Hi All!

It's Challenge Time again!  Here is a snip from geoegress' note to me:

"how about a "Black and White" It is an under used artistic technique that produces some really great pictures. (B&W, grey scale, sketch render, it's what I mean)  "

I always like this kind of topic!  The challenge is for everyone, regardless of their creative tools.  Everyone can enter, whether they are using 2D, 3D, fractal, animation or any other software;  whether they are photographers, writers or even musicians.  The challenge arena is open to all.  Come and join in, test your creative tools against all the others!

The Challenge begins immediately and will close to entries at the end of May.  I will give you a few days notice.  All entries will be to this thread or with a link to a larger image. Voting will begin then in the same thread. 

You may enter an existing work if you like, but we would prefer to see a new work created for this challenge... it IS a challenge after all, lol!  You may enter more than one work, but remember that in the voting, each entry will be judged separately. If you choose to enter more than once, please NAME EACH OF YOUR ENTRIES!

Show us your inspiration!!

~Viv

Fractals will always amaze me!

EXCELLENT topic... should be great fun!

Rarer than a hairy egg and madder than a box of frogs....

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This will be fun , :P  :D

Classic 1940's style pinup

:)  off to add a bigger size to my gallery :)

Great way to kick this off!

~Viv

Fractals will always amaze me!

Thanks geoegress, for pointing me to this challenge. I just posted a bw portrait which was created in Poser with a bit of PSP work...here it is for the contest.  [ http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1883742](http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1883742) and a smaller version for the thread:

I've been doing more and more in black and white. I think it brings in emotion and drama.

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together.
All things connect......Chief Seattle, 1854

here's another that I completed last night. might as well put it in here :)

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together.
All things connect......Chief Seattle, 1854

Super entries so far Here is mine called "Flying Boat". It´s a seaplane of my own design, modelled in Rhino, then inserted in Bryce, finally converted to BW in Paint.NET

Regards to all from Portugal

very fine entries!

"The light at the end of the tunnel may be an oncoming train"

forgot about the name, and now I can't edit ...
the top one is Eniletac in Black and White
Second is Bianca in BW

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together.
All things connect......Chief Seattle, 1854

Excellent posts :)

Very cool posts, love the bi-plane in the water! I think that's what it's called anyway.

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1886655

Great idea! Here's mine with a link to the larger view. http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1886655

I'm Getting old.
My wings are cold.
I think I'll go sit on the sun.
Savage Dragon
"Chronicles of the Dragon Queen"

actually, I do a lot of black and white/monochrome

www.bclaytonphoto.com

bclaytonphoto on Facebook

and one more

www.bclaytonphoto.com

bclaytonphoto on Facebook

grayscale light work

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Ockham's razor- It's that simple

Attached Link: Triumph at Twilight

This image was generated using Vue. It had very little color in it so I thought I'll try and see how it looks in pure b&w. (I made several watercolor paintings too of this theme, you can see those too in my gallery, links in th e b&w image)

"I paint that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive. I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence."
Man Ray, modernist painter
http://artpearl.redbubble.com/

Wonderful entries...here is mine.

seeyus  Tunde
 

Monochrome days. Bryce with volumetric clouds.

B/W Waterdrop

Blackcurrant field in the morning.

Family on Stone Fence

Sweet Image Nazul.  Bryce doing what it does best???

Cyba_storm - Exactly :-)

Hel is the ruler of Helheim, the realm of the dead. The monstrous daughter of the trickster god Loki and his wife Angrboda. She is the youngest child and is usually described as a horrible hag, half alive and half dead, with a gloomy and grim expression.

Memorial Rose

I have a few shots from this very old rose bush...

Quote - Sweet Image Nazul.  Bryce doing what it does best???

Actually Bryce is capable of extremes...

Am I the only one who cannot see Katanas image?

Helanker - nope!!

Thanks Nazul.  Atleast I know now :-)

i can't either

"The light at the end of the tunnel may be an oncoming train"

Don't understand why my image is missing, so here it is again....

