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Assignment 3 was called "Made to Be Photographed." I decided to use this opportunity to vent my frustration with the current situation in our public education system.
Assignments from an online class - Gesture Drawing at Schoolism - taught by Pixar Story Artist, Alex Woo.
The first assignment I've received this year in my industrial location class was the architecture assignment.
Basically, we had to go out and find a building that had a majority of the windows lit and photograph it.
Interesting mini story:
Right after I finished photographing this, I fell knee deep into a sewer in downtown Toronto.
All in all, this was a good experience.
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Shot for Active Assignment Weekly, theme "Get Out Your Phones".
WIT
I shot this evening scene with my IPhone, using the Hipstamatic App. Histamatic emulates a large number of vintage lenses and all sorts of roll films. This shot, taken in Vienna, Austria, is straight out of the Phone. I also uploaded it straight from the Phone using the Flickr App.
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.
Taken with a Vivitar 285HV at 1/16th power positioned to camera right, at a 45˚ angle to the "ground" (which in this case was a black glossy file folder). The distance between the flash and the cherry was very close to 9.5".
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.
Strobist Lighting102 Assignment: Cooking. With a silver nutcracker, I placed on a pink plastic cutting board, and then used a green plastic cuttingboard as a reflector.
1 Flash, pointing straight at subject, radio trigger on a stand, camera right. 1/250 @ f/8
Strobist info.
SB600 with CTB at 1/2 to full power, through a potted palm onto beige wall.
SB800 1/4 power thru white shoot brolly. (camera left)
SB800 1/4 CTO at full power, snoot and black straw grid (camera right on his face for some warmth)
For my next Photoshop project, we have to create a narrative/theme in a series of 4-6 images. I wanted to use this assignment as an excuse to expand my levitation series. Typically, I make the person floating very apparent through a wide depth of field. With this project, I wanted to go in the polar opposite direction and make the floating person appear part of daily life -- make it ordinary. I wanted to cram the images with people/things in order for you to be overwhelmed by what you were processing and just haphazardly find someone whose feet weren't touching the ground. True, some images are more successful than others, but I feel like this project has made me exercise other options for my levitating theme.
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)
This is my 18th photo for an assignment at IADT in my Photography class. I decided to apply the Rule of Thirds to this composition. Also, I worked a lot with the Channel Mixer to create a color scheme that I believe is much more interesting than the original.
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.
Gayle Hutchinson chats with guests 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)
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: "Dramatic Lighting"
Since this group is all about improvement, I'm submitting this as an improvement over the other one. I think I set this one up a lot better, because I understood the light more.
And like my fury fellow here, I just love attention and comments :>)
Assignment 52 -- Home Town Tourist Attractions -- The Write Inn & Hemmingway's Bistro, Oak Park, IL
Hemingway wrote: "Never go on trips with anyone you do not love," which seems like good advice, if traveling to Oak Park, or anywhere else.
I don't know what he thought about puns, or intentional misspellings, or if he would have wanted to try a flirtini martini. But I know what he wrote about oysters and about wine, so I'm sure he'd at least appreciate Hemmingway's wine list and oyster bar:
-- As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture...I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.
--Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought to the greatest perfection, and it offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than, possibly, any other purely sensory thing.
And I think he must have had an appreciation of comfortable hotels also, as shown in this lovely passage:
--That night at the hotel, in our room with the long empty hall outside and our shoes outside the door, a thick carpet on the floor of the room, outside the windows the rain falling and in the room light and pleasant and cheerful, then the light out and it exciting with smooth sheets and the bed comfortable, feeling that we had come home, feeling no longer alone,waking in the night to find the other one there, and not gone away, all other things were unreal.
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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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.