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This week's assignment: "Film Noir", French for "black film". This will probably be a more difficult assignment that will require much more preparation because mood as well as lighting are important aspects as well as creating a story.
Here is Wikipedia's definition:
"Film noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize cynical attitudes and sexual motivations. Hollywood's classic film noir period is generally regarded as stretching from the early 1940s to the late 1950s. Film noir of this era is associated with a low-key black-and-white visual style that has roots in German Expressionist cinematography. Many of the prototypical stories and much of the attitude of classic noir derive from the hardboiled school of crime fiction that emerged in the United States during the Depression."
Think of old movies, such as The Maltese Falcon" or relatively new ones like "Sin City".
Chico State’s #10 Jiana Creswell fires a three pointer during the Wildcats’ game against Cal State Dominguez Hills on Thursday, January 5, 2023 in Chico, Calif.
(Matt Bates/University Photographer/Chico State)
For this assignment, I volunteered to photograph the support staff and volunteers at my son’s elementary school for the year book. This is Brenda, the crossing guard helping two students cross the street on Halloween. Over the next month or so I have 30 more to do.
Strobist info:
SB800 camera left, at full power, iso=200, f10, 1/180
Assignment - Stella Marni, by Edward S. Aarons
Gold Medal 906, 1959 reprint
Cover art by Robert Abbett
#4 in the Sam Durell "Assignment" series
July 2009 - The third of six writing assignments this month.
I comment about my life and opinions in my eJournal and images every single day.
Assignment: PCA03 - Isolated Subject
Deadline: October 1st, 2007
Mission:
Show us an isolated subject. Razor sharp focus on the subject, and completely blurred to annihilation backgrounds. This can be accomplished by using a wide aperture and having a distant background. If using a less sophisticated camera, try using the portrait mode or macro mode. If you cannot get the background out of focus, then choose a featureless background.
I took a lot of pictures for this assignment and I think I liked the ones of this fence the least, but it is the only one where one subject is in razor sharp focus. All my others ones suffer from soft or blurry edges on the main subject. I did some post-processing work on this photo: cropping and trying to dodge out the bright white spot in the middle of the photo. It sort of worked. I still think it is too bright in comparison to the rest of the background, but any darker and it started to look strange.
Late morning sun behind.
Umbrella'd SB-80 at camera right.
Money's tight right now, but her mom really wanted photos of Bella. There were happy ones, but this one is my fave of the Balance shots from this series, and was much more characteristic of Bella's mood on this morning.
Assignment - Sulu Sea, by Edward S. Aarons
Gold Medal d1654, 1966 reprint
Cover art uncredited
#20 in the Sam Durell "Assignment" series
Assignment trial shot for Light 102 Umbrella Specular.
I was surprised at the difficulty in the set up. Small changes made a big difference when I was trying to get a halo on old St Nick. This is a 30 inch Santa with a hand carved wood face.
Single white shoot thru umbrella with two SB800's paired into it. Camera D70 with 17-55 lens. CLS used to fire speedlights set on manual 1/8 power. Camera at 1/60 f5.6. White wall about 5 feet to camera left gave slight fill with the shadows.
Assignment 52 -- Painting with light
Here are Hemingway characters, in a cafe, preparing their drinks: "...the young man poured the water in a very thin stream and the girl watched the absinthe cloud opalescently. It felt warm as her fingers held the glass and then as it lost the yellow cast and began to look milky it cooled sharply and the young man let the water fall in a drop at a time."
(This was taken with two small stationary flashlights pointed at the glass, one on each side, & another flashlight briefly moving along the absinthe spoon handle, then briefly on the stream of water, during the 10 second exposure.)
This is my boy Alex and his wife Tara, happily married for eight years. Tara is from Florida but they live in Wales now with their fur baby Chloe, the crazy chocolate lab!
This low light assignment has been driving me bananas... In Wales most of our winter is low light so it is something I really need to learn to do much better.
(Alex is a photoshop fiend so this sooc will freak him out, hehe sorry Alex)
~ CC is most welcome
Gracie Harada (left) and Sabrina Lozano (right) participate in a live version of Mario Kart with trikes put on by Recreational Sports on Monday, January 30, 2023 in Chico, Calif.
(Matt Bates/University Photographer/Chico State)
Practice Day #11: This is my final week in PPSOP, and these are pictures that I submitted as my final assignment. Found these alphabet jellies in the market one day. Wasn't sure what to do with it, but I just thought it was interesting. And then I came up with the idea of lining them up in a tall glass (a quite tricky job!), together with ordinary white jelly balls.
this is a photo of the second part of a photo class assignment i had to present this week. for the assignment we were to make a walk and then also make an intervention of some sort in the environment. for inspiration we were introduced to the work of Richard Long and other walking artists.
for my walk and intervention i went to our property on the north end of Vancouver Island. a few weeks ago there was a landslide in the area and the land mass on the edge of our property and to the south of it underwent a drastic change. i don't have before photographs but a creek that could hardly be seen because of forest and thick undergrowth was now a 100 ft wide open area with trees down everywhere. a pullout between the road and the ocean that could easily fit 5 trucks was now completely gone.
i walked and took photographs of the landslide clean up and then went into the forest nearby and cleared a small area, set out bowls, filled them with earth and pine cones and then lit incense. then i took the bowls of ashes and earth down to the creek and submerged them in the creek.
i've posted each of the photos in this work on my website here
I used a Slow shutter speed and an ISO of 400 so you could actually see me sitting, so Sophie could draw the wings. We had Mandi press the button.
