Photo 150 - a yearlong photo challenge

It's tempting to join Maarten but I'm not sure yet how, and I haven't really thought about three different challenges from last year.

I just looked at my "Day Prime" list and for the first 8 weeks I have 2 or more primes I need to use (some weeks more than 10), after that it gets a bit more quiet with usually just 1 lens per week (or none).

So my current plan is to concentrate on "Day Prime" for the first 8 weeks and then start a challenge with three distinctly different challege topics every week. That will also give me some time to think about which challenges I choose. Initial thought would be 1: Architecture, 2: Landscape and 3: Macro but hopefully I will come up with something more creative

Let me know if you would like me to start a new thread for this year for you in the challenges subforum, I can take your first week post from "open views" and move that to the challenges forum (you need admin or mod powers to do that ).

Same for anyone else joining, you need mod rights to start something new in the challenges forum, but I can do that for anyone who wishes to do that for a new year long challenge. Just post below and your wish is my command.

Edited by pegelli - 09 January 2022 at 21:41

Great Wētāpunga, just start your thread somewhere and let me know, then I'll move it to the challenges subforum.

I've given my participation some more thought and I couldn't resist the pull, so I'm in with three photo's per week, I will stay by my initial thought of three broad subjects: Architecture, Landscape (can also be forest or cityscape) and Closeup/Macro. It's three subjects I relatively comfortable with but the challenge is going to be going out every week and shooting all three. Lens/camera choice is free, if possible I will use other lenses used in challenges that week (day prime or prime months) but if that doesn't fit so be it.

I'll try to blend in a fair amount of HDR, panorama, focus stacking, less conventional cropping ratio's and B&W conversion to generate extra variety.

That makes three confirmed for this year, but there's plenty room for more

@Phil Wood

Let me know when you've opened your challenge thread (Open or Themed views) and I'll move it to the challenges subforum.

Wow, so good to see all of you join in on the fun. Good that you keep close to what seems possible as a challenge.

@pegelli, please move my Opne view to the Challange forum? https://www.dyxum.com/dforum/photo-150-challenge-onsplekkie-part-ii-2022_topic140623_post1677456.html#1677456

onsplekkie wrote: Wow, so good to see all of you join in on the fun. Good that you keep close to what seems possible as a challenge. @pegelli, please move my Opne view to the Challange forum? https://www.dyxum.com/dforum/photo-150-challenge-onsplekkie-part-ii-2022_topic140623_post1677456.html#1677456

Done

I'm still struggling with finishing #150 2021 edition

Hi @Howard_S

I've been pondering as well (on themes).
I'm thinking of 3 themes.

1. A telephoto theme. (This would let me give the Tamron 150-500 some use this year, and if I'm struggling, squeeze in a shot of the cats with a 135mm or 85mm).
2. A scenic theme- which I would like to stretch to include seascapes, landscapes and other objects/structures that are, well, scenic. I'm hoping seascapes will dominate.
3. A creative theme- this may only be black-and-white, but there's more I want to try with HDR, Panoramas, and even video.

In addition I'm going to give myself 12 wild cards. Shots that I like, but don't fit neatly into any of the themes above.

Edited by Wētāpunga - 12 January 2022 at 07:55