Weekly photo contest: Black and white

Permit's get another Weekly Photo Competition going! How about blackness and white equally a theme this week? Sounds good to me. Concluding week we had our theme prepare to silhouette and so nosotros could get some interesting photos. Wow. Check out the thread from that contest and you'll see some seriously astonishing photos captured on Windows Phone. Information technology was tough, just nosotros did pick one winner.

Winner from last week

There were a ton of skilful entries into last week's silhouette contest, but I had to settle on the one I liked the most. Congrats to aaa6112 for winning! And congrats to everyone else who entered yous're all very talented! Head to the forums to check out all entries.

aaa6112

Congrats to aaa6112 on the above photo. It's a cute shot captured by his Lumia 920. Hither's how he described the photo:

"I was out, visiting La Jolla Cove, taking some sunset shots and began wandering down south from the cove. I spent quite some fourth dimension taking some long exposure shots (with a tripod, of form) and was merely about to pack up and return when I noticed this surfer emerge from the water and brand his mode back. I immediately knew I was in for a good silhouette shot. I clicked away using my Lumia 920 and had to do some mail to adapt the colors (using Lightroom). I like this shot a lot - a. for the silhouette and b. the silky water outcome."

B/Due west

This week we're going to make things a picayune monochromatic. Black and white was originally the but form of photography bachelor to the early pioneers. So we're going to give a nod to them this week with our black and white theme.

Discipline tin can exist anything you want, and then long equally your photo is black and white. Y'all can use a lot of apps to go images similar this, but we highly recommend Black for Windows Phone. Black is a black and white motion picture emulator app for Windows Phone that produces some of the best images nosotros've seen. It'southward likewise a gratuitous app, then attempt out it out this calendar week when you shoot.

• Download Black for Windows Phone

The above photo was shot by me with a Lumia 1520 and after edited with Black and using the Lady Grey 400 emulator. I and then used the curves tool inside Black to ever and so slightly heighten the mids.

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Rules

Rules are going to exist simply similar concluding week. Here they are:

• Flick must exist taken with a Windows Phone
• Picture must be uploaded to the contest thread (linked below)
• Yous have to tell us what device you lot used to take the pic, and whatever special software or apps you lot might accept used. Editing your pictures is fine, this is art
• Feel free to add together a fiddling back story, we want to know how the picture came to be
• You must have used a valid electronic mail address to register hither at Windows Phone Central, so I know how to contact the winner
• But One entry per calendar week per person

Social

Nosotros're going to continue our social experiment from last week. Share any pictures you take for the contest on Instagram and Twitter using the post-obit hashtags. It'south a fun way to at a glance check out your competition and get inspiration. Plus we're edifice a community of Windows Phone mobile photographers!

Here'due south how it looks this week.

• #WPCpc
• #WPCBnW

This doesn't count as your entry; it's but a fun way to track the photos on social media. Your entry still needs to be in the forums!

Prize

One winner will become a $25 gift card to the Windows Telephone Shop. You can employ it to buy apps and games in the Windows Phone Store, Windows Store or Xbox Store.

We'll pick a winner Tuesday night (September 9) at eleven:59 PM ET. Winners volition be announced in a blog mail service for the contest adjacent week.

Quick PSA: We've set up dedicated sub-forum in the Windows Phone Central forums to keep the photograph contests in one location going forrard. You lot should bookmark this page, then y'all never miss a competition.

• Windows Phone Central – Photo Contests
• Weekly photo contest: Black and White

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Source: https://www.windowscentral.com/weekly-photo-contest-black-and-white

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