View Full Version : My 5th .........52 photo Special added a bit late
plumbjob
11-01-2009, 21:50
Was hoping to capture something better :D but will have to make do with this one.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3304/3188658921_f8768aed75.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/zmichael/3188658921/)
EdinburghGary
11-01-2009, 22:26
Try harder :D Its very easy to take a snapshot for the daily photoblogs. It technically works but needs more interest.
Welcome to the forum. My comments are intended to help. Just to clarify, the day you take a "snapshot" just to fill that missing entry, is the day the whole point fails.
Gary.
SimonTALM
11-01-2009, 23:03
It is a reflection but the reflection is a bit boring. Personally I would have cropped to a panoramic of the mirror as the view out the window is quite dull.
That said the purpose of doing a 52 or a 365 is to improve so at least you have a strong base to build on.
plumbjob
12-01-2009, 06:10
I accept all the advice :'(:D, as I wasn't to keen and knew it would look better with a better reflection in the mirror, but sadly didn't get the chance to improve on it.
jeangenie
12-01-2009, 07:46
I accept all the advice :'(:D, as I wasn't to keen and knew it would look better with a better reflection in the mirror, but sadly didn't get the chance to improve on it.
This is, imho, what puts the 'challenge' into The 52 Challenge. It's the discipline of working to a brief with a deadline - and that's often not easy when there are so many other calls on your time, and so many things you can't control. So well done for coming aboard the '52'. Look forward to seeing your History shot later in the week. :)
Jean
Spartacus
12-01-2009, 10:48
This is, imho, what puts the 'challenge' into The 52 Challenge. It's the discipline of working to a brief with a deadline - and that's often not easy when there are so many other calls on your time, and so many things you can't control. So well done for coming aboard the '52'. Look forward to seeing your History shot later in the week. :)
Jean
I agree with Jean
Well said.... better to start, then not start at all...:clap:
welcome aboard...:wave:
Welcome to the 52ers:wave:. Although the view in the mirror isn't especially exciting I think it would look better cropped and straightened. I think the first week is the worst as it takes time to get your head around an idea (Well it does mine :lol:). When we get into the rythmn it should get easier (I hope!)
plumbjob
16-01-2009, 22:35
Well I don't think the 2nd week has got any easier for me, I had some ideas and took some photo's but I'm still not happy with what I am getting.
My 1st Idea was the rings in a tree. as we have a stump in the garden but I let that one go.
My next idea was a graveyard, which I attempted, even with a tripod at one stage, and I quite liked what i got but it didn't seem History to me.
So I moved on and one of my idea's had been something to do with Woolworths, well it would of been nice with a sign half hanging down, but that didn't happen so had to make do with a shot inside with empty shelve's and and woolworths sign, so that is going to be my shot for history though I did have one more idea while in ASDA with the Roll Back prices signs meaning big prices history, so anyway here is my Woolworths pic
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3333/3199175465_550c587d73.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/zmichael/3199175465/)
and if anyone was interested in my graveyard shot, it's here
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3127/3199176641_eb22637dee_t.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/zmichael/3199176641/)
jeangenie
16-01-2009, 23:14
It's funny how ideas mill round. My first idea for History was something about Wedgwoods because I used to work there, but I couldn't get beyond a boring still life. So well done on catching the history in the making, so to speak. :)
Jean
Duckydoodle
17-01-2009, 06:19
Nice idea. A little overexposed but still works. Keep going. Looking forward to your next photograph :thumbs:
BTW I think graveyards are full to the brim with history. That's an interesting shot. The sense of movement gives it a very eerie feel. This would have been a good one for this week!!
Well done, I like the subject and interpretation. A little overexposed though.
Jon
An interesting take, and a good interpretation. Not an easy shot to get right with all that glass in front of the sign. :thumbs: look forward to #3
Dark Star
17-01-2009, 09:06
History as it happens - a sad sight indeed! Good interpretation of week#2's theme :)
SimonTALM
17-01-2009, 20:51
Definately works for the theme for me, but I am slightly biased because I had the same idea, I even took the shot but didn't use it.
The image is OK but there are alot of distracting reflections in the image that slightly spoil the image for me more than the over exposure to the frontage. However, it is a good spot and well done for getting out there.
I have looked at the graveyard shot and I really like the effect of the zoom but you made the right choice as I don't think it says History either, good choice. I'm definately looking forward to what you come up with next week.
plumbjob
17-01-2009, 21:23
Thanks and it certainly gives me something to think about and you could say that I am LEARNING :eek:.
Yes the graveyard shot seemed more of a time theme to me, and I certainly didn't feel comfortable taking photo's in the graveyard, but luckily not many live people were around .
