Happy Monday everyone, it's a bank holiday over here in the UK so I'm writing this blog post from the comfort of my bed. I hope those that celebrate Easter had a lovely weekend. I'm not the religious type but still took the opportunity to lounge about eating chocolate - always good!
Anyway back to this weeks theme, which was chosen by the lovely lindseying, the winner from the Books theme.
Lindsey emailed me to say she would like this weeks theme to be Diptychs - certainly an interesting choice of theme.
This week I was fortunate enough to stumble upon a returner to 365 who is doing an entire project of diptychs (that’s you, @rivera!). I am so inspired by his work so far. Paired photographs have such a powerful way to produce heightened focus, movement, depth of meaning, and a sense of story. I’d love to see what our community will do with a weekly theme of DIPTYCHS. Happy pairing & sharing!
(For those unfamiliar, picmonkey is a free way to create a diptych through their collage function. I’m sure there are numerous other ways to garner inspiration and the tools to make one.)
How to enter
If you wish to enter the theme this week, please tag your photo (on the edit/organise screen) with the tag theme-diptychs.
Entry Guidelines
Entry to this theme starts on Monday 1st April and will accept entries until Sunday night (23:59 GMT 7th April). 5 finalists will be chosen next week and we'll start voting on Wednesday. Entries must have been taken and uploaded within the time frame only! Entries outside of the date range will not be accepted in to the final 5.
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@btorrey @roachling great! exactly! I'm excited to see the entries for the week.
I'd say yes... But I don't know if it's up to me. I like the option of telling the story of time passage. I'd say at least as long as one part is a picture this week. Great idea!
From my understanding, a diptych is two images placed together and unified by a single theme of some sort. That's where the creativity comes in to play. The images can be paired for SO many reasons. Here are a few that I think work really well:
images paired to-
-show detail in a large scene that might otherwise go unnoticed
- (and vice versa to show a broader scene)
-show contrast
-show similarities
-show the passage of time
-show movement
The list of unifying elements could probably go on and on... but I hope that helps.
If you're feeling like there aren't very many set descriptions or rules, you're right. A lot of creative freedom here. The main idea is to just pair images that you see a connection between.
Here is my diptych, hope the link works, first time posted in a blog :).
My little man Hudson, both photos taken at the same time of the day, eleven years apart...
Mr and Mrs.
Ideal opportunity for this shot as they both were hopping around together.
So would this be a diptych? Still not sure I understand the concept.
Okay...this would be a diptych! Time difference of day and night view!