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Assignment - Lowlands, by Edward S. Aarons
Gold Medal s1073, 1961 PBO
Cover art attributed to Paul Rader, may be Charles Binger (see below)
#13 in the Sam Durell "Assignment" series
PCA282
Shooting for a purpose
Jan 5th 2014
I must admit I thought the assignment wanted just the image (with no text) but I note all the others so far have text added - so I did!
The meaning is obvious, I hope. An Agency specialising in counselling services for those experiencing marriage or relationship problems.
On reflection I wish the crack was a bit narrower, but I hope the meaning is clear. :)
Two images. The bells and the cracked earth background showing through. Blended in PSE5 and text added there too.
Kate
Menu assignment--1 element from 3 columns
A--Green
B--Odd
C--Natural window light
Best viewed on black, press L
Active Assignment Weekly: Jan 18-25 "Details"
Rumpleteazer is one of the most beautiful cats I have ever seen. He has just as much spunk as when my mom saved him from the side of the road many years ago.
There is a color version of this in my photostream as well, but I thought the b&w highlighted the details a little more effectively for the AAW.
"And when you heard a dining room smash
Or up from the pantry there came a loud crash
Or down from the library came a loud ping
From a vase which was commonly said to be Ming
Then the family would say: "Now which was which cat?
It was Mungojerrie! And Rumpleteazer!"
And there's nothing at all to be done about that!”
― T.S. Eliot, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
I downloaded a new app to my ipad called Assignment. It has wonderful ideas to get me back to and motivated to shooting more often.
Doing the strobist assignment at the beach
Strobist Info:
- 1 bare flash on model right
- gold reflector below
For this assignment I decided to go with colour instead of B&W since I wanted to incorporate gels into the equation. I thought the red adds that element of impending action about to take place...
Another light or a reflector could've helped to improved background separation. Next time...
Strobist: sb-24 snooted with gobo blinds and gobo of person silhouette 1/16 power hard left of camera with red gel; sb-80dx 1/32 power with grid spot, camera right and high.
Assignment Star Stealers, by Edward S. Aarons
Fawcett Gold Medal T2281, 1970 PBO
Cover art by Robert McGinnis
#30 in the Sam Durell "Assignment" series
Cover art was not credited anywhere in this book; confirmed as McGinnis in "The Paperback Covers of Robert McGinnis" by Art Scott & Dr. Wallace Maynard
Title: Assignment - Helene.
Author: Edward S. Aarons.
Publisher: Gold Medal Books.
Date: 1959.
Artist: Barye Phillips.
Our current (last week of Jan '12) assignment is for photos that are atmospheric; show mood. I fooled around with this photo of a crowded Green Line streetcar in all kinds of way, but rejected it. Someone doesn't like her picture taken and I don't blame her. I don't mind; really I just don't care- if you can see me I'm fair game. You will see few people on my photostream.
On a related note a woman got on at Park as this lot got off. An attractive, tall young woman, she wore low LL Bean duck boots with no socks- preppy galore! Now I am no foot fetishist by any means- I find feet disgusting- walking barefoot in the grass is an embarrassment, not a joy. Shoes, however are interesting from design, style and craft points of view. I looked at her and she glared at me like the pervert I protest I'm not- no way was I going to say a word to her.
But dammit I wanted that shot! At Haymarket someone got on and stood between us. The streetcar lurched, he leaned forward and I took my shot ...
And it was terrible. Not too blurry but her skin came out the same tone as the leather. Not good enough for me. You'll just have to imagine duck boots and no socks.
Active Assignment Weekly: Capture Your Country
I know Joe already went with this theme for America, but it's one of the first photos I took for this assignment but wasn't sure about it. Then I noticed some details I liked and decided to go for it. SOOC, except for a little clarity enhancement.
Wandered around downtown Fort Lauderdale with a new lens (and my first prime). I'm enjoying the 33mm 1.4 but it'll take some time to get used to..
Assignment 52 -- My own favorite shots from 2013
(A shot which combines several techniques I've explored this year-- light painting, black backgrounds, & HDR. Different parts of vase & flowers & surface were illuminated in various shots & combined after experimenting with combinations.)