Great interpretation of the theme! I miss their pick and mixes.. As much as you can stuff and squeeze down into a cup!
"But luckily not many live people were around."
hahaha! You hope.. Just wait til that hand pops up and grabs your ankle, horror-film style! ;)
Keep it up and keep learning from the helpful comments on here :) I know I am!
Spartacus
18-01-2009, 10:42
It must be catching..I was think about this for the subject...guess we all think alike.
Yes it's a bit over exsposed but you are making the effort so you will get better.
plumbjob
18-01-2009, 11:30
Thanks for all the comments, I shall endeavor to put it all to use and hopefully improve :) and improve some more.
staffitaxi
18-01-2009, 20:37
Still hard to believe Woolworths is now relegated to History. Fits the theme well.
plumbjob
25-01-2009, 22:19
Well this has been a hard one to do because I wasn't able to put my 1st plan into action.
So this is my alternative shot..
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3112/3226902474_11234e1ab2.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/zmichael/3226902474/)
Because enteral feeding has been a learning experiance !
What have I learned this week:
1) Always have a backup plan, because no matter how well you plan it, if no subject no photo.
2) Remember when taking shot to use Dof :)
3) I need a better tripod and lighting.
My 1st plan was to have been a learner driver as the road next to us is a examination route, but as luck would have it I haven't seen one this week.
Duckydoodle
26-01-2009, 06:15
Good photo well exposed. Nice detail and colours. Set up and presented well. Creative thinking that fits the theme. The narrative that goes with it is intriguing and sets up the viewer. Are you a nurse that administers this or the patient who receives it? :thumbs:
plumbjob
26-01-2009, 06:23
Good photo well exposed. Nice detail and colours. Set up and presented well. Creative thinking that fits the theme. The narrative that goes with it is intriguing and sets up the viewer. Are you a nurse that administers this or the patient who receives it? :thumbs:
Thanks for the comments, and no not a medical person, just a parent/carer for my 6 year old son :).
I had to change image size as didn't think it was good to have to scroll to see all of image.
Duckydoodle
26-01-2009, 06:39
Thanks for the comments, and no not a medical person, just a parent/carer for my 6 year old son :).
I had to change image size as didn't think it was good to have to scroll to see all of image.
Thanks for sharing Plumbjob. Just a parent/carer :nono: You have the most important job in the world :clap:
jeangenie
26-01-2009, 07:13
Thanks for sharing Plumbjob. Just a parent/carer :nono: You have the most important job in the world :clap:
.. and a very steep learning curve to take care of his medical needs. The shot shows how incredibly complicated this must be - and fits the brief very well.
Have you noticed how many of us end up using Plan B - or C. :D
Jean
Dark Star
26-01-2009, 07:44
.. and a very steep learning curve to take care of his medical needs. The shot shows how incredibly complicated this must be - and fits the brief very well.
Have you noticed how many of us end up using Plan B - or C. :D
Jean
Couldn't agree more! A clear crisp image that speaks volumes of the task you have before you as a parent and carer. And for me a learning experience too as you made me aware of something about which I was unaware.
Thanks Michael, and well done on so many counts :thumbs:
As for plan A, B, C - I normally end up with Z!!!:)
:agree:. Nothing much I can add, well done on a good clear shot that works :thumbs:
Graulges
26-01-2009, 10:21
Me to, agree with the previous posts.
Spartacus
26-01-2009, 13:03
Well done for getting in your photo...fits the bill spot on...:thumbs:
I was looking around for ages to find your photo...Had to go to bed in the end...:lol:
As already said being just a parent/carer. :eek:
You have the most important job in the world.
So photo's comes last sometimes...but it doe's take away your thoughts and away from the normality of life for a while.:clap:
plumbjob
26-01-2009, 15:39
Thanks
spartacus and all, I thought I was going to have to leave it till monday and try for the learner car again.
Well I was going to go to the learning school as the cars didn't seem to be coming to me :D.
But really wanted to stick to the brief of getting a pic in by Sunday, so it was either the feeding pump or an old computer I have open and in bits.
Well what ever I post this week will be a surprise to me as well :thinking:
staffitaxi
27-01-2009, 13:25
Wow, that looks a very complex and nerve wracking thing to learn to do. A very personal take on this weeks theme.
Sorry, not to keen on the reflection one but the last one is very thought provoking :thumbs:
SimonTALM
27-01-2009, 20:07
From this it looks like you need to be a rocket scientist to operate that, so if you've learned to use that :clap:
I tend to find that the photo I actually use (week 1, week2 and probably week 4) is one that I din't plan and I shoot on the spur of the moment. Although it's a pitty your first idea didn't come off becasue I like that idea (I feel really stupid for not thinking of that :bang:).
