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Assignment: PCA110 – What in the World?
Date: June 20 to July 4, 2010 (2 weeks)
Image Tag: pca110
From: HipChicklette
This pca is for summerspot, who participated in a few "What in the World?" pics I posted, and thought this might make a good idea for a pca. We'll find out! :)
The Mission:
To look at everyday objects with a different eye. To capture something from a different perspective, pov, focus, magnification, whatever, that makes the viewer focus just on what you've presented. The capture should make it challenging for the viewer to easily identify the object, thus focusing on the colors (or b&w), tones, shapes, lines, light, and other components of the composition. A visual puzzle, if you will.
To make it easier for folks' imaginations to be free, please omit using tags that identify the object until after the pca is over, and everyone has had an opportunity to comment (and guess, if they choose. :)
WIT
I wanted to have a reasonably shallow depth of field so that it would prevent identification from being too easy. This was taken in my garden using an extension tube and my 50mm 1.8 prime lens. Other details are as follows:
ISO 100
f/3.5
1/60 sec
EDIT:
I was pleased (and surprised) to find that this photo features in Explore for July 4th, thank you to everybody for your feedback! :)
For pca55 – Topic: "Less Is More"
WIT: To me "less is more" is a way of seeing the world. It's an approach I try to take in most of my photos, so I really enjoyed this topic!
We took a day trip in the car yesterday, and I came across this abandoned building.
The selective view draws attention not only to the elements but also to the lines and shapes that materialize.
The photo is uncropped. PP: I created an HDR base from the RAW file to bring out the colors a little more, then applied a light texture I created.
70mm, f/5.6, 1/160, ISO 400
Created for the Let´s Fix This - Contest at The Light Painter Society :)..
Textures used -
Vintage Gold by Summer Spot
Spotlight by The Nature of Things
Doriath by Max F. Williams
Special thanks to the Textures for Layers group for all their amazing textures and information.
Explore Highest Position: #50
Texture courtesy of summerspot
View large and you'll see that the sign says "God's Land". The post office is open three hours a day (from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm) Monday through Saturday.
© Mariëtte Budel
See my most interesting pictures on Flickriver
Thanks to Playingwithbrushes and Summerspot for the textures
1957 Chevy Bel Air
16th Annual Cops 'n Rodders Classic Car Show
Scotts Valley, CA
Mission: To emulate the style of an iconic photographer.
The photographer for this assignment is The photographer for this assignment is Pete Turner (1934- )
From: summerspot
dWIT (detailed What It Took): I went to the Cops 'n Rodders Classic Car Show again this year. The location is pretty close to where I live. I saw some car photos from Pete's collection, but I didn't see anything that's cropped tight. I did see other things that are tightly cropped revealing only parts of the subject. For some reason, I like to photograph cars this way :) The sun was definitely bright, so with this shot, I hid between two cars (sun was shining on the other side of this yellow car) and took the shot at a low angle. I like how the adjascent cars and the blue skies are reflected in the car surface. In Photoshop, I amped the saturation (about 20).
1. which photo(s) inspired you;
- I like his walls of light and Americana series. I don't a particular shot that I'm emualting, however.
2. what you liked and/or didn't like about Pete Turner's style;
- I like the vivid colors, yet somehow he makes it work well.
3. your thoughts and/or thought process behind your assignment submission;
- I was just looking for things that have bright colors. I took some neon signs, bright buildings, etc.
4. how your photo reflects elements of Pete Turner's style;
- I like to think that I got his light/shadows in his walls of light plus the saturated colors.
5. what you gained as a photographer from studying Pete Turner's work.
- I really liked to look for composing vivid colors more so now than before.
For pca56 - "Corners"
WIT: Fanny's Corner is on the corner, but it's not a corner.
I had planned something very different for this assignment but didn't get around to it. I saw Fanny's Corner last weekend when we were driving down Colfax Avenue (at 26 miles long it's one of the longest continuous streets in the U.S. and full of character). Compositionally I didn't have much flexibility. It was either this or have a traffic light in the photo or get run over.
