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Title: ANTM - Challenge 14: Shades of Grey
Post by: pukunui on May 13, 2013, 03:34:56 PM: Arena's Next Top Monster
Public Edition - Challenge 14
Shades of Grey

All right, folks! Your next challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to take a classy old school black & white close-up portrait of your chosen ghoul.

Note: I don't want to see any color. No sepia toning, no selective color. Just shades of grey.

Here's Lagoona to show you how it's done:

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(http://www.flickr.com/photos/pukunui81/8727386157/)
the picture of lagoona (in) gray (http://www.flickr.com/photos/pukunui81/8727386157/) by pukunui81 (http://www.flickr.com/people/pukunui81/), on Flickr

THE RULES

HOW IT WORKS
1. A photography challenge is posted.
The poster may or may not post an example photo.

2. Participants are given seven days to submit their best photo.
They must PM a single photo to the poster of the challenge before the deadline.

3. At the conclusion of the seven days, the poster will anonymously post all the entries in a public poll.
The public will be allowed four days to discuss the entries and vote.

4. At the conclusion of the four days, the participant with the most amount of votes will be determined the winner.
The winner will be allowed a max of three days to post the next challenge.
If the winner does not post the challenge within three days, the runner-up will be allowed to do so, and so on.

5. In the event that two participants tie for first place, they will determine the next challenge together.

6. Once the public poll has ended, the poster will reveal which photo belongs to which participant.

The Specifics

- You do not have to use the same doll for every challenge

- You do not need to participate in each challenge consecutively

- You may edit your photo with any sort of software you like

- You may use custom dolls and dolls of any gender

- You may use any backgrounds, props, or sets that you like

- We advise hosts to NOT participate in their own challenge round

(Whoever the winner of this challenge turns out to be, please post the Rules and Specifics at the bottom of the next challenge when you post it. Thanks!)

You have until 10:30am NZT on Tuesday, 21 May 2013 (6:30pm EDT / 11:30pm GMT on Monday, 20 May 2013) to submit your entry to me.

Now get snapping and may the best ghoul win!
Title: Re: ANTM - Challenge 14: Shades of Grey
Post by: keylimepony on May 13, 2013, 03:55:05 PM: Great idea! Lagoona looks gorgeous!
Title: Re: ANTM - Challenge 14: Shades of Grey
Post by: jupiternwndrlnd on May 13, 2013, 06:28:54 PM: i said i wasn't going to participate in these anymore, but MAAAAN this one is soooooooo tempting!
Title: Re: ANTM - Challenge 14: Shades of Grey
Post by: pukunui on May 13, 2013, 07:10:07 PM: Quote from: keylimepony on May 13, 2013, 03:55:05 PM
Great idea! Lagoona looks gorgeous!
Thanks!

Quote from: jupiternwndrlnd on May 13, 2013, 06:28:54 PM
i said i wasn't going to participate in these anymore, but MAAAAN this one is soooooooo tempting!
Did you? I say go for it!
Title: Re: ANTM - Challenge 14: Shades of Grey
Post by: CrazyCatPony on May 14, 2013, 08:29:59 AM: oh i love it! i love how these ghouls look in black and white!
Title: Re: ANTM - Challenge 14: Shades of Grey
Post by: pukunui on May 15, 2013, 06:45:24 PM: Three entries so far! Keep 'em coming folks.
Title: Re: ANTM - Challenge 14: Shades of Grey
Post by: Colorscapesart on May 15, 2013, 06:46:27 PM: Yay! Pic sent!
Title: Re: ANTM - Challenge 14: Shades of Grey
Post by: pukunui on May 17, 2013, 10:19:17 PM: I've got six or seven entries now. Anyone else keen to give it a shot?
Title: Re: ANTM - Challenge 14: Shades of Grey
Post by: BlueChaos on May 17, 2013, 10:46:24 PM: I finally found my camera's charging cord! I'm gonna give it a shot tomorrow :yippee:
Title: Re: ANTM - Challenge 14: Shades of Grey
Post by: pukunui on May 17, 2013, 11:12:25 PM: Woohoo!
Title: Re: ANTM - Challenge 14: Shades of Grey
Post by: Icicle on May 20, 2013, 07:43:11 PM: Whoops, I had totally intended on doing this. Then the first free day I got, was after church where I manned the camera for an hour in the sweltering heat of our tent and the rain killed the chances of taking any right before the deadline.. @@;
Title: Re: ANTM - Challenge 14: Shades of Grey
Post by: ivybunny84 on May 20, 2013, 08:06:37 PM: crap... I was going to do this and I missed the deadline cause I ready by tuesday... not paying any attention to that being NZT :(
Title: Re: ANTM - Challenge 14: Shades of Grey
Post by: pukunui on May 20, 2013, 09:20:55 PM: Oh right. This is finished. Sorry, I was too distracted by the disaster that is the new Flickr. Will get the voting thread up soon.
Title: Re: ANTM - Challenge 14: Shades of Grey
Post by: Refuse to Dance on May 20, 2013, 10:04:11 PM: I would have done this but I've been sick so it was hard to do so.
Title: Re: ANTM - Challenge 14: Shades of Grey
Post by: tuneful87 on May 21, 2013, 07:42:08 AM: Quote from: pukunui on May 20, 2013, 09:20:55 PM
Oh right. This is finished. Sorry, I was too distracted by the disaster that is the new Flickr. Will get the voting thread up soon.

I hear you on that! While I do think Flickr needed an updated website, the change is very jarring!
Title: Re: ANTM - Challenge 14: Shades of Grey
Post by: keylimepony on May 21, 2013, 09:22:20 AM: Did Flickr change? I mostly use the app and everything seems the same to me. But I have been seeing a lot of angry pictures about the new Flickr.
Title: Re: ANTM - Challenge 14: Shades of Grey
Post by: pukunui on May 21, 2013, 02:17:21 PM: Yes, Yahoo decided Flickr needed to be made "awesome again", and their way of doing that was to spring a surprise new design that's some kind of garish mash-up of Facebook, Tumblr and YouTube. That and take away the pro account option and replace it with a crappy one that's twice the price and just lets you use the site with no ads (although supposedly existing pro members will be able to continue to renew their pro account, but now that everyone gets 1 TB of free space and the ability to make collections, there aren't many benefits left, the main ones being stats and the ability to replace photos).

I will get the voting thread up shortly.
Title: Re: ANTM - Challenge 14: Shades of Grey
Post by: Ravie on May 21, 2013, 02:31:51 PM: isn't there still an hour left?
Title: Re: ANTM - Challenge 14: Shades of Grey
Post by: nyanpotato on May 21, 2013, 02:45:32 PM: Curious to see who wins ;) :lol:
Title: Re: ANTM - Challenge 14: Shades of Grey
Post by: pukunui on May 21, 2013, 02:54:58 PM: Quote from: Ravie on May 21, 2013, 02:31:51 PM
isn't there still an hour left?
No, it closed yesterday.
Title: Re: ANTM - Challenge 14: Shades of Grey
Post by: Ravie on May 21, 2013, 03:08:19 PM: gotcha. Sorry XD
Title: Re: ANTM - Challenge 14: Shades of Grey
Post by: pukunui on May 21, 2013, 03:19:08 PM: No worries. The voting thread is up now.