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June 30, 2010
Alta Gracia, Dominican Republic
Workers at the Alta Gracia factory, set up as a "fair wage" factory recently by Knights Apparel, which is one of the largest suppliers of t-shirts and sweatshirts to colleges in the US. This factory is paying workers a living wage, about 3.5 times more than they are paid in other factories clothing factories in the DR.
The clothes are sold at a slightly higher price with tags explaining to customers that Alta Gracia (also the name of the clothing line) pays the workers more.
Michael Kamber for The New York Times
Assignment ID: 30099366A
The mood I hoped to evoke is 'despair " or loneliness.
I have quite a few people close to me that struggle with deep depression.
Life to them seems so hard. They see no future or purpose in their lives.It is so hard to be the bystander and watch their despair. But it is even harder to be in the depths of that despair. And happiness is so distant for them. It can be a lonely time as many people do not understand why they pull away from loved ones.
I tried to accomplish the mood more with the gray texture than the scene. I thought the long path between the trees signified the long journey ahead for someone in a depressed state. And how alone they feel in this walk.
Manual: f/5.6 s.s. 1/60 ISO 100
I have submited these shots for my NYIP Unit 3, Assignment 4: 45° lighting.
The assignment was simple enough, create a tabletop still life and light from 45° to either side. For the second image, bring in a reflector. These were to be done with either natural window light or tungsten.
I think these meet the benchmark.
What do you think?
The set-up: In the first and second shot I used my trusty Norman Tri-light (modeling lamp only) as a "hot light" and set it up on at the camera left position. I then adjusted the light to give a spot-light appearance. I wanted to emphasise the texture of the cakes, while showing the moist, melted chocolate chips they embed into the divine cake. For the second shot I added a bounce reflector to camera right, just out of frame. I also (cheating?) introduced a mirrored bounce behind the subjects to "kick" some of that light onto the backside of the front cake and somewhat sidelight the back cakes.
I was thinking I might submit them in this diptych layout, since I'll never use the one without bounce...
well, never say never, would make a good illustration on the importance of bounce!
The small cakes that carry the name, along with the ever posh US bakery and restaurant built by Chef Thomas Keller, not the typical Bouchonstyle of French eatery.
These tiny cakes are luscious, and the reason my every visit to Napa and/or Harbin HS generally includes a side trip to Yountville, CA.
I don’t know how these simple ingredients can be assembled to create these decadent delights, but somehow they manage… and I am blessed every time I have the chance to experience the bliss induced when I taste one of these sweet morsels.
Active Assignment Weekly: April 4 - April 11: Fancy Pants
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.
WIT: No fancy pants around here but there are several well worn pairs of jeans. The lighting is from a nearby window, followed by some adjustments in post to accentuate the shadows. Some slight cropping.
Years ago, on a hike through Eastern Oregon's Strawberry Mountains, the woman leading our little group of (not very fit and kinda scared) hikers taught us a little song:
"Be careful what you lean on/It may not hold you up/Or lean freely/And be prepared to make an art of falling."
Most of my adult life, I've made an art of jumping off figurative cliffs without a parachute.
I've quit jobs - and entire careers - without any idea what would come next. I've moved halfway across a continent to pursue a new opportunity that scared the hell out of me. I've dived into chances for love without knowing whether there would be any future in it, and lived through the consequences, even when they ripped my heart apart.
And now, standing on the brink of old age, not knowing what the future may bring ... I can honestly say I don't regret a thing.
3/4/2010 - Blanche Hill broke a bone in her foot and has been hobbling around Centre's campus since. She is determined to ditch the crutches sooner rather than later. JAMEY PRICE
Assignment 52 -- Home Town Tourist Attractions -- Ernest Hemingway Birthplace, 339 N. Oak Park Ave., Oak Park, IL
Oak Parkers are very proud of their native son, Ernest Hemingway. They're even proud of his famously derisive description of the village as "a neighborhood of wide lawns and narrow minds." I suppose that's because they think they've changed.
The Hemingway Foundation provides tours of the birthplace house, lovingly restored to Victorian splendor, with amazing attention to the accuracy of details gleaned from such hints as scraps of wallpaper and descriptions by Hemingway's sister Marcelline. The Foundation also maintains a museum a block away, with photos and artifacts. I do have to wonder what Hemingway might have to say about the fervency of his local admirers. He certainly said many irreverent, puncturing things, though he also said things that feed right into the Mythologizing of the Great Macho Writer (who did not care for his first name, by the way, because of the Oscar Wilde title).
