52 Week Challenge: Week 6 / Feb 4th – Inspiration: #NoFilter

[Mel]

Hi all,

Tomorrow, Monday February 4th brings us into Week 6 of the Dogwood Photography 52 Week Challenge, and the theme for this week is:

Inspiration: #NoFilter
No limit on what you shoot this week, as long as the image is pure. No filters, presets or other edits. Basic exposure corrections only this week.

About the Inspiration category:
“In this wide-open category, we start with a simple inspiration. Use this inspiration as creatively as you can. There are no rules so feel free to think outside of the box.”

Use the tag 52wc-2019-w6 when you’re uploading your images to 365, along with any of the following tags which are recommended on the Dogwood Photography challenge page here

dogwood52
dogwood2019
dogwoodweek6

And of course, do feel free to share your photos here in the comments.

Images tagged for Week 6 can be seen here

New to 365? Or just looking for a new challenge? Anyone can take part in the 52 Week Challenge and all are welcome – find out more and see the master list of themes for the year on our original discussion thread here

The 52 Week Challenge has been created by Dale Foshe and the wonderful community at Dogwood Photography

It’s now in it’s fourth year and has thousands of participants from all around the world – please do take the time to click through for full information about this and previous year’s challenges, more ways to share online, and more info about the challenge’s creators. I’ve been in touch with Dale to let him know that we’re following along here on 365 and he’s happy to have us join in. Theme and category descriptions and instructions come directly from the challenge page here
Every week, I’ll post a reminder of the coming week’s theme - if you’d like to be notified when these are posted, drop me a comment below so that I can tag you.

Have fun! 😊

[Mel]

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[JackieR]

Basic corrections is that the +/- ev button?

[Mel]

@30pics4jackiesdiamond yes I assume that's what he means - I usually shoot in manual and control exposure that way, and then apply any further tweaks later in Lightroom, but I found this article about using exposure compensation in other shooting modes, so I think I'll be doing a little experimenting myself to see if it makes a difference :)
https://digital-photography-school.com/how-to-use-exposure-compensation-to-take-control-of-your-exposure/

[JackieR]

Thanks Mel

[Ontiveros]

would like to join. even though is week 6. a reminder every week would be great!

[☠northy]

i find this prompt confusing... so sooc apart from exposure? no sharpening, straightening, cropping, balancing? can i mess with contrast? ok - i realize that you don't know the answer and i'm not really expecting you to... just saying that i'm confused! being asked to shoot "sooc" would be easier!!!

[Shutterbug]

I don’t know how to combine this week’s theme (no editing, filters, etc.) with the February month long challenge of flashofred2019.

[Mel]

@northy It is confusing! I think #nofilter is just the cool kids way of sayiing 'sooc' nowadays :P He says no filters, presets or other edits, so I'd be inclined to think that includes contrast, sharpening etc., but I reckon basic cropping and straightening are fine.

I rarely used exposure compensation while shooting before but this week's prompt has me shooting in AP mode and adjusting exposure as I go, which I'm assuming is what he means.

I'm also taking it that a straight conversion to black & white is fine if you've shot in colour.

I had a peep on the Dogwood website to see if there were any further explanations or comments, but I couldn't see any...

[Mel]

@shutterbug49 I always find it tricky combining challenges, but in a way this week's dogwood theme is a good one to combine with the flash of red textures theme, because you can use lighting that emphasises a texture while you're shooting instead of having to rely on editing later. I've taken to using my camera's black & white mode while shooting, but I can't shoot B&W with my cellphone camera, so I'm converting the images to black & white after, and resisting the temptation to tweak anything else such as contrast or structure etc!