YAY Now i see it .  Very nice :)

Some nice B&W here. **

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Images that run around in my head eventually end up in my gallery.

Dragons like to have fun too!  Dragon Mischief Art

Sorry about the mix up with my image, must be the settings at my site, so I have added it as an attachment here..

Will check back later to see if it is still showing.

OK, here's mine. A tribute to retro stuff everywhere. :)

Glad you fixed it Katanas. Sweet work! ")

I'm Getting old.
My wings are cold.
I think I'll go sit on the sun.
Savage Dragon
"Chronicles of the Dragon Queen"

I always felt B&W was a very difficult media, so I rarely do it. Still thought I'd give it a try using V4  and using filters from a plug in called *Virtual Photographer*. I tried various filters and liked this look the best.

Title: Remembering

Images that run around in my head eventually end up in my gallery.

Dragons like to have fun too!  Dragon Mischief Art

Wow!  There are seriously striking images here!   This is really going to be a hard one to judge.

~Viv

Fractals will always amaze me!

Here's a horse of a different color.... or, um, flowers, actually.  Created entirely in Vue; tweaked ever-so-slightly in PhotoShop. Unfortunately, the small size doesn't let you see the textures, which are, in my mind, what makes the arrangement worth looking at! ;-)

All I get is the rex x box, no image.

 heres my entry cheer

Work It Harder. Make It Better. Do It Faster, Makes Us stronger. More than ever, hour after hour. Our work is never over. - Daft Punk

Those are not comfortable.   I would sleep somewhere else.

Title: Birth Right.

I think Black and white is great personally. Color can be over rated :P

I like space, so I made 3 versions for this.

There's a forum version which is attached here.

A off site version (1280 by 720 JPEG) - CLICK HERE!

As well I have a colored version (I hope it's okay) on my gallery, but I won't link it.

The image is supposed to relay a kind of message. More that Earth is our planet, we are here, born on it, etc.

It relies on us as much as we rely on it.

"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence."

Hello everybody, on this modelisation, only one works on métablobs I hope that you will appreciate friendly ***** Phil01

Hel #2

This time she was caught devouring a corpse....

This is one of my old FE fractals, from some years ago. Kati

My piece is entitled "The Jazz Singer" . It's a B&W working of my older work "The Blues Singer".

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OS: Windows 11 64-bit
Poser: Poser 11.3 ...... Units: inches or meters depends on mood
Bryce: Bryce Pro 7.1.074
Image Editing: Corel Paintshop Pro
Renderer: Superfly, Firefly

9/11/2001: Never forget...

Smiles are contagious... Pass it on!

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday

 

lol- you guys arn't makeing it any easier to vote- lol :)

Suite ARCANGE

 

It seems dragons are under represented, so here's a try. 

Images that run around in my head eventually end up in my gallery.

Dragons like to have fun too!  Dragon Mischief Art

wow D_M :)

 bbit of abstract

Was taken last year in my backyard, then post-worked in Photoshop (levels and sharpening).

and one more..  "Light of His Love" Created in Terragen and finished in Photoshop.

Very interesting works folks :)

Here is mine.
Nokia N96 5mpxl photo -> picasa modify -> resized.
Name : Let Me Grow!

 

awjay, It's lovely. What is the title?

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OS: Windows 11 64-bit
Poser: Poser 11.3 ...... Units: inches or meters depends on mood
Bryce: Bryce Pro 7.1.074
Image Editing: Corel Paintshop Pro
Renderer: Superfly, Firefly

9/11/2001: Never forget...

Smiles are contagious... Pass it on!

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday

 

Remember Hurricane Ike last year??? Hit the isle of Galveston hard!  Saw a photo of the wave as it crashed against the seawall. There's a monument to the victim of the 1900 hurricane. You can see the monument here in this slideshow:  

  Here's my snapshot. Titled: Galveston's 1900 Hurricane Memorial. It looks better if you click on the image.

Well it's close to it IMHO.

