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EXPLORATIONS #25 “The Self-Assignment”
Date: February 20 th
Submission Deadline: Midnight February 18th
The Explorations series is about pushing personal boundaries by experimenting with subjects
and techniques that are outside of one’s comfort zone. By building new skills and developing
our creative expression, we can discover additional tools and techniques to improve our work
and create the increased satisfaction that comes from great results.
This exploration offers the opportunity to select something that you would like to explore. Not
your favourite specialty or a provided task, but something new you would like to master. It
might be a new subject, a new technique, a new tool or any combination.
After selecting a personal exercise, it’s best to proceed in a series of steps.
First, take enough time to prepare. Research how others have approached the task and
evaluate possible approaches and methods that you might use.
Second, go for a walk or find that special place where ideas have enough time to surface from
your unconscious – incubate and let your mind make new connections.
Third, experiment through trial and error, learning as you generate alternative solutions to the
project.
Forth, select the best solutions from your work and create your final ideas for presentation.
Fifth, wait a few days. Take time to step back and take a fresh look at the results. Make any
changes that will improve your images.
Submit up to three different solutions. Max size 5 MB and please put your name first in the
image title. Thank you! Send to robin@imaginacorporation.com.
NOTE: A selected personal example of this Exploration was “Visualizing the sound of music”
The images are of paint on a loudspeaker and water patterns playing “Bohemian Rhapsody” by
Queen. Photo Credit: Robin King

OCC EXPLORATION SESSION #3

Photo credit: Robin King

The theme for this challenge is “Analogous Colours”

This exercise is an exploration in creating an impactful image using analogous colours – colour hues that are close together in the colour wheel. For example, fall colours are often a limited range of yellow or red hues in different levels of saturation and intensity. Try to apply the hue, saturation and intensity of the chosen colour to enhance the visual impact of the image. Use any subject matter that you feel works for this assignment.

You may submit more than one image to this theme, but the total number of images submitted to the challenge must not exceed 3.

Images must be submitted by midnight December 6th to robin@imaginacorporation.com.
(FOR THIS CHALLENGE, DO NOT SEND THEM TO CHALLENGES@OAKVILLECAMERACLUB.COM)

Here are some helpful links on colour theory, colour wheels and analogous colours:

https://uxplanet.org/analogous-colors-and-color-wheel-609a05b5b90e

https://color.adobe.com/create/color-wheel

DUE TO THE COVID-19 OUTBREAK THIS SESSION WILL BE HELD ONLINE VIA WEBEX. PLEASE WATCH YOUR EMAIL FOR WEBEX LINK DETAILS. THE OCC LOOK FORWARD TO CONTINUING OUR PROGRAM IN A DIGITAL FORMAT.

If you are not currently an OCC member but would like to join us in this Webex meeting, please email info@oakvillecameraclub.com OR register at our site to enjoy all the privileges that Membership provide https://www.oakvillecameraclub.com/membership/join