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10/19/2002 12:08:50 PM · #26

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.

10/19/2002 12:27:12 PM · #27

A few weeks sounds like a plan... maybe two weeks from today :)

Marsha

Sony DSC-F707

10/19/2002 12:50:41 PM · #28

Originally posted by Gordon:

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 :)

Well, of course...I didn't think of it that way.

* This message has been edited by the author on 10/19/2002 12:50:34 PM.

lionelm

Canon EOS-10D

10/19/2002 03:32:09 PM · #29

I am ok for 2 weeks from today :-) I need some close up lens for my s30

10/20/2002 09:29:27 PM · #30

25 shots! Anyone else noticing that that is quite a lot of unique ideas/ shots ?

I'm at 10 so far and starting to slow down.... eggs are just eggs once
you get over the texture and the oval thing :)

Need to start moving beyond the literal views and thinking what an
egg is all about I think.

10/20/2002 09:50:31 PM · #31

Gordon, you can also make your egg a part of an environment also... :)

aelith

Olympus C-3020Z

10/20/2002 09:56:15 PM · #32

two weeks is good. I think I'll continue to play with this week's entry.

jkiolbasa

Sony DSC-F707

10/21/2002 01:16:47 AM · #33

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.

Mousie

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

10/21/2002 03:51:04 AM · #34

I nominate a fork. Good subject, a lot to work with.

10/25/2002 11:49:22 AM · #35

So about one week in, how is everyone doing ?

Thoughts, complaints, ideas ?

10/25/2002 12:43:21 PM · #36

I'm gonna start shooting mine today :)

lisae

Olympus C-720UZ

10/25/2002 12:49:13 PM · #37

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.

Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

10/25/2002 01:20:58 PM · #38

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.

It's not really a challenge... more of a 'study'.

Simms

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

10/25/2002 01:42:41 PM · #39

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?? >:-)

* This message has been edited by the author on 10/25/2002 1:43:54 PM.

clicker

Canon PowerShot G2

10/26/2002 12:25:39 AM · #40

I am a new-b and look forward to learning from this adventure.
Thanks for the tip on pbase.com. I will play!

lionelm

Canon EOS-10D

10/26/2002 07:24:08 AM · #41

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

aelith

Olympus C-3020Z

10/26/2002 08:42:58 AM · #42

I made the mistake of trying to combine this week's challenge with the study. Big Mistake.

10/26/2002 09:03:16 PM · #43

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...

11/03/2002 02:02:00 PM · #44

I dind't get 25 photos done :( I sidetracked myself into some other projects....

My Hammer

11/03/2002 02:08:29 PM · #45

Originally posted by jmsetzler:
I dind't get 25 photos done :( I sidetracked myself into some other projects....

My Hammer

Well I made it as far as nine that try to look at what eggs make me
think of...

Lots of technical playing around, probably not enough creative thought :)

My Egg

Gracious

11/03/2002 02:27:26 PM · #46

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.

Gracious

11/03/2002 02:33:44 PM · #47

Originally posted by Gordon:

Well I made it as far as nine that try to look at what eggs make me
think of...

Lots of technical playing around, probably not enough creative thought :)

My Egg
[/i]

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! :-)

camelotnorth

Nikon D70

11/03/2002 04:24:14 PM · #48

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?

lionelm

Canon EOS-10D