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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
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/)
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
PCA 167 - Nutrition
July 24 - August 7, 2011
Image Tag: pca167
The Assignment:
For this assignment you are to imagine yourself as a photographer for hire. The assignment is to take a photo that will be used on the cover of a magazine featuring an article on nutrition. The photo can be an example of either good nutrition or poor, but should be framed in a manner that will allow for a space for text.
What it Took: This assignment gave me a chance to try a new vegetarian recipe - Mediterranean Vegetable, White Bean & Feta Penne. It took me longer to get the image than it did to make this dish! Took lots of pics of the layout near a window (minus the meal) to get settings correct. I had to work fast once the dish was finished to keep a fresh look.
Tried differerent color placemats and choose the red to accent the red tomatoes. I think I left enough room for the text. After looking at many covers of food-related magazines, I noticed that almost always only a portion of the dish/meal was shown. My own ciritique is that I should have taken the image more from a top view rather than side. Check it out in lightbox. By the way - it is delicious!
Manual setting
Matrix metering
Shutter: 1/320
Aperture: f/5.6
ISO: 250
Lens: 90mm
Exp. Comp. +2.0
WB: Sunny
Assignment 52 Week 34- Depict this common saying "Stuck between a rock and a hard place" meaning: Being in difficulty, faced with a choice between two unsatisfactory options.
3/4/2010 - Blanche Hill broke a bone in her foot and has been hobbling around Centre's campus since. She is determined to ditch the crutches sooner rather than later. JAMEY PRICE
Assignment 52 -- Home Town Tourist Attractions -- Ernest Hemingway Birthplace, 339 N. Oak Park Ave., Oak Park, IL
Oak Parkers are very proud of their native son, Ernest Hemingway. They're even proud of his famously derisive description of the village as "a neighborhood of wide lawns and narrow minds." I suppose that's because they think they've changed.
The Hemingway Foundation provides tours of the birthplace house, lovingly restored to Victorian splendor, with amazing attention to the accuracy of details gleaned from such hints as scraps of wallpaper and descriptions by Hemingway's sister Marcelline. The Foundation also maintains a museum a block away, with photos and artifacts. I do have to wonder what Hemingway might have to say about the fervency of his local admirers. He certainly said many irreverent, puncturing things, though he also said things that feed right into the Mythologizing of the Great Macho Writer (who did not care for his first name, by the way, because of the Oscar Wilde title).
Here are a few Hemingway quotes that resonate with me, while wandering the leafy, wide-lawned streets, on my brief ad hoc literary appreciation & walking tour:
--All stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is not a true-story teller who would keep that from you.
-- There isn't any symbolism. The sea is the sea. the old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark is all sharks, no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit. What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know.
-- The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
On assignment covering the dress rehearsal of the 2017: The Passion Play.
"The film opens in Gethsemane at night as Jesus Christ (Caviezel), at the height of his cause, prays while his disciples Peter, James, and John (James's brother) sleep. After he wakes them and tells them to pray, Satan appears in a hooded androgynous, albino form, and tempts him with reasonable doubt, stating - "it is not right for one man to die for their (humanity's) sins." Ignoring it and praying on, Jesus' sweat turns into blood and drips to the ground while a snake emerges from Satan's guise. Jesus hears his disciples call out for him, and he rebukes Satan by stomping on the snake's head, and Satan vanishes.
After receiving a bribe of thirty pieces of silver, Judas, another of Jesus' disciples, approaches with a group of temple guards and betrays Jesus (by confirmation of his identity) with a simple kiss on the cheek. As the armed guards move in to arrest Jesus, Peter draws his dagger and slashes off the ear of Malchus, one of the guards and a servant of the high priest Caiaphas. Jesus, in turn, heals the ear as he reprimands Peter for his actions. As the disciples flee, the guards secure Jesus, and beat him during the journey to the Sanhedrin.
John informs Mary (mother of Jesus) and Mary Magdalene of the arrest, while Peter follows Jesus and his captors at a distance. Caiaphas holds trial over the objection of some of the other priests, who are expelled from the court. When questioned by Caiaphas if he is the Son of God, Jesus replies, "I am." Caiaphas is horrified, tears his robes in outrage, and Jesus is condemned to death for blasphemy. Peter, secretly watching, is confronted by the surrounding mob for being a follower of Jesus, and he angrily denies this three times. But after cursing at the mob during the third denial, a sobbing Peter flees after remembering that Jesus had foretold this coping of a defense. Meanwhile, a guilt-ridden Judas attempts to return the money he was paid to have Jesus freed, but is refused by the priests. Tormented by demons, he flees the city, finds solitude, and hangs himself from a tree with a rope he finds on a dead donkey at dawn.
