Congrats to all that had a go at Week 2's challenge, here is the instruction for Week 3
"Take a bus. Do the weekly shopping. Pop into a public loo" originally set by Nils Jorgensen
It is up to yourselves on how you interpret the instruction.
Please remember only 1 photo per person (to try and get people to think more about the instruction) and tag it SPN-3, entries must be taken between now and midnight this coming Sunday (27th)
Next Monday the winner of week 2 will choose 5 of their fav's so we can have a vote.
Also, please remember that one of the rules was no camera phone shots
Also you can follow @spn_challenge so the weekly instructions show in your news feed
@chewyteeth@38mm why, out of curiosity? i get it that the cell phone camera is a bit of a cheat in street photography, but i've seen some fairly impressive compositions come off of cell-phone cams (not that i can manage it, but it seems others can)... and hey, no cell phone camera = no vanity license plates... ;p
@northy Because..... I said so :P I agree, I have seen some amazing photo's taken with mobile phones I just don't like them. It's totally irrational I know, but that's the way it is :)
@northy
just think a camera deserves to be its own piece of machinery, not tacked onto the back of a telephone as an extra selling point. Plus I don't like digital zoom, tiny lenses or the automatic processing filters/apps that phone cameras add, meaning that the picture and the post-treatment of it are out of the photographers hands. I think on a photo enthusiasts site like 365 and flickr phones shouldn't be the most widely used tool, sadly they are on both, I think they're indicative of the modern generations and the ethic which is why use a complicated camera when you can just press a button on your phone. The philosophy of least effort and why bother. Maybe someones phone pictures are better than my camera pictures, but I engaged with the scene, I meassured the light, I altered the focus and made some decisions about distance and exposure. I touched on a tradition passed from my father, his father and his father leading back 150 years to a scientific process. If I love photography I use a camera, if I loved washing the pots I wouldn't use a dishwasher, if I loved cycling I wouldn't use a motorbike. I want the effort because the effort is the process - and the process is the fun.
@northy@38mm@chewyteeth I think it's probably a combination: it's about process and the art of photography, but it's also that it's a heck of a lot easier to do a street shot with a cell phone. You can be a lot less obtrusive. The skill (both photographic and otherwise) is to be as bold as @robinwarner. She can do a street shot with her big old camera better than anyone I know. Makes our work all the harder!
I don't even do street photography, I just got caught up in the anti-phonecamera-usage-debate. The streets where I live are uuuugggggllly. Like Belfast in the seventies just without the murals and the flags. If you take a camera or a phone on the streets of Bolton you're asking for trouble, more so a camera that is also a phone, that would just blow their minds. In evolutionary terms the people of Bolton have just stood up, some still have gills. Most people don't speak English and they think you stole their souls if you snap them with the picture box. I shoot models.
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Jase - I use that explanation a lot with my kids... ;p
Dave - I can accept that... altho' i think there may be some room for argument (if a great oil painter draws something fantabulous on the back of a napkin using a ball point pen, is it somehow less than art? is the point and shoot photographer who gets "the shot" less of an artist than the photog who misses it because they are fiddling with the camera settings? )... as a control freak, i prefer to take full responsibility for the quality of my photos (or, practically speaking, the lack thereof!!), so my DSLR travels pretty much everywhere with me these days... however, i have no problem using my iphone camera if i think i will only have nano seconds to catch something...
Laura - I can't compose worth a d**** using my iphone camera, so it doesn't get used for street photos... am now following Robin Warner in the hopes of learning some of her ways of moxy ;p
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no camera phone shots should be a site wide rule.
just think a camera deserves to be its own piece of machinery, not tacked onto the back of a telephone as an extra selling point. Plus I don't like digital zoom, tiny lenses or the automatic processing filters/apps that phone cameras add, meaning that the picture and the post-treatment of it are out of the photographers hands. I think on a photo enthusiasts site like 365 and flickr phones shouldn't be the most widely used tool, sadly they are on both, I think they're indicative of the modern generations and the ethic which is why use a complicated camera when you can just press a button on your phone. The philosophy of least effort and why bother. Maybe someones phone pictures are better than my camera pictures, but I engaged with the scene, I meassured the light, I altered the focus and made some decisions about distance and exposure. I touched on a tradition passed from my father, his father and his father leading back 150 years to a scientific process. If I love photography I use a camera, if I loved washing the pots I wouldn't use a dishwasher, if I loved cycling I wouldn't use a motorbike. I want the effort because the effort is the process - and the process is the fun.
I don't even do street photography, I just got caught up in the anti-phonecamera-usage-debate. The streets where I live are uuuugggggllly. Like Belfast in the seventies just without the murals and the flags. If you take a camera or a phone on the streets of Bolton you're asking for trouble, more so a camera that is also a phone, that would just blow their minds. In evolutionary terms the people of Bolton have just stood up, some still have gills. Most people don't speak English and they think you stole their souls if you snap them with the picture box. I shoot models.
;)
Jase - I use that explanation a lot with my kids... ;p
Dave - I can accept that... altho' i think there may be some room for argument (if a great oil painter draws something fantabulous on the back of a napkin using a ball point pen, is it somehow less than art? is the point and shoot photographer who gets "the shot" less of an artist than the photog who misses it because they are fiddling with the camera settings? )... as a control freak, i prefer to take full responsibility for the quality of my photos (or, practically speaking, the lack thereof!!), so my DSLR travels pretty much everywhere with me these days... however, i have no problem using my iphone camera if i think i will only have nano seconds to catch something...
Laura - I can't compose worth a d**** using my iphone camera, so it doesn't get used for street photos... am now following Robin Warner in the hopes of learning some of her ways of moxy ;p