Suggest a photography "assignment"

[Krookie]

Try to photograph 50 Obsidian Members.

 

In one shot.

[LadyCrimson]

That might make a funny YouTube "where is matt' style video. :D

[Surreptishus]

Try to photograph 50 Obsidian members being online at the same time.

[Cantousent]

I thought my ideas were pretty good.

 

I thought my idea was excellent. ...But I get no love. Only emo.

[metadigital]

But the caption was wrong. The glass was half-full.

[LadyCrimson]

Ok...here's my list:

 

Will do:

Trees

Abdanded/condemned buildings.

Street signs w/nifty background landscapes

Bottles of mineral water

Nature overcoming humanity theme

 

Possibles if I have time:

Pictures w/fingers covering part of the lens - having a hard time envisioning this tho

Cant's shotglass concept - not sure if I want to buy lots of booze/visit a bar to recreate the shot

Landfills

 

theslug's suggestions made me realize that if I do this again, I should probably ask for a theme rather than a specific subject.

[mkreku]

My "hot wine-drunk female friends" idea wasn't in the list :'(

[Walsingham]

Cops. You Americans have this really weird love/hate relationship with law enforcement. I've always noticed when travelling how variegated and changeable your cops are. One minute they're relaxed, and vulnerable, almost more vulnerable than regular citizens. The next minute they're these jackbooted nutcases. The next minute they're helping some kid cross the road.

 

Be aware tho - as I discovered when I used to be a journalist - that some government buildings cannot be photographed for legal reasons. Alwasy ask general permission unless you want your equipment confiscated.

[LadyCrimson]

Oh, ayuh...US attitude with figures of law enforcement authority could be a whole topic itself.

 

that some government buildings cannot be photographed for legal reasons. Alwasy ask general permission unless you want your equipment confiscated.

On a related note, you may be able to sneak portraits of strangers w/out them knowing - but I feel you need permission to display them publically. Crowd shots are usually different, of course, but I'd still feel odd. I'd make a lousy news-photojournalist - I'd always feel like I was invading someone's privacy and never get the winning shot.

[Cantousent]

But the caption was wrong. The glass was half-full.

 

Hey, maybe it should be: "Half empty.... or half full?"

[metadigital]

... Or "Where's the other half of my flipping drink!?"

[theslug]

Yay, I don't feel like a worthless poster anymore.

 

Now take me off of moderated posts please and I promise I'll be good this time.

 

Btw I think for your pictures you should definitely take light and the sky into account. Like the bottles of water, get a good shot of light pouring through it and like the sky and clouds and trees and mountains and stuff all in once so you can spend more time on my requests since they are largely more awesome then all the rest except for maybe that creepy guy mkreku.....

[SteveThaiBinh]

Have fun. Oh, and will we get to see the results?

 

Come back any time for themes. We can do themes.

[Cantousent]

... Or "Where's the other half of my flipping drink!?"

 

and then in the next frame I'm standing there looking guilty!

[metadigital]

Hey, you didn't say you were in frame: that's gonna cost LC a lens! "

[theslug]

Cat theme would be awesome.

[LadyCrimson]

Cat theme would be awesome.

LOL - I take so many pictures of my cats it's not even funny. Course most of them are lousy, w/only sentimental value...teehee.

 

Not specific to my topic, but I had to crow. Today I went shopping. Finally, no more crappy kit lens! YESSS! Since I like close-ups so much most of the time, I bought the Canon EF 100mm F2.8 USM Macro for my first one. It's not a L series, but it'll do...

 

Quarter sized gold US dollar, @50% original size

 

 

Cropped portion 100% original size - the bad lightning makes it look not prime but still much better, even when compressed for jpg.

 

 

So pleased....so happy...*dances*

Now just have to practice. I have the feeling computer things won't be my primary fun-money-sink anymore...

[Pop]

Be aware tho - as I discovered when I used to be a journalist - that some government buildings cannot be photographed for legal reasons. Alwasy ask general permission unless you want your equipment confiscated.

Truth. I escorted a friend of mine to our local hospital when she needed to take some pictures of their discarded equipment for her photography class. A week later I got a call from an FBI agent in Denver regarding suspicious activity, some old lady had sent them my license plate number and they followed it up. Freaked my mom the **** out. My name's in a folder somewhere in Langley, heh.

 

So yeah, be careful.

[Walsingham]

On one occasion I got this fantastic seuqence of photos of a cop coming in from right frame, raising his arm, and blocking the lense. I used the old 'P.J. O'Rourke' to get out of that one. Otherwise known as the "That looks like a really cool gun. Can you tell me about it?" manoeuvre.

[Gfted1]

Wait a darn minute, Tommies dont carry guns!!

[Cantousent]

Ouch, meta, you swine. That was a defect in the lens, not my face. Anyhow, Cats is so played out. You should try something other than animals as a theme. How about a real friendly looking guy in a business suit. he's standing next to a well dressed kid in a school uniform. The guy has his hand on the kid's shoulder and they're both smiling. The kid has a fast food bag in his/her hand. The caption underneath reads, "Do you know where your child is?"

[LadyCrimson]

I think with the explosion of digital cameras and everyone and my pet dog having a camera + computer (no film developing process/cost - just click and upload), everything is rather overdone these days. Not everyone has fantastic techincal/compositional talent or equipment, of course (I sure don't), but that matters less and less in terms of image/theme saturation.

 

As with most art forms, it's not so much whether it's been done before, but how it's done.

[Cantousent]

Of course, and I meant no slight. :D

[kirottu]

Quarter sized gold US dollar, @50% original size

 

 

Cropped portion 100% original size - the bad lightning makes it look not prime but still much better, even when compressed for jpg.

 

Nicely normal mapped.

[LadyCrimson]

Of course, and I meant no slight. :D

Oh, I wasn't feeling slighted. It's just an interesting topic to me. I've been jabbering away at my hubby about it the past week; how there's so many photos and so many amateuer photographers that it's diluting the appreciation of the artform. Not that I have any hooty-tooty attitude about it, really - people have said that about other hobbies all through history - but I think it is occuring. For me it's not so much only the results itself, but knowing how much work goes into some of them is what really makes me admire.

 

So a picture of a penny might be kind of boring, but when I know they use rigs like the one below, or even more extravagant, + all the patience required, the boring suddenly becomes really...cool, and I go "I want to do that."