Ok, so here we all are, we all now that one day soon, a new challenge will be launched and I am thinking.

How often do our members sometimes open up a challenge that we have launched and think – yeah, I like it, but I wish they would have gone with “This”, or That”.

My bet is plenty of times, and I would be interested to know just what those thoughts would be – so here is your chance – Tell us what your ultimate challenge theme would be.

This is purely for fun, but I wouldnt rule out the chance of us maybe picking up on any ideas in here too :)

Jul

How about a color..

Or a shape..

Maybe a scav hunt. Give a list of a few things and we need to find them and make an image, take a photo or submit a written piece with the list mentioned..

Maybe Food? There’s a food group out there, with some amazing artwork on it, and this challenge has the scope to have a wide range of images

Oooh yes – forget what I said – I like the scav hunt idea. I think something that gets people to actually go out and think about what they’re going to post, or put up something they normally wouldn’t would be great.

Food hahahaha no spam allowed …....................ooooooooooopps sorry could not resist

LOL Blamo – go to the corner right now, and write 500 lines – I will not stir the pot.

Embino – we have already done food. Some of the entries for Challenge 6 can be seen Here

Sorry – must do homework before posting!

My suggestion for this group would be to have specific challenges… for instance, instead of broad “water” comp.. it could be water droplets.. Instead of b&w it could be Portraits in B&W, or even more specific Faces instead of portrait.
I am thinking this because the group is so large and the work so varied in the current competitions that it is hard to vote on a favorite even though they are all in b&w.
Instead of having “Flowers” as a competition you could have a specific flower, or a specific color flower, or even a macro of a specific color of flower….
Anyhow, these are just examples and not to be taken literally. Just an idea to make the challenges more specific. It would limit entries, that is true, but it would also give those who didn’t have an entry to vote clearly unbiased, or to think outside their usual photos and try to capture that specific photo.
Thats probably not very helpful but just a thought…. it’s late here and I’ve had a hard day so excuse me if it doesn’t make sense.

Okay, I’ve been a part of a group where we took turns coming up with a title for a pic that would be submitted for the next week. I believe we started with “Solitary”...we all had a week to come up with an image that could use that word for it’s title. The fun thing was that we had a real range of ideas that came out of this…solitary confinement…single things…card games…etc. We had “Forgotten”, “Strength”, “Anticipation”, etc…all terms that may give you an immediate idea but when you think on it for a while you realize you could interpret it many ways. We also had a “Guess what movie this is” contest where we each photographed things or scenes that pertained to a movie and then had a blast trying to see if we could stump each other!

Anyway, it was a lot of fun and maybe it would be fun to try it here. Just a thought.

Leslie

I have recently gotten my road train licence which has upset one specific friend of my husband. His exact words were “it’s not fair, I am a bloke and a truck driver and I should of got mine first”, he is in fact a forklift operator who is a crap driver and now bitter too. Anyway he is compleately “jaded”. I think that his attitude and the controversy of the last few days in challenge cafe, this could be a fun project!
So my choice for the next challenge could be “Jaded” which is to be made dull, apathetic or cynical by experience or by surfeit (surfiet is going beyond what is proper, usual or needed).
Hope you know what I mean, I don’t think I do any more!

Amanda

I like Rachel Leigh’s suggestion:

“_Instead of having “Flowers” as a competition you could have a specific flower, or a specific color flower, or even a macro of a specific color of flower….”“

. . . although not just for flowers, it could be applied to any category, i.e., buidlings (say buid,ings with lots of glass, or lots of columns, etc.), Landscapes (lots of hills, or valleys, etc.), this sort of thing.

Rachel’s suggestion gets a big thumbs up from me.

I participate in some challenges on the Sony Talk forum over at dPreview. I copied a list of the different subjects they had for future reference.
It is tricky to find a subject that is not too general but also not too specific. You could run a challenge for a specific flower but if that flower only grows in France…

I like “Abandoned” as subject. While being somewhat generic it is also fun to see how people interpret such a subject.