Your shot here is OK, it looks very "catalogue" product shot (that's not meant to sound negative BTW :D). I think you are right you need to spend a bit of time getting to grips with lighting, espeically White Balance (it seems quite warm).
Looking forward to your Surprise image this week
plumbjob
27-01-2009, 20:46
From this it looks like you need to be a rocket scientist to operate that, so if you've learned to use that :clap:
I tend to find that the photo I actually use (week 1, week2 and probably week 4) is one that I din't plan and I shoot on the spur of the moment. Although it's a pitty your first idea didn't come off becasue I like that idea (I feel really stupid for not thinking of that :bang:).
Your shot here is OK, it looks very "catalogue" product shot (that's not meant to sound negative BTW :D). I think you are right you need to spend a bit of time getting to grips with lighting, espeically White Balance (it seems quite warm).
Looking forward to your Surprise image this week
Thanks and yes it did seem a bit warm, I mean I had never seen the table look so good :D.
Am shooting in Raw so slowly getting used to DPP , so hopefully I will get better not worse .
plumbjob
02-02-2009, 07:43
Well I finally got one for Surprise, if a little bit late.
Because we never seem to be ready for it and it surprises us everytime.
I found this week very hard to find something for the subject, and initially took a shot of our car blocked in by the gasmen, but it didn't say surprise to me.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3446/3246283557_9ab2136992_o.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/zmichael/3246283557/)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3117/3248621250_796d895b55_o.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/zmichael/3248621250/)
Is this any better or does it need a bit more ?
Spartacus
02-02-2009, 12:14
What lovely site that is....:love:
I live in Plymouth so we don't get to see much snow...:shrug:
and the bit we do get stops everything dead...:gag:
Great surprise shot..:thumbs:
plumbjob
02-02-2009, 12:23
Thanks Spartacus, I think the snow saved me as I was out of idea's that would work this week.
Hope to have a few more workable idea's this week :thinking:
SimonTALM
02-02-2009, 18:01
I bet that was a surprise this morning, not just deep, virgin, snow but deep, virgin, blue snow :naughty: Seriously though, it's a good record shot but you do need to sort out your White Balance, it is showing very blue on my calibrated monitor.
plumbjob
02-02-2009, 19:09
Yeh trying to get white balance sorted, but it could possibly be my monitors shall have to have another play with it :).
jeangenie
02-02-2009, 19:18
Hi Michael
Well, that's one person the snowy weather pleased then. :)
It's a lovely shot apart from the blue tint already mentioned. I love the snow on the (oak?) tree on the right.
You had loads more snow than us down in the New Forest. We have family living near you and they had a whale of a time in the snow today. Hope you got time to build snowman to celebrate your surprise. :)
Jean
plumbjob
02-02-2009, 19:21
Have just put a 2nd copy next to the 1st one, so have I changed it enough or does it still look blue.
Shall delete blue one when I get it right :).
plumbjob
02-02-2009, 20:19
Wasn't sure if I should leave it to later in the week, and see if I had any better idea's, but I think I will go for it .
As it opposites I won't have to tell you that this is Big and small :)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3451/3246987691_8fcc017d05_o.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/zmichael/3246987691/)
I decided to try without flash and just use natural light, and decided to use Black and white, well the boots were black anyway :).
Sometimes just go with your 1st idea ( or did my o/h come up with the idea :D ),
I took about 20 shots to get the one I liked, perhaps I should of taken more :D.
just caught up with this,
Learning is great as the others have said really shows your need to learn as a parent.
Surprise lovely snow but the cable is a little distracting
opposites is great and makes me giggle :)
plumbjob
02-02-2009, 20:34
just caught up with this,
Learning is great as the others have said really shows your need to learn as a parent.
Surprise lovely snow but the cable is a little distracting
opposites is great and makes me giggle :)
Thanks for that, and when I delve into the arts of photoshop or even Gimp, maybe I will be able to remove the wire.
Well it is my plan to learn some photo manipulation, but one step at a time :).
Or I could try to compose the shot better, and to be honest I hadn't really taken account of the overhead wires.
Graulges
03-02-2009, 05:23
Nice surprise shot - that's quite a bit of snow! The Opposites shot is very good I think B&W was the right choice as the boots are black. Did you try the small boots inside the big pair and decide it didn't work as well? I do like it.:clap:
plumbjob
03-02-2009, 07:50
Nice surprise shot - that's quite a bit of snow! The Opposites shot is very good I think B&W was the right choice as the boots are black. Did you try the small boots inside the big pair and decide it didn't work as well? I do like it.:clap:
Yes I tried the boots in every combination, and settled for that one, I also thought the black and white looked better, glad you liked it.
