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I've now moved on from DPS assignments(more's the pity) You can follow my blog as I explore New Zealand here-
Believe me, this was way harder to achieve than it looks. I had to do two trips to the beach as I just could not get the angles right on the first day. The angles of the vertical lines changed depending on how far the camera was from the box, what the POV angle was and how wide I had my lens, and not being able to clearly see my screen on my camera didn't help either. I had to enlist Mr FKG to help me draw it today, it took over an hour to get it right(and it could have still done with some tweaking) but we were running out of light.
"Best of the Year 2012"- Sand Box
This was orignally submitted for the Forced Perspective assignment. I chose this shot for my "Best of Year" mainly because of the planning and the time & effort that went into creating it which included two visits to the beach (as I just couldn't get the angles right the first time). While it might look simple enough it was a tough challenge to draw, I had to draw around 10 large "boxes" before I finally got the right perspective.
A pretty complicated setup for a relatively plain shot. This week's submission for the next 102 assignment, the concept being 'going green'. Seeing as we are going through a phase of 'grow your own' at home, I thought that a shot symbolising this would be in order. However, I didn't bank on the unfeasibly good weather that we have for the last two days. This is great for the suntan and the bbq skills, but less so for the strobist fun, as it's far too bright to take any outdoor shots during the day.
By the time the evening comes bringing more appealing light, I've generally had a glass or two of vino (especially as there was a certain sports game this afternoon that shall not be mentioned); and I can't get my head around the finer points of subtle lighting after booze.
Strobist: SB28 in snoot rear and camera right, providing the hard directional light on the right hand side of the 'hill'. A silver 'tin foil' reflector slightly above the camera angled down to provide the main fill on the shot. Two tricky bits:
i) I had to gobo the bare light with a) my laptop (makes a good flag) and b) a bit of gaffer tape stuck to my laptop, in order to prevent nuking the stem and leaf.
ii) it was tricky to get the reflected light to hit 'just' where I wanted it, so I stuck a torch (flashlight) on top of the strobe to get an idea of what the light was doing.
Assignment 52: Represent your own brand of holiday madness during this busy & festive season.
So here is Po, no more pleased to be posing with Christmas tree lights than she was the first time around, despite the caption I chose for the cards. Call it irony if you wish -- can't every holiday use some? Po actually is quite a joyful dog, & always well-rewarded for posing! (And I'm joyful that I managed to get cards printed this year! Now to start mailing---)
assignments almost done, ahead of target, longing to get back to the forest, missing these guys and missing you guys and your pictures
Assignment 52 - My own favorite shots from 2013
My sense of wonder & amazement at the star trails fits well with how I feel about this place, the house we built in the mountains as a "second home." I had to work so hard to get this shot, & it taught me so much -- about shutter speed & long exposures, & manual settings, & remote shutter releases, & how to get over tripod-phobia & develop a facility for using one in the dark on a steep, uneven surface--- etc. Lots of experimenting & re-takes & perseverance required, & climbing up & down the slope in the dark, hoping to
avoid both cactus & bears, & with 30 min. exposures, the number of chances in any given night is limited. Plus it's a narrow window -- a few days near the new moon, for the best opportunities, & in the end, I also needed some luck for a night with no cloud cover. It was Ann (ND Wind Twins) who gave me the idea to take this on, though she ran out of time & cloudless nights to do it herself. Maybe she will yet -- I'd like to do some more myself---
Here's a link to some of my more successful experiments, before I got this one:
Assignment 52 -- October Colors
The leaves around here have been very slow to turn this fall, & all the leaves in my own trees are still green. I found quite a lot of color at the Arboretum, though. So much that I had a hard time choosing for the assignment. Here's the link to others:
Assignment: Murder, by Donald Hamilton
Dell First Edition A123, 1956
Cover art by Victor Kalin
Later printings by Gold Medal were retitled Assassins Have Starry Eyes
Submission for Active Assignment Weekly: Nov 30 - Dec 7 "Tension"
I see two forms of "Tension" here: 1) the tension between seasons, and 2) the natural tension of the plant covering itself so tightly. I did some post processing to remove distractions and get closer to the "tense" part of the flower.
Active Assignment Weekly: All about Ernst Haas
This photo is about colour and slow shutter speed, blurring the movement of this dog playing in the Lake Ontario shallows. I usually use very fast shutter speeds, so this was a change for me and I think I got some nice captures that look different to what I normally take.
WIT: I have cropped the image and I brightened the image a bit.
Week 31, Assignment 2 for Take A Class With Dave And Dave.
Industry. Cybergabi had this wonderful idea. I leave it to you how you want to show us industry, I'm hoping for the comically creative to the sublime.
Make of it what you will. Just one interpretation of the tobacco industry.
Lydie's assignment 29. Movie poster. Rather plain, not as cool as I pictured it. May redo the whole thing with a new concept if I find the time. Then again, I always say that.
And yes. Again, just some simple simple frankensteining, then the mask and some shading. I'm a horrible slacker...
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:
Assignment Nuclear Nude, by Edward S. Aarons
Fawcett Gold Medal R2000, 1968 PBO
Cover art by Robert McGinnis
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.
#27 in the Sam Durell "Assignment" series
Assignment at the moment is to capture some Sudbury landmarks decided to capture some night life with slow shutter speed light trails and ghosting figures I made a video featuring Ben using the images youtu.be/NGH-O7S6tAI
The tissue box and the pencil box were the first assignment...a ball point pen the same color as the items. Then we were told to fill the page with other blue items, and another assignment was to write a letter to a friend, and to save a piece of paper and treat it as something special as it would be to people in a land where things were not so plentiful....so I put all of them in one, and still drew all day!! ha!
Active Assignment Weekly: Minimalism/K.I.S.S
This is my second and final photo submission for this assignment, but my fourth attempt at high speed water drop photography. I think this is my best so far! I think that the negative space and the singular subject qualifies it as "Minimalist".
What it took: WELL, the setup is a ziploc bag of water clipped onto my background stand, dripping down onto a piece of glass which is on top of a pan to catch the water. I have a blue piece of paper behind that, and my external flash is pointed toward the background paper. The flash is set on 1/64 power, and the camera is set at shutter speed 1/200 and f/13.
Active Assignment Weekly: Movement and Motion
WIT
I went to the beach tonight with my tripod and took numerous photos of people in motion. I liked this one the best. Black and white conversion with blue filter.
"into the light"
baby girl Lyra, 10 mos old
Depth of Field/Focus Assignment
I'm playing catch up on flickr tonight so I hope this works for the dof assignment for Studio 26, it's been a crazy 2 weeks and I sincerely apologize for not participating in the discussions this assignment.
ƒ/2.8 145.0mm 1/125 ISO 400
Title: Assignment Helene.
Author: Edward S. Aarons.
Publisher: Gold Medal Books.
Date: 1963.
Artist: Barye Phillips.
Active Assignment Weekly: April 15-22, 2024, Simplicity. To me, simplicity means no distractions. I decided to use two of the many different techniques available to achieve this - fill the frame ("After the Rain") and negative space ("Beach Time"). Both photos were taken at Point Pelee National Park, Ontario. You'll be seeing a lot of pictures from this park, as I am here for two months (it is a bird migration hotspot).