Challenge 1 - Diptych

Thanks to all those you came out last night to our first ever photo club meeting.

We had fun getting to know each other with a little game. Then we went on to discuss the format and plans for our club. If you'd like to volunteer as a facilitator, please let me know. Appreciate it!

Had a nice brainstorming session with ideas for the club and discussion topics, which included:

• Outings
• Review on manual exposure
• Focusing
• Spotlight on other photographers' works
• Album cover shots
• Selective colouring
• Night shots (slow shutter speeds)
• Colour themes
• Black & white theme
• Post processing

If you have any other ideas and requests, please email them to me.

Lastly, we learned a bit about DIPTYCHS. A diptych is essentially two images put together (side by side or one on top of each other) to show a relationship between the two subjects. There are many fabulous examples found on flickr. Click the link to peruse through them and get some ideas. You can find examples that show relationships of colour, subject, before/after, texture, pattern and many more. It's a great way to show your creativity and artistic eye.



The challenge starts now and all you have to do it create a diptych of your own. You're welcome to do more than one. Just email me your image or send me the link to your image (sign up for a flickr account) by Monday, February 2nd so we can review/comment/critique and share our creations at our meeting on Feb 4th. You will be given two weeks for every photo challenge, which should be ample time to get your creative juices flowing.

You can create your diptych using most any photo editing software or an online program like Mosaic Maker for flickr users.

Here's a link for step-by-step instructions using Photoshop.

Looking forward to seeing all your diptychs!