I miss the days of college and photo groups...anyone interested in creating a photography assignment where we give ourselves a certain amount of time to shoot on a particular subject (could be anything...reflections, animals, abstract, people, study in red, whatever), share them here and have a critique session?

Nothing like feedback from your peers.

I agree, I think this is an excellent idea Christine. This is the way forward to learning. I look forward to the challenges ahead.

Anybody else up for the challenge/fun?

Sounds like fun exercise. Count me in.

I'd like to have a go at this as well. As for Topics or subjects - well that's where I am not sure about it at all.

Between the responses here and to the original group question that went out this is shaping up to be a fun learning experience!

We'll have to decide on a few things:

1.) the topic to shoot 2.) the time frame we have to shoot 3.) how we want to go about posting our new photos and critiquing

I'm totally open to anything...

As to number three, my thought is we start a new 'Assignment Submitted' thread and post there when we've uploaded our photo to our page. If we want to be more personal and inform people individually by stopping by their pages that's even better.

Thoughts?

I think we could also open an 'assignment ideas' thread were we can offer suggestions for assignments.

I like the 'Assignment Submitted' thread idea... Perhaps when posting for the assignment we have the word of subject matter and the word 'Assignment' example - 'Reflections Assignment'

What do you think?

Time frame to shoot - how about 7 days?

Critiquing - constructive, thoughtful, honest, encouraging etc.. I feel it will be beneficial to us all to learn to critique as best we can. Only by doing so will we learn more about our photography. That said, we will all have different levels of critique ability so it is another aspect to our photography learning.

Also would be fair and more interactive if each week a different participating member gets a turn to decide what an assignment topic should be.

how about one picture per person per subject rather than more than one, take as many as you want and post just one, the one that appeals to you the most... subject matter???? something that will be available in every city, village and town of the world for we are an international crowd. doors windows people dogs trees flowers plants whatever... how about pics shot with imaginative angles and points of view...

I agree with Pari - each participant to submit just one image per assignment. That way, it will be easier for everyone to offer each entry a well thought out critique.

Any thoughts?

One Image sounds about right to me for each assignment.