Here are a few Hemingway quotes that resonate with me, while wandering the leafy, wide-lawned streets, on my brief ad hoc literary appreciation & walking tour:
--All stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is not a true-story teller who would keep that from you.
-- There isn't any symbolism. The sea is the sea. the old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark is all sharks, no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit. What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know.
-- The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
Practice Day #10: For week #3 in PPSOP course, we're assigned to shoot translucent object with backlight, that's why I choose to shoot beverage this time. Another new experience. First I tried to dip the cherry in the blue soda, but the color got too saturated, so I used clear soda instead. Using 50mm/f1.8 with 20mm extension tube.
MEERZICHT - architect Bart Jan van den Brink
De Realiteit, Almere NL - On the south bank of the Noorderplassen in Almere is situated “De Realiteit” (The Reality). An unusual name for aAssignment
‘Meerzicht’ is one of the winning designs of the competition The Fantasie II. The assignment was to design a temporary house that did not have to meet the regulations and in which the emphasis was on i.e. advanced energy applications.
Location
At the time of the competition it was only known that winners in Almere would acquire a plot of 20 m x 20 m. Ultimately, it appeared that this plot was situated at the Noorderplassen, near the western approach to Almere-Stad. Upon consultation with the other winners and the Rijksdienst IJsselmeerpolders, a Government Institute, the house has been situated such that the solar incidence on the collector roof is optimal.
Design
The space between the solar boiler filled with water (40.000 litres) and the collector roof (gradient 45º) is surrounded by glazed walls; and thus forms the dwelling. The living functions are all situated on the ground floor. On the first floor there is an additional living room, which allows the inhabitant to profit from the view and the temperature. The only space walled-in is the room with the prefab sanitary facilities in the centre of the house.
Material selection
Wherever possible, steel and glass were applied. The facades, for instance, have been constructed in insulated ‘Jansen Viss’ profiles, provided with rubber glazing. Rockwool was used as insulating material for the foundations, solar collectors and solar boiler. For brickwork and paving MBI-concrete block was applied. The frame of the solar collectors could best be made of wood. For the roofing and pond lining plastics foil ‘Braas Rhenofol’ was used.
Structure
Because of the requirement of .temporariness ‘Meerzicht’ has been constructed as much as possible out of removable elements. The pitched roof consists of sloping truss girders, at their upper side being supported by a principal girder resting on columns and at their lower side being cramped in the foundations. In between these girders the large collectors are mounted.
The floor of the first storey is also supported by girders (sprayed with pink paint) resting on columns. So as to keep this floor as thin as possible a steel sheet has been applied, in combination wit a chipboard upper floor.
Because of the temporariness, a pile foundation was not allowed, in spite of the poor condition of the soil. Therefore, a large sheet of reinforced foam concrete was chosen instead. To compensate the eccentric load of the 45- tonnes weighing storage vessel, a pond has been projected on the other side.
Installations
The starting point is that during the whole year Meerzicht can be heated by means of solar energy, whereas nevertheless all walls are made of glass. By calculation means of a dynamic computer model it has been shown that it is really possible.
The dwelling is managed as a closed room that is ventilated entirely mechanically. A ventilating system, in which the indoor air is extracted by suction between the insulating exterior pane and the hard glass interior pane and via the jambs, prevents cold radiation from the facade.
In the meantime insulated folding shutters have been mounted on the outside so as to prevent solar irradiation in summer and to keep the warmth indoors in winter.
Energy consumption
In this way the energy consumption for heating and hot water supply is restricted to electricity for the pumps and fans.
Construction
We have done much on our own (i.e. not with the help of skilled workmen), i.e. manufacturing and mounting of the facade.
So as to get the project going we needed sponsors. At the start of the construction, we had not yet much support from sponsors. Therefore, during the construction we had to take many decisions as to the design. Sometimes the fact whether or not we got support from sponsors at the right time, was decisive for the choice of certain structures and materials.a street. Seventeen winning designs of the Second Competition of “De Fantasie” (The Fantasy) were built here in 1986. A year earlier the foundation organized "Fantasy" a design entitled "Temporary Housing". The prizes consisted of land, plots of approximately 20x20 m, where the winners, 17 could realize their ideas. By their nature offered the opportunity to contest the freest design, especially as the building codes did not have to be observed. Concepts such as removable, repositionable, limited life were central. The decommissioning of the building regulations meant that the awarded works were to be considered temporary. The participants knew in advance that the normal funding, namely the mortgage, was not available because of the transitory character. Nevertheless today (after 27 years) the houses are still present and inhabited and most are in good condition.
