Photo Assignment for 05 May 2006 - Moving Water
 

Well after much discussion over the past 2 days here is your first photo assignment, should you choose to accept it.

Moving Water

As mentioned by me in my initial post as an example, and then seconded by Mal.

Since this is the first assignment here are the basic guidelines of how this excersize is (hopefuly) going to work.

Pictures
**How you interpret the theme is entirely up to you.
**Pics should be taken during the assignment period not just yanked out of your portfolio.
**Pics should be 800*600 pixels My Windows XP photoresizer tutorial: http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showpos...1&postcount=11
**We're looking for natural images. Some post processing is ok (colour correction, redeye reduction, contrast etc), but no gross manipulation, on occasion we will have an assignment that calls for differing kinds of manipulation. However, for the most part, think "natural."
**Give your photo a title, it just sounds cooler that way.
**Please post your photo before 8pm on Thursday May 11th. (GMT-5)
**Remember the basic rules of Tilted Photography and the TFP: http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthread.php?t=46601

Comments
**Comments have to (and this part is critical) have substance. -----That is to say; "That foto r0xxor!!," just ain't gonna cut it.
Think more along the lines of:
-----That photo would be better if....
-----That subject's eyes would be better lit if you did....
**Comments should have a constructive edge to them, we're trying to improve here not just stroke each other's egos (but do be nice).
**Please comment on as many photos as you can, prefereably every one. No one likes to feel left out.
**After making your comment please make suggestions for next week's assignment. I will take all the suggestions and select one randomly and/or at the suggestion of the community.

**My overiding vision for this game/exersize/whetever, is to improve our skills as photographers. Regardless of your skill or ability we want everyone to contribute.**
**This is an experiement, the processes and guidelines are up for debate**

Have Fun! and PM me if you have questions, suggestions, concerns or salad dressing.

woohoo! first to finish... i always wanted to be the smart kid in the class... ;)

it's been raining the past few days so i snuck into an old abandoned hotel that's being renovated and spent a good couple hours trying to shoot water drops. took me a while to get the hang of it and even then these 3 shots are of a set of at least 100 misses.
can't think of any good titles, maybe i'll come back and stick them in later.

http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/841/p5053233f9zl.jpg


http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/4...053234f1ja.jpg


http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/209/p5053258f1bp.jpg

is that the UP?

dont know if i'll have a chance to do this one... busy moving to another dorm for the summer, finals and packing for 2.5 weeks of camping/adventuring/see the family briefly...

Excellent shots, Tech.. the first one is kinda sad looking... likea gloomy day.. the two others have so much life and color in them- they're beautiful... Nice job on the assignment... Though for the constructive criticism... (I'd like to have seen the images cropped more.... especially the first image - the water rings I really like

Suggestion for next week: Capture an emotion...

This is a great idea. I forgot we had such a nice place within walking distance. I took these with a Kodak EasyShare, 5MP. I tried different settings.

I used the "sport" setting for these:

Calm Water
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d1.../calmwater.jpg

Small Wave
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d1.../smallwave.jpg

This was just the regular setting:

Between Rocks
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d1...tweenrocks.jpg

Blue
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d1...ments/blue.jpg

Hmm, I don't live near the ocean and it hasn't rained here in days so I had to improvise. I present: "The Mundane"

<img src="http://telusplanet.net/public/markus_e/images/themundane.jpg">

Sportswidow05-

I love the last one, "Blue". Great contrast with the ground. Very serene!

Tech: I like the 2nd photo the best with the smooth splash up and just about perfectly symmetrical.
Sportswidow: I like the 1st. The rocks add perspective.

I have a couple to put up here of a small waterfall just down the road from where I live. The first I think looks better in monochrome and the second in color

http://www.pbase.com/dwootton/image/...0/original.jpg
Shot at 100mm, 1/13 second at f32


http://www.pbase.com/dwootton/image/...4/original.jpg
Shot at 115mm, 1/10 sec at f32

Tech,
Your second shot is the best of the three. Great capture with that one. The composition works very well, but I wonder how a vertical compostion would work with a similar shot. Do you have one you can post for comparison?


Sportswidow,
You've got a excellent image with "Blue". The one thing I would want to see you do with this one is to correct your horizon. It's tilted a bit. I would also like to see a bit of the bottom cropped out. Other than that, I think you nailed that shot.

the_marq,
You've got a great idea with this shot. A couple things that could really improve the impact of it would be to get lower with your camera so you're not above the glass by much. The background is a bit distracting, so I think either a bit more background blur or maybe have someone hold up a piece of black paper or cloth to make the water stand out more.

dogzilla,
That first shot is great. I can imagine it easily as a panoramic shot. I agree that monochrome works best for it.

