SA Book & Challenge Lovers discussion

Use this thread if you
- have any questions about the challenge
- want to know if your idea for a photo will work
- are looking for ideas for a photo
- are looking for resources for your photo
- have any suggestions for other participants
- have any suggestions about running/doing the challenge

Can you use a phot you have taken in the past but is usefull somehow or do you have to take a new one?

I've been thinking about that. I think yes, you can use your old photos. It seems like an easy option, perhaps, but it would be shame if you had a photo taken in an exact location or something but were unable to use it.

Agreed!

Oh I have a question, what if Lauren F and I read the same book and we pose in a photo for the same cover. Could we both use it?

Yeah, that seems fine. But if only one of you is participating in the creation of the photo, then you can't both use it.

When would you guys like to start? It's only the 3rd, so we could make 1 January the start date, in which case any books you finished in the past three days would count.
Alternatively, we will start on 1 February.

That sounds fair :)

I'm happy with the 1st of Jan.

Me too!

I believe it will be fine for women to do male covers? For example, book of the month, Prince of Thorns is a guy on a cover with a sword, it don't have to be so literal that it has to be a guy?

Oh and also, if the cover is just images, like a guitar and a flower for example and you perhaps don't own a guitar or whatever the object is, can it be designed in something like Photoshop or can you draw it? Well not that I can draw haha, just want to check the limits

Riana wrote: "I believe it will be fine for women to do male covers? For example, book of the month, Prince of Thorns is a guy on a cover with a sword, it don't have to be so literal that it has to be a guy?"

Yes. You don't have to be the same gender as the figure on the cover, but only if you get most of the other elements right, so that it looks similar - clothing, background, props, etc. So don't wear a skirt or show cleavage if you're reproducing a cover with a man, lol. With covers like Prince of Thorns you'd be wearing a hood anyway, so your gender could be masked.

Riana wrote: "Oh and also, if the cover is just images, like a guitar and a flower for example and you perhaps don't own a guitar or whatever the object is, can it be designed in something like Photoshop or can ..."

No - you can edit pictures to do things like change your hair colour or splice two pictures together, but I draw the line at adding objects. In the rules I put a ban on digital images as well, so you can't design the whole thing on your computer or something.
If you don't have the means to reproduce the cover, you'll have to go for one of the other options.

Great, say cheese and let the games begin :-D

1. Sooo for & there are 2 covers.

Some have more. How are we going to do it. Can you recreate any of the covers? Or just the UK and US one to keep it simple?

2. This one will be easier for me to pull off. I have a close hair color and green eyes. What about they guy? Should Mark play it? And then the yellow thing - I have red, blue and purple sack thingy that will work. Is that fine?

Oh and I guess I have to get some pines behind me right?

I took photos of pines (or close) looking tree recently. Can I splice it behind us?

Lu (Sugar & Snark) wrote: "1. Sooo for & there are 2 covers.

Some have more. How are we going to do it. Can you recreate any of the covers?"

I'm going to go with my rule for the other challenges - you can choose from any of the available covers in the language you're reading. So, if you're reading the book in English, you can't use the German cover.

Question 2: Yes, Mark should be in the picture. Alternatively, you could just dress up as the woman, or replicate a scene where she's on her own in a setting without the pines. But if you want to splice in the pines that's ok too. If your sack looks more or less the same, you can use that, unless the book reveals that the yellow colour is significant. In that case, you could buy one of those cheap chiffon gift bags in gold/yellow and just stuff it with paper or a piece of cloth.

Since there have been two agreements and no objections to starting on 1 January, I am making that the starting date. You can use any book you finished on that day and after.

Cool thanks. I think Mark will do it, but he will most likely pull a face in the pic lol

I have no idea what that yellow thing is, but I'm sure I can get a yellow thing somewhere. The clothes I think I can pull off and I think we have a sword thing somewhere :)

Lol, well the guy in the picture doesn't look very happy anyway :)
It just looks like a soft yellow pouch to me.
It looks like you could wrap a sheet or blanket around you for the clothes. And that sword isn't especially big - I think a large kitchen knife wrapped in a piece of cloth would do fine.

Lol yea true!

Yea I'll just find a yellow pouch of some sort. Heheh I have a blue blanket which is perfect! And we have a panga type thing so that should work :D Now to get him in sort of the right clothes lol

Hehe, now I'm amusing myself with thoughts of making Yaseen dress up for this challenge...

hehehe

I am so looking forward to seeing what you guys come up with. Good luck everyone!

I would like to add this rule to the challenge:
- Please provide quote(s) from the book to explain your photo. However, you don't have to do this if you're reproducing the cover or an object/creature that doesn't need a detailed description (eg. a German Shepherd). If you take a photograph that captures a scene, you don't need to quote the whole scene - just describe it briefly, and add one or two quotes if you like.

Sounds good :)

I am doing al my planning and just want to check, are we allowed to use dolls to reenact scenes? (for example, I am thinking of Carrie, I want to do the pig's blood scene with coloured liquid and using a doll will be a lot less messy than doing it to myself haha)

Hahahaha, yeah, dolls are fine :)

If anyone is interested in reading it, The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk is the perfect book for this challenge. The book is all about objects (the protagonist collects them as memories of the woman he loves), and you could pick out a few of these or one of the most significant ones to photograph.

If you're a smoker or know someone who is, you can even collect cigarette stubs, as the protagonist does (he's obsessed, to put it mildly).

My photo for The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk http://www.pinterest.com/pin/14144124...

Great stuff!