Jump over this this very nice bench 5 times.... No thank you ;)

WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND - August 27:Gala Dinner at Scots College August 27, 2016 in Wellington, New Zealand. (Photo by Mark Tantrum/ www.scotscollege.school.nz/)

Assignment-3 : Blurred Freedom

Tree roots and sedges being lit with an umbrella and a snoot. I deliberately over lit sedge in foreground, just for the exercise

As we announced yesterday, our new assignment reflects the work of Vivian Maier. Please post your (new!) photos between Feb 1 - 22 and use the hashtag #vivianmaierassignment.

JUNKYARD TREASURES: Maier was fascinated by what others might consider junk. So its ironic that her work was only discovered when John Maloof bought a box of photos at a flea market auction. Go find that hidden treasure that is usually overlooked - be it at the bottom of a bin, a local flea market or an estate sale.

I’M SORT OF A SPY (x2): Meander through the streets of your hometown and look - really LOOK. What catches your eye? An interesting outfit or posture? A group of people waiting for a bus? A couple holding hands at the street light? The legs of mother and child in a shop? We’re sure you’ll come up with an excellent shot. No wait - make that two! It’s the VM classic, after all.

IN THE NEWS: Vivian Maier was fascinated by the news - especially when they highlighted the folly of humanity. She also horded newspapers. For this assignment, set up a photo that has a newspaper or headline of sorts in it.

MANGLED MANNEQUIN: Next time you go window-shopping ignore the clothes and look at the mannequins. Lop-sided? Disassembled? Naked? You’ve got your shot.

MIRROR MIRROR: The classic VM selfie. Come on, we couldn’t do a Vivian Maier assignment and not have this one in there. Find something shiny and let us see a reflection of you and your camera. Shadow and smile optional.

BONUS ASSIGNMENT: A picture that no one will see: Take it, have it developed, don’t show it to anyone. Stash it away in a box. Post a photo of the box.

Please be kind and respectful when doing street photography. Vivian Maier was not just an exceptional photographer - she has also been described as “imposing and rude”. Don’t be inspired by that.

Remember: Only post new (mobile) photos, and only tag one per assignment. You can tag your outtakes with #vivianmaierassignment_outtake, though.

By the way - We’re not checking if you finish all 6 assignments, so don’t be discouraged if you can’t finish. The main thing is to start playing and have fun!

Assignment: "Homelife: Chores" March 30 - April 13

Checking and making sure the garbage got taken out. We missed it the last two weeks and now it's full of dirty diapers... Eeeww...

Shot for: fotoplayers.blogspot.com/

I asked some people to shoot something for my first assignment but no one had any time so I decided to do it on my own. In my opinion "doing something" doesn't always have to involve a lot of action. Because of this I chose to shoot one of the activities I really used to do pretty often. This is waht a perfect evening would have looked like until recently. Hopefully I will be able to get back into reading again soon.

This shot includes a book cover which might insult some people. For those people I have to say that this is not a book that is glorifying Nazis but it is about how the world would look like if the Nazis would have won WWII (The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick). I really love to read about strongly polarising and controversial topics which you have to think about and I also enjoy a good glass of wine from time to time.

-Lui Summer

Strobist: One AB 800 right of the camer bounced from the wall and another one left of the camera through an umbrella. A Canon Speedlite 540ez left of the cupboard bounced from the ceiling. Triggered with Cyber Sync gear.

weeds growing through the cracks in my deck. This week's assignment is "Low Angle"

Assignment 52: Patterns

Swarali Photo Assignment (November, 2015)

Title:

People:

Place:Redmond

Date:2015:11:15 11:25:45

File:DSC_7060.jpg

Strobist: Vivitar 285hv on stand on camera left with a coroplast gridspot. Vivitar 283 on camera right with coroplast gridspot. Ebay triggers

ISO 100, 1/200, f/8

Assignment-1

rule:7-frame your subject.

rule:10-balance your image.

WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND - August 27:Gala Dinner at Scots College August 27, 2016 in Wellington, New Zealand. (Photo by Mark Tantrum/ www.scotscollege.school.nz/)

Assignment 4 : Haridwar

WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND - August 27:Gala Dinner at Scots College August 27, 2016 in Wellington, New Zealand. (Photo by Mark Tantrum/ www.scotscollege.school.nz/)

WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND - August 27:Gala Dinner at Scots College August 27, 2016 in Wellington, New Zealand. (Photo by Mark Tantrum/ www.scotscollege.school.nz/)

Assignments from an online class - Gesture Drawing at Schoolism - taught by Pixar Story Artist, Alex Woo.

The next six images are of members of Belleville's (Michigan) DBA. Is this the look of a confused person or what?

Peace, Love, and Happiness...

Not having any luck with this assignment

Shooting with one of my favorite models :-)

Strobist info: SB-28, nearly on-axis, shot through a white umbrella.

Shooting with one of my favorite models, giving me some of her best faces. :-)

Strobist info: SB-28, nearly on-axis, shot through a white umbrella.

Shooting with one of my favorite models, giving me some of her best faces. :-)

Strobist info: SB-28, nearly on-axis, shot through a white umbrella.

Active Assignment Weekly: June 27 - July 4: Body Parts

Your assignment is to photograph body parts. Keep the props, or clothing to a minimum and really focus in on a body part. With that said PLEASE remember the group rules and keep it clean.

