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The ropes were cutting my wrists like so many knives, but all I could think about was that damn bat, coming down on me relentlessly like the rain that had been pounding the city for what seemed like years. I had to find a way out...
Strobist info: 530EXII on-camera, pointed at ceiling at 1/4ish to illuminate the doorframe a bit, 430EX at 1/8ish on a boom with a lamp cord inside the room.
First "On Assignment" I've done. This is totally my normal Sunday night routine.
Assignment 52 -- Home Town Tourist Attractions -- World War I Memorial, in Scoville Park, Oak Park, IL, a few blocks south of the Hemingway Birthplace
When this monument was dedicated, in 1925, Hemingway was already in Paris, living the cafe expatriate life, married to his first wife Hadley Richardson, and working on his first novel, The Sun Also Rises, published the following year.
But his war experiences shaped much of his fiction and also his world view. He was hardly out of high school, when he volunteered as an ambulance driver on the Italian front in World War I. After he was severely wounded, he returned to Oak Park to recuperate. And decades later, during the Spanish Civil War and World War II, he worked as a journalist in combat zones.
Here are a few of the things he had to say about war:
--World War I was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that had ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied. So the writers either wrote propaganda, or shut up, or fought.
--Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
--No catalogue of horrors ever kept man from war. Before the war, you always think that it's not you who will die... In modern war, there is nothing sweet or fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
This is Ricky, Lucy and Chewy. They were waiting outside the pharmacy for someone and looked so happy to be sitting in the setting sun, I had to ask them for a portrait.
This is the second day of homework from the Lighten Up And Shoot seminar at CreativeLIVE.
I'm currently taking weekly classes to get familiar with the ins and outs of the new machine embroidery software that I recently purchased. There are quite a few modules included in the software that let me do a *ton* of different things, but the module that we're concentrating on the most is the digitizing module. Being able to manually digitize artwork opens creative avenues I never thought I'd have a chance to explore, so I'm *beyond* excited. :-)
Lesson 2 utilized most of the things we learned in Lesson 1 www.flickr.com/photos/aqueenofalltrades/27300718235/in/al... and added:
1) Color blending. (The sky is a blend of red and yellow with a gradient effect that's heavier on the top.)
2) Changing the stitch angle to achieve various visual effects.
3) Using the "Digitize Blacks" tool.
4) Using feather stitching.
5) Removing stich overlaps. (In this case we removed the color blend stitching from behind the palm fronds.)
6) Using carved stamps. (We learned it, but I didn't use them in my example.)
7) Using motif borders.
I have been really struggling with this weeks assignment but I found this bit of old wasps nest at work today and figured that this would be a fairly cool submission.
I actually learned a lot about light and gained a little confidence with this assignment. For once I had a hard time choosing which one I liked the most because I liked all of them- it's normally because I hate all of them!
Assignment 52 -- Bokeh -- my first experiment with shaped bokeh
I'd never done anything like this before, & did a lot of fooling around to get the right-sized stencil for my lens opening before anything worked at all. It was interesting to me, though, as it helped me understand more about aperture & light. I think I also made this more challenging for my initial attempt by choosing a complex shape, harder to make come out recognizably.
Odd sort of exercise, but effective. Will try this on my class tomorrow night. (and might try to improve my handwriting too - it seems to be suffering from lack of practice) ... - read more on {site_name}}: botheredbybees.posterous.com/assignment
My 12th photo for an assignment at IADT in my Photography class is supposed to be an evening shot. These shadows belong to Haley and her cousin, Devin.
From left to right, Isaac Brundage, Hardy Brown and Gayle Hutchinson read a passage from a book 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)
Active Assignment Weekly: Capture the season
The Assignment: Capture a shot that represents the season you are NOW experiencing. What best represents the weather for the week of November 7-14? No setup shots or still-lifes. For example, don't show a doll in a bathing suit and say it's summer. These shots should be environmental. It's okay to have people in your photo.
WIT: At this point, we are finishing our raking and waiting for the snow to fly. Increased contrast and saturation.
Shot for Strobist Lighting 102: 4.3 -- Assignment: Cross, Balance and Sculpt
In addition to the floor lamp on the right i handheld a gridded SB-28 in my left hand, aimed at Ida's face.
I chose to focus on getting close to my subject and finding patterns. This is a very large painting currently hanging in my apartment and this picture is only a very small portion of it. However, it fully represents what the rest of the painting is like.
Ashley's assignment on ritual. Peyton and I switched speech patterns. (In the documentation, both Eric and Ashley interrupted us, so please ignore the middle bit).
Active Assignment Weekly: Aug 29-Sep 5 Time
With fall coming upon the northern hemisphere and spring just around the corner for those down south there is a sense of "where has the time gone?" For this assignment you are to capture an image that conveys time. This could be done through a literal approach of a clock, or perhaps something a bit more interpretive such as showing that time has moved by.
Dare: Fill the frame with your subject.
Restriction: Keep the post processing to a minimum.
WIT: Evening stroll along the lakeshore taken during our Labor Day camping trip. Thought that the long time sitting of this rescue boat made a nice subject for the passing of time. Shot at F/2.8, 1/100 sec, ISO 400. CS4 processing included curves for contrast, slight noise reduction, resize, sharpen.
I am most certainly a novice as best. Totally new to the digital world and the editing tools. I used Pixlr for this assignment and I wanted to give Layers a go. I first had to crop Brownie out of one image and merge her into the landscape image (I used the Lasso function). In the photo of Brownie the sun was almost directly overhead so I inverted the photo so she appears to be looking toward the sun breaking through the clouds in the landscape photo. I had to burn sections of the top of her head and the back of her right ear to darken the areas making the lighting look as if it was more in front rather than on top of her head. I used the Curves function to darken the clouds behind her to draw the focus more to the light. Both images we converted to black & white because I thought it made the image more striking. I attempted to use the Logan filter after that but it just seemed to be too much so I removed it. Mild adjustments were made in the lighting but not too much. Of the edits I made I think the Layers effects and the burning to change the lighting on her head really give the photo some personality.
Active Assignment Weekly, Feb 8-15: The Color Red
February is a red kind of month. The color red is a wonderful color to work with, but it can be difficult photographing and processing. Your assignment is to capture red in all its glory, along the full spectrum (avoid pink on the light side of the spectrum, however).
Dare: Try selective color.
Restriction: The color red must play predominantly in your photo or at least closely associated with it.
WIT: This guy was participating in an outdoor stand-up meeting, and was concentrating very hard on the speaker. Slight increase in contrast, otherwise SOOC.
Active Assignment Weekly: 26 Feb - 5 Mar 2018: Old Photographs
Assignment: Create an "old" photograph. Subject matter is up to you--portraits, architecture, landscape--whatever you like, as long as the finished product looks like a photo that was taken many years ago. How many years ago is up to you, but let's say anything from the 1970's back to the dawn of photography.
Dare:
Be creative with how you go about aging your photo. If you don't have access to an editing program, or even if you're just feeling adventurous, try some non-computer-based "post processing."
Restriction :
No plain B&W - your photo must somehow include colour ( think sepia, yellowed with age, stains, "re-coloured" etc.) Watch out for things that don't belong; for example, a 1920's portrait where the subject is wearing a digital watch.
WIT: The gardens where I work, used Colour Efex Pro to apply an old camera style which yellowed the photo, and added a border. Looks old to me as it reminds me of the poorer composition skills I had in the 1970's!
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.)
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 52 -- On the Street Where You Live
This man's decorative style has kept me entertained for years:
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