Thank you for voting for my Coffee Patterns shot. I think this is the second time I’ve won an EOTB and it’s a good feeling to have made something not so appealing look interesting.
That means I am your host for the next EOTB challenge! Thank you to April @aecasey for hosting the previous challenge.
The world is full of small wonders which we overlook each day because we are used to what surrounds us. Some of those things are beautiful and others not so. Beauty is all around. David Bailey said:
“It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.
Here is a description of the challenge:
Jeff Walker, who started this challenge quoted Margaret Wolfe Hungerford (who is credited with coining the phrase in 1878) "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder"
The aim of this challenge is to capture something most people would not consider to be beautiful or interesting and find a way to portray it so that it comes across differently and aesthetically. Transform the ugly into something full of wonder!
You can achieve it any way you wish.
This is a great challenge to help with composition and lighting skills. The way you compose the shot or the way you use light will usually bring out the beauty of your subject. It will also help you look at your surroundings differently. It is not a matter of finding something to photograph, but finding a way to photograph something that makes photographing it worthwhile.
There is no specific item or theme for this challenge, but the subject you photograph has to be something that, if people were watching you taking the shot, they would be wondering what on earth has possessed you to photograph something which seems so ordinarily, plain, bland, boring, ugly, etc.
It's not an post-processing or editing (ETSOOI) challenge so a bit of editing is okay, but please don't overdo it.
EOTB96 details
Starts Sunday 6th May 2018
Ends Sunday 20th May 2018
Please make sure your entries are taken and posted during these dates.
I'll select finalists after the end date and set up the voting.
The photographer with the most votes will host the next EOTB.
The tag is EOTB96
You can view entries here: EOTB96 entries
Please, also share your entries to this thread to give others inspiration and keep it visible in the Hot Topics feed!
Good morning, Debs - Please forgive me for being a nag but I would sure hate to see this great challenge get lost in the mix. (You are probably working on the finalists now so ignore this!)
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Hi Wendy
Sorry and thanks for the reminder. I haven't forgotten, I have just been incredibly busy at work since my return for a conference out of the country.
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Of course I don't mind - its good we check up on each other to keep things going! I'm just feeling swamped at the moment - it will clear after today though...
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Hi Wendy
Sorry and thanks for the reminder. I haven't forgotten, I have just been incredibly busy at work since my return for a conference out of the country.
I will finalise votes etc tomorrow, Wednesday. :)
Of course I don't mind - its good we check up on each other to keep things going! I'm just feeling swamped at the moment - it will clear after today though...