Active Assignment Weekly - Surrealism.
Wow - this is a tough assignment as I can't do double exposure with my camera, and I don't have Photoshop or any such fancy thing. So, I have played about with what I have.
WIT:
I took some shots of my hand in front of the TV screen during whatever happened to be on - it was a movie of some sort. I had to go with what came up. Then, in PP I used the Polar Co-ordinates application.
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1. FlipZon, a leading Indian e-commerce portal (selling electronics, books, clothing, toys etc. online) operational for the last seven years, had revamped their website recently since their 60% of their lead generation was through the website only. The portal wanted higher conversion rates. For some number of years, the e-commerce portal was using Google Analytics to generate the leads. With the website getting revamped there was a requirement that the Analytics had to be audited and Key Performance Indicators tracked. What was the impact of implementing Google Analytics by the portal and how the portal was benefitted in your opinion? (10 Marks)
2. An agricultural-technology (ag-tech) company DronaFarm deals in manufacturing of agricultural drones. Since they are a new organization, they do not have a large on-ground sales force. Thus, their primary business is dependent on the leads collected from their website. They found that the company’s sales numbers are not as per expectations. In order to improve the sales numbers, they made few changes in their website and again observed the sales analysis report. But after making requisite changes also, the company was not able to generate enough leads. Hence, they outsourced the task of online selling and marketing strategy to another company. That company reviewed their website and analyzed the bottleneck in the sales funnel and found that there were issues with sign up and purchase process.
Discuss whether a goal funnel can act as key driver for better return on investments for any company. Also, discuss that having a Google Analytics account is a key to better decision making for all enterprises. (10 Marks)
3. An online food delivery e-commerce portal ZomSwiPanda, has recently started providing food delivery to their users from popular restaurants of the city. The user needs to login to their portal, select the restaurant of their choice, select food from the menu, share delivery address, confirm the order and make payment. The order is typically delivered to the users within an hour from order confirmation. To be successful, the portal needs to generate more traffic to the platform. A higher traffic with optimized conversion would result in higher sales and success of the portal.
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Assignment 52 - Silhouettes
I'm fortunate to be in Georgia this week for this assignment, with fabulous light & horizons for silhouette shots. Since this is a trip to visit Po's son, Hibou, at the field trial pro's where he's in training, I'm indulging in a bunch of dog silhouettes. Here's yet another:
These are all my past assignments, which were done during the time when I was doing my MSc degree at the Oxford Uni.
Can't carry them home, so, I'd rather store them here yeah?
Active Assignment Weekly: Break the Rules
First I used dead/wilting flowers, and underexposed them. I also tried to break the rules of composition by placing the "heaviest" object at the top of the frame, making it look upside-down (it isn't). Hardest of all for me, this is straight out of the camera, no cropping or anything. Used a low power speedlight camera left, snooted to prevent spill.
Unfortunately, the big, intact rose is right at the junction of thirds lines. Apparently, I can't break that many rules.
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For Strobist Lighting 102
Assignment 1 - Cooking Light
430EX in shoot-thru umbrella to camera left at 1/4 power. 430EX with CTS gel aimed at wall at 1/16 power, 70mm zoom. Shot in manual. Triggered with an ST-E2.
Active Assignment Weekly : August 25 - September 1 Topic - Back to School
100 Pictures- 94. Triangle
I love to shoot lifestyle - tabletop, interiors, food, creative environmental portraiture. The magazines that I chose reflect, in my opinion, some of the absolute best photography in that genre. Clockwise from the left below: Marie Claire Idees (French crafting and lifestyle magazine), Martha Stewart Living (needs no introduction) and on the bottom two from Mollie Makes (UK crafting magazine).
Anyway, once I got started I couldn't stop, so here are a couple of additional images that I took to complete the "article." They're posted in comments.
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/)
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/)
Cool and warm colrs
Top row - Warm reds: Bubble Gum, Cayenne, Pomegranate
Second Row - Cool Reds: Cerese, Corsage, Petal
Third Row - Warm Blues: Stratosphere, Azure, Capri
Fourth Row - Cool Blues: Grapemist, Candy Blue, Ocean
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/)
Instacrush. She's with three friends and leaves early, and what a smile.
