PHOTO CONTEST: Black & White Photography
Our weekly photo contest offers readers the opportunity to win a $25 gift card.
The deadline is today for this week's photo contest: Black and white photography.
Whether you developed the photo in black and white or added a filter to the picture after the fact doesn't matter to us. Anything in black and white is fair game!
We’ll take submissions until 5 p.m. today, Jan. 21. The winner, chosen by Patch editors, will be announced on Jan. 22. The prize? A $25 gift card.
We know it can be hard to choose just one, so you can enter as many photos as you like. If you like a particular photo, tell us in the comments!
Eligibility is limited to legal residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia who are 18 and older.
To upload your photo, just sign in to Patch, click the "Upload Photos and Videos" button on this article, choose a photo you'd like to submit, add a caption, and save.
For full rules, see the PDF attached to this article.
We can't wait to see your photos!
Aimee Blair Federico
6:14 pm on Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Love your photo, Tara Orton! Just beautiful :)
harry platcow
10:40 am on Sunday, January 20, 2013
Susan Licht, I love your photo of what could be a bandstand/gazebo. Did you use a tripod? You were able to catch some fine detail. Great moody photo.
-harry-
Susan Licht
8:03 pm on Sunday, January 20, 2013
Thank you Harry! Yes, that is a gazebo located in a park here in Northborough. I did not use my tripod for this but I did add a little local contrast in post editing and it seemed to bring out a touch more detail.
harry platcow
8:17 am on Monday, January 21, 2013
The detail in the sky is wonderful. It's like you're really there. Photo could be taken in the British moors. Great shot and wonderful post production.
-harry-
Susan Licht
10:56 am on Monday, January 21, 2013
Thank you so much Harry, you made my day!
Paul Bishop
12:24 pm on Monday, January 21, 2013
If you are a commercial or theatrical photographer and enjoy my work, I could really use a bit of part time work! I am also available for specialized portrait photography, with attending makeup and hair artist and stage lighting specialist. My portrait shots above are from my home studio; Adam Clark-Lighting; John Manning-Hair and Makeup. John has twenty five years in stage, print, film and television hair and makeup design.. His clients include Elton John, Andrea Bocelli, Cheech Marin, and Brooke Shields. I am disabled and do my photography both as a form of art therapy, and a way to supplement my disability income when I can. I love doing my volunteer work and Patch "stringer" work, but cash is what keeps the heat on! paul.bishop1@comcast.net
Jim Calarese
5:13 pm on Monday, January 21, 2013
Paul,
I love the two photos you have here. The use of the lighting style of classic Hollywood photogrpher to the stars back in the 30's, George Hurrell, is so refreshing compared to the "stuff" that is called portraiture today. Are you using hot lights or strobes? Best of luck and lots of success.
Jim
Paul Bishop
5:44 pm on Monday, January 21, 2013
Jim, Thanks for the kind words! We've been doing Noire style recently, harkening back to classic Hollywood. A lot of Breakfast at Tiffany's, Blithe Spirit, Bogart and Bacall.
I only use strobes when absolutely necessary.. I feel that using discrete light sources and live balancing gives a feel and flexibility that you just can't get otherwise. Flash only makes sense when you have no other choice, in my opinion. As I also do a lot of the local theater photography, I am quite used to compensation for that type of lighting. I will typically have as many as four PAR cans on the subject, gelled, with another four cans for hair, wash, and accent lighting. Although I use quite a bit of lighting as compared to some, Adam Clark, my lighting guy, is a professional theatrical lighting specialist who has worked many of the larger venues and I trust him implicitly with his own artistry. The results speak for themselves.
You may really enjoy the results of another classic look we will be capturing- Friz Lang's "Metropolis"... Ultra Art Deco.. which I have plans then to morph into a current fad- I have some ideas that will really please the Steampunk crowd if I can do it. More on that part later, as I will be needing to obtain releases to shoot at the location I have in mind....
Paul Bishop
6:02 pm on Monday, January 21, 2013
I'll be doing the stage and promotional photography for the Arts Alliance production of Blithe Spirit, that will be coming up in a few months- but will provide a tremendous opportunity for the style. I'll be shooting their new "mobile gallery" Synergia this coming Thursday night, with a pictorial blogpost here on Patch probably on Friday.
If the stars align, however, I and my ragtag band of misfits will be spending a day shooting new promotional photography and interior artwork shots for the Strand Theater in Clinton, in this Noire style. Right now, we're still trying to figure out how to do it and not go broke in the process... that's a huge space and requires hundreds of thousands of lumens. Strobe may be the only answer, with gelled slaves.