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Menu assignment--1 element from 3 columns
A--Green
B--Odd
C--Natural window light
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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.
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!ā
ā 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
My final entries for #DEDPXL01 lines assignment.
Below my building there are storage boxes and lots of pipes. Last door is to the building main water pipes. For me it looks better without the human element.
Natural light from left, mixed with indoor light spots in the main hallway. Telephoto to compress pillars shades.
Already posted this but now with some straightening.
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.
WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND - August 27: Past staff morning tea at Scots College August 27, 2016 in Wellington, New Zealand. (Photo by Mark Tantrum/ www.scotscollege.school.nz/)
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
For this series of images, I was with my friends working on a car. The first image shows my point of view, or a "straight-on" POV. The image in the middle shows a bug's POV because it was taken low to the ground, and shows a pile of bolts. The last image shows a bird's POV.
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.
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: Take a photograph capturing "preparation"
Restrictions: Must include a person or persons (may be just a hand or other small part)
Dare: Use either low key or high key to bump up the mood
This is a photo of my husband spicing up our ribs for dinner. He watched a show on using spices and learned that Allspice was good on meats. Converted to b/w in LR and added clarity, contrast and grain
Assignment Karachi, by Edward S. Aarons
Gold Medal R2331, undated reprint
Cover art uncredited
#16 in the Sam Durell "Assignment" series
Assignment - Angelina, by Edward S. Aarons
Gold Medal 749, 1958 PBO
Cover art by Gerry Powell
#6 in the Sam Durell "Assignment" series
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.
Class assignment - egg. The color contrast of the orange wall and colors in the placemat made the white stand out
Assignment for "Using the MacIntosh in the Entertainment Industry." Done on a Mac with iMovie. Full upload failed. There This is approximately 5 minutes long.
Assignment Lili Lamaris, by Edward S. Aarons
Fawcett Gold Medal R2209, undated reprint
Cover art by BaryƩ 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
Sorry about the poor quality, it's a screenshot from a webcam. This is from one of my university assignments dealing with augmented reality. The program we are using tracks markers and places an object on them in 3D space, so in reality we can't see those objects on the markers, but they are displayed on the screen exactly how it is presented in this photo. These objects are part of a demo, we didn't make them ourselves.
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.
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.