "10pm", "patterns" can really be done in the home if desired. That is good for the rainy days. Get outside and get those others, the more obscure ones, whenever opportunity presents.

Originally Posted by Luke

... around 15 that could have been shot by a monkey with a camera.

That's all I got on a quick outing this morning. I'll hold off on posting for a few days and see what else turns up!

Look - you going to post 36 shots - if you "pontificate" over everyone you shoot trying to be achieve perfection, you'll never post anything

IMHO - Just shoot a few that day, choose one, post it and move on

Hm, maybe my choice of word "strategy" gave the impression I'm taking all this as a battle That was not what I meant, like what strategy one could use to win Me also, I see this as challenging myself and not other contestants.

What I was curious about was if the eventual first outing eventually influenced you. For example, I really liked the idea of shooting all this on a roll of film and even dusted out my Yashica.
But even though a workflow where I'm capturing prompt by prompt not even knowing what I already got seemed very tempting to me, I decided to back off.
After a moment of being sincere with myself, I had to admit that I have no idea how much time it would take me to scan and process all the shots.
I can squeeze an image here and there between all the things I have to do daily, but doing them all at once is not realistic and could drag to July or August. Which kind of defeats the purpose

I'm not trying to impose any 'right" way on anybody, I was just thinking out loud. But OK, decided to stop thinking and just roll along - so I posted my first

Whose incomprehensible impossible idea was this anyway ? ... I've got a sheet of paper with 37 concepts written on it, of which I can't make head nor tail ... and I can't find a monkey with a camera anywhere ... bloody hell ...

Originally Posted by pdh

Whose incomprehensible impossible idea was this anyway ? ... I've got a sheet of paper with 37 concepts written on it, of which I can't make head nor tail ... and I can't find a monkey with a camera anywhere ... bloody hell ...

I hope that this is not going to turn out to be a "grumpy old men" Challenge!

Just posted my first. I've been saving this daffodil since I saw death on the list. Now I can throw it out.