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OS: Windows 11 64-bit
Poser: Poser 11.3 ...... Units: inches or meters depends on mood
Bryce: Bryce Pro 7.1.074
Image Editing: Corel Paintshop Pro
Renderer: Superfly, Firefly

9/11/2001: Never forget...

Smiles are contagious... Pass it on!

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday

 

 'house in the reeds'.... is the title...

many thanks..

james

Fantastic entries!  I am really amazed at all the different interpretations!

I will be closing the entries on Sunday night, May 31 at 23:59 Renderosity time (US Central) and the voting will begin in this thread.  We have 3 pages now, so be sure to look at all of them   More instructions will be given on Sunday.

~Viv

Fractals will always amaze me!

Here's a Vue/Poser/PhotoShop creation. Called "Depression".

Okay, last one... I called this one "Isolation".

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OS: Windows 11 64-bit
Poser: Poser 11.3 ...... Units: inches or meters depends on mood
Bryce: Bryce Pro 7.1.074
Image Editing: Corel Paintshop Pro
Renderer: Superfly, Firefly

9/11/2001: Never forget...

Smiles are contagious... Pass it on!

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday

 

BLACKS, WHITES, SHADES OF GRAY

 

LAWS … sacred ‘THOU SHALT NOTS’ of centuries

Conveniently condemning evils for the sake

Of ruling clans or holy creeds all set

To sanctify who lives, who’s saved, who’s damned.

 

LAWS … reason’s icy logic proving how

Existence ‘BIG BANGED” into being; how

We count the DNA of who and what

We are, our astral physics bending time

And space upon themselves extinguishing

Tomorrow’s hope of numbering its stars.

 

COLORS …

 

Demonic blacks in inquisitions thrust

On tortured nightmares with no grace to grasp

Truth.  Our angelic white perfections are

Mirages out of touch with facts.  God’s most

Beloved saints wear crowns of tragic thorns,

The holiest among us bear Job’s doubts;

Not even devils can escape their hells.

 

It’s grays … those ecstasies of ashes make

Life bearable: remembering a rose

Perfume that haunted springtime’s fleeting breaths,

Electric comets taunting darkness with

Men strutting on its sterile moon, the first

Embrace with flesh before duration turned

A rapture in habits … jaded now

And bored to death with time.  But music still

Infects my soul and resurrected thoughts

Of moments gone encourage me to shout:

“I’VE LIVED AND JOYOUSLY ALIVE!”

 

jo_dis

Done in Vue 7 Complete, only used post render adjustments done in the program, no postwork with other programs or media. Click image for the full size view.

this one i posted in my gallery in colour - i thought it might be nice in b/w too as the moebius band shows there is more than two possibilities, some even quite unexpected. lots of fine entries this month, will be hard to choose!

"The light at the end of the tunnel may be an oncoming train"

It's wonderful to see some new faces this month!  We have three pages this month, so be sure to look at them all.  It's time to let the voting begin!  The voting will be in this thread, after this entry.  You get to choose your 3 favorite entries, giving each of them 3, 2 or 1 points.  Remember, you are choosing an entry, not an artist.  If someone has posted more than one entry, you need to indicate which is your choice. 

Your vote should look something like this:

Black - "White" - 3 points
Shades - "Gray" - 2 points
Mono - "Tone" - 1 point

Feel free to nominate Honorable Mentions or make comments.

~Viv

Fractals will always amaze me!

Here i go:

TomDart - "Memorial Rose" - 3 points
helanker - "Blackcurrant field in the morning." - 2 points
pushinfaders - "Flo's Dinner" - 1 point

MCW1917 - Depression 3 points
Waldomac - Flowers  2 points
Inland-Artist - Birth Right   1 point
 All others are Honorable Mentioned. Great stuff, everybody!!!  Made it hard to choose this time around.

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Bryce: Bryce Pro 7.1.074
Image Editing: Corel Paintshop Pro
Renderer: Superfly, Firefly

9/11/2001: Never forget...

Smiles are contagious... Pass it on!

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday

 

I think, ThunderStone, that you mean **mcw1917 Flowers.

