PHOTO CHALLENGE: What makes a photo unique?
PHOTO CHALLENGE: What makes a photo unique?
According to Dictionary.com, the adjective "unique" means:
1. existing as the only one or as the sole example; single; solitary in type or characteristics:
'a unique copy of an ancient manuscript'.'
2. having no like or equal; unparalleled; incomparable:
'Bach was unique in his handling of counterpoint.'
In photography, I imagine it would mean that you will never see another photo exactly like it, or even very similar.
Here is my submission of a photo I took that has not been edited save for some cropping and framing it. I call it "Bird's Eye View": The street scene is a reflection in the window.
Without editing save for cropping, leveling, framing or clarifying, please submit one of your photos that you deem to be 'unique'. Yes, this is a challenge.
This article was posted a couple of years ago, and I doubt that it was seen by many as it was only posted on the Creative Arts group. I have decided to re-post it with the original comments and submissions, hoping that more photographers might take a crack at it.
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This is a challenge for members to submit what they consider to be a unique photo taken by them personally. No editing other than cropping, levelling, framing and clarifying, to be fair.
This is from a wedding reception a couple weeks ago.
Just the kind of photo I was hoping I would see, Hal.
Great topic and challenge! Let us hope that it generates the level of interest it deserves.
I will see what I have that may adequately meet the challenge.
How's this for unique? A Brown Watersnake finishing off a Sunfish Lunch?
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I always foiund Sunfish to be too bony to eat, but then I'm not a snake. You and the photo I posted gave me another idea - match a photo with a line from poetry or a quoted line from another form of literature. When I saw your photo what went through my mind was the first line from the D. H. Lawrence poem: "A snake came to my water-trough today, and I in pyjamas for the heat..." In my case I was thinking: "A pigeon came to my window today, and I with my camera in my hand...."
Either my snake photo is frightening people away … or …
COME ON PEOPLE … take a break from the FP.
Perhaps, A.Mac, my challenges are too difficult to meet. The last challenge I posted, Matching Photos with Classic Movie Titles, I deleted in frustration because it was so easy to meet and you were the only person to even post a comment, let alone your photos, and it wasn't because it was wiped off the FP within hours, because it was posted on the more constantly seen Columnists' Column as well, and I bumped it twice, as did you.
A sculpture made by my Tzio (Uncle) for a Cancer Center that he and Mr. Nona went to for radiology
A unique gift of a unique sculpture shown in a unique photo - three times a winner.
Here's a unique perspective as I'm the only one dumb enough to go on the roof of our office building in an early morning snow shower.
What is that?
I think it's just a building decoration, sort of like the gargoyles on the roof of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.
Here's a unique subject - Fire spinners
Okay, they''ll qualify.
"I imagine it would mean that you will never see another photo exactly like it, or even very similar."
I can guarantee this photo is "unique" in that there can be no question regarding the event it captured, the particular bird, and, its particular position in the air (as it relates to time and place).
HOWEVER, there are certainly other photographs of birds in flight, etc., so, the photo's "uniqueness," like all photos, is more its representation of one fleeting moment in time than the combination of its elements.
Tern in Flight.
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On the other hand, this one is surely "more unique" than the one above.
A. Mac/A.G.
And good luck getting more "unique" than this one.
© A. Mac/A.G.
Yes, pretty well any bird in flight would not be considered unique for the purpose of this challenge, although a photo of an Ostrich or a Penguin or a Peacock in flight would certainly be unique (if even possible). However your other two photos certainly qualify as unique.
Ahhh, my favorite, ''Fawn in a tub''...
We have a number of the ''Flying Pen-eagle'' around the homestead.
Unique and very rare....An inbound ''Furr Missile''.
LOOK OUT!!! Missile has been launched!!!