Blame the texture on my recent thing with textures. :)
24mm, f/5.6, 1/320, ISO-200
For pca68 – Clothing and Accouterments
WIT: I had this all ready to go in color but then decided on a grainy b/w treatment to give it a more rugged, timeless feel. There isn't much to say about it. I hung the jeans on the clothesline and took a few shots. I've done a macro jeans photo previously for pca and wanted a wider view this time, but not too wide. I'm not entirely sure about the composition. Clothing photography isn't as easy as it sounds!
70mm, f/2.8, 1/250, ISO 100
From the TN trip. Northern Mississippi. Same rainy day as Surreal welcome and Davis & Sons Grocery. Uncropped.
Assignment: PCA110 – What in the World?
Date: June 20 to July 4, 2010 (2 weeks)
Image Tag: pca110
From: HipChicklette
This pca is for summerspot, who participated in a few "What in the World?" pics I posted, and thought this might make a good idea for a pca. We'll find out! :)
The Mission:
To look at everyday objects with a different eye. To capture something from a different perspective, pov, focus, magnification, whatever, that makes the viewer focus just on what you've presented. The capture should make it challenging for the viewer to easily identify the object, thus focusing on the colors (or b&w), tones, shapes, lines, light, and other components of the composition. A visual puzzle, if you will.
To make it easier for folks' imaginations to be free, please omit using tags that identify the object until after the pca is over, and everyone has had an opportunity to comment (and guess, if they choose. :)
What it Took (WIT)
I was on a photo walk with the Flickr Tokyo group I was decided to try to take pictures for this assignment. Took a few shots thinking it could work from a different perspective , wanted to create as much bokeh as possible to make it abstract therefore hard to guess. The color one didn't cone out as I wanted so I tried B&W just to see what the result would be and it worked well (imho)
Exif data: f/ 1.8, 1/500sec, ISO 100, 50mm.
It was spring break last week. We took a road trip to the San Luis Valley in southern Colorado. On our way to Great Sand Dunes National Park we were heading into a storm, and when we got there, it was snowing. Since photographing at fast speed worked out okay previously, I tried it again, this time through the windshield. The photo is uncropped as usual.
Dianemariet promised to go skinny dipping with me until that rascal... Craigsterken arrived with his skimpy Speedo...Rayfrom Maine came even though he was confused about the ocean being in the wrong place...Pvolger swam all evening with his baseball mitt refusing to take it off...Peter brought a cake with all the words misspelled,...Jeffmason was our light man...Jill rowed down from San Francisco and wasn't even out of breath...ColB made sure that any comments made were quickly reciprocated... CalCPA kept all of our finances in order... while Randyson of...Kept speaking Italian for some reason... Markpowers brought the yummy hot dogs with lots of mustard and relish...and cubanjunky brought chilled bottles of Guiness all the way from Ireland... Summerspot led boisterous songs around the campfire...Denise, what a trooper, brought the s'mores and Cabernet, cup4tml drove up late in his very spiffy roadster, and lastly, good flickr friend Gowiththeflow, flew in from the UK With a plate of scones and Marmite...That sweet Kiki F Had free tickets for Disneyland for all of us providing we could make the trip to Florida. Boy, and with all that laughter did we ever have a hoot!! Sorry some of you couldn't make it... There's always next time!
05. - on black
For pro73 – EA03: Pete Turner Emulation
dWIT:
The post processing of this photo was inspired by (1) Turner's photograph Dust Storm. The circumstances are different. There's no dust storm. Instead, there's fog (natural, not enhanced). (3) I added the orange tones in an attempt to create an exhilarating, sun-flooded mood. (4) As with Turner's photograph, the composition in my photo is fairly centered and minimalistic. Naturally, the atmosphere is different.
(2) I can't remember how I first heard of Pete Turner, but it was well before we started the emulation assignments. If you enjoy color photography, he's someone you have to have heard of, even if bold colors with stark contrasts and minimalistic compositions aren't your style. (5) His photos brighten the mind and keep you looking. There's a serious amount of work involved in producing (or trying to, in my case) an effective color photo, and I feel reminded of that.