I appreciate the vote, but I think it was a mistake. :)

Just to clarify, I forgot to put a title on mine. Let's call it "Retro-plane", in case anyone does decide to vote for it.

Sorry about the confusion.

John (waldomac)
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awjay - "House in the Reeds" 3pts
Fractalinda - "Light of His Love" 2pts
MCW1917 - "Flowers" 1pt

Can I have a do over for the votes?
MCW1917 - Depression 3pts
Waldomac - Retro plane 2 pts  **** This is the one I wanted to vote for... Must have been half awake when I voted... :blushing:
Inland-Artists - Birth Rights 1 pt

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OS: Windows 11 64-bit
Poser: Poser 11.3 ...... Units: inches or meters depends on mood
Bryce: Bryce Pro 7.1.074
Image Editing: Corel Paintshop Pro
Renderer: Superfly, Firefly

9/11/2001: Never forget...

Smiles are contagious... Pass it on!

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday

 

Dave-So second image- 3
Digital_Mischief Dragons- 2
mcw1917 flowers- 1**

**Very hard to choose :)

Now I see why it's important to have titles.

babuci         3pt      bars & shadows
mcw1917     2pt      flower arrangement
fractalinda   1 pt      "light of his love"

Images that run around in my head eventually end up in my gallery.

Dragons like to have fun too!  Dragon Mischief Art

ArtPearl - "Girl with hoop"           3 points
Digital_Mischief  -   "Dragons"     2points
mcw1917 - "Flowers"    1 point
It was very hard to chose from so much talent.

MCW1917                      "Flowers"           3 points
Pushinfaders                " trees"                2 points
Digital_Mischief            "Dragons"          1 point

fractalindas flower 3 points
jo_dis's Poem 2 points
Pushfaders diner 1 point

Digital_Mischief: Remembering     3-point
mcw1917: Flowers     2-point
koosievantutte      1-point

"Dragons" = 3 First
"Light of his Light" = 2 Second
"BW Waterdrop" = 1 Honorable Mention

But then, they ALL were terrific.  It's wonderful to see such a variety!

3pts...blackcurrant fields in the morning
2pts.. flying boat
1pt ..flos diner pic

#1 Flo's dinner
#2 B&W waterdrop
#3 Flower arrangement by mcv1917 ( was no title)

good luck...seeya  Tunde

ok..the votes spread about nicely :)

Fractalinda light of his love 3
DigitalMischief Remembeirng 2
awjay house in the reeds  1

great stuff. I've always been an Ansel Adams fan. BW is great, isn't it?

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together.
All things connect......Chief Seattle, 1854

MCW1917 - "Depression" - 3Pts

HWJay - "House in the Reeds" - 2pts

Inland-Artist - "Birth Right" - 1pt

HM: - Apache2K with "let me grow!"

Rarer than a hairy egg and madder than a box of frogs....

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**Digital_Mischief ... DRAGONS                    ... 3
****fractalinda          ... FLOWER                        ... 2
awjay                   ... HOUSE IN THE REEDS ... 1

Super work, btw. Great job, everybody.

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Here Are My votes:

1st: mcw1917's "Flowers"

2nd: arlivre's "Flying Boat"

3rd: Digital_Mischief's "Dragons"

This is tough and embarassing in that some fine ones are not in my selection...I honestly could not rate some above others in certain categories and had make a choice.

Digital Michief , Remembering           3

Savage Dragon                                      2

MC 917, Flowers  (superb!)                 1

yes,   would I go through it again, these numbers and names would likely change..very tough
and perhaps I don't understand enough of white, gray and tone.

Digital Mischief, Dragons 3
mcw1917, Depression 2
sram, (electric chair) 1

I'm Getting old.
My wings are cold.
I think I'll go sit on the sun.
Savage Dragon
"Chronicles of the Dragon Queen"

I would like to close the voting Saturday night 23:59 Renderosity time (US Central)  so please get your votes in by then.  I will tally the votes and post the winners soon after.  There really are a lot of great entries this month!

