Welcome to the 11th Edition of Project 52, which I will be hosting for the year. Thanks to djb47 for hosting Project 52-10.
Let's get some Motivation
I have participated in a few Project 52 kind of thing and there are plenty out there. One of the many aspects that have come to the fore is the value of participating, one of them being how much you learn-about technique, out of the box thinking, getting to know your camera's potential and a host of other values. WHY NOT JOIN THE PROJECT! Besides some discipline, there is not much else required except if you are chosen the winner, in which case you judge the next weeks challenge.

Themes covered will include but not limited to:
Colour
Architecture
DOF
Focus
Exposure
Landscape
Lighting
Perspective
Shutter
Subject- Multi-subject challenge
People
Ideas
Shapes
Home
Animals
Seasonal
Leisure


Rules
1. Anyone and everyone interested in the challenge is eligible. The goal continues to be to have fun and share comments, concepts, insights, and techniques
with fellow Pentaxians.
2. Each week will feature a Theme and Sub-concept for you to explore. The theme/sub-concepts are chosen by the facilitator every week. You are only
required to submit a photo taken during the week of the challenge.
3. Post your single picture in Project 52-11 thread for the week. Explain what motivated you to take the picture and/or how you feel it represents the weekly
theme.
4. Some post-processing is OK (adjusting white balance, exposure, color saturation), but let's try to stay away from heavily PP'ed images here. Try to
keep the creativity to photographic techniques and the captures themselves.
5. Since this project is about technique, and not camera, shots taken by non Pentax cameras are allowed. Cameras may be SLRs, DSLRs, Point & Shoot,
Medium Format, et cetera. And we will include images taken with phones as well.
6. There is one “Theme Concept” labeled “black and white,” but feel free to post black and white, sepia, monotone, etc., for any of the other themes.
7. The picture you post should be taken during the week in which the theme is active to be eligible for judging. It is up to the discretion of the current week's
Judge to accept or decline early/late entries i.e. a day earlier or a day late. Usually there is some flexibility here to allow as many entrants as possible. BUT
PLEASE DO NOT POST IMAGES TAKEN DAYS OR WEEKS OUTSIDE THE PERIOD OF THE CHALLENGE. TRY TO KEEP IT AS CLOSE AS POSSIBLE
TO THE TIME FRAME. SOME FLEXIBILITY IS ALLOWED (after all life comes before photography) FOR OUT OF DATE/LATE SUBMISSIONS.
8. Additional images are welcome, but please keep them to a minimum. If more than one image is posted, make sure you identify your entry for the challenge.
Additional images should also please comply with rule 1 and rule 7.
9. Any picture taken from thread start date
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to listed closing date is acceptable.
10. The WINNER of each weekly challenge is the JUDGE of the next weeks Project 52-11 and may not participate in the challenge.
11. The host/facilitator (in this case noelcmn) may participate in the challenge, provided he/she is not the judge.

We are still on the sub-theme of Compositional Techniques, and this week is it using geometric shapes in your composiiton. Here we are not talking of the format of presentation (square crop, rectangular, circular/ovoid crops) but geometry that is used as an element of composition to enhance a subject, for e.g. a portrait. Here framing, props and cut outs can come into play. It may be mulitple, or as in the example used below, a single geometric shape.

Usual help here: https://passionpassport.com/tips-geometry-photography/

This one is helpful if you are thinking of using Bokeh shapes: https://expertphotography.com/how-to-create-custom-bokeh-effect/

Why use geomoetry? Update your browser to use BeFunky

THE CHALLENGE RUNS FROM THE 16TH JANUARY -22 JANUARY 2023 AT MIDNIGHT IN YOUR TIME ZONE.

[Yaki]

Here is my submission - using oval for concentrating the attention. At least that was the purpose

tough challenge this week

[Masonjb]

Here is my submission - using oval for concentrating the attention. At least that was the purpose

tough challenge this week

This may look nice with some post editing! Great idea.

[Masonjb]

Here is my submission - using oval for concentrating the attention. At least that was the purpose

tough challenge this week

Here's an edit of Yaki's photo submission

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[Masonjb]

Here's my submission for the weekly challenge.

[Yaki]

Here's an edit of Yaki's photo submission

It might be out of the topick but I like the light line you inserted in my picture.

[jcdoss]

I'm not sure this is what the challenge called for, nevertheless this will be my entry for this week.


Pentax K-1 mII Limited Silver and M50f4.0 Macro at f8.0, 1/45s, and ISO 100

[djb47]

Wacky duck shot through a clear plastic juice jar.

K100D/Sigma 28-80 Macro

[jheu02]

In case I can't find a better frame...

[turbo_bird]

Here's mine for this week, just a cheap toy disco ball. I was really struggling for ideas, but think something like this could be a pretty ok shot if the mirror pieces weren't so cloudy.

Kristian

[noelcmn]

Wow, fantiastic submissions this week. Welcome Masonjb, to PF and to the Project 52-11 challenge in particular. Hope we see you more often.
I'm going with this one, a spur-of-the-moment really. Was sitting in my car at Zoo Lake, looked at the Sigma 10-20mm lens, and decided I would cut out a triangle (with a knife) with a receipt from a supermarket, that would fit the diameter of the lens, The clouds played along too.

[KFMike]

Looks like another good week of submissions. Way to go! Hopefully, I can do this week's after missing the past two.

[noelcmn]

Challenge closed, now it's over to turbo_bird to do the judging exercise for us.

This weeks challenge is up and running PROJECT 52-11-20-COMPOSITION TECHNIQUES-Rule of odds - PentaxForums.com

[turbo_bird]

Lots of different takes on the theme this week, good to see. I really like the pattern of the bricks with the one blue standing out by jcdoss. The reflections and refractions in the bottle shot by djb47 make for a really pleasing photo to look at too. I had a hard time choosing between the two, but I think I have to pick djb47's entry as the winner, very creative lighting and every time I look at it I see details I missed earlier.
Kristian

[jcdoss]

Congrats to Don for his winning entry, and well done to all participants. See you all next week!