February Challenge
OK sports fans, it’s time to get ready for the February Challenge. I know you’re all working hard on the 2008 Challenge, shooting your communities each week, but this is different. Last October we chose to shoot black & white all month, challenging ourselves to grow and understand the beautiful complexity of B&W.
Then in December we shot a portrait a day, all month long. This challenge forced me to grow to love portraiture so much, that I’ve adapted my own business plan to focus primarily on shooting portraits. I’m now working to get equipment that is better suited for taking portraits.
So, following the every-other-month pattern, February 2008 is the next month for a challenge. I’ve worked hard the last few weeks developing some ideas and even bouncing them off of a few wise photographers I know.
I’ve decided to pursue a Color Theory challenge. What is Color Theory? Well, for our purposes it is basically making a concerted effort to capture an image with one single color overwhelming the majority of the image. Basically, your photo should be primarily one color. Be creative though, I’d love to see photos that capture a color in a new and unorthodox way.
For fear that I’m not getting it across to you, I’ve included a handful of great examples below.
Now, here’s where it gets tricky. I want three images a week. Not bad, no? It’s not one a day, but not one a week. Additionally, I want you to choose the same color for the whole week. Then, a new color for the following week. Since February spans 5 weeks, you’ll need to have 5 different colors, with 3 images each. Get it?
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Comments
Comment from Jeremy Brooks
Time: January 11, 2008, 9:02 am
Interesting idea, and that sounds like fun. I guess for one week I could choose black, and just leave the lens cap on. 
Comment from Russa Waldren
Time: January 11, 2008, 11:11 am
interesting twist, the one color each week stipulation. I’m only 2 weeks into your 2008 challenge, and already I find myself randomly thinking about the shots. with my luck I’ll probably start dreaming in single colors after a week of february’s challenge.. 
looking forward to seeing if I can keep up.
Comment from Jeremy Hall
Time: January 11, 2008, 12:15 pm
I had to leave a comment to just laugh at Jeremy Brooks comment. Made me actually chuckle out loud. I can’t tell you how many times I bring the camera up to my eye only to see black because I haven’t removed the lens cap. I guess it is because I am so good about putting it back on to protect the lens.
I am new to reading on the challenges and missed the December one, which would have been fun. I think I’ll give this one a shot.
Comment from the_wolf_brigade
Time: January 11, 2008, 1:38 pm
A unique concept. My initial reaction was that my surroundings are quite bland, so obviously I will have to keep my eyes peeled!
Comment from Hitesh Sawlani
Time: January 11, 2008, 8:44 pm
Sounds good! I’ve seen a number of flickr accounts with most of their photos featuring this “colour theory” type photo, never really been good at spotting such things myself.
Count me in.
Comment from Brian Auer
Time: January 11, 2008, 11:20 pm
Cool idea! I’m in! Although, I’m going to try for at least one-a-day. And if I get more than one per day on occasion, even better!
Comment from laanba
Time: January 12, 2008, 7:22 am
Three a week! You are a task master, but I’m a big color lover so I’m going to try. Even if I don’t make 15 photos I’m sure to get some good ones to add to my collection.
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Comment from Antoine Khater
Time: January 12, 2008, 11:49 am
Great ! I’m willing to participate too since I really missed photography even though I am not sure to be able to carry it till the end but we’ll see !
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Comment from Katie the Scrapbook Lady
Time: January 14, 2008, 10:00 am
I would love to participate - where do we post our photos for the challenge once February is here. I’m fairly new to your blog and site so I’m just trying to figure it all out. I would love to post a link to this on my blog.
Thanks!
Katie
Comment from Katie the Scrapbook Lady
Time: January 14, 2008, 10:01 am
oops - just answered my own question! http://www.photochallenge.org/2008/01/2008-challenge-guidelines/
should have read further!
Comment from trevor
Time: January 14, 2008, 10:06 am
No problem, Katie. If you’re not on Flickr, I’d highly recommend it. That makes it easy for us all to interact with each other’s photos. Tagging your submissions to the challenges helps me track everyone too.
But, you should also submit them to the Flickr group, http://www.flickr.com/groups/photochallenge-org/
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