Archive for March, 2007
Posted March 29th, 2007 in Challenges |
Every week we feel like this is the best photogamer challenge ever. How do we top ourselves every week, we don’t know, but get ready for some fun!
1. Play “Rock Paper Scissors” with someone and take a picture of the game. Get your own hand in the photo! Bonus points for winning. (tag: rockpaperscissors)
2. Take a photo of yourself with an old photo of yourself. (tag: oldphoto)
3. Walk 100 steps and take a picture of from that 100th step. Bonus points if you geotag it! (tag: 100steps)
4. Take a close up shot of a video or computer game. Show us the pixels! (tag: pixels)
5. Find something in public that is less than 6 inches tall and document it. Go low! (tag: low)
Bonus: Go find an old school photobooth and get a photo taken. Bonus points for having more than 3 people in the booth! (tag: photobooth)
Rules:
- All photos must be new - taken after challenge is posted and before end of day Sunday
- Post any/all photos to the group and tag appropriately (photogamer plus whatever tags are listed below)
- You must complete five shots in order to post to the Winner’s Circle
Post your photos to our Flickr photogamer group.
Participate in our Challenge #7 Winner’s Circle.
You’ve got to have all your photos shot by midnight, April 1, 2007! That’s no April fools joke either! (Although it is one of our favorite holidays!
Posted March 29th, 2007 in Challenges |
Here is the challenge #7 Cheat Sheet.
Print the pic out or download the pdf and print that out! Or, make your own and take a picture of it!
Posted March 26th, 2007 in Winners |
This week’s challenge was to go somewhere new and take pictures of and then tag them tall, small, play, point and up. For a bonus, you could search out the number 7 and take a photo of it. This weekend, I was in Washington DC for a conference. Going out and getting photos in a new place was a great break from the business of my weekend.
Everyone’s photos this week rocked! If you see a photogamer photo that you like, make sure to leave a positive comment or make it a favorite. Comments and favorites are encouraging and supportive… and it’s fun!
Here are my picks for this weeks super winners!
VAZanne found this tall memorial. The people in the foreground show how huge this is!
Typewriter took this photo of small Empire State Buildings. It’s like a mini city!
Completelyknown took this photo of two gals “just hangin” at the beach. Play is just radiating out of this photo. Everyone should hang upside-down!
Stuartwhite points to an interesting wall. The way this turned out, it appears that the pointing is shattering the wall… superpowers!
Twisteduterus pointed the camera up and got this great shot. I love this composition as a brilliant abstract artwork with the overlapping circles.
Phil Chapter found this bonus challenge 7 hiding in a tudor-style house. Nice work!
Stay tuned for more photogamer challenges. You can stay tuned easily with twitter, via rss, or if you put your email address in box in the sidebar, you’ll get email updates!
Posted March 25th, 2007 in Site updates |
Greetings. Photogamer web admin Joe here. As you can see we’ve just completed an update to Photogamer’s WordPress theme. Enjoy and please let us know if you have feedback.
Posted March 22nd, 2007 in Photogamer News |
Photogamers have already started to bring it. Here is Eudaemonian’s Phrynosoma Coronatum… it’s small!
Don’t forget to tag all your photos with the tag for the challenge like in this case “small” and then add “photogamer.” That way we can search for all the small photogamer photos easily!
(Heads up: next week we’re going to have a mini challenge that will challenge you to include some geo-location data… it’s easy and we’ll teach you how to do it if you don’t know yet!)
Posted March 22nd, 2007 in Challenges |
This weekend go somewhere you’ve never been. It could be a different country, a different town, a different neighborhood, or just a street nearby that you’ve never walked down. Just make sure you haven’t been there. Then get into photogamer mode and take start taking photos!
1. Tall - Snap a photo of something that is tall. (tag: tall)
2. Small - Take a picture of something that is small. (tag: small)
3. Play - Find and document a place where people play… bonus points for having people playing in the shot! (tag: play)
4. Point - Include your own arm in the picture with your finger pointing at something that you think is interesting. (tag: point)
5. Up - Set your camera to timer mode and then set it on the ground pointing up. What does up look like in this space? (tag: up)
Bonus: Find the number 7 and take pictures of it! (tag: 7)
Rules:
- All photos must be new - taken after challenge is posted and before end of day Sunday
- Post any/all photos to the group and tag appropriately (photogamer plus whatever tags are listed below)
- You must complete five shots in order to post to the Winner’s Circle
Download the Cheat Sheet to take with you when you leave the house! (Thanks Steve!)
Post your photos to our Flickr photogamer group.
Participate in our Challenge #6 Winner’s Circle.
You’ve got to have all your photos shot by midnight, March 25th, 2007!
Posted March 20th, 2007 in Winners |
Technically, nijocamus’ photo satisfies the requirements for “green”, “camera porn”, and “fancy pants”, AND “view from my window”. So it’s getting a super winner award for creativity and super-coolness rather than one for an individual category!
1. Break something (before and after).
Cinediva broke a twenty! Great multiple meaning of break in this one. And there are two types of “green” to boot!
1. Camera Porn.
Eudaemonian’s camera porn was bold! It caught our attention right away. Hmmm.
3. Fancy Pants. This was a challenge just cuz it sounded funny. “Fancy pants” - ha! But when it came to DOING it, it proved to be slightly more difficult than expected! Maybe that’s why we got so many photos of jeans. This one wins just cuz…well…monkeys are awesome!
4. Green. This is a gorgeous photo with all sorts of Irish-ness to it! And it made me want sodabread! Thanks,
vermilionink, for pointing out that the recipe was in the NY Times last week!
Here it is!
5. View from your window. This submission from
completelyknown is creative and purdy. So he wins!
6. Bonus Bonus Bonus: Create a self portrait of yourself looking really disgusting! Okay, first of all…Hilary looks most disgusting of anyone. I don’t think people can argue too much with that.
So the super winner is
orphanjones. I’m not saying he’s disgusting so much as he is BRAVE. This happens to all of us, right? But how many of us would post what it looks like to flickr? One. And to be nice, here is a link to a picture of him
looking hot. He deserves it.
Thanks for playing! See you all again soon!
Posted March 18th, 2007 in Photogamer News |
Photogamer was down for a few hours today. I had to deal with a mysql problem and I spent the bulk of the afternoon diagnosing and fixing it. It’s all good now, YAY!
Now I can upload my photogamer challenge photos!
Posted March 17th, 2007 in Photogamer News |
Okay. No one WANTS to look disgusting. But if your fearless leaders can do it, so can you!!
Happy photogaming!
Posted March 16th, 2007 in Photogamer News |
Need help remembering the photogamer challenges? Print out this handy pdf and keep your camera handy and you’ll never miss an opportunity to get a great photogamer shot! - Link
