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april ideas anyone ?

Can we start gathering ideas for what we might do next month ?
For myself I would like to do a 30 Things
I have made a list with 37 topics to choose from

A Sunset
Breakfast
A Mailbox
Something you made/ created
An Instrument

Old/Vintage
A Single Colour
Shoot looking up
Shoot looking down
Reflections

A favourite Food
See through
New/ Modern
Glass
Textures

Celebrations
Pretty Patterns
Negative Space
Arranged
Still Life

Metal
Street Lights at Night
Solid
Minimalism
A Tool/Tools
Comfy /Cosy
Liquid
Black and White
Layered
On the move

Fresh
Thick and Thin
Silhouettes
A Bridge/Crossing
In The Frame
Sharp
In The Middle

of course you may have other ideas to add

Laine

Hi Lynn,

Those are great topics.

But I would like to do a more technical challenge.
Possibilities:
- wide angle: use the widest angle lens you have
- tele: use the longest lens you have
- DoF: playing with depth of field

A combination of your topics and a technical challenge is of course a possibility too.
Kind regards
Maaike

A combination of the two would be nice, I like the list and we have the option of using different lenses and settings

Great i vote for combination!

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I love Laine's list!

I prefer Laine's suggestion. After our Robert Frost challenge I'd like something lighter and not so intense, as in the technical shots.
I've found it quite heavy series and was looking forward for March ending!!
Yes, I did enjoy looking for poems to go with my pics - but it was quite a hard month.
Janice

I really like Laine's list but am happy to go with the flow.

emmelafoto wrote:Hi Lynn,

Those are great topics.

But I would like to do a more technical challenge.
Possibilities:
- wide angle: use the widest angle lens you have
- tele: use the longest lens you have
- DoF: playing with depth of field

A combination of your topics and a technical challenge is of course a possibility too.
Kind regards
Maaike

I like the idea of some kind of "technique" developing theme. I bowed out this month for lack of time and for wanting to experiment with capturing images using my cell phone. I miss the days when I could focus on bettering my craft with some technical challenge verses a theme. I would vote for this but I understand if the majority prefers another topic.

Thanks for floating the idea out there in time for feedback and input Laine.

I'll go with Laine's list. I don't have lenses to choose from.

I'm all for Laine's list and agree with Janice, Robert Frost was a time consuming challenge. I'd be up for combining with lenses too.

emmelafoto wrote:Hi Lynn,

Those are great topics.

But I would like to do a more technical challenge.
Possibilities:
- wide angle: use the widest angle lens you have
- tele: use the longest lens you have
- DoF: playing with depth of field

A combination of your topics and a technical challenge is of course a possibility too.
Kind regards
Maaike

I vote for a combination of Laine's topics and Maaike's technical challenge, a "Technical Scavenger Hunt."

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So if we did a combination of the two suggestions (Laine's list + technical application), would that mean selecting only one lens type for the entire month?

Or could we us a wide angle on some, telephoto on others, and maybe even a macro here and there? (Which is what I always seem to do anyway, regardless of the selected challenge topic).

I haven't done a challenge for a couple of months and feel like I'm ready to jump in again ....... just want to understand what the rules will be for this one.

Regards,
Janet

A combination of the two would be good, but some don't have other lens.
I do - but I also like to use my point and shoot camera sometimes, and also my mobile camera
So it'll have to be set out very clearly as to what and how we are to do this series.
Janice

I too have wide, tele and macro lenses and happy to use any of them..Maaike do you have something particular in mind as to how you want to create a Technical Challenge ?

A long time ago we did "Through a wide lens".
For this challenge we only (!) used the widest angle lens we had. In my case: I only used my Zuiko 7-14 mm, and only at 7 mm.
http://form.pbase.com/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=41178

We can do that again .... or .... we can go the opposite: use the longest. In my case that would be Zuiko 50-200 mm at 200 mm.

When you have only one lens with fixed focus .... well .... you can only use that focus length anyway.

When you have only one lens, but it is a zoom ..... for instance a 14-150 mm, you only use 14 mm when we all go for the widest angle, of 150 mm when we all go for the longest.

I don't mind: widest of longest.

I hope I explained well enough.

Kind regadrs
Maaike