Dark Star
03-02-2009, 12:54
Catch up time - 2nd snow shot looks better, whiter :D Nice covering you got there :) and I think it surprised most of us who got hit :D
Love the boots! I would have been tempted to place them toe to toe (opposite each other) to add a second opposite but isn't someone else's hindsight easy :) :D
Lovely shot!
plumbjob
03-02-2009, 13:46
Catch up time - 2nd snow shot looks better, whiter :D Nice covering you got there :) and I think it surprised most of us who got hit :D
Love the boots! I would have been tempted to place them toe to toe (opposite each other) to add a second opposite but isn't someone else's hindsight easy :) :D
Lovely shot!
Cheers and thats 1 boot layout I didnt think of :D
Very Nice, as one living on the east coast who got pathetically little snow, its nice to be reminded of what it looks like.
I was tempted to take a picture today of the sun and say surprise 'no snow'.
Your boots picture is lovely and although simple its one of those pictures that will speak different things to different people. very clever :clap:
Catch up time for me too!
I love the learning shot, and the narrative gives a sense of not only the learning but the responsibility that comes from that too :clap:
The Surprise shot (the second one) really fits the bill too (and I only see snow from a great distance on the mountain tops here :D) and it would be a heck of a surprise for me if I saw it in my garden :lol:, although I agree about the distracting cable, although I hate to admit the number of times I think I've taken a good shot, got home, uploaded it and then though why didn't I see that blasted cable, signpost or whatever when I took it :shrug:
As for the Opposites shot, I love it :clap: and the B&W conversion works really well. Well done too for using natural light. :thumbs:
Spartacus
07-02-2009, 10:59
It's so weird how people think the same...I was think of the same thing, then thought of gloves, hands, and feet.
Then ended up doing something completly different.:lol:
The shoes work well and it's a shot that crys out for B&W.
Needs just a tad more contrast for me, but still nicely done Michael.:clap:
I always try to think of about 5 subjects...work through the ideas to see what works. I usually use the 3rd one for some reason (except for Surprise, I had none :thinking:)
plumbjob
07-02-2009, 13:03
Just added some contrast, but maybe a bit too much :thinking:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3436/3260466952_7972d408aa.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/zmichael/3260466952/)
jeangenie
07-02-2009, 15:24
I think I prefer the first version with lower contrast. The boots look more natural, as though they've been walked in for a few miles and are old friends. The contrasty version looks a bit more like an advert for new shoes, imo. But, it's just personal proference and I'm sure at least as many people will like the contrasty version better. :D
It's a lovely take on opposites and I can imagine you tried loads of 'poses' in the taking of it. :clap::clap:
Jean
staffitaxi
18-02-2009, 12:24
I guess the snow would have been quite a surprise, we seemed to miss out on most of it up in the NW.
Love the opposites shot, a really good idea.
plumbjob
02-03-2009, 16:05
Running very late, and still have some catching up to do.
I really wanted to do a specials board in a pub or something on those lines, but ended up going for this one.
The plastercast I made myself and the blanket was given to Geoff as something familiar to take into hospital, which isn't too often now.
I think i should of taken it earlier in the day when the sunlight would of been a bit brighter.
Not to impressed myself, especially with the amount of time I have had.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3626/3322292029_1cb1d82290.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/zmichael/3322292029/)
Graulges
02-03-2009, 18:29
Good interpretation of the theme. Would the prints stand out more with some angled lighting or a different camera angle?
plumbjob
02-03-2009, 18:40
Good interpretation of the theme. Would the prints stand out more with some angled lighting or a different camera angle?
It could definitely do with some more work .
Those sort of things are very special :)
I agree with graulges a different angle might have helped the prints stand out
jeangenie
03-03-2009, 11:18
Running very late, and still have some catching up to do.
I think i should of taken it earlier in the day when the sunlight would of been a bit brighter.
Not to impressed myself, especially with the amount of time I have had.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3626/3322292029_1cb1d82290.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/zmichael/3322292029/)
Don't be so hard on yourself. :) Life happens and sometimes other things have to wait. It's great you're still in this crazy challenge!
As for the picture - I can only agree with the suggestions already made, and share your frustration that the light was going too fast. Seems to happen to me every week - and you'd think I'd learn, but I don't :bonk:
It's a lovely take on the theme and I'm glad the trips to hospital aren't so frequent. I see Geoff's a Christmas baby - that's Special, too. :)
Jean
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