It will be interesting to see what people enter. The only off-topic stuff would be, well, normal photo subjects like people and landscapes. Don’t you think? Elsinore, do you have any pre-contest moderator advice? Should we add another sentence to that unwieldy description to discourage ‘regular’ stuff?
/very subjective, I know.
Sorry I’m just now getting back to you. Long holiday weekend has me throwm off my schedule.
And yeah, definitely subjective. This theme reminds me of that old Supreme Court ruling where the justice said he couldn’t define porn, but he knew it when he saw it. It will be really difficult to define “regular” stuff since that will be in the eye of the beholder, though some stuff will almost certainly jump out at us as something only someone with a photographer’s eye would take photos of.
I do like Kestrana’s “Photograph “unseen interestingness” – the odd and strange things only photographers see” line, and that might define it a bit for those who aren’t sure what kinds of things you’re getting at. The piece about “found” photos versus “made-up” photos might be harder to put out there at this point. Think of a subject where you see something interesting about it, but wanted to light it in a certain way or arrange it in a certain way because you liked the pattern or play of shadows or something. In that case, it’s something a non-photographer wouldn’t take a photo of, though it might require a bit of set up that I’d see as fair game (though it isn’t my theme, so if you were bitterly opposed to that kind of thing, I’d consider it. I just don’t want to rule out too much this late in the game when people may have already taken their photos).
Sooo yeah, not sure if I’m helping at all. I think ultimately I won’t have much justification to DQ any entries with such an open ended theme, but if anything from this thread can help narrow things down for people, I’m all for adding something to the description (or taking something away) per your direction, U-Man.
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