Caiaphas brings Jesus before Pontius Pilate to be condemned to death, but after questioning Jesus and finding no fault, a sympathetic Pilate instead relays him to the court of Herod Antipas, as Jesus is from Antipas' ruling town of Nazareth, Galilee. After Jesus is again found not guilty and returned, Pilate offers the crowd options for either him to chastise Jesus, or release him. He then attempts to have Jesus freed by the peoples' choice, between Jesus and a violent criminal Barabbas. To his dismay, the crowd demands to have Barabbas freed and Jesus killed. In an attempt to appease the moment, Pilate orders that he simply be punished. Jesus is brutally scourged, abused, and mocked by the Roman guards as "king of the Jews" with a crown of thorns. However, Caiaphas, with the crowds' verbal backing, continues to demand that Jesus be crucified as a heretic and Barabbas released. Admonished, Pilate washes his hands, takes no responsibility of the incident, and reluctantly orders Jesus' crucifixion. During the course of events, Satan watches Jesus' bloody sufferings with great interest. A dismayed Pilate watches the march, while his wife Claudia, who knows of Jesus' status as a holy man, comforts him. As Jesus labors to carry a heavy wooden cross along the Via Dolorosa to Calvary, a woman avoids the escort of soldiers, and wipes Jesus' face with her veil. Jesus is beaten and pressed by the guards until the unwilling Simon of Cyrene is forced into carrying the cross with him. At the end of their travel, with his mother Mary, Mary Magdalene, and others witnessing, Jesus is crucified. The very act seems to affect the weathering condition of the earth itself.
As he hangs from the cross, Jesus prays to God asking forgiveness for the people who did this to him, and redeems a criminal as a saint who is crucified beside him. Succumbing to impending death, Jesus gives up his spirit and dies. A single droplet of rain falls from the sky to the ground, triggering a sudden earthquake which destroys the Holy temple and rips the cloth covering the Holy of Holies in two, to the horror of Caiaphas and the other priests. Satan is shown screaming in agonizing defeat. Jesus' lifeless body is taken down from the cross, and entombed. In the end, the healed body of Jesus rises from the dead, and exits the tomb resurrected."
For Strobist Lighting 102
Assignment 1 - Cooking Light
430EX in shoot-thru umbrella to camera left at 1/4 power. 430EX with CTS gel aimed at wall at 1/16 power, 70mm zoom. Shot in manual. Triggered with an ST-E2.
(Setup Shot)
This was my first paid assignment. I was asked to shoot a kid of 2 years, she was hyperactive, cute, and adorable! :-)
I think the shoot went pretty well, and both the parents are very happy with the final photos.
Thank you Tanisha, Sheeba and Anoop!
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/)
Challenge Assignment 1 - PhotoshopGrunge workshop
My photo landscape - sunrise
Duplicate of landscape with render-lighting effect-spotlight from bottom right, masked this with gradient bottom up.
My photo - hang glider, blend mode overlay
Vector from set 12 in top right corner - blend mode exclusion, embossed
Texture - kk_mixed, blend mode soft-mode
Texture - kk_rien, blend mode colour burn
Several additional layers set on colour dodge using different brushes (houses, birds, trees), painting with 100% and then reducing opacity of the layer , as well as masking parts of those.
Added the text of this description to the top right corne
Increased canvas size, used combination of all layers and the vector as frame.
And, I am very proud of myself - I have used a lot of keyboard shortcuts, heya!!!!!
Lots of fun!!! Great way to spend a rainy Saturday morning - thanks Sebastian to come up with such a good idea :-).
Foto realizada en la cueva del Portichuelo, Sala del Piano.
Iluminacion mixta, flash, halogenos y linternas led.
Dedicadas para el Assignment TimeInABottle de Strobist
Compensado de temperatura entre flash y halógeno.
