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05/24/2005 11:10:23 AM · #26 |
| oh no, this thread has gotten me scared now. I was about to go to sleep and forget all about this challenge. What to do now? Do I enter a photo that might appease some people or do I just leave the one I have in now that I think is much better?? hmmmm. |
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05/24/2005 11:14:03 AM · #27 |
You can only appeal to you otherwise there's NO you in the image, and might as well have been taken by someone else;)
Message edited by author 2005-05-24 11:15:32.
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05/24/2005 11:40:48 AM · #28 |
This thread has had an adverse effect on most of us. Our doubts have fragmented into granular entities and now they are splitting from the center into the outer realm and our very ideas simply decompose and like pickled grains they cascade down. They hit the ground and splinter again and again.
Now we doubt if the sand soup we put on our face will find voters looking for the granules. Those who sought no adventure and wound up with salt or pepper all over their floors and in their pockets look now at the results and are considering a retake. Those that went with the other esoteric granules are now wondering if they are indeed particles.
What to do....what we always do. Enter whatever and let fate decide. |
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05/24/2005 11:58:14 AM · #29 |
Originally posted by graphicfunk:
This thread has had an adverse effect on most of us. Our doubts have fragmented into granular entities and now they are splitting from the center into the outer realm and our very ideas simply decompose and like pickled grains they cascade down. They hit the ground and splinter again and again.
Now we doubt if the sand soup we put on our face will find voters looking for the granules. Those who sought no adventure and wound up with salt or pepper all over their floors and in their pockets look now at the results and are considering a retake. Those that went with the other esoteric granules are now wondering if they are indeed particles.
What to do....what we always do. Enter whatever and let fate decide. |
What a wonderful piece of prose;)
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05/24/2005 12:15:09 PM · #30 |
Originally posted by Pedxer:
Main reasons this challenge is argued against.
3)People that don't live near beaches will panic and run to their salt shakers, after a moment of contemplation, the notion will dawn on them that there are another 100 people just like them who don't have sand, and rush into the comforting arms of their salt and/or pepper shaker.
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That'd be me! I tried to come up with a little bit unique idea, was a bit rough though (that stuff just doesn't stay where you want it)...anyone got a broom??? Anyway, I don't expect to do well at all, but at least I tried. Maybe some great inspiration will hit me today and I can hit the "replace" button.
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05/24/2005 12:28:04 PM · #31 |
What to do....what we always do. Enter whatever and let fate decide.
...or sit and do nothing as the grains of time pass by...
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05/24/2005 12:29:29 PM · #32 |
During this challenge I broke a wine glass, stubbed and bruised my toe and broke the glass shelf in the fridge...Does photography qualify as a dangerous sport?
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05/24/2005 12:34:23 PM · #33 |
*yikes*
The Saj apologies profusely to amber for having conceived such a 'dangerous' challenge.
Join us next week to see what else breaks and who else is injured or even DIES...here on "Fear Photography"
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05/24/2005 12:40:05 PM · #34 |
Amber accepts The Saj's apology;)
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05/24/2005 02:31:11 PM · #35 |
The Bear kicks theSaj in the nutz, which he deserves...
R.
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05/24/2005 03:15:58 PM · #36 |
*searches for the thread about legal advice*
"I know one of the members here is supposed to be a lawyer....I wonder if he can tell me my rights and if I can sue bear_music for his virtual physical attack...."
:P
This challenge causing that much difficulty for you bear?
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05/24/2005 03:19:31 PM · #37 |
Do you think a close up of pollen would work? Its for the most part powder-like? Or should I go a different direction. I am kind of at a loss with this. I don't want it to be a shot of a pile of dirt, or sugar..
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05/24/2005 03:23:19 PM · #38 |
I think the pollen would qualify...but there may be a fair number of such shots...but I think good ones will score decently.
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05/24/2005 04:42:20 PM · #39 |
I have been driven absolutely up the wall trying to come up with something. The only thing I really accomplished so far today, besides 75 images of absolute rubble, literally, was a good cleaning of my camera. Why? Because I didn't think you all would count sensor dust and lens dust as granular. 4 HOURS of back and forth back and forth lens and sensor lens and sensor. I finally figured out that that stupid dust blow thingy was FULL of dust! If I never look at another piece of granular anything I will be happy.
okay. Vent over. Now back to grains or granular or whatever the heck it is.