~Viv

Fractals will always amaze me!

awjay:  "house in the reeds"* * 3 points

mcw1917  "Flowers" 2  points

pushinfaders:  "Trees"  1 point

It was a really difficult choice.  So many images worth placing.  For future contests, it may be helpful to have categories of images.

3 points:  ArtPearl           "Triumph at Twilight"
2 points: mcw1917                "Flowers"
1 point:  babuci                      not named

Really difficult choices....

Cheers !

ooppps I just realized it is goes by points not by rank so here we go again properly...sorry

3 points: Flo's dinner          
2 points: B&W waterdropp
1 point:    Flower arrangement by mcv 1917 

seeyus   T

No1 Nazal waterdrop
No2 Sram
No 3 Helanker

A wonderful collection of styles and ideas

Vote#1 jo_dis
Vote#2 Nazal
Vote#3 Arlivre

Ahh..the points vs rank systems have emerged....all the best in sorting it out.

This has been a fun one.       TomDart.

This was a fun and interesting challenge, I really enjoyed seeing so many different concepts of BLACK, WHITE AND SHADES OF GRAY!  Everyone did a wonderful job, although it's not always easy to work with such constraints.  Thanks for making this challenge a success, and thanks to geoegress for a great topic!

Here is the count:

Tied for tenth place with 1 point: pushinfaders' 'Trees' and  koosievantutte's 'moebius strip'

Tied for ninth place with 2 points:  Waldomac's 'RetroPlane', Inland-Artist's 'Birthright' and Savage Dragon's untitled

Tied for eighth place, with 3 points:  SRAM's 'Electric Chair', TomDart's 'Memorial Rose' and Dave-So's 'Bianca in BW'

In seventh place, with 4 points: babuci's 'Bars & Shadows'

Tied for sixth place, with 4 points:  fractalinda's 'Flower', jo_dis' 'Poem' and Arlivre's 'Flying Boat'

Tied for fifth place, with 6 points:  helanker's 'Black Currant Field' and ArtPearl's 'Girl with hoop

Tied for fourth place, with 8 points:  pushinfaders' 'Flo's Diner', mcw1917's 'Depression', Digital Mischief's 'Remembering', fractalinda's 'Light of His Love' and nazul's 'BW Waterdrop'

In third place, with 10 points: awjay's 'House In The Reeds'

In second place, with 15 points:  Digital Mischief's 'Dragons'

In first place, with 19 points:  mcw1917's 'flower arrangement'

Congratulations to everyone!  I can't wait to see what you will all come up with for thecoming challenge!  mcw1917, please let me know what you want to challenge for June.

~Viv

Fractals will always amaze me!

This was the first time I've been involved in this forum challenge.  It was fun and thanks to those that were kind enough to vote for my piece(s).  The Dragons now really have something to 'Talk' about. :biggrin:

I'm anxious to see what MCW1917 comes up with.

Images that run around in my head eventually end up in my gallery.

Dragons like to have fun too!  Dragon Mischief Art

Wow! I'm delighted that so many of you enjoyed "Flowers"! Thanks you for your votes!!  There were many fine pieces in this challenge, and I'm proud to have done well among so many other artists.  ;-)
   While I spend the morning basking in what I consider my "moment of glory," I'll be pondering a challenge for us to tackle this month....  I'll be baaack. (this afternoon, I promise!).
  Again,  I thank you.  mcw1917

well deserved wins!!!!

congrats!!  =D

Rarer than a hairy egg and madder than a box of frogs....

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This challenge was so much fun!  It's been such a treat to view so many wonderful images.  Congratulations to all the winners (everyone is you know!) and a sincere thank you for those of you who voted for my images.  :-))

I agree with melikia. It was very well deserved :-)))  Congratulations   mcw1917

Congratulation to all the winners ...very well deserved :-)

congrat:s)
this was my first time entering as well. Lookiong forward to the next one.

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together.
All things connect......Chief Seattle, 1854

Congratulations !

Regards to all from Portugal

Well done mcw1917 :D

And to everybody. You made this a truely interesting challenge :)

Congratulations to all the winners.
Kati