Theme: A Road and A Building - ends 8pm 9th March 2011

Weekly black and white challenge

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cattyal (e2 Member)

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3 Mar 2011 - 8:44 AM

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Ok – Weekly Black and White Group challenge time again.

This time I’m giving you a broad choice – all the image has to feature is a road/street and at least one building. Any location at all – where you live, in town, industrial estates, absolutely anywhere. If you want to concentrate on an item ie. lamp-post, pillar box and have the rest out of focus that’s fine – just as long as the road and building can be seen.

All I ask however is that you switch your camera mode to black and white so that means no use of the optical viewfinder and lcd screen only so that you’re not distracted by pretty colours and have to pay attention to shades of grey. I’m hoping that at some point over the next week there will be some bits of sunshine to give some nice shadows, maybe a chunk of light coming through an alley with shadow either side – a nice mix of light and dark.

Of course I shall have to trust you on this and yes, I know it’s generally considered better to convert from a colour file, but I want to concentrate the mind – it’s quite an entertaining exercise.

As usual images to be taken and uploaded between now and 8pm on Wednesday 9th March 2011.

cattyal (e2 Member)

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3 Mar 2011 - 11:28 AM

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Very neat to look at but I'd hate to live there!

cattyal (e2 Member)

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3 Mar 2011 - 6:03 PM

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and what would you class as a building in the middle of an ocean? an oil rig?

cattyal (e2 Member)

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3 Mar 2011 - 6:29 PM

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oh good grief Next time I run a challenge (assuming there is a next time) I'm going to get you all to photograph a house brick

Andy_Cundell

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3 Mar 2011 - 7:38 PM

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if its a brick from a shed, is that a house brick or a shed brick?

Scutter (e2 Member)

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3 Mar 2011 - 10:26 PM

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Quote: If its a brick from a shed, is that a house brick or a shed brick?

ahh no; a shed brick is one that has fallen off a building

I will really try hard to take part this week!!

Sandgrouse (e2 Member)

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3 Mar 2011 - 10:59 PM

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Quote: I can see total confusion arising out if this thread continues like this and who knows what entries will appear

Does it have to be an 'A' road or can it be a B road, unclassified road or Motorway

Andy_Cundell

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5 Mar 2011 - 4:33 PM

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So, I found the 'monochrome' setting on my D90, went out and took loads of photo's, came home, uploaded them on to the computer, went to open them in Photoshop and they all come out in colour!

I checked with live view that they were in B&W and after I took each photo!