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Active Assignment Weekly: April 18 - April 25: Pour Me a Drank!
(No it's not a typo...read it with a "ghetto" twang ;-)
The assignment is to take a photo of a drink. Alcoholic, non-alcoholic, hot, cold, shaken, or stirred, just make it pretty! I have had a few submissions lately that have really given me a love for this type of photography, and I hope to spread that love!
Restriction: Keep it simple, with no distracting elements that don't tie in with your drink. This means NO human element (not even a hand!)
Dare: Make it ad worthy!
WIT: Natural light from window in sunroom; increased contrast, added a neon glow in Photoshop elements at 37% opacity, eliminated reds and blues. My favorite summer time drink: G&T with extra lime.
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 :>)
Maker: Edouard Baldus (1813-1889)
Born: Germany
Active: France
Medium: heliogravure
Size: 6 in x 9 3/4 in
Location: Paris
Object No. 2020.018z
Shelf: L-5
Publication: Palais du Louvre et des Tuileries. Motifs de décoration intérieure et extérieur, 3 vols. Paris: Baldus and Vve. A. Morel, 1869–1875
Other Collections:
Notes: A plate from Palais du Louvre et des Tuileries. Motifs d'architecture et de decoration ensembles et details tires des constructions executees au nouveau Louvre et au Palais des Tuileries, sous la direction de M. Lefuel. Paris: J.E. Ogier, 1869 (in three parts). This was Baldus first publication of his own photographic work in photogravure form. Originally trained as a painter and having also worked as a draughtsman and lithographer before switching to photography in 1849, Édouard Baldus (1813–1889), became a central figure in the early development of French photography and acknowledged in his day as a pioneer in the still-experimental field, was widely acclaimed both for his aesthetic sensitivity and for his technical prowess. Establishing a new mode of representing architecture and describing the emerging modern landscape with magnificent authority, he enjoyed high patronage in the 1850s and 1860s. Yet, despite the artist's renown during his lifetime, his name is all but unknown today, his work savored only by connoisseurs. Baldus made his reputation with views of the monuments of Paris and the south of France, with dramatic landscapes of the Auvergne, with photographs of the New Louvre, and with a poignant record of the devastating floods of 1856. But it is his two railroad albums—the first commissioned in 1855 by Baron James de Rothschild for presentation to Queen Victoria, the second in 1861 by the Paris-Lyon-Mediterranee railroad company—that are his greatest achievement. Here he brought together his earlier architectural and scenic images with bold geometric views of the modern landscape—railroad tracks, stations, bridges, viaducts, and tunnels—to address the influence of technology (of which both the railroad and the camera are prime examples). In so doing, Baldus anticipated the concerns of Impressionist painters a decade later and those of many artists of our own day, meeting his task with a clarity and directness not since surpassed. Beginning in the mid 1860s with this publication, and lasting until the early 1880s, Baldus primary commercial activity centered on the production of photogravures, a process he first explored in 1854. This work had nothing to do with promoting artistic photography or his own photographic work; instead it was an industrial application of photography that brought credit and financial gain to Baldus as an inventor and entrepreneur rather than an artist. (source: MET). Beginning in the mid 1860s, and lasting until the early 1880s, Baldus primary commercial activity centered on the production of photogravures, a process he first explored in 1854. This work had nothing to do with promoting artistic photography or his own photographic work; instead it was an industrial application of photography that brought credit and financial gain to Baldus as an inventor and entrepreneur rather than an artist.
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Maker: Washington Lafayette Germon (1823-1877)
Born: USA
Active: USA
Medium: cdv back
Size:
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Object No. 2013.420b
Shelf: E-22-GERM
Publication:
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Notes: In the early 1840s, Germon apprenticed as a steel engraver in Philadelphia. He learned the daguerreotype process and then in 1846, formed a partnership with James Earle McClees called "McClees & Germon". The Philadelphia firm, which operated until 1854, specialized in views of the city.
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Active Assignment Weekly: June 27 - July 4: Body Parts
Your assignment is to photograph body parts. Keep the props, or clothing to a minimum and really focus in on a body part. With that said PLEASE remember the group rules and keep it clean.
Dare: Make it abstract or hard to tell what part of the body you have chosen (please refrain from the cliche arm or leg crack made to look like a butt)
Restriction: No full face or full body shots, and as stated before no naughty areas.
WIT: Halogen reading light lying on the bed.. F/2.8, 1/20 sec. ISO 1600. CS4 curves for high contrast, vibrance reduction, dark blue filter to take out some of the bright orange-ness, noise reduction, gaussian blur, resize. View on black..
Active Assignment Weekly - Motion Blur.
Well I choose this assignment because I needed practice and wow... Throughout the week i tried to improve on my technique and abilities but a week was not long enough, lol...