Single exposure, cropped to a square. 190mm, f/22, 1/400, ISO 200
My other attempts are here.
Created for Textures Only ~ Competition #49
Original image by ~ Pathfinder Linden -- Thank you!
Thank you also to summerspot, lenoirrr, and marfis75 for their textures and images :)
This is my latest texture. A little extreme perhaps. I've really had fun creating textures lately. I'm sure it'll pass. :)
The slogan "Way of the Zephyrs" was used by the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad company (so I read) to advertise its Zephyr passenger trains.
For the Pretty Pink Themed Tuesday - Pink Liquids
Thanks to summerspot for the Golden sunset texture
Assignment: PCA 200 - Self
Sunday, Mar 18 - Sunday, Apr 1, 2012
From: summerspot
WIT: I'm currently in Death Valley NP with a few friends, and we did some light stuff at the Racetrack before doing star trails. This is me spinning a train of lights. Behind me is the Grandstand, a rock formation in the middle of the playa.
I reworked my previous photo based on Summerspot's suggestions. Did I go overboard in brightening the yellow line??
I have been working on emulating photographer Pete Turner. I thought this road would work nicely. It isn't a busy road, so catching it mostly empty wasn't going to be difficult. I stopped at the top of the hill and stood in the seat of my car hanging onto and out of the door to get this one. I would have liked to have had the car positioned on top of the last hill, but I just wasn't quick enough at getting high enough to get the shot. lol
Added a blue tint in post. :)
pro67: Emulation Assignment 01: Uta Barth
Photographer Uta Barth reflecting on her work in an interview with Sheryl Conkelton: “Looking back, I find all of this work linked by an interest in visuality and perception. Light has always been a theme throughout: […]. My primary project has always been in finding ways to make the viewer aware of their own activity of looking at something (or in some instances, someone).”
dWIT:
(2)The hardest parts: understanding Barth's philosophy and emulating her approach without necessarily copying her photos. When I was composing photos, I felt myself drawn to lines and shapes to the point that I was actively pursuing them. Because when everything is a blur, lines and shapes suddenly become prominent and attractive, especially in conjunction with light and a certain degree of overexposure. Maybe that’s part of “the act of seeing,” maybe it’s not. But that’s where Barth’s photos ultimately led me.
(2)I can’t say I don’t enjoy Barth’s works, I do. What doesn’t speak to me are her tree studies and the flower series. They appeal to me perhaps more on an intellectual level but not on an aesthetic level. What appeals to me most in her photographs is the minimalist aspect (i.e. minimalism through composition and minimalism through lack of focus).
(5)To me Barth’s approach has a nihilistic element. Her photos are exclusively about getting away from subject matter, content, and meaning—the very things cameras are typically used for. Her point is constantly in the viewer’s face: She isn’t interested in using the camera to capture a subject, express emotion, or invite interpretation. She’s interested in the act of looking, in visual perception.
(3, 4)As in all of my emulation attempts, I tried to obscure and marginalize meaningful subject matter through composition and lack of focus, so there’s as little narrative and content as possible. At the same time there is still something to look at, what Barth calls the “ambient visual field.”
(3, 4)For my assignment submission I opted for an interior shot. It was influenced by the interior photographs in the Grounds, a series of “seemingly blank-faced photographs of anonymous scenes” which lack “ostensible content” (Pamela M. Lee in Uta Barth, 2004). I left more space between the photos than is customary with diptychs because I felt that the space was needed. With less space people would perhaps be too preoccupied piecing the vessel together. In some of Barth’s exhibits, photographs that could be considered diptychs, triptychs or polyptychs were spaced farther apart, like “Untitled 98.5,” a triptych in which the second and third image were separated by a large gap. As one critic put it, “the gap creates a moment in which one leaves the world of the image in order to re-enter it at the final panel” (Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe in Uta Barth, 2004). In my sequence of two photos, one photo is deliberately different than the other. The left photo was taken at a different focal length, appearing closer. The left photo is uncropped, and the right photo is minutely cropped due to a tilt correction. I probably shouldn’t say much more because the photos are obviously not meant to tell a story. Very little post processing.
