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09/27/2010 10:07:37 PM · #26 |
Originally posted by Yo_Spiff:
Originally posted by LydiaToo:
Try something new for YOU, folks. Even if it's "overdone and boring" here on DPC. |
I'm already seeking a source of frogs. |
Frog eggs : )
And, redneck water drop shots.
 
Not macro though, so DNMC.
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09/27/2010 10:16:37 PM · #27 |
Originally posted by FocusPoint:
Still waiting for the extension tubes! |
However, I do have a reverse ring and 50mm. I just used it with my 28-105 lens and these are the results...
This is a regular bic pen. Cropped.
...and this is the original. Notice the vignette?
Message edited by author 2010-09-28 01:14:03. |
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09/27/2010 10:26:52 PM · #28 |
and a regular #2 pencil, not sharpened...
(not cropped, as it looks in viewfinder) |
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09/27/2010 10:33:54 PM · #29 |
And this is a quarter dollar... aka 25 cents.
As you noticed, my macro shots with reverse ring did not include any drops, bugs or bubbles... I could, but I didn't :) |
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09/27/2010 11:01:33 PM · #30 |
Regular size staplers |
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09/27/2010 11:28:52 PM · #31 |
Rusty shoehorn
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09/27/2010 11:55:30 PM · #32 |
Originally posted by vawendy:
Originally posted by louinsd:
Last week the local dslr club posted on their site the best place to take a picture of the full moon rising over downtown. I went out to the site and took my picture with 50 other people. While there I asked myself why I was there...
My picture wasn't going to be original.
My camera wasn't the best or the worst there...
I didn't have the best or the worst technical skills of the group.
My picture was destined to be 1 out of 1000 mediocre pictures taken that night (the weather wasn't really good for the shot anyway).
If I were to do a wine glass or bug shot, I would ask myself the same questions. Unless I could come up with a way to be different / interesting, then I would prefer to not bother. |
How many of the shots you take are different? If you look through 92% of the people's portfolios on this site, you will see things that have been done before. They may not be different, but to them, and perhaps to others, they are interesting. To use Irene's stuff as an example (I hope you don't mind, Irene!) Each of the shots are unique in their own way, and each are incredibly beautiful. Roz's bugs are truly amazing. If you try bug photography, you realize just how difficult it is to get an effective shot with such a limited DOF. She is truly spectacular in her craft.
The other mediocre, unoriginal water drops/bug images are people trying to find their own way. You have to master the concept before you start getting original. I see absolutely no problem with them dipping their feet into the water. Will they score well? Not usually, because we're used to seeing the best. |
Well, hopefully you guys don't think I'm a primadonna (though I don't blame you if you do).
One of the best shots that I ever took was from the tunnel view parking lot in Yosemite National Park. I couldn't even guestimate the thousands of pictures that were taken within 5 feet of where I snapped that picture. Mine had interesting light and clouds. I also took many pictures in that park that were pretty boring as I was experimenting with framing, lighting and the use of the camera.
I guess when I see the wine glasses on here(I should call them whine glasses since I am whining about them) I often times think ohhh gawd, not another whine glass pic. I have been know to give a wine glass pic a 10 just because the person did something cool that I hadn't seen before.
There are things that I could learn from doing a wine glass pic, or a bug pic... I've never set up a back drop, I've never done indoor lighting. I'm more of an opertunist, going out looking for scenes that can be captured. For the life of me though, I don't think I could ever get excited about doing a wineglass or water drop pic.
All the same, I have set my cammera to bulb and run around my back yard lighting trees and flowers with a flash. I suppose it would have been fun to share that with you guys, but there just wasn't a challenge that presented an oppertunity for me to do so... Maybe I'm just jealous because you can set up a wine glass shot for nearly any challenge. The style that I am attracted to the most (low light, long exposure) just doesn't translate well.
Message edited by author 2010-09-28 00:01:11. |
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09/28/2010 12:40:39 AM · #33 |
I don't hate pictures of water drops or macros or glasses. And I entirely accept that I do not have the talent or technical skill to take such an image to a suitably high standard for it to be worth entering.
But I have never encountered anyone on the site saying they hate either the subject matter or the photos or the photographers involved. I don't want to try to knock them off their perches because I don't aspire to mastery of the skills required. Which is not to say that they are in any way bad pictures, they are just not the kind of pictures I would like to take, even if that means I will never win a challenge.
Quite often I find these kind of shots derivative and unengaging. I often find pictures taken with far less technical sophistication which I find gripping and moving. These are qualities I admire in pictures. But sometimes there will be a twist on the glasses, drops, macro theme which I find exciting.
This macro is terrifying, morbid, grimly fascinating, disgusting and wonderful.
 and likewise  .
From among the people named in the thread I would like to suggest that this picture -
 by IreneM
is remeniscent of a church made or perhaps an arch made of whale jaws - its is remarkable and wonderful and rather moving.
So I don't really care who wins ribbons (and I have started commenting a lot instead of worrying about scores) - but I think that over the last few months and especially lately there have been an increasing number of people entering challenges who have been prepared to try something out of the ordinary now and again, and some of these pictures have done quite well and I think dpc is a better place for the variety this has engendered.
Message edited by author 2010-09-28 09:05:24. |
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09/28/2010 09:20:19 AM · #34 |
To me, it's all about the challenge......to challenge yourself to do something you've never done before, to challenge yourself to learn, take a better shot than you did the last time.
Yeah, I compete with the others in every challenge I enter, but after that week's done, whether I'm first or last, what I take away from the effort in the form of knowledge and experience makes me just that little bit better than I was before the challenge, even if it meant that I learned six things NOT to do. It's through the time that I've spent here, learning and growing that I found out what it is that I do best, and about developing that to its fullest. I get such a charge out of seeing a challenge description pop up where I feel that I'm a contender........and that's only eclipsed by seeing someone mention my name in a forum saying something about me being a shoe-in for a good score. I would never have figured out what types of photography I am good at, or at least so quickly, without the benefit of this site.
Isn't that why we're here?
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09/28/2010 09:42:22 AM · #35 |
| I plan to keep shooting bugs, because that is what I like. I didn't realize how beautiful they could be until I started doing macro. I also love the water drops, but I can't seem to get good pictures of them. I am glad there are some out there who don't like them because at least we get variety. |
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09/28/2010 11:29:40 AM · #36 |
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09/28/2010 11:35:03 AM · #37 |
Originally posted by FocusPoint:
And this is a quarter dollar... aka 25 cents.
As you noticed, my macro shots with reverse ring did not include any drops, bugs or bubbles... I could, but I didn't :) |
I would love to see you try and get a good water drop shot with a reverse ring. |
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