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The Weekly Photography Challenge –

BlackAndWhite
A Post By: Sime

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Last week I ru ed some proverbial feathers and made sure to mention that we
want you to go out and make a NEW photo for this challenge, which is kinda
the point of a ‘challenge‘ as there really isn’t a lot that’s challenging about dipping
into your Lightroom catalogue and pulling out a photograph from 1984, is there?

This week your challenge theme is #dPSBlackAndWhite (Or, mostly B&W)

Omaha Beach
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Ideally, being digital photography SCHOOL we want you all to push yourselves with
‘easy’ themes that you have to spend a little time THINKING about how to make an
awesome image! THat’s the goal, but, we get it – some people can’t, and so that’s
why it’s not a ‘Rule’ it’s more of a guideline. So, that little gem of information out of
the way, let’s get on with this week’s challenge which is B&W or, more commonly
‘Black and White’ which we haven’t done for a good while and I thought it might be
good to see how you’ve progressed!

B&W Portraits | Still Life | Street | Headshots | …but HOW? click here for a post
that might help.

This is Battersea Calling

Because I just had a little mini-rant about making this a new photograph and so on,
I popped the camera on the tripod and photographed my guitars – they’ve made
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their share of grunge-type noises, so I opted for a messy gritty B&W conversion in
Lightroom. You can use many di erent was to convert your photograph to B&W if
you shoot it colour in raw, or just use the B&W lters (if your camera has them)
options in your camera – most cameras have a ‘creative’ set of lters including
B&W.

One thing I have always loved in a B&W image is higher contrast (as is evident) the
photo of Battersea Power station and the tree (I like trees, huh) at Omaha Beach
are older, depicting my love for gritty, contrasty B&W through the years, and the
one below was taken about an hour ago, here in my o ce. ANyways, enough
about me, let’s see what YOU have for B&W theme challenge this week. (Read on
below for instructions on how to post)

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Washburn, Washburn, Music Man, Washburn

Great! How do I upload my photos?

Upload your photo into the comments eld (look for the little camera icon in the
Disqus comments section below this post) and they’ll get embedded for us all to
see. Or, if you’d prefer, upload them to your favourite photo-sharing site and leave
the link to them.

Share in the dPS Facebook Group

You can also share your images in the dPS Facebook group as the challenge is
posted there each week as well.

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Sime
(aka #gtvone) is the customer support manager for dPS, and lead blogger in
our Cameras and Gear Blog. He’s a Melbourne based photographer,
www.gtvone.com and please feel free to follow him on Twitter and
Instagram.

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Pkurhi Euyr > LookSkyWokker • 7 hours ago

Beautiful capture! Grossly over processed result.
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Pkurhi Euyr > Dave Watkins • 7 hours ago

Beautiful, although a little bit claustrophobic. Space is needed around. IMHO.
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CHINMOY BISWAS • 12 hours ago

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Phil Newman • 13 hours ago

Abandoned church in central Oregon

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Farron Brougher > Phil Newman • 11 hours ago

What a coincidence! I live in NW OR and found this church on a road trip late last
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Phil Newman > Farron Brougher • 6 hours ago

Farron,
That must have been a great surprise to find it again, this time on your PC. I too
live in NE OR. McMinnville! Where are you?
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LookSkyWokker • a day ago

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Pkurhi Euyr > LookSkyWokker • 7 hours ago

Love it. Please pay attention to Moire in the center pattern.
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Costas Daoultzis • 7 hours ago

River flow in panoramic mode

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Costas Daoultzis • 7 hours ago

River flow in panoramic mode.

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Sandy • 7 hours ago

Hoodoos at Paint Mines in Calhan, Colorado

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Pkurhi Euyr > Sandy • 7 hours ago

I love the photo in spite of clear signs of over processing. The whole is more than the
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Jack Eells • 9 hours ago

Assisi, Italy

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Jack Eells • 9 hours ago

Jordan Pond, Acadia National Park

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zoomzoomj • 10 hours ago

A field of yellow tulips converted to black&white.

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Dave Watkins • 10 hours ago

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Andy Rice • 11 hours ago • edited

#dPSBlackAndWhite

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Andy Rice • 11 hours ago • edited

#dPBSBlackAndWhite
Autumn at the Dam!
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Don • 11 hours ago

La Push on the North Olympic Peninsula, WA

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Soaring Paso Robles

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David • 11 hours ago

Murrels Inlet, SC
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Phil Newman > CHINMOY BISWAS • 11 hours ago

What a lovely image, great technique, tonality as well as content. I like it a lot...thanks
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CHINMOY BISWAS > Phil Newman • 8 hours ago

Thank you so much Phil Newman.
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Gerry Q • 13 hours ago

New photograph
Main subjects conform to the theme
Thinking outside the box or missing the target of the challenge ?
I'll let others decide
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SurfLifeImages • 14 hours ago

Tropical Rain - Puerto Viejo - Costa Rica

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Farron Brougher > kenneth • 10 hours ago

Excellent, complex composition, reminds me of Sebastiao Salgado.
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