This is my 13 year old, rescued Xolo. After being in a cage her whole life, this girl loves to RUN!
I truly appreciate suggestions and critiques.as i really struggled with my settings on this assignment.
WIT: Slowing down my shutter and playing around with ISO and Aperture due to a dark cloudy day. In PP - i boosted the lighting and the shadows.
Rheannon taking a picture on exposure 00. Taken by Chris with the Minolta X-700 with Ilford HP5 Plus 400 film.
Active Assignment Weekly: Fancy Pants
So, your assignment this week is to take a picture of pants. Jeans, slacks, cargo's, corduroy, camo, or underpants...I don't care, just take a picture of pants. As long as the pants are the focus, your picture will work.
Restriction: Keep away from whole body shots, and really make the pants the focus.
Dare: Take a picture of someone else's pants? I can't really think of anything else
WIT
I have so many jeans, and I had this idea in my head of lining them all up. My best friend has a huge yard. with some small hills. I got on a step ladder and shot.
Post process in camera raw, clarity and tone enhancements.
Chania, Crete, Greece.
Finding an artifact leads to further digging. It never ends where previous civilizations once lived.
The Active Learning Center (ALC), formerly known as the ME-EM "Fishbowl." has been completely transformed into a technology-rich collaborative learning space, featuring 72 student computer stations, three instructor stations and 29 collaboration LCD monitors hung from the ceiling.
Active Assignment Weekly: July 23 - 30, 2012 - Your assignment this week is to emulate the work of famous photographer, Jay Maisel. Go through his photos, do some research into his technique, and then choose a few photos of his that inspires an emulated image of your own.
Wit: Had a hard time with this one, but as others have mentioned, contrast, colour blocking, interupted pattern, and using every inch came to mind on this one. Was on a day tour of Toronto with DAP! and shot hundreds of images (and some black and white film) and this one stood out most for the assignment, SOOC.
Fort Bragg's first responders participate in an active shooter training exercise at Pope Elementary School, Nov. 5, 2014. The training included responding to an active shooter incident and hostage negotiation. The training helps ensure that Fort Bragg's first responders have the skills necessary to keep the installation safe and secure.
(Photo by Lewis Perkins/Fort Bragg Paraglide)
Active Assignment for 25th Oct - 1st Nov: Self Portrait with pumpkin
WIT-- New picture of some pumpkins and gourds................old picture of me on a rock,................blended the two.
WALA...............selfie with a pumpkin.
Star of India is the world's oldest active sailing ship. She began her life on the stocks at Ramsey Shipyard in the Isle of Man in 1863. Iron ships were experiments of sorts then, with most vessels still being built of wood. Within five months of laying her keel, the ship was launched into her element. She bore the name Euterpe, after the Greek muse of music and poetry.
Euterpe was a full-rigged ship and would remain so until 1901, when the Alaska Packers Association rigged her down to a barque, her present rig. She began her sailing life with two near-disastrous voyages to India. On her first trip she suffered a collision and a mutiny. On her second trip, a cyclone caught Euterpe in the Bay of Bengal, and with her topmasts cut away, she barely made port. Shortly afterward, her first captain died on board and was buried at sea.
After such a hard luck beginning, Euterpe settled down and made four more voyages to India as a cargo ship. In 1871 she was purchased by the Shaw Savill line of London and embarked on a quarter century of hauling emigrants to New Zealand, sometimes also touching Australia, California and Chile. She made 21 circumnavigations in this service, some of them lasting up to a year. It was rugged voyaging, with the little iron ship battling through terrific gales, "laboring and rolling in a most distressing manner," according to her log.
The life aboard was especially hard on the emigrants cooped up in her 'tween deck, fed a diet of hardtack and salt junk, subject to mal-de-mer and a host of other ills. It is astonishing that their death rate was so low. They were a tough lot, however, drawn from the working classes of England, Ireland and Scotland, and most went on to prosper in New Zealand.
Active Assignment Weekly - June 13 - 20: Tickle the Funnybone
Assignment:
Take a picture that is humorous - let's have a laugh this week.
Restriction: No humans or parts of humans are allowed in the picture.
Dare: Create an image that doesn't require a caption to be funny.
WIT:
I think the title says it all here, but one never knows. I hope there are many reasons to laugh at this, and if not, oink oink.
I shot this outside a favorite joint of mine this morning, hoping I'd find the perfect spot for this pair. I've used them once for a photo, but the results weren't that great.
In PP: I just adjusted the curves, then bent the green and red curves a bit for a lomo look.
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Competitors climb the American flag obstacle during the Pensacola Mud Run Oct 8. Active duty and Reserve service members from local military bases came out to get dirty in the five-mile, 20-obstacle challenge. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Sam King)