Equilibrado de exposion entre luz continua y flash
Golpe de zoom de tele a gran angular
Active Assignment Weekly 30 May - 6 June: Album cover art
Debut single cover art for the harmonica quintet known as Demonic Harmony.
WIT: A wooden mask against my wall, shot it with a strobe to the right with a red and a yellow gel. edit in gimp was just to reverse the mask and a slight blend.
Assignment 52: "Fine Art" -- Think about what would you might hang on your wall
This was a very interesting question to think about, particularly since I'm likely to be consolidating the art that now hangs in two houses into one house -- the house that's mostly windows. I didn't really come up with any useful answers, but enjoyed trying to define what aspects make me want to keep looking at an image, even on a daily basis, & what I prefer, as far as effect on my mood & outlook from the things that surround me.
The light in this one is so serene -- I'm sure it would make me happy if it hung on my wall. Though I think I do prefer a little more edginess for things I'd keep on the wall.
Assignment 52 - Silhouettes
I'm fortunate to be in Georgia this week for this assignment, with fabulous light & horizons for silhouette shots. Since this is a trip to visit Po's son, Hibou, at the field trial pro's where he's in training, I'm indulging in a bunch of dog silhouettes. Here's yet another:
These are all my past assignments, which were done during the time when I was doing my MSc degree at the Oxford Uni.
Can't carry them home, so, I'd rather store them here yeah?
For Strobist Lighting 102
Assignment 1 - Cooking Light
430EX in shoot-thru umbrella to camera left at 1/4 power. 430EX with CTS gel aimed at wall at 1/16 power, 70mm zoom. Shot in manual. Triggered with an ST-E2.
"When we had our first kiss it was your favorite thing, and you weren't lying when you said it would sting."
There's a lot I could say about this assignment as it was given at a time in my life when I could relate to this poem extremely well. The image I chose to portray mostly refers to the fragility of a relationship, no matter how strong you think it may be, and how you can hold onto something until your knuckles are white, but you will eventually have to let go. You can be completely certain of your feelings for months or years at a time, forgetting that people do change with the seasons, and absolutely nothing lasts forever. While change itself isn't always sudden, gradual withdrawal is just as painful. The ultimate "rip of the bandaid" is the hardest part. Having to live without a person you've spent so long with is an indescribable pain, especially when there is no explanation given. This goes for any type of relationship, whether it be familial, friendly, or romantic. It is true that everyone reacts to separation differently, and from someone who has experienced multiple instances of separation, I truly believe that in the end, all you have is yourself. Even with hope of repairing a damaged relationship, nothing is certain, thus the need to let go no matter how badly it may hurt. There will be days when the pain is unbearable, days when you regret everything, days when you question everything, days when you're angry, days when you're just really sad, and days when you feel okay. It won't necessarily get easier to deal with, but it will get easier to hide. Something as simple as the feeling of a certain person's kiss will stay with you forever. Years and years of suppression and strength can be dissolved in a matter of seconds, but it's most important to remember that you let go for a reason. Ernest Hemingway once said "The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much".
This is what I'm finally starting to realize, after weeks of searching for answers in a place where I knew I wouldn't find any. I had been haunted by the things I've done and the words I've said in the past few months, and tortured by the idea that the word "mutual" technically means it was half my fault. And it was, I wouldn't deny that for a second, but there's only so much you could do in a situation where one side is fighting, and one side doesn't seem to care. It would be easier to blame one another, but immaturity doesn't change a thing about all that happened.
And to you, I'm sorry if I never asked if you were okay. Maybe it was because part of me knew you weren't. I had always known that you love yourself more than you could ever love anyone else, and I clung on to the person you pretended to be for a little while. You were getting good at it, but I would never want you to be someone else for me. That wasn't what you wanted for yourself either, clearly. I would love to be able to say that I hate you, but the truth is the short while that we spent in innocent happiness was worth the hell I'm going through now.
So in conclusion here is my photo project, two separate lips conjoined by a fresh wound that will take a while to heal, and a little too much about my personal life
I decided that I liked this image so I threw it in the mix at PW Assignment.
Taken at my daughter's home.
"Assignment - Outer Space" is a composite of a model spaceship from the London Science Museum and one of my deep sky astro images of the Pacman Nebula.
Swarali Photo Assignment (November, 2015)
Title:
People:
Place:Redmond
Date:2015:11:15 11:52:53
File:DSC_7092.jpg
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/)