(1)Some of the images that inspired me are Field #20, Field #21, Ground #44, Field #3, Untitled (98.2), and Nowhere Near (nw9). For my pro67 submission, my inspiration was Ground #96.1 and Ground #96.2, a sequence of two wall photos, each of which shows a wall and a little bit of the floor and window glass above, as well as Barth's other high key interior photographs.
My Uta Barth emulation set is here. Thanks for reading and looking!
left: 70mm, f/5, 1/10, ISO 800
right: 54mm, f/5, 1/10, ISO 800
I've never typed this much for any of my flickr photos, ever. I'll try to come back to this and edit it a little.
Assignment: PCA50 - Glass
Deadline: December 28, 2008
Image tag: pca50
From: summerspot
Mission:
Glass. It's transparent, translucent, reflective, breakable. It can have optical properties, it can be colorful. It has been around since ancient times, and it still is all around us. Take a photograph that shows glass. Glass can be the main subject or play a stellar supporting role in your photo. Aim for an image you'd like to see on someone's wall or in an imaginary "Glass" exhibit.
If you're not sure what counts as glass, count it in.
This is a two week assignment.
WIT
This is a hanging ornament that my daughter made for me for my birthday a couple of years ago. It is made from Sea Glass that my wife collects on the beach.
I wanted to capture the way light plays through the glass.
I dunked it in water first (it gathers dust) and then hung in in a darkened room and used a flashlight and various exposures to get the image. I increased the saturation a tad and adjusted for white balance a little to remove a slight yellow cast from the flashlight and room overhead light.
I have another that I took that has better light but the dolphin shape is not as obvious so it didn't make the cut.
Assignment: PCA 35 View from the ground floor
Deadline:August 3, 2008
Image Tag: pca35
From: me and them
Mission:
The ground floor... there's nowhere to go but up! This time around shoot whatever you want, but what's important is where your camera is: ground level. Be it the kitchen floor, an open field or hiding underneath a church pew, your perspective is going to be that of a mouse, a fairy, an ant, or anything else similarly relegated to the world of the small. Try to find a subject that is really complemented by your earthly perspective.
For those engineering types in the group who need precision (including yours truly), you don't need to have your camera exactly in contact with the ground. Let's say no more 3 inches from ground to camera base. Get those elbows dirty!
WIT:
It turned out a little more complicated than I intended.
I took several shots at ground level with my telephoto lens and the camera on the ground.
There are several problems with shooting a black dog with a telephoto - the exposure tends to end up with blown out highlights and the depth of field poses problems.
I tried with the face in focus and with the paw in focus and didn't like either.
Then I used photoshop elements and, after making sure that I imported an image that did not have overexposed or underexposed areas, I overlayed the two shots (focused paws and focused face) on top of each other.
I used the quick selection tool to select the focused paw (and inverted that selection) and then deleted everything but the paw and the leg in the vicinity. It needed to be aligned which I did by making the paw-piece semi-transparent and moving it around.
You will notice (I know summerspot will) that there is a bit of a OOF edge around the paw. I left it in there - sort of a faux orton :-) - because I liked it (a realization that came after trying several techniques for getting rid of it :-))
Then I needed to deal with the carpet in the foreground that was very bright in the original. I again used the quick selection tool to select that, used levels to darken only that part and added a gausian blur to the layer to merge the darker with the rest of the photograph with a soft edge. Oh - and the door in the background had a glass pane about the height of the top of the head that I cloned out.... my goodness lots of manipulation this week!
I am fairly pleased with the result (forgive the photoshop elements tutorial - I thought it would be useful to include these details....).
Anne (my wife) says that our dog now looks a lot older than we think of her.... our Midnight Molly is getting gray.
Assignment: PCA50 - Glass
Deadline: December 28, 2008
Image tag: pca50
From: summerspot
Mission:
Glass. It's transparent, translucent, reflective, breakable. It can have optical properties, it can be colorful. It has been around since ancient times, and it still is all around us. Take a photograph that shows glass. Glass can be the main subject or play a stellar supporting role in your photo. Aim for an image you'd like to see on someone's wall or in an imaginary "Glass" exhibit.