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05/24/2005 04:45:21 PM · #40 |
| You just KNOW somebody's going to enter a shot of blank sky to show their sensor dust. ;-) |
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05/24/2005 04:46:29 PM · #41 |
i am curious if we're get any photographs of microscopy
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05/24/2005 05:14:22 PM · #42 |
I´m predicting another win for the sand dunes.
There's an idea. Build a mock miniture sand dune and shoot it from a perspective that it looks real. Probably already done. Oh well .... |
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05/24/2005 05:19:54 PM · #43 |
Originally posted by RonBeam:
I´m predicting another win for the sand dunes.
There's an idea. Build a mock miniture sand dune and shoot it from a perspective that it looks real. Probably already done. Oh well .... |
I agree, sand dunes seem an obvious choice, but if you take a landscape picture of the entire dune, it will not show individual grains of sand, and I don't think "implied grains" will do too well.
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05/24/2005 05:23:11 PM · #44 |
| frankly, i think we're going to some really interesting shots though....some people have really pushed to get concepts they feel are original. So I am TOTALLY curious.... |
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05/24/2005 05:26:51 PM · #45 |
| Granular covers a lot more then just dust, sand and powders. You have grains of rice, wheat, anything of that nature. I'm sure everyone has more choices then they think. |
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05/24/2005 05:27:54 PM · #46 |
I knew exactly what i wanted to do for this challenge. it was very simple to execute and the results turned out like i expected (which doesn't happen too often.) I hope it does well...but who knows. I think it will be quite different to what other have done. I know this by reading people's posts.
Anyway my sympathies for all those who have had difficulties....but I'm happy with my entry (says I ducking the daggers and barbs being thrown at me as we speak!) |
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05/24/2005 05:51:05 PM · #47 |
Originally posted by RonBeam:
I´m predicting another win for the sand dunes.
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Good thing for that statement my White Sands national park photos pre-date the competition. :D |
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05/24/2005 05:57:50 PM · #48 |
Originally posted by theSaj:
*searches for the thread about legal advice*
"I know one of the members here is supposed to be a lawyer....I wonder if he can tell me my rights and if I can sue bear_music for his virtual physical attack...."
:P
This challenge causing that much difficulty for you bear? |
No difficulty at all. I got what I wanted on the first shoot. It's not wildly original but it's a nice shot. And, let's face it, I'm not a wildly original photographer.
Now about you? Happy? Not happy? Ecstatic? Pick one. This is a game that's never done.
Robt.
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05/24/2005 06:10:28 PM · #49 |
Happy...but not ecstatic (I still see things I wish I had been able to improve on). I think I have what might achieve my best score to date. I really want that 6.0 barrier broken. And I admit, if this entry bombs out it's going to be a very very very hard pill for me to swallow.
Goodness, I spent two hours setting it up then an hour of shooting. Plus another hour or two re-posing and re-shooting. Followed finally by one more evening spending 2-3 hours re-posing and re-shooting. So if I "brown ribbon" on this one like I did with my rubber ducky (the shot I put the most time and effort into so far prior to this one) - I'll simply cry and fume. BradP will have to come over and give me wise words of counsel and encouragement again.
*lol*
So here's to hoping..... |
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05/24/2005 07:53:17 PM · #50 |
Well hello to you all, I'm fresh and new to the challenges and my luck to pick the seemingly hardest one to start with. LOL
Being just a Dutchie, I looked up 'granular' in my dictionary and it gave me various explanations and I thought, well, a lot of other things, besides powder, sugar, or flour could answer that description. I went out into the garden and found probably the most wrongly granulated thing, reading this thread, but to me it fitted the challenge at the time.
So don't slap me too hard if it turns out that I choosed the wrong granulated thingy. You may say 'stupid Dutchie' and I might say ' thank you, you're so right'.
Ok, threw in my two dimes and I think I'd better hit the sack, because it's 1,52 am already overhere.
Nice to've met you all.
Titia
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