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Assignment Peking, by Edward S. Aarons
Fawcett Gold Medal R2145, 1969 PBO
Cover art by Robert McGinnis
#28 in the Sam Durell "Assignment" series
The 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.
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
Assignment Karachi, by Edward S. Aarons
Gold Medal R2331, undated reprint
Cover art uncredited
#16 in the Sam Durell "Assignment" series
Shot of my 13 year old daughter using backlight, for my first introductory portraiture assignment at Humber College, Toronto, Ontario.
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 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:
for this week theme your photographic eye should look for something "artificial".
No restriction, just be creative and have fun.
How about some artificial sweetener?
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 assignment of the week: Rule of Thirds. I got excited and went straight away to demonstrate an example. Sorry for being so sudden about it XD.
Minimum photos to submit: 1
Maximum photos to submit: 5
Last date for submissions: 1/22/2010 (Next Friday)
Resolution should not exceed 600pxl on the longest side (horizontal or vertical)
Heavy post processing will disqualify the submissions. Only contrast adjustments and cropping allowed.
This is what I can think of right now. I'll try to give it more thoughts later and update the rules and other related stuff to make it better. Now I have to study to make up for the time I lost preparing all of this >_<
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.)
Late morning sun behind.
Umbrella'd SB-80 at camera right.
Money's tight right now, but her mom really wanted photos of Bella. There were happy ones, but this one is my fave of the Balance shots from this series, and was much more characteristic of Bella's mood on this morning.
Assignment - Stella Marni, by Edward S. Aarons
Gold Medal 906, 1959 reprint
Cover art by Robert Abbett
#4 in the Sam Durell "Assignment" series
Assignment - Sulu Sea, by Edward S. Aarons
Gold Medal d1654, 1966 reprint
Cover art uncredited
#20 in the Sam Durell "Assignment" series
Chico State #33 Brennan Wheeler drives by a defender during the Wildcats’ game against Cal State East Bay on Saturday, January 7, 2023 in Chico, Calif.
(Matt Bates/University Photographer/Chico State)
Active Weekly Assignment (Mar. 1-8, 2021) - "There is a number in my photo"
For this assignment, I wanted to find some numbers outside rather then arranging something at home. My girlfriend had the idea that the single spaces in parking decks are often numbered, so I made a tour through the different parking decks in my town (turns out only half of them actually have numbers).
There are only two numbers but at least they consist of six digits, I hope that counts :).
Post-processing: Apart from cropping and the obvious conversion to b&w I adjusted the brightness, mostly by playing around with the "filmic rgb" and "tone equalizer" modules of Darktable which I learned about just recently and are trying to master now.
Chico State #22 Justin Vigil elevates for a jumper during the Wildcats’ game against Cal State East Bay on Saturday, January 7, 2023 in Chico, Calif.
(Matt Bates/University Photographer/Chico State)
this is a photo of the second part of a photo class assignment i had to present this week. for the assignment we were to make a walk and then also make an intervention of some sort in the environment. for inspiration we were introduced to the work of Richard Long and other walking artists.
for my walk and intervention i went to our property on the north end of Vancouver Island. a few weeks ago there was a landslide in the area and the land mass on the edge of our property and to the south of it underwent a drastic change. i don't have before photographs but a creek that could hardly be seen because of forest and thick undergrowth was now a 100 ft wide open area with trees down everywhere. a pullout between the road and the ocean that could easily fit 5 trucks was now completely gone.
i walked and took photographs of the landslide clean up and then went into the forest nearby and cleared a small area, set out bowls, filled them with earth and pine cones and then lit incense. then i took the bowls of ashes and earth down to the creek and submerged them in the creek.
i've posted each of the photos in this work on my website here
My first assignment as a newspaper photographer was to shoot the grand opening of an Ethan Allen furniture store. I could not capture the image I wanted because at that time, I only had a 200mm telephoto lens and a 50mm normal lens. A chaperone mirror helped me get the wide-angle subject coverage I needed.
I was pleased that my city editor was pleased with my image.
I immediately invested in a wide-angle lens.
This image was shot on Kodak Tri-X with a 50mm lens on a Miranda Sensorex 35mm SLR in the summer of 1968.
I was energetic after charging the batteries. I spent a very happy day with my family. This picture was taking inside the car (my husband was driving :)). I felt the presence of the electrical towers around me (usually, they are unseen). Their energy resounded with my mood, I embraced the moment. And I took this picture.
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/)
So, first assignment on the Strobist L102 Class...
Set up an object and move the light around to see how it "hits" the object.
Link to the post.
strobist.blogspot.com/2007/06/lighting-102-unit-11-positi...
Experimenting for the assignment with the outdoors and thought I would do something different. I'm really just learning how to manipulate f/stop and shutter speed to take the picture that I want to and this assignment taught me a lot about the different ratios.
Jael Gadsden is a friend of ours who happens to be an amazingly talented, up-and-coming singer/songwriter. For her latest CD she needed some shots for the front, inside and back covers.
Strobist Info:
• 580EXII in a beauty dish camera right just out of frame
• Silver relector filling from the left
• 430EXII lighting the background and providing the reflected wrap-around light
f/5.6 @ 1/125
My new guitar...
I took this picture just to show off my new guitar. I also wanted to play around with a 'light thru the blinds' shot that I saw in a lot of the 'noir' submissions from the Lighting 102 assignment. After seeing the finished shot it occurred to me that it might make a reasonable submission for the 'Cross, Balanace, Sculpt' assignment as well... although I've got more Balance and Sculpt than Cross... but oh well :)
Strobist info: Metz 45 outside shooting in thru the blinds at 1/4 power. Viv 285hv camera left (almost even with subject) shooting at 1/2 power thru a Rogue grid (25 degrees).
So here's something fun for everyone to do, should be quick and easy, but try to make it pretty.
- First, go here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random The title of the article is now the name of your band.
- Next, go here: www.quotationspage.com/random.php3 Go to the bottom of the page. The last four to five words of the last quote are the title of your first album
- Lastly, go here: www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days Select the 3rd image. It is the picture for your album cover. Manipulate the picture, resize it, add some other color, whatever. Do the same with the band name and album title, put them over top. However you wanna do it. Make it look cool.
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- My wikipedia draw led me to the Oyi page
- The quote (from the last three words - I modified!) is from Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
"People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed."
- Unfortunately, the Flickr Interesting photo I originally landed on was not Creative Commons licensed, so I did an advanced search with CC license allowing modification with the search term, 'interestingness' and ended on this photo, Smouldering Heart of the Blues, by Evan Leeson.
Using www.lunapic.com LunaPic, I used color changer to modify some of the blues to purple and added the text, Oyi, using NightSky font and the text, to be instructed, using the AirConditioner font.
Fun, easy, and 'instructional' (for new editing features)! Using creative tools with limited elements was a great start - gets one beyond the 'how to I start' anxiety that many experience when asked to be 'creative'. :)
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/)