Originally posted by Marsha: Should we maybe have a set time that we all show our work instead of being able to look at other's photos as we are still making ours? That way our creativity and originality stays pure and unique and we are not unconsiously influenced by another's work until we have finished exploring all of our own possiblities for the 25 shots.
Well, if people are going to post to pbase, there is nothing to say you have to go and look at them until you are finished :)
I'd think a couple of weeks would be a good time frame to do this over though.
Setz, I'm very intrigued in this little side challenge you thought up. I might check out that book too, if the local bookstore has it. Count me in, I think I'll do an onion.
I tried photos of a coffee cup, but my camera just can't focus on an object close up unless it's well centred and fills most of the frame. The minute I tried to frame just the handle or the rim, etc. it would focus on the background :(. I guess I could take a few photos of a coffee cup just from different angles in such a way that it could focus on it, and then crop them and play with them, but that would reduce the image quality.
Maybe I need a magnifying glass as Heather has suggested so many times.
Originally posted by jkiolbasa: Setz, I'm very intrigued in this little side challenge you thought up. I might check out that book too, if the local bookstore has it. Count me in, I think I'll do an onion.
Originally posted by Gordon: Originally posted by Jak: [i]Great idea!
I'd suggest that we do this, but entirely not in the context of the challenge. Lets pick an item and explore it, come up with interesting ways to see it and its form and share and talk about them, but not competatively.
An egg would be good! [/i]
Far too many egg photos on here these days :-)
Lisae - how about an egg plant?? >:-)
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I am not doing very good .. I did not want to pick something so ... I started to shot eggs and hammer ... but .. well .... I am not sure the shots I have are great ! ... I will continue this WE. Others .. how are you doing ? Lionel
Originally posted by lisae: I tried photos of a coffee cup, but my camera just can't focus on an object close up unless it's well centred and fills most of the frame. The minute I tried to frame just the handle or the rim, etc. it would focus on the background :(. I guess I could take a few photos of a coffee cup just from different angles in such a way that it could focus on it, and then crop them and play with them, but that would reduce the image quality.
Maybe I need a magnifying glass as Heather has suggested so many times.
Does your camera allow you to focus then re-frame ? Usually if you half press the shutter to lock focus/ exposure, you can then move the camera and press all the way down to take the shot...
Originally posted by jmsetzler: [i]I dind't get 25 photos done :( I sidetracked myself into some other projects....
John, I like the ones that show motion. If someone, an alien perhaps, were to study your images, the static ones wouldn't tell the story, yet the others that show movement would begin to define the purpose of such a tool. I'd like to see one or two or more pictures of the hammer actually performing it's tasks. That would round out the pictoral essay.
Gordon, This certainly shows some creative thought though. My favorite is Sunrise. I like it very much. Obviously some thought went into that and it is well executed. Contemporary Nest is wonderfully composed, with nice rounded shapes and a strong angle, and is well illuminated. All show your subject off in various ways. I bet you could come up with more! :-)
Originally posted by Jak: John, are you suggesting an "at home" challenge -- take 25 different pics, experimenting, but don't upload all 25 to the site. Yes?
How about a white drape on which you place a white saucer with a white egg on it?
I realy had planed to add to these but I got a very nasty intestinal flu or food poisoning. Only just now beginning to feel creative again.
Guys, I got to say, looking at what you did with this study and what I did I'm feeling a little down. Even the plainesst looks alike a finished job. Mine are just studies. Help me figure out what is the difference. Besides confining myself to one light source