WIT: I went through some of my shots from the past two weeks and this was one of the few that would meet the brief. This was taken in an abandoned school house in Maysville, GA. Three exposure HDR rendered in Photomatix and tweaked in Photoshop.
Explored!
Assignment: pca27
Mission: Architecture — …capture your vision of architecture – be it an indoor feature or an external façade. You can treat it, texture it, do whatever you want to it, but it must be architectural as in a building or manmade feature within a construct...
WIT: I traveled all the way to Egypt for this assignment. Ha, ha, I wish. But that was my inspiration when I took this shot. After walking all around the building—which in reality looks nothing like a pyramid—I saw my take on it. So here’s a small part of the Denver Art Museum’s amazing Hamilton Building, designed by no other than the brilliant Daniel Libeskind. The surface of the building consists of titanium panels, which were meant to reflect Colorado’s sunshine. I took lots of photos on my walk around the building, but only two felt like they were “my own” or "my vision of architecture" as the assignment challenged. The other one is here.
22 mm, f/11, 1/200, ISO 100, circular polarizer. The photo is uncropped. I added contrast and color. If you want to see what the building looks like, here it is.
Boston, MA
Tim Bowtoo and I and our wives met Patty Mazshaxlong, her daughter, and her daughters friend in Boston Today.
We spent the day with her walking over 20 miles...well maybe 3 or 4 miles.
We had a great day!
Uploaded for photography critique assignment group: Pro70
Harry Callahan Emulation:
Well, armed with my canon G10 (5D still in the shop), Tim (Bowtoo) and I met Patty in Boston and spent the day. It was a mini Flickr PCA field trip. It was so nice to meet Patty. I did not have much time to review Mr. Callahan but my review told me my image was going to be a black and white architecture shot. I had several choices and decided to upload this one because I liked it the best. I was also influenced by several of Primers (kevins) uploads in the past 6 month. I added a little bit of my own twist to this..in the way of processing. Just some curves and darkening the sky. The sky was essentially light gray and bald.
What I learned from reviewing Mr. Callahan is: He definitely liked his black and whites. He liked to include his wife in his pictures. And, he liked to shoot all sorts of stuff.
My goal for this picture was for the bottom windows of the image to be pure white and the top windows black and have a gradient in between. I will try to do that in processing if I have time
PRO121: Saul Leiter (Aug. 8 - Sep. 19)
summerspot says:
Submitted for: SAUL LEITER (1923-present)
Mission: Emulate the work of American photographer Saul Leiter—street photography with a touch of abstraction.
WIT: Just a quick snapshot (Auto) outside the new bakery/cafe. I noticed the great reflections in the window and a couple of young women inside. It just LOOKed like a Saul Leiter scene.
dWIT (detailed What It Took):
In the description of your photo, do not forget to tell us a little bit about what went into making it. That could be anything from your thought process to the technical details of exposure or how you may have set up lighting. In addition to your usual WIT please include the following:
1. which photo(s) inspired you: My faves of SL's are "Postmen," and "Walking," "Phone Call," "Cafe - Paris," and the back of the young girl's head/hair.
2. what you like and/or don't like about Saul Leiter's style or approach: I like a lot of his stuff. I think I like the ones that have more of a story such as the ones I've noted above. I like the impressionistic feel and in many cases the muted colours. I also like his use of windows.
3. your thoughts and/or thought process behind your assignment submission: I could not take a snow pic, of course, though I liked some of his. I looked for street scenes, tried to put my subject on the edge of the frame, use understated colours, and I tried to use windows. I noticed that a lot of his shots are portrait format, and I tried that as well. I usually prefer portrait myself, but for my submission I ended up using a landscape shot.
