EOTB was the first challenge I ever had a go at when I joined this wonderful site (a few years ago now) - if you've never tried, please do give it a shot. Thanks for voting for my picture of the tipsy, gossipy ashtray holders - and for picking the finalists @farmreporter.
In the words of Jeff Walker, the creator of this challenge, "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" (quoting Margaret Wolfe Hungerford who is credited with coining the phrase in 1878).
Your objective in this challenge is to catch something most people would not consider to be beautiful, and find a way to capture it so that it comes across beautifully. You can achieve it any way you wish. This challenge will help you with your 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. Everything is potentially a beautiful photograph. It is not a matter of finding something to photograph, but finding a way to photograph something that makes photographing it worthwhile.
There is not a specific item or theme for this challenge. The only rule is that the subject you photograph has to be something that, if people were watching you photograph it, they would be wondering what has possessed you to photograph something which seems so plain, bland, boring, ugly, etc. Beauty is where you find it, and it is all around you. Train your eye to see things differently.
Have been a little late setting this up so entries starting 5th June accepted -
challenge closes 20th June - all entries should be taken and posted within this time frame. I will then have the tough job of selecting finalists for you all to vote for and then the winner gets to host the next challenge.
Tag your entries: eotb83 and feel free to copy them to this thread to keep it current.
@gozoinklings Thank you. How did you do it? When I know, I can do it myself next time :-)
Haha, I did it! I did exactly the same as I did with the first pic, but now it worked!
So now I don't have to bother you with that anymore ;-)
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here is your entry - i copied it here for you as you were having problems :o)
Haha, I did it! I did exactly the same as I did with the first pic, but now it worked!
So now I don't have to bother you with that anymore ;-)