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01/12/2005 07:20:46 PM · #51 |
This is an outstanding challenge if not taken too seriously. Keep in mind that the camera is very easy to fool. You do not need to read books, simply imagine that you are the lens. Well, the effects must be in the camera. Of course there are many avenues which exist in composition, lighting, angles, interference between the subject and lens and illusions. What more can you ask for.
Not only will this present some very exciting new images, but will certainly lift the perception frontiers as to what can be achieved in the camera. There are the well tested routes but I search for a novelty and mark my words, many will appear from many members. The object is to approach it from a light hearted manner. |
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01/13/2005 01:18:18 PM · #52 |
| I am taking this challenge very VERY seriously. I came up with an Idea. I reccomend that somepeople looki into this. I came up with this idea based on an article I had read on "creating Illusions" It is possible to fool the mind with a photo. I know am trying to come up with something to shoot. Ill definatly need the whole week to think of something. |
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01/13/2005 01:28:30 PM · #53 |
| I think I may be the only person who hasn't completly understood the challenge. Someone care to enlighten? |
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01/13/2005 01:38:40 PM · #54 |
Originally posted by Ennil:
I think I may be the only person who hasn't completly understood the challenge. Someone care to enlighten? |
Take a picture. Take a picture of anything you like. Be creative.
And for all those who feel limited by the rules and all of those that say it's all been done before I say use your imagination. Take a picture of a snowflake if you care to. No two are ever the same.
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01/13/2005 03:03:46 PM · #55 |
| If you have never taken a shot while taking a dump, do it now. Simple as that. |
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01/13/2005 03:23:40 PM · #56 |
Originally posted by xion:
If you have never taken a shot while taking a dump, do it now. Simple as that. |
Like this? ;-)
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01/14/2005 06:24:56 PM · #57 |
I read over the posts in here yesterday, and then sat on my thoughts for a night.
My initial reaction to this challenge was that it was incredible. I took the interpretation of the challenge as an opportunity to play, and get voted for the most innovated play. I spend most of my free time 'playing' with my camera. Some of it works, while most of it doesn't. Playtime that doesn't work doesn't bother me, it was just play time. When it works, I feel like celebrating.
I'm a little disheartened to see so many DPC'er just flat give up on this challenge because they feel that there isn't anything innovative that CAN be done with photography. Note that this isn't that they feel they can't be innovative, but that all the tricks of light have been exhausted, and nothing can be done whatsoever. If we think that way, why bother with photography at all? I'll take my little camera and toss it out the window.
We don't think that way, and that is why most of us keep going out, camera in hand, searching for that next shot, that next glimmer of light, that next hint of something spectacular to capture.
We've all seen pictures of just about everything imaginable. I'll bet we've all taken pictures of just about everything imaginable.
Why do we have to take a picture of something imaginable.
I don't see why we have to re-invent ourselves as photographers, or the field as a whole. Perhaps we can have a glimpse of something new, then perhaps that vision can be completely fleshed out in a month, a year, a decade.... Who knows?
What am I sayingâ€Â¦don't just give up on it. For those that think that they can't possibly think of something innovative this week: please don't vote :)
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01/14/2005 06:36:23 PM · #58 |
jason, i agree with you completely. i initially was going to blow this off without attempting anything. i mean, really, it's a new year: why take a chance on setting myself up for voters to blow me away for not meeting the challenge so early in the year?
then xion suggested putting your camera on a timer and throwing it. well, i tried it, and the results were incredible. i managed to get off 6 shots before the camera bit the dust. one of the images might be submittable!
then i thought, well, that was aznym's idea; what if he wants to use it? maybe i should come up with another new idea. after thinking about it for awhile, and looking through the threads, i realize that it might be fun to see just how much hell one of these sensors can take. i mean, we've heard about what not to clean them with, but we've never seen what happens if you do any of those things. well, now i know what it looks like! what's really cool is what happens when you combine two or more of these verbotten cleaning techniques...
i would love to share this with you now, but, alas, you will have to wait until next weds am to see. that is, unless you want to try it yourself. go ahead. be creative and find out what you can really do with your camera!
Message edited by author 2005-01-14 18:37:56. |
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01/14/2005 06:57:52 PM · #59 |
Breaking Ground is EASY.... take a photo of a guy with a shovel digging, a coal miner hacking away with a pick,
ohh, not litterally 'breaking ground', sorry. |
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01/14/2005 07:02:12 PM · #60 |
Good idea Skip.
My Rebel's in the blazing fireplace right now and I'm shooting via remote. I bet those shots will be cool. Now I just have to figure out how to get the camera and CF card out without burning myself. Ouch.
This might be my last challenge for a while though. |
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01/14/2005 07:09:12 PM · #61 |
Originally posted by nshapiro:
Good idea Skip.
My Rebel's in the blazing fireplace right now and I'm shooting via remote. I bet those shots will be cool. Now I just have to figure out how to get the camera and CF card out without burning myself. Ouch.
This might be my last challenge for a while though. |
that's what i thought, too, after what happened to my lenses during the first experiment. then i thought, what the heck, why don't i see what would happen if i made my own lenses? i am on a roll. the breaking things challenge rocks! |
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01/14/2005 07:14:01 PM · #62 |
| Am I wrong in assuming that something innovative would be anything other than the usual photograph. Wouldn't non-typical angles, lighting, perspectives, macro, night shots, etc. imply innovation? To me it would seem to be anything other than your typical family photo album picture. |
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01/15/2005 02:57:25 AM · #63 |
I read an article in Popular Science that is sort of a spin-off on the aforementioned bird's eye perspective. Basically, it explains how to hook up your camera to take pictures every 5 seconds using some sort of timing device. Then you attach the camera to a kite or large balloon to get some different perspectives ( I would do this "technique" but I don't have any old digital cameras that I wouldn't mind breaking).
I tried to look for the article in Pop Sci's How2.0 but I was not able to find it.
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01/15/2005 02:44:42 PM · #64 |
Originally posted by BK1017:
you attach the camera to a kite or large balloon to get some different perspectives |
I've heard of this technique, and I think there might be a thread about it somewhere in here. Something with the San Fransisco Eatthquake and super wide shots of the devastation.
BTW: I'm not saying that I won't or can't participate. Even if I don't have something for the challenge, I have definately thought of some really interesting things to try.
I know I can't build this in the next coupole of days: I have a huge focal length telescope, like 5 feet tall for an 8inch reflector. What I'd like to do is put runners in there that, if hooked to the camera somehow, would spin the camera like a bullet as it slid down tube. I think it would make for some interesting shots, but who knows.
That's just one thought I had. The thing I love this about this challenge is that although I may not have a submitable shot by the end of the week, at least I have flexed my head to think of something new that I can produce at some point in the future!
Thanks DPC! |
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