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Active Assignment Weekly: Liquid in Motion
The Assignment:
For those of you who don’t like set-up, this will challenge you a bit, but I promise it’ll be fun and hopefully a good learning experience that will stretch your photography journey. I first learned about the relationship between lighting conditions, flash, aperture, and shutter speed when trying to shoot my son’s baseball games. Those learnings then extended to shooting water movement whether it was a water fight or shooting one of those cool water splash shots.
The Assignment : Shoot a picture that captures liquid of any type frozen in motion. It can be taken indoors or outdoors. The liquid amount can be a drop or a wave-full and the movement can be accompanied by any object or living being. Depending on the speed of your lens (i.e. shutter speed at a given aperture or vice versa) and availability of flash, you may consider taking the shot in outdoor lighting. Using a tripod will help immensely.
Restrictions: None, except no fabrication of liquid movement in post processing.
Dare: If you have not tried a water splash type shot before, I dare you to get that under your belt.
WIT: After a week of failed contemplating on what the hell to do for this shot.. it rained today.. possibly snow by tonight, so we acted quickly. Decided to do this and searched for some puddle out of the way of main traffic.. Why can't you find that when you want to?? Anyway, Cliff dropped me off in the rain and turned around to barrel toward the puddle (and me). Had the camera set on burst, Shutter Priority at 1/800 sec to stop the action, upped the ISO to 800 so I could have enough light at F/2.8. CS4 adjustments included a good crop (hey, I really wasn't standing this close), desature, curves, sharpen, resize.
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Active Assignment Weekly: Minimal House
This is light shining in front of my doggy door. I tried to concentrate on something other than wood and to be as minimal as possible.
I cleaned up the noise on the floor and did black and white. I also boosted contrast. I took the photo in the dark to get the most contrast as possible.
Active Assignment Weekly: Long exposure. I confess, I intended to do some long exposure at the Latin American street festival yesterday, but I plain forgot.
Here is a tram (streetcar) going past our building. Taken from our balcony on the 36th floor with the camera way over the railing.
What it took: Saturation maxed, contrast maxed, Flickr filter Lorno. Cropped a few mm to get rid of a shadow of a car in the top right corner.
It's very sunny and bright right now, well, it has been for the last few weeks. It's difficult to do long exposures during the day with a max of f/8. I think this came out ok, though, in the end.
Active Assignment Weekly for December 28-January 3: Metal/Metallic
This week's assignment is to explore the challenge of photographing shiny metallic objects. The subject doesn't necessarily need to be made of metal, but it must convey the essence of being metallic (such as having the iridescent and reflective properties of metal). Heavily rusted metal does't count. Look for items like chrome, polished steel, freshly cut metal surfaces, spoons, foil. Buff it up and show me the shine.
Dare: Photograph a spherical object and/or incorporate lots of color
Restriction: None
This was yet another idea derived while sitting on the john. This is a toilet paper holder for spare rolls and I thought it would fit the assignment rather nicely.
So, I originally shot this with a black background but then I noticed the dare while I was adding my WIT and I thought I should reshoot it with some color :-) I am glad I did because I got this cool shadow with the lighter background.
WIT: Used my SB600 strobe on the floor pointing at the paper holder with the paper holder in between the camera and the flash. Tried different angles until I got a result I liked. In Lightroom cropped and upped contrast.
Active Assignment Weekly: Nov 21-28: Liquid in Motion
WIT: Took advantage of a windy day and ventured to the breakwall. After getting this pic, parked my car there and gave it a bath. 1/1000, f22, iso 1000. 50mm lens. Up'd the contrast and a slight crop in lightroom