Monochrome Madness

Photographs taken with long shutter speeds to capture motion blur created by various light sources.

Light Art/Long Exposures

Macro-Photography is extreme close-ups using specialized Macro lenses. Use macro to isolate tiny objects, texture details, and other things that are not immediately visible to the naked eye.aph here.

Tiny Terrors

Straight Photography/Abstracts

Any single-color dominant image. These photos can be all black and white, sepia, etc., a single color-cast of the whole image, or a single color plus black and white selective coloring technique. Choose subject(s) that would benefit from the attention created by isolating color(s).

Street art is a colorful and dynamic subject to photograph. Look for vibrant details of public art: displays, statues, memorials, murals, graffiti, signage, store fronts, posters, etc. in your city that are examples of either sanctioned or unsanctioned street art. Use creative angles and perspectives to capture the details, textures, and mood/tone of the subject material.

Portraits

A photo with a single, human subject. The approach to the portrait must attempt to represent the subject in some way, their personality, or specific aspects of a single person’s character. Portraits can be full color or black and white.

Paranormal Activity

Paranormal-based miniature scenes. Using a standard or Macro lens, create a spooky, paranormal scene. Scenes can be created using mini-figurines, legos, hot-wheels, clay, cotton and other translucent material. Use creative lighting to make your scenes pop, create mist/fog-like effects and turn ghostly terror into tiny masterpieces.r paragraph here.

Macro Shots

Submit your best attempt at capturing a ghost on “film.” These can be genuine attempts at “ghost-hunting,” or photographs meant to simulate captured paranormal activity. In the case of the latter, the photographer is attempting to create a “photo-realistic” scene, whether it is created “in-camera” or in editing.Type your paragraph here.

In the spirit of “Straight Photography,” made popular by Paul Strand in the early 1900s, take photos of ABSTRACT imagery. Focus on using light, shadow, lines, patterns, created by moving in close on a subject to capture just PART OF THE WHOLE to create an abstract image. Often, with these kinds of photographs, the viewer cannot tell what the original objects were as the photo should be focusing on parts of the whole and light/shadow patterns and shapes to create a new, abstract image.

Judges: Please go through the photos for each category you are judging, THEN select your top 20 and rank those top 20 from best to worst (just rank out all of them for the categories with less than 20 entries). Send your ranks to rzorn@washoeschools.net or renonvffx@gmail.com. Include any comments/feedback you have for specific entries.

Street Art