ShutterTalk Digital Photography Contest January 2014: Still Life Objects
Category: Still Life Objects Contest Begins: January 1st, 2014 Contest Ends: January 31st, 2014 Open To: ShutterTalk Digital Photography Forum Members Contest Type: International Photography Contest Prize: Amazon Gift Card (Undisclosed Amount)
Guidelines:
Submit up to three photos of digital photographs showing creative still life views of objects. This can include flowers, food items, household items, and other still objects.
Images must be posted here in this forum thread and be owned legally by the contributing member. Please also submit information about where the photo was taken along with some brief details.
Digital photography entries should be family friendly and be taken within the last 90 days from the date of entry into the contest. A small amount of post processing is preferred. The photograph should be interesting and draw the individual into the scene and have few distractions.
Judging
Judging will consider different criteria including, but not limited to, creativity, relevance to category, and photo quality. Judging will occur when the contest ends and results will be posted in the forums as soon as possible.
Letting Others Know about the Contest
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If you love social media, please share with your media friends about the contest on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, your blogs, everywhere! We would love to have them in here in the forums and be a part of the contests![/align]
Questions?
Please let us know if you have any questions!
Barbara - Life is what you make of it!
(This post was last modified: Dec 4, 2013, 16:15 by Barbara G..)
ShutterTalk Digital Photography Contest January 2014: Still Life Objects
Category: Still Life Objects Contest Begins: January 1st, 2014 Contest Ends: January 31st, 2014 Open To: ShutterTalk Digital Photography Forum Members Contest Type: International Photography Contest Prize: Amazon Gift Card (Undisclosed Amount)
Guidelines:
Submit up to three photos of digital photographs showing creative still life views of objects. This can include flowers, food items, household items, and other still objects.
Images must be posted here in this forum thread and be owned legally by the contributing member. Please also submit information about where the photo was taken along with some brief details.
Digital photography entries should be family friendly and be taken within the last 90 days from the date of entry into the contest. A small amount of post processing is preferred. The photograph should be interesting and draw the individual into the scene and have few distractions.
Judging
Judging will consider different criteria including, but not limited to, creativity, relevance to category, and photo quality. Judging will occur when the contest ends and results will be posted in the forums as soon as possible.
Letting Others Know about the Contest
We would love to let others know about our contests. We plan to have a contest each month. If you have friends who love photography, please let them know!
If you love social media, please share with your media friends about the contest on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, your blogs, everywhere! We would love to have them in here in the forums and be a part of the contests![/align]
A typical definition of "Still Life" work usually describes it as the creation of a picture of a small group of inanimate objects, their arrangement, composition, and lighting being decided and controlled by the photographer. In view of some (possibly most) of the images here so far, some clarification/guidance from a Mod or Judge would be appreciated, thank you.
Thank you for your post. Here is an article which will give more ideas for the still life category suggested. It also has some photos of the past from some different photographers.
Still life represents mostly inanimate objects: 1.Lacking the quality or ability of motion 2. Not being, and never having been alive.
Of course, as with many other areas of photography each person will have their own interpretation of what "still life" is. If you have any other questions, please post them here.
Barbara - Life is what you make of it!
(This post was last modified: Jan 4, 2014, 08:35 by Barbara G..)
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The works of art in that Wikipedia article that you quoted clearly demonstrate to the members that "Still Life" is about the artist selecting, arranging, and lighting a group of inanimate objects, to construct an artistic composition.
Your comments, together with the link you supplied, plus many other Internet references that anyone can consult, have helped to confirm my thoughts, as follows:
There are good images here in this thread, but not by the wildest stretch of the creative imagination, even if the mind is influenced by ill-advised chemical substances , can some (most?) of them possibly be described as being of the "Still Life" genre.
(Jan 4, 2014, 11:53)MrB Wrote: Barbara, thank you for your reply.
The works of art in that Wikipedia article that you quoted clearly demonstrate to the members that "Still Life" is about the artist selecting, arranging, and lighting a group of inanimate objects, to construct an artistic composition.
Your comments, together with the link you supplied, plus many other Internet references that anyone can consult, have helped to confirm my thoughts, as follows:
There are good images here in this thread, but not by the wildest stretch of the creative imagination, even if the mind is influenced by ill-advised chemical substances , can some (most?) of them possibly be described as being of the "Still Life" genre.
Philip
Just checked this Wilkipedia site : it says ; may be either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, or shells)
So perhaps my interperation can remain as shown and in my mind, as a still life.
Jon
Heres the second of my images, this time, I was experimenting with an angle poise light, which is a much warmer light, owing to it being from a tungsten source
This is my third image and in this shot I lit the subject using natural window light and a number of large reflectors to pour light into the shadows on the right hand side of the image
