The deadline for turning in Competition images is Thursday, February 1. Check the website for the latest details
This month’s topic is “Barbie (or oversaturated colors)”
Could you term the competition "Hypercolor" with the following description?
Hypercolor photography takes viewers’ imagination on a vibrant journey beyond the visible spectrum, amplifying colors into surreal landscapes and electrifying portraits….etc.
This artistic style embraces approaches like the use of infrared conversion and colored gel filters. Infrared conversion transforms cameras to capture near-infrared light, bathing foliage in fiery oranges and rendering skin with an ethereal, otherworldly glow. Alternatively, colored gel filters, manipulation of visible light, saturating landscapes and portraits with unnatural, electric hues to create a neon dreamscape effect. Post processing also can be used to create hypersaturated renderings of everyday scenes.
The recent popular movie ‘Barbie’ has explored many possibilities of the use of hypercolor to communicate the sensual and surreal scenes. Hypercolor photography invites viewers to reimagine the world through a prism of pure, unapologetic color.
Judge: Kenneth Keifer
Since before his days as a high school yearbook photographer, Ken Keifer, has loved photography...the art, the craft, the science, the colors, geometry, emotion, play of light and shadows, recording a special moment in time and space....everything about it! Photography is a passion of Ken's that helps satisfy his God-given creative drive. Ken loves what Ansel Adams, arguably the greatest landscape photographer ever, once said, "Sometimes I get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter." Ken, a frequent speaker and judge at camera clubs and artist groups, is consistently ranked one of Indiana's best photographers. He recently topped a list of "5 Best Landscape Photographers of Indianapolis" by PeerSpace and has previously been named one of Indiana's Top Ten Photographers by the Indianapolis Professional Photographers Guild. In addition to a couple of 2023 US postage stamps, his award-winning work has been featured by USA Today, CNN Travel, Pure Michigan, Visit Indiana, many websites, international television shows, books, travel guides and maps, calendars, concerts and music videos, airports, businesses, thousands of offices and private homes, and in churches in all fifty states and around the world.
Kenneth's website is https://kennethkeifer.smugmug.com/.