Assignment - Angelina, by Edward S. Aarons
Gold Medal 749, 1958 PBO
Cover art by Gerry Powell
#6 in the Sam Durell "Assignment" series
Assignment Karachi, by Edward S. Aarons
Gold Medal R2331, undated reprint
Cover art uncredited
#16 in the Sam Durell "Assignment" series
Assignment Lili Lamaris, by Edward S. Aarons
Fawcett Gold Medal R2209, undated reprint
Cover art by Baryé Phillips
#10 in the Sam Durell "Assignment" series
Strobist Lighting102 Assignment: Cooking. With a chrome nutcracker, I placed on a pink plastic cutting board, and then used a green plastic cuttingboard as a reflector.
1 Flash, bounced off white ceiling, 1/2 power, radio trigger on a stand, camera right. 1/250 @ f/5.6
Strobist Bootcamp II Assignment I - Headshots
She is a freelance web designer and programmer, and this headshot is supposed to go in her promotion website (she's also my girlfriend, maybe worth mentioning :P).
* Strobist info :
- Vivitar 285 with white shoot-through umbrella at camera left as key-light, slightly taller than subject's head. Dunno about power setting, just about enough ;)
- Nikon Sb28 as second light at camera right, behind subject, to give cross-light for the camera right side. Zoom at 85mm. It is turned off in her case.
- Sunpak 888afz, with 1 stop ND and cookie (laptop cooling base fan), to light (very) off-white background (I *really* should paint my living room).
Assignment 52 -- Freeze action
Before the week is over, I may yet be able to get something different from my favorite action model, Po. But it's been so cold, not much is stirring, & I haven't been motivated to get out & search & experiment, so here is my tried & true. Except that using shutter priority is different for me -- my favorite action shots of my dogs have been taken in aperture priority, so there's the "stretch" -- seeing if I could make that work. This shot didn't much impress me until I tried it in B & W, where it seems to work better.
Product Lighting/Custom Color Printing joint assignment:
using fruits and/or vegtables of your choosing created two 8x10 color prints, one demonstrating saturated colors, and one demonstrating desaturated color(s).
This is my saturated image.
taken with: Mamiya C220 on Kodak Portra 160NC.
scanned full frame on an Imacrom mulit-format drum film scanner.
Assignment - Helene, by Edward S. Aarons
Gold Medal d1660, 1966
Cover art uncredited
#9 in the Sam Durell "Assignment" series
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: Struggled with this one really. Finally lassoed a willing model, and as I was taking photos of the back of his neck, I saw this shot. We were both amazed at how freckled his fingers are as shown in the shot. Taken outside in evening cloudy light. Desaturated reds and added an inverted highpass filter with soft light blending after contrast and brightness adjustments. No cropping. I know it's grainy, but so is the owner of this fist.
The BBC’s Valeria Perasso is on the US border, exploring the journey that Mexican deportees take as they pass through a set of metal doors in the security fence, back to their home country.
Prior to their removal from America, there is usually a period of temporary detention. As they are led through the doors, which are opened several times a day by officials, they consider their past lives in terms of what they are leaving behind and their future, which is uncertain. In the year that President Obama prioritises comprehensive immigration reform and as the number of deportations under his Presidency reaches record levels, Assignment discovers the changing profile of a typical deportee – those who may have lived in the US for decades and are determined to keep trying to cross back. This programme is part of the Freedom2014 season and follows people who have been living in the shadows as undocumented migrants in the US and joins them on their reluctant return to Mexico and a freedom they often do not want.
Produced by Nina Robinson
This week's assignment: "Film Noir", French for "black film". This will probably be a more difficult assignment that will require much more preparation because mood as well as lighting are important aspects as well as creating a story.
Here is Wikipedia's definition:
"Film noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize cynical attitudes and sexual motivations. Hollywood's classic film noir period is generally regarded as stretching from the early 1940s to the late 1950s. Film noir of this era is associated with a low-key black-and-white visual style that has roots in German Expressionist cinematography. Many of the prototypical stories and much of the attitude of classic noir derive from the hardboiled school of crime fiction that emerged in the United States during the Depression."
Think of old movies, such as The Maltese Falcon" or relatively new ones like "Sin City".