01. Beside the Seaside
02. Spring has Sprung
03. Dwellings
04. Faces
05. Local Communities
06. All Creatures Great and Small
07. Patterns
08. A young Child
09. Spirituality
10. Weather
11. Panoramic
12. Signs
13. The Capture
14. Emotion
15. Famous Art
16. Holiday Favorites
17. Things in Rows
18. The New Ordinary
19. Machinery
20. Embraced by the Sun
21. Ceilings
22. Cars
23. Infrared
24. Serene
25. All Things Made New
26. Silhouettes
27. Cemeteries
28. Negative Art
29. Sepia
30. Sky Art
31. In Your House
32. B&W Landscapes
33. Power
34. Garden Guardians
35. Wood
36. The Blues
37. Time
38. Autumn
39. Discovering the Low Light World
40. A Hundred Years From Now
41. Circles and Curves
42. It’s Christmas Time
43. Food
44. Its All About the Love
45. Getting away from it All / Travel
46. Abstracts
47. Close Encounters
48. Relaxation
49. Blooming Blossoms and Flowers
50. Architecture and Structures
51. Reflections
52. Hills and Mountains
53. Black and White
54. Parallel Lines
55. Unusual Perspective
56. Junk
57. Peace and happiness
58. Dancing Bodies
59. Shadow-Play
60. Colorful People
61. Trade Marks
62. Rust and Peeling Paint
63. Mushrooms
64. Waterfalls
65. Festivity
66. Hands
67. Older vs. Younger
68. Caught Sleeping
69. Leaves
70. Alliteration
71. Fountains
72. Motion Blur
73. The Everyday and the Mundane
74. From Dusk Til Dawn
75. The Gift of Flight
76. The Haze
77. Water Abstracts
78. Ducks
79. Animal Emotion
80. Sizzling Hot Sunsets
81. Ice
82. OUT with the OLD and IN with the NEW
>> 83. ??? (skipped?)
84. Faces in Nature
85. Your Hobbies Other Than Photography
86. Your Best
87. Where in the World…
88. Worshipers and Places of Worship
89. Vulnerability
90. Favorite Smells
91. Make a Joyful Noise!
92. Baby it’s Cold
93. Self-Portrait
94. From Behind
95. The Crack of Dawn
96. Treemendous
97. Don’t Fence Me In
98. The Roads We Travel
99. Abandoned

I like “Abandoned” as subject. While being somewhat generic it is also fun to see how people interpret such a subject.

I loveeee that!!!

Thanks for all the suggestions guys!

I think a good subject would be eyes and just not peoploes eyes. Animals would be interesting too. But just the eyes, Not even the face.

Specific rule for one of the running challenges: Picture must be taken during the challenge period. i.e. No digging through your personal stock library. A number of the challenge sites enforce this (if you feel the need to check rather than trust) by insisting that the meta data accompany the picture.

I really like short challenges. You know, you have 24 hours in which to take and submit an image of…. oh, something like…. A Toilet Flushing, A Supermarket Display, An Old Car…... Great fun, especially on a Friday when you’re fidgety and don’t feel like working. Gets the creative juices flowing.

that’s a nice idea DaBimage but what about people who use film? no metadata with film…..

I’d like to see something gutsy. By gutsy I mean creating a space were more fringe images would get a look see. At the moment I would imagine than ‘nice’ images are coming to the surface and more edgy ones are somehow sitting in the back seats(although brilliant images and and great work in themselves). This kind of challenge would insist on quirky, insist on subversive and insist on ‘unsafe’ v’s safe images. I wonder if this is clear?

@Juilee that’s a nice idea DaBimage but what about people who use film? no metadata with film…..

Just post that it’s taken with film and incluede the info. I’m happy with the ‘trust’ thing. It’s the fun and challenge I’m all for. This kind of challenge caters for those who want to practice working to contract/assignment: “You must come up with a fantastic/creative image of ‘this’ by ‘then’ ”.

Like Robert’s idea too.

Regarding the metadata. From “another thread”;http://www.redbubble.com/groups/redbubble/forums/9/topics/14335-ipct-data

“we strip all exif / ipct data from uploaded images for all images because they drastically impact the size of the resultant file.”

We = Redbubble

Regarding the metadata. From “another thread”:http://www.redbubble.com/groups/redbubble/forums/9/topics/14335-ipct-data

Great ideas folks, love the interaction going on in here.

DBimages. The idea of quickie challenges is good, and we could use that – although onnly for now and then. We have painters and other artists who can’t produce things quickly to think about as well within the group, and they have to be considered, so for instance, if we ran a challenge in the format of quick photography, we would later have to run a challenge for painters only [or other aritsts in the same boat] to keep it fair.

Yep, thanks I get that. Would offer to assist but I only have a small number of posts.

How about a motion challenge? It is especially difficult to do that in photography. Or how about Ghosts or Myths? That would probably include models, but they can be found.

Well said Julie…I aint no photographer as you know..I can do a snap..but nothing on a par with Real Photographers..so Painting has to be given a chance…not that I could even do that at the moment..lol!!

@ Lynn – Motion has been done. See some of the entries here but I love the ghosts idea :)