Dare: Make it abstract or hard to tell what part of the body you have chosen (please refrain from the cliche arm or leg crack made to look like a butt)

Restriction: No full face or full body shots, and as stated before no naughty areas.

WIT: Halogen reading light lying on the bed.. F/2.8, 1/20 sec. ISO 1600. CS4 curves for high contrast, vibrance reduction, dark blue filter to take out some of the bright orange-ness, noise reduction, gaussian blur, resize. View on black..

Active Assignment Weekly - Motion Blur.

Well I choose this assignment because I needed practice and wow... Throughout the week i tried to improve on my technique and abilities but a week was not long enough, lol...

This is my 13 year old, rescued Xolo. After being in a cage her whole life, this girl loves to RUN!

I truly appreciate suggestions and critiques.as i really struggled with my settings on this assignment.

WIT: Slowing down my shutter and playing around with ISO and Aperture due to a dark cloudy day. In PP - i boosted the lighting and the shadows.

assignment 4=heavenly birds

asian paradise flycatcher

Gottlieb, William P., 1917-, photographer.

[Portrait of Bart Varselona, 1947 or 1948]

1 negative : b&w ; 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 in.

Notes:

Gottlieb Collection Assignment No. 176

Reference print available in Music Division, Library of Congress.

Purchase William P. Gottlieb

Forms part of: William P. Gottlieb Collection (Library of Congress).

Subjects:

Varselona, Bart

Stan Kenton Orchestra

Jazz musicians--1940-1950.

Trombonists--1940-1950.

Format: Portrait photographs--1940-1950.

Film negatives--1940-1950.

Rights Info: Mr. Gottlieb has dedicated these works to the public domain, but rights of privacy and publicity may apply. lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/gottlieb/gottlieb-copyrig...

Repository: (negative) Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Washington D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

(reference print) Library of Congress, Music Division, Washington D.C. 20540 USA, loc.gov/rr/perform/

Part Of: William P. Gottlieb Collection (DLC) 99-401005

General information about the Gottlieb Collection is available at lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/gottlieb/gottlieb-home.html

Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/gottlieb.05281

Call Number: LC-GLB23- 0528

For Strobist Lighting 102

Assignment 2 - Umbrella Specular Portrait

430EX in shoot-thru umbrella to camera right at 1/16 power. Shot in manual. Triggered with an ST-E2.

This assignment was fun and allowed for more creativity. My original plan was to try and make the bottle blend into the ski lift tower. However, the lighting at the top of the mountain didn't allow for me to set this angle up (too much lens flare). Instead I looked for good lighting and set up my bottle and flash.

This photo was shot during sunset on top of Bolton Valley in Vermont. I used a long lens 70-200 to help blur the background to a nice blend of colors. I then placed my flash on the ground (right hand side of the bottle) and laid flat on the ground to take this photo.

Here are the specs for my photo:

1/350s @2.8

ISO 200

Focal Length 108mm

No tripod

1 Off camera Flash (Canon 550EX)

PCNW Light Control assignment 1.

The essence of light. Produce one image that speaks to the essence of light as you see it.

I asked people to tell me what to take pictures of. Timer yay.

I'm taking a 35mm black and white photography course at my Uni this semester and my teacher is kind enough to scan the work that we hand in.

Here are the two photos I chose to develop for my landscape, or "space" assignment.

Taken with a Yashica FR and Ilford HP5 Plus 400 ISO film. Processed, developed and printed by me.

A small assignment for a special offer on the website zwembrilletjes.eu

Assignment 52: motion blur

Shot after dusk, to avoid overexposure

(Are you impressed, Ann -- I used a tripod!)

Active Assignment for 25th Oct - 1st Nov: Self Portrait with pumpkin

WIT-- New picture of some pumpkins and gourds................old picture of me on a rock,................blended the two.

WALA...............selfie with a pumpkin.

Active Assignment Weekly - June 13 - 20: Tickle the Funnybone

Assignment:

Take a picture that is humorous - let's have a laugh this week.

Restriction: No humans or parts of humans are allowed in the picture.

Dare: Create an image that doesn't require a caption to be funny.

WIT:

I think the title says it all here, but one never knows. I hope there are many reasons to laugh at this, and if not, oink oink.

I shot this outside a favorite joint of mine this morning, hoping I'd find the perfect spot for this pair. I've used them once for a photo, but the results weren't that great.

In PP: I just adjusted the curves, then bent the green and red curves a bit for a lomo look.

Getting my grandbaby ready for a bath and bed, I have lotion, diaper, wipes and his bottle, all the necessity's he needs to get him ready.

Assignment 1 - Wild doodling - My doodle! I used a black biro pen and coloured pencils (the watercolour ones). I frequently doodle this squiggly pattern - today i was out in the wind collecting fallen leaves which were amazing colours so i made my squiggly doodle into a tree, with leaves blowing in the wind. No idea how to draw the wind, so blue swirly pattern represents the wind (not sure it showed up clearly in the scan?). No clue how Flickr works so hopefully this will go to the right place! Clare

assignment 2: human nature

Assignment-2 Environmental Portrait

WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND - August 27:Gala Dinner at Scots College August 27, 2016 in Wellington, New Zealand. (Photo by Mark Tantrum/ www.scotscollege.school.nz/)