[immiketoo]

Official BimmerPost Photo Contest #29: Emotion
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RULES:

1. Any interpretation of the theme that falls within Bimmerpost.com rules is welcome.
2. You must be the person that took the photo. Previous photos are acceptable as long as you are the one that captured the image.
3. One submission per contest.
4. Images must be no larger than 800px in any direction. Links to larger images are allowed but you must have one that is under 800px for the poll.
5. All contestants must host their own pictures (which includes hosting them on Bimmerpost).
6. All images must have a title.
7. While post processing in Photoshop is allowed, adding or removing parts of the picture is not. In the event a photo is suspected to be "photo-chopped," the contestant will be asked to provide the original picture.

THEME:
The theme is "Emotion." I mean human emotion, not personification of animals (Sorry, no cute cat pics). Photos may be staged and strangers are acceptable, but the challenge is to capture a real person exhibiting a clearly defined emotion such as joy, rage, hatred, sadness, etc... Also, I would like to see photos of people, not of an image that evokes emotion, although that would be an interesting topic for future contests.


IMPORTANT DATES:

Entries must be submitted to this thread no later than Friday January 21 @ 11:59 PST

Good luck! Since this is my first one, please discuss the theme and let me know if I am way off base here. Thanks!

[Chewy734]

Nice contest Mike! I got a good picture for it (an unstaged one)... just a matter of finding it now.

[immiketoo]

Thanks! I took a few over Christmas that I'm considering but it's hard to choose.

[- Paul -]

Love the theme and think I have one for it.

[Chewy734]

Exhausted.

[UdubBadger]

nice

so let me ask, can there be a montage of images as 1 image (like a set)?

[bluespeed117]

serenity

[Chewy734]

Originally Posted by UdubBadger

nice

so let me ask, can there be a montage of images as 1 image (like a set)?

Like Paul's pic in the last contest?

[- Paul -]

I think he means numerous pics together as one.

[UdubBadger]

a series (diptych, triptych and so on...) such as this
http://c2.api.ning.com/files/FywIWKi...lfPortrait.jpg

[Chewy734]

To me that looks potentially like 3 emotions, and separate ones.

[immiketoo]

I am looking for a singular image to convey emotion. If one look can give multiple emotions, that's fine, but I envisioned only one. It's up to everyone to decide.

[kred]

what's the prize?

[Chewy734]

Originally Posted by kred

what's the prize?

The opportunity to pick a new theme for the next contest.

[UdubBadger]

Inspiration

This was shot on a slide and done as a polaroid tranfer onto a textured card stock.

[Chewy734]

^ cool Seth!

enjoying your photography classes, I see...

[UdubBadger]

Originally Posted by Chewy734

^ cool Seth!

enjoying your photography classes, I see...

shot it a while back as a final project when I took film photo classes (along with 8 others in the series which is why I was asking about multiple images). I only shoot digital now for school. I just really liked the series and never got to really show it so I thought this would be a good time. Most people have never seen a real polaroid transfer.

[Chewy734]

That's cool... yeah, I've never seen a real polaroid transfer.

[Sylon]

Surprise!

[UdubBadger]

^must be holiday weight....

[Chewy734]

Originally Posted by UdubBadger

^must be holiday weight....

could've easily been cropped out of the photo, imo.

[UdubBadger]

yeah but that shirt looks like its holding on for dear life too...