AAW: VOTING: April 6-13, 2026: Low Key Photography
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Here is the lantern photo that the text book team decided to use. It was really fun to have an assignment and find different ways to illustrate their theme,
The comment has the book design.
I found this door in the Bo Kaap, a very colourful neighbourhood of Cape Town where the houses are all painted in bright colours and sometimes the doors are beautifully decorated, such as this one...the only eye sore the heavily secured gates in front, implying the crime rate within the inner city boundaries...
I don't think this is exactly what my instructor wanted when he gave us our assignment for this week. I love it!
Photo taken through a dirty window looking into the bathhouse at Coe Hall. The purpose of the interiors assignment is to learn how to adjust the camera for the various types of light encountered indoors. Used the polarized filter here.
I don't think I'm ever going to make page 1 of Explore...... sigh......
Here was another treatment of the lantern and lighting. I was going for the homey look with the dish cabinet. Neither this one or Assignment 1 was chosen. But I had fun thinking of new ways to show a lantern.
Back in 1978 - 79, I was taking photography classes through the University of Maryland while stationed in Schwetzingen, Germany.
The assignment for the week was "Advertising". I found this funny wine label in a magazine and pasted it onto a wine bottle, then misted the bottle and grapes. Then another member of the class thought it would be a good idea for him to try to hide behind the bottle. He was right. I got an A from the teacher and a laugh from the class. I wish I could remember his name.
Over the years before I could scan it, the original image has faded, especially around the label. I tried to bring it back digitally but wasn't really able to do much. You can still barely make it out though if you view the image large.
Mamiya 645 w/Plus-X film, in the post photo lab studio.
Dark, mysterious....... I'll take many more photos for this assignment!
I love stairways. Especially the winding, marble stairway at the New York Public Llibrary.
Rolling thru one of Alexandria subdivision most interesting stretch of track, two Canadian National GP38-2 had a short train of empties in tow while coasting downhill into the set of banked reverse curves just west of Alexandria on their way to Coteau yard to exchange cars.
The former status of this transcontinental mainline cannot be hide too much; wide and broad curves complete with high speed banking, 100 MPH passenger speed over many sections of the 76 mile-long right of way along with a daily parade of varnish connecting Canada's capital with major city centre.
Sure no more thru freight pounding the mainline and linking Eastern Canada with Northern Ontario since the closure of Beachburg subdivision thru Ottawa Valley by CN in 1995, but freight trafic still barely active in this part of the world, at least enough to guaranteed four train crew assignment in Ottawa working the six-days-a-week 589 job.
Veteran locomotive engineer N.P, the current #1 on the OCR seniority list, is at the helm today, releasing every possible horsepower from his assigned old ladies in order to stay out of the way of those modern day varnish.
CN L58921-30
4765 4771
Milepost 25.1 VIA Alexandria subdivision
Alexandria, ON
July 30th 2023
Styling assignment: Camera: Canon 1DX Mark II. Lens: Canon 24-70mm, f/4.5, SS: 1/50, ISO 200. Light source: Canon 600EXII-RT Speedlight w/Impact 24" x 24" Quickbox with grid. Note: Child was not sitting on a shelf. He was laying with his back on the floor. Image was shot from above.
Active Assignment Weekly: Reflections
Reflection of a tree and greenery in the water. The actual roots are in the photo.
Assignment 52 -- "Fine Art" -- what might you hang on your wall?
This assignment inspired me to experiment with HDR, to attempt an "old masters'" sort of glow to a still life. Amazingly fun & addictive!
(Shot in natural light, late afternoon sun.)
The assignment was to use Photoshop's Vanishing Point filter to wrap a banner or sign around a building. I decided to use a picture of the girls. I could have put more time into this. But, I had to get it done in a hurry. Using the filter was easy. The only work involved was making sure the light pole was in front of the banner. I should have darkened the right side of the banner a little as the light source is hitting the building on the other side. But, once again, I put this together quickly. I also should have created a crease going along the corner of the building. I'll probably fix these issues and replace this image at some point soon.
On our vacation to the New Brunswick we were visiting this old farm and found these three beautiful kittens in the barn. They were so friendly we wanted to take them home.
Active Assignment Weekly April 18 - 25: Street Photography
WIT: Walking up and down the street, and, in an alleyway, caught this soccer game being played between father and sons, a perfect activity for a Sunday afternoon. Didn't want to be noticed, so took a quick shot, almost from the hip. In post cropped to 8 by 10, and adjusted the colours.
They all fit nicely into this ONA Brixton. Question is... Do I need all of them on assignment?
Since getting rid of all my Canon gear last summer, I am very happy with the image quality of the Fuji X-System and its' form factor. Much more portable!
I'll beat everyone to this critique: I wish that I got his whole hand.
What I learned from doing these photos is to give myself some extra room when shooting. I was trying to stay zoomed in and keep the action tight. Because they move so quickly up this board and they can swing erratically; it was hard to keep the feet and arms always in the frame while zoomed in so tight. I’m balancing on the top of this board so it is difficult for me to move around. In retrospect I should have not worried about zooming in so tight because you can always crop the unwanted areas out...it is much tougher to recreate a hand.
I'm not sure if I should crop tighter on the right and top?
What about the color of the light in comparison to the other campus board photo.
Which one is better?
Feedback please!
This is a pano from 5 vertical shots. We dont get much cool weather here in SoCal, so I was happy to see these clouds, which were actually a different shot from later in the day.
Strobist: bare 550ex about 6 feet from subject on camera right, and another on camera left.
I took out a tree in the background, but you can still see the reflection...
I've now moved on from DPS assignments(more's the pity) You can follow my blog as I explore New Zealand here-
Believe me, this was way harder to achieve than it looks. I had to do two trips to the beach as I just could not get the angles right on the first day. The angles of the vertical lines changed depending on how far the camera was from the box, what the POV angle was and how wide I had my lens, and not being able to clearly see my screen on my camera didn't help either. I had to enlist Mr FKG to help me draw it today, it took over an hour to get it right(and it could have still done with some tweaking) but we were running out of light.
"Best of the Year 2012"- Sand Box
This was orignally submitted for the Forced Perspective assignment. I chose this shot for my "Best of Year" mainly because of the planning and the time & effort that went into creating it which included two visits to the beach (as I just couldn't get the angles right the first time). While it might look simple enough it was a tough challenge to draw, I had to draw around 10 large "boxes" before I finally got the right perspective.