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For this assignment, I volunteered to photograph the support staff and volunteers at my son’s elementary school for the year book. This is Brenda, the crossing guard helping two students cross the street on Halloween. Over the next month or so I have 30 more to do.
Strobist info:
SB800 camera left, at full power, iso=200, f10, 1/180
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 - Stella Marni, by Edward S. Aarons
Gold Medal 906, 1959 reprint
Cover art by Robert Abbett
#4 in the Sam Durell "Assignment" series
The main photo I used for this assignment was the picture of my closet. I manipulated it by putting the map, arrows, stars background and text to show why I thought this could be used to represent globalization. Although it seems like a fairly standard and inconsequential photo of the contents of my closet, the idea that all these clothes came from all around the world show how globalization is part of our everyday lives. The fact that such an ordinary photo can represent globalization shows how permeated it is in our lives - even just in our own homes. Almost everything we own comes from a different country; looking into any room we could probably make an image similar to this tracing all the objects in it back to where it was originally made and see that it is actually from thousands of miles away.
original images: wakpaper.com/large/Political_wallpapers_159.gif (map), dhs.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/whole_network... (background)
The setup on this shot is as follows:
A single flash, to camera right from a distance of about 15 inches from the egg separator. Shot through a "gel" (Ok not really a gel, but a bottle of Dawn dish detergent about 1 inch off the flash face) on each side of the utensil, and just over are sheets of white copy paper (so, three in all) to catch the white light that escaped around the "gel" and reflect back on the separator.
I tried to give the illusion of a multi-light setup using a single flash.
Assignment: PCA03 - Isolated Subject
Deadline: October 1st, 2007
Mission:
Show us an isolated subject. Razor sharp focus on the subject, and completely blurred to annihilation backgrounds. This can be accomplished by using a wide aperture and having a distant background. If using a less sophisticated camera, try using the portrait mode or macro mode. If you cannot get the background out of focus, then choose a featureless background.
I took a lot of pictures for this assignment and I think I liked the ones of this fence the least, but it is the only one where one subject is in razor sharp focus. All my others ones suffer from soft or blurry edges on the main subject. I did some post-processing work on this photo: cropping and trying to dodge out the bright white spot in the middle of the photo. It sort of worked. I still think it is too bright in comparison to the rest of the background, but any darker and it started to look strange.
Strobist Lighting102 Assignment: Cooking. With a silver 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.
Assignment - Sulu Sea, by Edward S. Aarons
Gold Medal d1654, 1966 reprint
Cover art uncredited
#20 in the Sam Durell "Assignment" series
Assignment trial shot for Light 102 Umbrella Specular.
I was surprised at the difficulty in the set up. Small changes made a big difference when I was trying to get a halo on old St Nick. This is a 30 inch Santa with a hand carved wood face.
Single white shoot thru umbrella with two SB800's paired into it. Camera D70 with 17-55 lens. CLS used to fire speedlights set on manual 1/8 power. Camera at 1/60 f5.6. White wall about 5 feet to camera left gave slight fill with the shadows.
Assignment 52 -- Painting with light
Here are Hemingway characters, in a cafe, preparing their drinks: "...the young man poured the water in a very thin stream and the girl watched the absinthe cloud opalescently. It felt warm as her fingers held the glass and then as it lost the yellow cast and began to look milky it cooled sharply and the young man let the water fall in a drop at a time."
(This was taken with two small stationary flashlights pointed at the glass, one on each side, & another flashlight briefly moving along the absinthe spoon handle, then briefly on the stream of water, during the 10 second exposure.)
This is my boy Alex and his wife Tara, happily married for eight years. Tara is from Florida but they live in Wales now with their fur baby Chloe, the crazy chocolate lab!
This low light assignment has been driving me bananas... In Wales most of our winter is low light so it is something I really need to learn to do much better.
(Alex is a photoshop fiend so this sooc will freak him out, hehe sorry Alex)
~ CC is most welcome
Practice Day #11: This is my final week in PPSOP, and these are pictures that I submitted as my final assignment. Found these alphabet jellies in the market one day. Wasn't sure what to do with it, but I just thought it was interesting. And then I came up with the idea of lining them up in a tall glass (a quite tricky job!), together with ordinary white jelly balls.
Taken for Active Assignment Weekly: April 27-May 4, 2015 - Eat your veggies!
I liked the shape of this tomato and then I just saw this week assignment, so it was easy to choose! Just selecting some light angle and a blurred clear background
Amid the morning sun, a bumblebee hovers over a vibrant flower. Drawn to the bloom's nectar, it pauses at the edge of delicate petals—a boundary, visible yet inviting. The flower, open and ready, offers sweetness to the bee, yet remains firmly rooted in place, respecting its own boundaries by standing still, waiting. The bee dips closer, knowing its role in the exchange, careful not to take too much, to disrupt the gentle petals. Each understands an unspoken limit, a balanced dance between need and offering. In this moment, boundaries become bridges, creating harmony between giver and receiver.
Vincent Sy races around the track during a live version of Mario Kart with trikes put on by Recreational Sports on Monday, January 30, 2023 in Chico, Calif.
(Matt Bates/University Photographer/Chico State)
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/)
Sabrina Lozano races around the track during a live version of Mario Kart with trikes put on by Recreational Sports on Monday, January 30, 2023 in Chico, Calif.
(Matt Bates/University Photographer/Chico State)
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.
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/)
Assignment 52 -- On the Street Where You Live
This man's decorative style has kept me entertained for years:
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www.flickr.com/photos/58525789@N06/5378614594/
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).
Gracie Harada smiles after participating in a live version of Mario Kart with trikes put on by Recreational Sports on Monday, January 30, 2023 in Chico, Calif.
(Matt Bates/University Photographer/Chico State)
Done for Photography Critique Assignments. Subject: Low Key
What it Took: I have usually preferred full tonal pictures and have never before attempted a low key photo (on purpose) . So I view some of the examples and the tutorials and went to work
A single light source. Why not my computer which my wife claims sees my face more than she does And if the computer why not "Photography Critique Assignments"?
I set the tripod very close to me and used a wide angle lens. The lens was not more than 18 inches from the back of my head. I turned of the lights in the room. I set the camera on Aperture priority and the EV compensation to -1.0.
I used a tripod and the self-timer. I had used this self-timer so infrequently in the past that it took me a dozen tries to get it figured out.
On the computer I removed some extraneous light coming in from the left of the computer and adjusted the curves. The computer screen still looked to bright so I isolated in and adjusted the levels selectively. I had to also add some brightness and contrast to my head.
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
Assignment Manchurian Doll, by Edward S. Aarons
Gold Medal T2301, undated reprint
Cover art uncredited
#17 in the Sam Durell "Assignment" series