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Weekly Photo Contest: 19–26 February: Retro

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Welcome to this week's photo contest! :)

Theme: Retro

You guys produce sharp, modern, crisp, light, colourful works of art to die for. This time I want you to go old school, go washed out, go muted colours, go selective soft focus, go lomo, go retro but mostly? go have fun.

(I will be travelling on the 26th and will close the competition at 8pm GMT that day. Target C&C and results on 27th during day GMT)


Rules:
  • Be creative and have fun.
  • You may only submit one photo per contest.
  • Please do not comment on photos until after the judging has taken place.
  • The contest runs for one week, starting NOW! (see time/date stamp at the start of this thread.)
  • At the end of the week, The Judge (last week's Winner) will choose a 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place photo, providing as much feedback as possible.
  • The 1st place Winner will start a new thread with the topic/theme of their choice, and act as the Judge for that contest. (Winner has 48 hours to create new theme, after that it defers to 2nd place).
 
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Great idea @kenoh Just to clarify, do you prefer photos in that style using modern cameras to show what can be done? How do scanned old images fit the brief?
 
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Laird Knox said:
I've been shooting lately with my 120 year old 8x10, is that retro enough? ;)
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I would love to see output from it. Hell, I would like to see pictures OF it!
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Ish said:
Great idea @kenoh Just to clarify, do you prefer photos in that style using modern cameras to show what can be done? How do scanned old images fit the brief?
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So. Honestly I am being somewhat open on purpose. At work, I am continually fascinated at how you can say something to a group of people, and half the room will interpret it one way, the other half another. So I find it interesting to see this interpretation manifest itself.

The challenge this week is like this. I am looking for pictures that embody retro. They can be a retro wash on a new photo to make it look like it was taken a long time ago or it can be an image taken a long time ago or it can be an image of something that IS retro.

I suppose I am being cruel by being intentionally broad.

What I am not looking for is 1970s beach holiday photos of us all in a more innocent time.

For example, MacRy strapping a 50 year old lens on a modern camera, or stillcrazymans pictures of decaying doors and old tools... :)

And it doesnt have to be on a grand scale. Finding beauty in the ordinary is of great interest to me.
 
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kenoh said:
I would love to see output from it. Hell, I would like to see pictures OF it!
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So. Honestly I am being somewhat open on purpose. At work, I am continually fascinated at how you can say something to a group of people, and half the room will interpret it one way, the other half another. So I find it interesting to see this interpretation manifest itself.

The challenge this week is like this. I am looking for pictures that embody retro. They can be a retro wash on a new photo to make it look like it was taken a long time ago or it can be an image taken a long time ago or it can be an image of something that IS retro.

I suppose I am being cruel by being intentionally broad.

What I am not looking for is 1970s beach holiday photos of us all in a more innocent time.

For example, MacRy strapping a 50 year old lens on a modern camera, or stillcrazymans pictures of decaying doors and old tools... :)

And it doesnt have to be on a grand scale. Finding beauty in the ordinary is of great interest to me.
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So anything from my wardrobe will be fine! :D
 
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kenoh

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Warming up already! Maybe I should have chosen an easier subject to judge!

Looking interesting so far.
 
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Hughmac said:
Yeah, but I wish they wouldn't bring out their best ones so early in the competition.

Cheers :)

Hugh
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Ah but here's the rub. I am a special kind of crazy and you don't know what kind of mood I will be in by close of comp. They are good images so far. Right now at time of writing I have my top three - because there are only three posts :)

However that is not to say you wont post something that will resonate with me more than these do.

The thing is, you won't know unless you try... Doesn't hurt to have a bash and even if you don't get a podium finish, at least you will have had a go at a different style that you may not do when left to your own very capable devices. I will feel like I failed everyone if we don't all at least have a go.

And BTW! I am not responsible for anyone posting a portrait of their other half implying that by their age they qualify as retro! Thats all on you if you do that! :)
 
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Yosemite Valley 1994. I shot on slide and scanned. The original is a color slide. Then I made it retro :) The original also had some grain but I added more.

Why I choose this one - basically I thought about to give the retro a certain spin and I thought of Ansel Adams. Well his doesn't look so retro and there is a thunderstorm.

--> One question here. I figured from the discussion between Ish and kenoh that it is fine to post pictures from the past and that we do not go out every week to find the picture for the contest, right?
 
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Exactly. While archive shots are cool. The idea is to get you out shooting and trying something new.
 
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