Point of the assignment was to summon another sense besides visual, so I tried to go with taste. This has more of the "paradoxal" element I think my professor was looking for. I wanted to make something sweet look gross I guess.
Sabrina Lozano races around the track during a live version of Mario Kart with trikes put on by Recreational Sports on Monday, January 30, 2023 in Chico, Calif.
(Matt Bates/University Photographer/Chico State)
So, first assignment on the Strobist L102 Class...
Set up an object and move the light around to see how it "hits" the object.
Link to the post.
strobist.blogspot.com/2007/06/lighting-102-unit-11-positi...
Jael Gadsden is a friend of ours who happens to be an amazingly talented, up-and-coming singer/songwriter. For her latest CD she needed some shots for the front, inside and back covers.
Strobist Info:
• 580EXII in a beauty dish camera right just out of frame
• Silver relector filling from the left
• 430EXII lighting the background and providing the reflected wrap-around light
f/5.6 @ 1/125
Done for Photography Critique Assignments. Subject: Low Key
What it Took: I have usually preferred full tonal pictures and have never before attempted a low key photo (on purpose) . So I view some of the examples and the tutorials and went to work
A single light source. Why not my computer which my wife claims sees my face more than she does And if the computer why not "Photography Critique Assignments"?
I set the tripod very close to me and used a wide angle lens. The lens was not more than 18 inches from the back of my head. I turned of the lights in the room. I set the camera on Aperture priority and the EV compensation to -1.0.
I used a tripod and the self-timer. I had used this self-timer so infrequently in the past that it took me a dozen tries to get it figured out.
On the computer I removed some extraneous light coming in from the left of the computer and adjusted the curves. The computer screen still looked to bright so I isolated in and adjusted the levels selectively. I had to also add some brightness and contrast to my head.
Advertising Photography Assignment: Jewelry
-must be close-up and dazzling
-shoot medium format digital
-shoot tethered
-vertical
-crop 8.5"x9.5" @ 300ppi
Leaf Aptus 17
Mamiya 645 AFII
Mamiya 150mm f/4 macro lens
Strobist/lighting:
-lit by light table through extra-large grid
-excess area flagged-off
-fill card directly over subject, just out of frame
June 30, 2010
Alta Gracia, Dominican Republic
Workers at the Alta Gracia factory, set up as a "fair wage" factory recently by Knights Apparel, which is one of the largest suppliers of t-shirts and sweatshirts to colleges in the US. This factory is paying workers a living wage, about 3.5 times more than they are paid in other factories clothing factories in the DR.
The clothes are sold at a slightly higher price with tags explaining to customers that Alta Gracia (also the name of the clothing line) pays the workers more.
Michael Kamber for The New York Times
Assignment ID: 30099366A
I have submited these shots for my NYIP Unit 3, Assignment 4: 45° lighting.
The assignment was simple enough, create a tabletop still life and light from 45° to either side. For the second image, bring in a reflector. These were to be done with either natural window light or tungsten.
I think these meet the benchmark.
What do you think?
The set-up: In the first and second shot I used my trusty Norman Tri-light (modeling lamp only) as a "hot light" and set it up on at the camera left position. I then adjusted the light to give a spot-light appearance. I wanted to emphasise the texture of the cakes, while showing the moist, melted chocolate chips they embed into the divine cake. For the second shot I added a bounce reflector to camera right, just out of frame. I also (cheating?) introduced a mirrored bounce behind the subjects to "kick" some of that light onto the backside of the front cake and somewhat sidelight the back cakes.
I was thinking I might submit them in this diptych layout, since I'll never use the one without bounce...
well, never say never, would make a good illustration on the importance of bounce!
The small cakes that carry the name, along with the ever posh US bakery and restaurant built by Chef Thomas Keller, not the typical Bouchonstyle of French eatery.
These tiny cakes are luscious, and the reason my every visit to Napa and/or Harbin HS generally includes a side trip to Yountville, CA.
I don’t know how these simple ingredients can be assembled to create these decadent delights, but somehow they manage… and I am blessed every time I have the chance to experience the bliss induced when I taste one of these sweet morsels.
Assignment Manchurian Doll, by Edward S. Aarons
Gold Medal T2301, undated reprint
Cover art uncredited
#17 in the Sam Durell "Assignment" series
Live performances by students from all over Butte County and various community members honor the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, but will also showcase Black Excellence within our community during “Victory In Unity” a MLK Unity Project celebrating Black History Month on Sunday, February 5, 2023 in Chico, Calif.
(Matt Bates/University Photographer/Chico State)