Up Against The Wall

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Up Against The Wall

Entries: 63 Votes: 2,986 Ends On: 30 Mar 2011

Started on: January 31st, 2011 Ended on: March 30th, 2011 Tweet this contest Share this contest

PRIZE

When photographing anything up against a wall you change the art, science and story of the image. The style becomes portraiture, and the science is changed when you dial back the focal lengths. The story is suddenly all about the subject. The wall concentrates viewer's attention on what's being featured; it's a barrier that prevents humans from constructing any more meaning in the frame. We must focus on her, or on him, or it, alone against a neutral background.

Let's appreciate images with no depth of field!

Good photographers select walls with character, nice colours and texture – they rake the backgrounds with sharp lamps to bring out the bumps, cracks and peeling paint, or they use bright lights to highlight the ridges in brick walls, stone blocks and concrete. White walls can sometimes be used as a source, and shadows on walls hint at mysterious shapes and trouble looming in the foreground.

Win a Sony Laptop courtesy of Amvic Building Systems and their trademark ICF wall systems. Amvic ICF structures combine expanded polystyrene (EPS) insulation and concrete thermal mass. This highly effective combination of materials minimizes temperature fluctuations by absorbing and storing heat.

Top ten photos advance to Lenzr Judges on March 25th, 2010.

Contest Launches Feb 1st 2011
Voting begins March 15th 2011
Voting Ends March 25th 2011
Judging Ends March 31st
Winner Declared April 1st 2011

Lenzr is open to all Canadians, contest not valid in Quebec.