4. how your photo reflects elements of Leiter's style: I think it has the muted colours. It is a shot of people in a cafe through a window which illustrated both the interior and exterior of the environment. The reflections in the window and the fuzzy focus are somewhat Leiterish, I think. Probalby my favorite aspect of his work is the painterly impressionist feel of them. I did NOT get as good a capture of the young woman in the cafe as I would have liked, but overall it is my favorite of the many I took.
5. what you gained as a photographer from studying Leiter's work: These emulations are always so fun. I was a bit intimidated (embarrassed) to hang out and try to unobtrusively take shots when my subjects were unawares. But I really do love street photography even though my environment mostly lends itself to landscape subjects. It inspired me to resume taking my camera with me when I go grocery shopping - although I did have one incident last year when one of the cashiers told me I was not allowed to take photos in the grocery store! Wish I could have got a pic of that!
view in large or else it may not look all that abandoned :)
if you're interested in the texture, you're welcome to it
Assignment: PCA50 - Glass
Deadline: December 28, 2008
Image tag: pca50
From: summerspot
Mission:
Glass. It's transparent, translucent, reflective, breakable. It can have optical properties, it can be colorful. It has been around since ancient times, and it still is all around us. Take a photograph that shows glass. Glass can be the main subject or play a stellar supporting role in your photo. Aim for an image you'd like to see on someone's wall or in an imaginary "Glass" exhibit.
WIT:
I had a bunch of ideas for this assignment, but shooting this vase occurred to me 1st. Lighting was the first problem. My original idea was to backlight it, but that didn't work with/for any of the lights I have. Position was another issue. Neither my tripod nor I could could go low enough to shoot the thing at the angle I wanted. So at this point I'm dripping sweat from all the physical contortions. Why don't cameras have a way to read the displays when they are in vertical position? So I decided to settle on this view before I drowned the camera or did myself physical harm (bending is harmful.) Anyway I ended up with this one which had left side lighting by my trusty LED flashlight with some pink construction paper in front of it as a gel. The background is a piece of gold construction paper. The bottom is a black placemat (finding that is another whole story. I have several hundred GB of stuff on my disks and I can find anything in a couple minutes or less. It appears that my wife and I have have different mental referents that control where and how household items get stored.) Anyway, so I set all this up and guessed at a 10 second exposure. Wow, not bad for the SWAG rule - high 5 on that one!
I had to fiddle with this some in post. Changed the color temp to redden things. Fiddled with my usual sliders in ACR and then sent it to PS to compensate for the off vertical of my tripod setup - turned out to be a CCW 1.9 degree rotation. Without further ado, the image was saved as a JPG and uploaded.
PRO73 - Pete Turner Emulation
Mission:
Emulate the work of Pete Turner. Seek out color. Place as much importance on color as on the subject and composition. In other words, color should play a major role in your photo. Use it for drama, intensity, mood and impact. Study Turner's photographs and see what makes them stand out. Present your assignment photo in any format. Turner's work is not only found in galleries but on albums, books, magazines, and in advertising.
WIT
This was one of my first attempts at emulating Pete Turner, but I don't think I got (closer to) him until I really started to play with it in post processing. I really liked his Americana series, and several of his "Classics", like the winter scenes in NY. For me, I had a very tough time spotting vibrant colors by just looking around me... or spotting the color potential as well. The colors on this shot SOOC weren't bad, but I ended up pushing them pretty hard in Aperture 2 by specifically pushing the saturation and luminance of the oranges, reds and blues that dominate this scene (I'd like to say I thought of this, but it was suggested by summerspot in the Pete Turner thread). You can see the much more tuned down version here. The rest of my set is here.
This was taken on film, Fuji Sensia, which is great for color, a Minolta XD11, and a 135mm/2.8 lens. (Sorry, can't remember camera properties). I was standing on steps across the street to get more level. I did take shots with digital too, but I found I had a difficult time getting good color with my digital. Even pushing the digital RAW shots in Aperture 2 didn't give me the boldness of film.
WIL
It is interesting how integrated color can be to form. Over the course of the month, I could slowly start to see how there were interesting lines and shapes being created by color, much like you get interesting things in B&W with a wide tonal range. When shooting in color, I was always looking at lines and shapes, rather than looking at color, like I do with tonal range in B&W. I'm going to try to change that perspective as a result of this assignment. Pete Turner was great to tackle after Harry Callahan!
