Photography Challenge: Deadpan

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Photography Challenge: Deadpan Anonymous 12/04/15 (Fri) 15:58:37 No.1187

The deadpan aesthetic portrays the subject in a deliberately emotionless and otherwise impassive, matter-of-fact manner. Photographs in this style are usually casual, monotone, devoid of emotion, centered, and sharply in focus.

Your challenge is to create a deadpan photo and post it on 8chan. I will start the thread with a few famous examples.

Anonymous 12/04/15 (Fri) 15:59:53 No.1188

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Deadpan doesnt necessarily need to be photos of humans. It could just be a photo of a bush.

Anonymous 12/04/15 (Fri) 16:02:13 No.1189

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Deadpan can come in many forms, but is usually simple and devoid of emotion, like this photo of a table.

Sage 12/05/15 (Sat) 07:20:11 No.1192

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Just took this deadpan of a plane wing.

Anonymous 12/05/15 (Sat) 10:53:22 No.1194

There is a problem with this topic for me.

In the examples which you posted the fact the matter of which is exposed has some own value, beauty, purity.

In vast majorith of things which surround me (especially during this season) I see no facts which would have there own value when separated from the flavour of the author.

>>1189

> this photo of a table.

I lold.

Anonymous 12/05/15 (Sat) 13:13:40 No.1195

>>1194

Im not quite following you here. Are you trying to say that these examples are beautiful and pure on their own even without the "deadpan schtick" tacked on the end?

> flavour of the author

nice metaphor

Anonymous 12/05/15 (Sat) 15:21:54 No.1197

>>1195

>Are you trying to say that these examples are beautiful and pure on their own even without the "deadpan schtick" tacked on the end?

Yes, in a way.

>nice metaphor

I hope that it does not sound funny.

Anonymous 12/06/15 (Sun) 05:10:34 No.1199

>>1197

Have you ever made any deadpan shots? Upload some if you have.

Anonymous 12/06/15 (Sun) 15:34:14 No.1200

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>>1199

I had a glance though the photos which I like. Few of them have clear signs of deadpan style - not because I kept it in mind whil shooting but because it seemed natural to represent the subject this way.

Feel free to comment on how much related they are.

P.S. It is somewhat difficult to find a subject for deadpan style in Moscow without using small DOF - it is quite a busy city.

Anonymous 12/06/15 (Sun) 15:35:25 No.1201

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>>1200

Multiple files upload does not seem to work for me.

Anonymous 12/06/15 (Sun) 15:39:30 No.1202

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>>1201

Oh it does.

Anonymous 12/08/15 (Tue) 14:38:06 No.1237

>>1202

Deadpan requires a strong subject, and none of your photos provide much in that area. Some decent landscape shots they might be, but deadpan they are not.

Anonymous 12/08/15 (Tue) 16:24:11 No.1238

>>1237

Thats's what I was talking about.

Anonymous 12/08/15 (Tue) 17:28:22 No.1239

>>1238

On a side note, do you have more interesting shots of moscow? Ive never been there and want to see what it is like through the eyes of an average person.

Anonymous 12/08/15 (Tue) 18:19:16 No.1242

>>1239

Yes. I will create new thread.

PetterRabbit!!X0KBUgSAOg 12/09/15 (Wed) 16:06:57 No.1244

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Mah art

PetterRabbit!!X0KBUgSAOg 12/09/15 (Wed) 16:21:51 No.1245

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>>1244

Here is my entry

Anonymous 12/09/15 (Wed) 17:38:00 No.1246

>>1245

Nice! I like the dynamic range on this shot. How did you shoot it?

PeterRabbit!!X0KBUgSAOg 12/09/15 (Wed) 17:52:23 No.1248

>>1246

This picture was taken along time ago in a galaxy far far away... So I don't remember much.

>Sony a750

>mai 50mm

>cloudy day

>buss have lights on all day

Anonymous 12/20/15 (Sun) 14:30:51 No.1278

More examples pl0x.

PeterRabbit!!X0KBUgSAOg 12/27/15 (Sun) 11:09:20 No.1280

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These three are a part of a series, of the identity of the everyday man.

Anonymous 12/28/15 (Mon) 12:15:09 No.1281

>>1280

I did not pay much attention to it previously but those shadows on faces are very deep. It would be better if you lightened them just a bit so that the face features are distinguishable.

PeterRabbit!!X0KBUgSAOg 12/28/15 (Mon) 12:44:07 No.1282

>>1281

That's the point. It is how I see people.

On another note the DR on the Fuji is crazy, foolfams can suck a dick.

On another another note this board is dying. Why is this? For a minute, I could swear we had growth.

Anonymous 01/01/16 (Fri) 08:28:14 No.1285

you just used this as an excuse to post a loli and get it pinned on the front page anon

Anonymous 01/01/16 (Fri) 18:50:12 No.1286

>>1285

You just gave us an excuse to call you an idiot.

Anonymous 02/10/16 (Wed) 10:26:06 No.1324

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Anonymous 02/14/16 (Sun) 18:42:12 No.1336

>>1324

Do not know whether this is perfectly dead pan but I like it very much - the horizontally stretched shadows, the cyan sky above the horizon, the lighted shadows, the colour contrast.

P.S. Terrible JPEG compression artifacts resaved to PNG - what the hell. You could upload 1500x1000 1MB JPEG and have excellent quality.

Anonymous 02/15/16 (Mon) 14:26:23 No.1339

How about a new "challenge"?

Anonymous 02/15/16 (Mon) 14:27:29 No.1340

>>1339

Perhaps a spooky challenge. Shouldn't be too hard in these dire winter months.

Anonymous 02/15/16 (Mon) 23:32:01 No.1342

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>>1336

Thanks for the reply, it means a lot. As for the file type, I guess I messed up. I took it into photoshop to change the size and I guess I saved it as a png.

>>1340

I like it, do we make a new thread?

Anonymous 02/15/16 (Mon) 23:38:12 No.1343

>>1342

Yeah, need a new thread.

Anonymous 02/17/16 (Wed) 05:47:25 No.1346

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Just a winter rose. I like the way I captured it.

>>1342

>>1343

I'll make a new thread. I have a similar image to the one you posted.