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LVPC Photo Challenge

Welcome to the LVPC Monthly Photo Challenge

The LVPC monthly Photo Challenge is a great way for all members to get involved and share images with the club. This year, the photo challenge topics have been selected in hopes of encouraging all members to become more thoughtful photographers while increasing photographic knowledge and sparking creativity.

We've never met a photographer who didn't hope to become "better" at their craft. Our hope is that the challenges will help novice photographers advance beyond the snapshot as well as inspire more advanced artists to pick up their camera and and explore photographic possibilities with purpose.

New challenges will be introduced in a monthly email. The challenges are meant to be fun for all and noncompetitive. All members are invited to submit THREE images for each challenge. Simply upload your images to a personal album and tag the with the tag indicated in the email. The tags allow us to find your images for display. You will find the tag in the pulldown tag menu when you upload your images. Your images will be compiled at the end of the challenge and displayed in an album on this website and on the private LVPC Facebook page. Only THREE images per photographer will be displayed in each albums so show us your best work.

While submitting images from your archives is allowed, we hope that you'll take the opportunity to pick up your camera and get shooting. Consistent practice is the best path to improving as a photographer. You are also welcome to use creative techniques and processing to fully represent your photographic style.

We hope that you will find these challenges engaging and enjoyable. We look forward to seeing your images!

All Challenge Participants will be entered for our Photo Challenge Raffle:
Each month we will award a $25 gift card to one lucky challenge participant! Every member who submits at least ONE image for the challenge will be entered to win. The winner will be chosen by random drawing and can choose a $25 gift card from Dan's Camera City, B&H Photo, or Amazon.

Current Theme

May Photo Challenge

Photography Projects

Our April speaker Jennifer Renwick gave a deeply inspirational presentation on the power of photography projects. She spoke at length about the benefit of working within a project framework to grow creatively as a photographer. Working in projects allows the creator to strongly communicate their personal vision of a place, subject or genre with their viewers.

Photographs by Katherine Fisher

Approaching a project can help a photographer to break through a creative block, inspire experimentation, as well a sharpen the photographer's eye to see beyond the obvious. Jennifer’s detailed discussion of the hows and whys of project work is not to be missed. The recording is available until May 16 and members received the link in their recording available email.

Photo projects have no real limits. They can be on any subject or theme and can include any number of images. The starting point can be an idea or concept or an archive image. The primary premise is for the photographer to explore a subject or idea and present a collection of images that communicate more together than a single image does alone. The collection should invite connection to the topic. Ultimately, it should tell a story as well as share the photographer’s feelings about the subject. To this end, focus on subjects that are meaningful to YOU.

This is an opportunity to have fun with your craft. There are no expectations so use new techniques in shooting and processing, explore your chosen theme in creative ways. Experiment and surprise yourself.

What makes a successful project? The subject should be clear to the viewer. The included images should have a sense of cohesiveness. This can be achieved though color, tones, subject, processing style, line and shape. Curate your images carefully and eliminate any outliers. These are images that draw attention away from the whole. This may be the hardest part, determining if each image really strengthens the project or feels not quite right with the group. All images should relate to each other visually to communicate the creator’s intent.

Here are some suggestions to consider. However, your project should reflect YOUR interest or passion in the subject:

- Textures, patterns or shadows
- Black & white
- Architecture
- A chosen color or color palette
- Using a specific lens or filter
- Abstractions
- A new technique to you
- Single subject documented in different ways
- Techniques such as intentional camera movement or multiple exposure
- Landscapes of a certain region

The May challenge is to create a simple photo project. Each participant may submit up to THREE small collections. Refer to the sample above for guidance as to how the project should be submitted. Limit these small projects to 4-6 project images per submissions (within a single jpg file). You can extend your project via multiple submissions (ex. Use two submissions to share a project of up to 12 images). Use the tag 05/26_Project

Take lots of images then curate to a strong collection. Or, review your archives, you may already have images that will inspire you or be the building blocks of a project.

Most important, have fun!

This Challenge Will Run Until
June 7
Use the tag 05/26_Project

Future Themes

Upcoming Challenges

TBA

How to Participate

For best viewing and for our downloading, prepare your images with 1280 pixel width for landscape and 720 pixel width for portrait, max file size 3 MB. Upload your images (3 max) to your member album.

Member Login, Profile, Website: Photo Albums, Open an Album (pencil), Add Photo(s).
Select the Correct Challenge TAG from the pull-down list for each image. Do NOT create your own TAG.
You are done! Your image will be manually loaded to the Challenge Album
after the challenge concludes.

For additional instruction, click on the "Challenge Instructions" button below, or watch a short video.

Challenge Instructions

Watch Short Video