Some great contributions to this thread. I wish I could add a shot of my own but this week is a busy one for me so I don't think I'll have much time to get some water shots.

Dogzilla-- I love waterfall shots but normally I love them because of the long exposures you can do of falling white water. Generally if the light cooperates you can expose even a daytime shot upto half a second (or a full second) and you get that great cloudy-ethereal effect.

SportsWidow-- None of these really jump out at me. I think the "Small Wave" one is the best because of the disparate colours of the rocks in the foreground. I would have tried to capture more of that perhaps by rotating the camera 90 degrees to increase the foreground.

Tech-- I think the first one is missing something... anything. It's a good photo, but there needs to be an object in the frame to provide reference for the viewer. Something like an abandoned shoe, or child's toy. The image has great emotion already, but something lost would really amp up the "feelings."

Thanks for playing everybody.

My theme suggestion for next week "A body part tightly framed"

A few quick shots while my kids were playing in the water table at the children's museum. I hope to do better next week. I think I over-killed the size reduction, and had to crop out a kiddie hand in one. At least one needs a little _more_ cropping. This was the pick of the bunch, though. :D I'm feeling a little outclassed here... :icare:

Is it acceptable to post a pic in an "old" assignment thread... like the next week?

Oh yeah, absolutely.

Better late then never...

Fountain of Goober
http://static.flickr.com/49/14572835...192b1e.jpg?v=0

Alright, I just figured out that there wasn't a deadline for these threads, so I'd like to post these photos that I took during the assignment week on "moving water."

Ktspktsp was driving in a spring thunderstorm and I was in the passenger seat, taking pictures of the rainwater streaming across the window. These are both cropped sections of larger photos of the passenger window, but I like how they turned out.

I have a water movement picture, but nothing to compare to what I have seen here. I got tricked by following the ground line vs. the horizon line, so the pic ends up with a tilt. Lots of critique and suggestions are welcome.

Here is a water drop shot I took a while back:

http://rjshade.com/art/images/photos//drop.jpg

A waterfall at Disneyland.

Oooh finally i can get one - Moving water - the fountain that is outside my office window...

Unnamed Creek, RMNP

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...fp/creek02.jpg


Nikon D200 Nikkor 17-55mm 1:2.8
38mm f5.6 1/125 ISO100

topical waterfall
 

..............and "My Old Lady"......xoxoxoo

Chilliwack, BC

<img src="http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n289/ericleemedia/water-1.jpg"

I have another one that I forgot about (taken during the assignment period, yes). It's from a waterfall in New Hampshire, somewhere in the Franconia Notch State Park. I liked the total suspension of action in this shot... just a millisecond of water movement...

First attempt at these assignments, I live in a somewhat mundane area but it rained today and I noticed this in the parking lot of my work. Thought it looked cool and fit the topic. Feedback of any kind is appreciated.

Industrial Rain
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...o/DSCF0241.jpg

I like it, zxello. I might have boosted the colors a little, but I like that an oil slick looks a lot like a colorful feather, or an eye or something celestial....
I took this of a small waterfall last month:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/209/4...73eca0fc32.jpg

wow thanks for showing me up ng. =P

Oh, man....that wasn't my intent...I do like yours and encourage you to play around with it...uh, the photo, that is. ;)

Ok now I have to ask. Your picture is 1000000000x clearer and nicer than mine. How is that?

hmm....settings, I'd reckon...and the water was super smooth anyway. When I'm shooting outdoors, I follow the sunny-16 idea...when it's sunny out, set the aperature to about 16 and experiment within a few digits from there.
Otherwise, might be the camera and the format.

well I understand I'm still using a point and shoot, so don't have much control over the aperature. =)

I know I am late on this. These photos were taken May 20. They are from a canoe trip we took.

http://bearleealive.smugmug.com/photos/156123435-L.jpg

http://bearleealive.smugmug.com/photos/156120416-L.jpg

http://bearleealive.smugmug.com/photos/156123628-L.jpg

This is the fountain at Columbus Circle in NY. It's one of the first pictures I took with my SLR. Looking at it now, I think I could have done better - which is good because it means my imagination is progressing. Anyway, the idea of the light in the water and a slower shutter reminded me of some pictures I had seen of sparks from welding operations.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1228/...cbda826023.jpg

uber -

pretty cool shot - you would never know its night unless you look very closely.