Weekly Photography Thread - Check out last weeks finalists and see the new theme for this week!
Thank you to @Fiatjeepdriver for kindly setting last weeks theme of 'Water' and for picking 4 finalists. He simply couldn't decide on an overall winner, so I will post 3 here and then one in the newsletter on Tuesday.
Well done everyone! It's brilliant to see everyone's photographs and have the opportunity to pick up tips and ideas.
This week @Chunghauphoto has very kindly agreed to be guest theme setter and judge. Check out the comments below for his theme choice this week.
Have fun everyone!
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Looking fresh 😍😍
Thank You @Deeperblue for asking me to be this week’s guest judge. It’s always a pleasure to see everyone’s watch photos, so to judge is both daunting and an honour. This week’s theme will be ‘Duo”. I look forward to your interpretations of that.
It can be quite daunting for people submit their pictures into things like this, so as a little bonus, for this week - I’ll be available to critique any photos that you would like feedback on. Now, I’m not suggesting for a minute, that I’m any kind of authority on photography and I’ve always maintained that the only opinion that truly matters on any photo, is that of it’s author. During my time as part of a photography club, we had external judges who would visit and pick out winners for various competitions. We would get a score and a critique. The score itself, was just a number/ranking in relation to the other photographs in the competition - pretty meaningless but the critique was invaluable - it offered insights and advice into things we may have missed or not even considered. It really allowed us to ‘improve’ quite dramatically. Of course, not all advice given, is useful/relevant, so I’ll leave it up to you whether you accept it or not.
We can do this in two ways:
1. Privately: DM me your photo and I’ll make a set of notes in my reply
2. In the comments. I think this would be most useful as it may also help others. Just mark the photo ‘For critique’. Please remember that only constructive criticism is offered and any advice offered is only my opinion and is not actually fact.
In the interests of competition, any photograph submitted for critique will not be considered as an entry for this week’s theme.
I look forward to seeing the shots!
Noice.
Hmmm... I might join in on this one…also can we only submit one photo or as many as we can?!
Poppy and me are a duo. Wearing my slimline Seahunter from Geckota in this pic.
A bit route one but I believe they qualify.
Thank You @Deeperblue for asking me to be this week’s guest judge. It’s always a pleasure to see everyone’s watch photos, so to judge is both daunting and an honour. This week’s theme will be ‘Duo”. I look forward to your interpretations of that.
It can be quite daunting for people submit their pictures into things like this, so as a little bonus, for this week - I’ll be available to critique any photos that you would like feedback on. Now, I’m not suggesting for a minute, that I’m any kind of authority on photography and I’ve always maintained that the only opinion that truly matters on any photo, is that of it’s author. During my time as part of a photography club, we had external judges who would visit and pick out winners for various competitions. We would get a score and a critique. The score itself, was just a number/ranking in relation to the other photographs in the competition - pretty meaningless but the critique was invaluable - it offered insights and advice into things we may have missed or not even considered. It really allowed us to ‘improve’ quite dramatically. Of course, not all advice given, is useful/relevant, so I’ll leave it up to you whether you accept it or not.
We can do this in two ways:
1. Privately: DM me your photo and I’ll make a set of notes in my reply
2. In the comments. I think this would be most useful as it may also help others. Just mark the photo ‘For critique’. Please remember that only constructive criticism is offered and any advice offered is only my opinion and is not actually fact.
In the interests of competition, any photograph submitted for critique will not be considered as an entry for this week’s theme.
I look forward to seeing the shots!
It is incredibly kind of you to offer to do this 🙏
I will get to thinking about a photo 👍
Hmmm... I might join in on this one…also can we only submit one photo or as many as we can?!
Me too this week!
I'm not very imaginative though 🤦
Old photo
Ok my first submission…
also old photo
Here’s a pre-existing shot that fits the brief — my watch and my wife’s watch first and foremost, but also both Japan made Solar watches. For contrast, they are competitor brands, one is gold, one is steel, one is dress, one is diver, leather band to steel bracelet also. Masculine and feminine too, in a strictly design sense, though there is something of a Yin Yang thing there, as both are of course unisex — and the diver/chrono dimensions are smaller than usual, as much as the tank was originally a ’male’ design.
Now I must see what else I can rustle up.
(Though there’s two versions of this shot, because having taken one in the evening for fun and photography, I took the shot again the next day for WRUW. The dust build up is impressive between the two.)
Too on the nose 🤣?
@whitesalmon Man, your shot with the waterfalls is fantastic! 🥳🎯💯
And some of my paired Paganis — need to think of some more arty shots rather than looking for catalogue style I think, and also consider the other meanings of duo. Doesn’t necessarily have to be two watches after all…
At least this way I got half a dozen or so shots done this week, instead of accidentally forgetting it again though.
(Edit: Sorry about the thumbprints in shot two. As ever I am working with my iphone and household goods as backgrounds. Usually stationery related if anyone is wondering lol.)