I pick up a last-minute shoot despite the drenching rain, and head out to some sort of Halloween party at some sort of club to benefit some sort of theatre company. Hey, what do I know, I just take the pictures.
It's hella dark here in the upstairs party room at Libation on Ludlow Street, of course, and cramped, and good fun all around. I'm not sold on the promotional orange-infused tequila, but life is like that. Nightclub party crowds often leave me unimpressed; these folks are way more fun than usual. And dressing up silly really brings out the best in people.
I'm here on assignment tonight with New York Cool. A set of partygoing shots from tonight runs in the November 2006 issue.
For the record: cat ears. See 'em? It counts as a costume. In-sta-crush.
Active Assignment Weekly - Junk.
The father of a friend of mine, loves to restore old cars and motorcycle.
This is an old Lancia that is waiting for repairs. All the tyre are flats and the body is full of rusty, at the moment looks like a junk.
In PP I just added some contrast.
For my birthday I recently received the book Learning To Love You More by Harrell Fletcher and Miranda July. It is a book of artistic assignments that you can turn to if your creative well has run dry and you would rather someone just tell you what to do. That in itself can be a particularly freeing experience.
The catalyst for this image is Assignment 55: Photograph a Significant Outfit. Although the exact instructions call for you to photograph what you were wearing during a significant moment in your life, I tend to think of these clothes as a time capsule which immediately teleports me back to 1978. Plus learning to do The Hustle just doesn't qualify as a significant moment! ;-)
To complete the ensemble you must visualize a few items that I've lost along the way:
1. Puka shell necklace
2. Brown patent leather boots (you know, the ones that zip up the side)
For those of you who weren't born yet (or still in diapers) in 1978, Jimmy Carter was president, the movie Saturday Night Fever was a box office smash, the Bee Gees dominated the pop air waves and everyone was deceived into thinking that John Travolta was an excellent dancer... I guess a some things never change!
Don't ask me why I still keep these clothes tucked away in the back of my closet. Even if I could lose enough weight to fit into them again, I wouldn't be caught dead wearing them in public. I guess it's just something I bring out every few years to look at when I need a good laugh. Also, the great thing about polyester is that they look just as good today as they day I bought them!
The Vordun Museum and Gallery
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This is Roger Bautista's Submission. The painting I spotted in one of these art galleries was The Adoration of Magi. This panting was done with oils on wood panel by a Netherlands artist Hieronymus Bosch, executed in 1485-1500. This painting grabbed my attention by its unique triptych execution. On the left side of the panel, depicts St. Peter and one donor. On the right side of the painting, it shows St, Agnes and a donor. In the middle panels, depicts the adoration of magi. When closed, the shutter shows a scene of Gregory the Great kneeling at the altar in front of Christ. When I walked towards the painting, it had a great quality and easy to see. This painting was executed for a cathedral once owned by Jehan de Kassembrood. Once he and his wife were executed, the painting was shipped to Phillip ll of Spain. In my opinion, the art work is well developed and displayed in a unique way. Most of the art works in this gallery are really appealing and provocative.
Why did the artist choose to do this painting in a triptych?
Goodwin Alco 4501, resting before an assignment. The 45 class were a hood style version of Alco's world series. They have the same engine as the 44 class, but heavier duty generator and traction motors and hi-adhesion bogies. They were designed primarily for freight. In original service the 44 and 45 class were treated as equals in the load and schedule tables, but the 45s were mainly rostered on coal and general freight.
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WIT:
You don't have to comment on this photo, because I deleted the last one (that worm thing scared me after a while). But on a deeper level, I post things here sometimes for the wrong reason. This time I'm submitting it because I believe in it and don't care if anyone else wishes to validate it.
Right now I'm very stressed. I just became incorporated as a photography business and I'm applying for project grants to show in galleries. The gallery owners are all about money and product, and so I've been really trapped in this. My mission is to provoke storytelling in my community with the photos I create. Storytelling that provokes thought and opens minds to new ideas.
Then I saw this star flower on the ground. Lately I've been finding a lot of things on the ground, and think these things are sometimes very important. This flower is in a glass by my computer to remind me of what's important. I love all the submissions this week and always look forward to seeing what you all produce, and I'm also so amazed at how confident most of you are.
This is SOOC, except for a crop and a slight alteration in white balance.
WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND - August 27:Decade photos 1990 - 1999 old boys at Scots College August 27, 2016 in Wellington, New Zealand. (Photo by Mark Tantrum/ www.scotscollege.school.nz/)