A big THANK YOU to Pete Turner for being willing to take a look through the group pool!
Assignment: pca05 – Vantage Point
From: summerspot
Mission: Show us an image that captures a subject or scene from an unusual, unconventional or surprising perspective. Let your creativity shine and/or simply pick something that interests you beyond the assignment and capture it in a new way, challenging yourself to find a vantage point that works and differs from your usual approach. The assignment can be accomplished with any camera (but it may involve such activity as climbing or crawling!).
Though this assignment is meant to be a lighter one, your challenge is again to capture something that doesn’t just fulfill the assignment but stands on its own outside of this assignment.
What it Took:
This was taken on top of a parking garage at the University of Arizona right after sunset. You can see the reflection of a mountain range in the back of this stop sign. The orange lights were a bit overpowering so the orange colors were brought down in saturation. I also took orange up in luminance to brighten the image. Some of the distractions in the background were burned out. There is some sharpening and noise reduction done, as well as some leveling.
Assignment: PCA110 – What in the World?
Date: June 20 to July 4, 2010 (2 weeks)
Image Tag: pca110
From: HipChicklette
This pca is for summerspot, who participated in a few "What in the World?" pics I posted, and thought this might make a good idea for a pca. We'll find out! :)
The Mission:
To look at everyday objects with a different eye. To capture something from a different perspective, pov, focus, magnification, whatever, that makes the viewer focus just on what you've presented. The capture should make it challenging for the viewer to easily identify the object, thus focusing on the colors (or b&w), tones, shapes, lines, light, and other components of the composition. A visual puzzle, if you will.
To make it easier for folks' imaginations to be free, please omit using tags that identify the object until after the pca is over, and everyone has had an opportunity to comment (and guess, if they choose. :)
WIT
Inspiration in the kitchen!
This is not photoshopped or layered or any special effects added.
This is as it came out of the camera, with a few hues added, contrast and levels tweaked a bit.
exif
Camera Canon PowerShot G10
Exposure 0.25 sec (1/4)
Aperture f/5.0
Focal Length 6.1 mm
ISO Speed 80
Exposure Bias 0 EV
Flash Off, Did not fire
K8
Assignment: PCA110 – What in the World?
Date: June 20 to July 4, 2010 (2 weeks)
Image Tag: pca110
From: HipChicklette
This pca is for summerspot, who participated in a few "What in the World?" pics I posted, and thought this might make a good idea for a pca. We'll find out! :)
The Mission:
To look at everyday objects with a different eye. To capture something from a different perspective, pov, focus, magnification, whatever, that makes the viewer focus just on what you've presented. The capture should make it challenging for the viewer to easily identify the object, thus focusing on the colors (or b&w), tones, shapes, lines, light, and other components of the composition. A visual puzzle, if you will.
To make it easier for folks' imaginations to be free, please omit using tags that identify the object until after the pca is over, and everyone has had an opportunity to comment (and guess, if they choose. :)
What it Took (WIT):
Well, this one took a bit of thinking, since I've been doing a number of "what is this?" shots. Wanted to find something that creates a cool image, and also is not (hopefully) immediately recognizible by its form.
This shot included just the tiniest bit of crop, and a turn to b&w using a green filter setting, a bit of burning the hot spot in the middle, and a hold of highlights.
I'm submitting early for the pca, since I'll be away during the deadline. Looking forward to seeing everyone's posts after the 7th!
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T1i
Lens: EF100mm f/2.8 Macro USM
Filter: C-PL
ISO Speed: 100
Focal Length: 100mm
Exposure Value: 1.67
Aperture: f/8
Shutter Speed: .6 seconds
Flash: Off, did not fire
Post-processing: hair of crop, turned to monochrome with green filter, hold highlights, and a burn of the hot spot in the center
Feel free to view on black in large.
And, if you really want to know what it is, click here. Hope you'll leave a guess, first!