228. Alphabet - October 29-November 4, 2017
Paul-
Good gracious, how gratified and gleeful I was to get a good gander of a great letter “G” as I was gallivanting downtown. I’ll guess my image hasn’t got the gloss or grace of our gifted group’s goals the week, but I’m genuinely giddy in having grabbed it just the same. So, I will avoid the guise of grandiloquence or gushing grandstanding telling how just a glimmer was my guide to submission.
But, golly, I gainsay it would be a gross guess to glibly think I’ll spare the gang a gibbering gasconade just the same. You’d have to be a gobemoche to grok it otherwise.
By The Letter: (Approx. 4:15PM) Motorola: Moto X (v5.1) Camera settings: Timestamp (off); Brightness (default); Quality (superfine); Resolution (7.8MP); Aspect Ratio (4:3); Focus Mode (auto focus); ISO (1600); Metering Mode (frame average); White Balance (auto); Scene Mode (steady photo) . I imported the image to Lightroom to tweak contrast and saturation; as well as correcting for a parallax issue using the horizontal “Transform” slider.
Gotta go…
Good gracious, how gratified and gleeful I was to get a good gander of a great letter “G” as I was gallivanting downtown. I’ll guess my image hasn’t got the gloss or grace of our gifted group’s goals the week, but I’m genuinely giddy in having grabbed it just the same. So, I will avoid the guise of grandiloquence or gushing grandstanding telling how just a glimmer was my guide to submission.
But, golly, I gainsay it would be a gross guess to glibly think I’ll spare the gang a gibbering gasconade just the same. You’d have to be a gobemoche to grok it otherwise.
By The Letter: (Approx. 4:15PM) Motorola: Moto X (v5.1) Camera settings: Timestamp (off); Brightness (default); Quality (superfine); Resolution (7.8MP); Aspect Ratio (4:3); Focus Mode (auto focus); ISO (1600); Metering Mode (frame average); White Balance (auto); Scene Mode (steady photo) . I imported the image to Lightroom to tweak contrast and saturation; as well as correcting for a parallax issue using the horizontal “Transform” slider.
Gotta go…
Jerry-
I decided to look around my garage work bench area and found some stuff that I put together to form the word "Loon". This was taken with the Sony A6300, 55mm Micro Nikkor, 1/640 at f16, ISO 1600. Light was coming in from the South in the garage studio, cloudy day.
I decided to look around my garage work bench area and found some stuff that I put together to form the word "Loon". This was taken with the Sony A6300, 55mm Micro Nikkor, 1/640 at f16, ISO 1600. Light was coming in from the South in the garage studio, cloudy day.
Don-
Winter approaches here in New Mexico. We rarely get snow but the leaves do turn.
I liked that the leaves we a bit soft because of the shallow depth and slow shutter.
Exposure was 1/25 sec; f/2.8 and ISO 100. I used a 24-70mm lens set at 70mm.
Winter approaches here in New Mexico. We rarely get snow but the leaves do turn.
I liked that the leaves we a bit soft because of the shallow depth and slow shutter.
Exposure was 1/25 sec; f/2.8 and ISO 100. I used a 24-70mm lens set at 70mm.
Byron-
I gave myself an artificial boundary on this theme. I decided that I would do the WPOTM panel with pictures taken at the play area of Elm Creek Park Reserve. I shot all of these in the aperture priority mode. I used 2 lenses, the 18-55mm and the 55-200mm. It was a cold and cloudy day. Suddenly the snow showed up. The play area was warm enough to melt the snow as it landed. There were no kids playing out there. I don't understand it, 2:30 on a school day, 30 degrees and everything wet. Nobody skipped school. What is this world coming to?
I gave myself an artificial boundary on this theme. I decided that I would do the WPOTM panel with pictures taken at the play area of Elm Creek Park Reserve. I shot all of these in the aperture priority mode. I used 2 lenses, the 18-55mm and the 55-200mm. It was a cold and cloudy day. Suddenly the snow showed up. The play area was warm enough to melt the snow as it landed. There were no kids playing out there. I don't understand it, 2:30 on a school day, 30 degrees and everything wet. Nobody skipped school. What is this world coming to?
Darin-
The Letter Q.
I feel like this is a case of better concept, than execution. I wanted a nice green rib of celery, instead of the black spoon. I had a stalk celery in my basket, but the line was too long at the .99 Cent store, and I had to get back to work.
Maybe I should've added a table setting with a napkin and a glass of milk. Also, when I left the store, I left two cans of split pea soup and a green place mat in the basket. I wonder if that would've looked better. All in all, it's okay.
The Letter Q.
I feel like this is a case of better concept, than execution. I wanted a nice green rib of celery, instead of the black spoon. I had a stalk celery in my basket, but the line was too long at the .99 Cent store, and I had to get back to work.
Maybe I should've added a table setting with a napkin and a glass of milk. Also, when I left the store, I left two cans of split pea soup and a green place mat in the basket. I wonder if that would've looked better. All in all, it's okay.
Kevin-
Admittedly when Paul named the Alphabet theme, in the specific way that he did, I was, shall we say displeased. Obviously I love photography challenges. But what I don’t love is scavenger hunts, prowling around hoping to find an object or objects that vaguely resemble letters of the alphabet. In an email I expressed as much to Paul. His response was far more polite than I deserved, and while not using the phrase he essential reminded me of my “pixels are free” line and told me to live with it. Understood.
But I still had the issue of being a little short on time this week and living in an environment where cold, wind and snow decided to make an early appearance (though fortunately not as bad as the Halloween blizzard in 1991).
As I was shaving I was aware that a razor vaguely looked like the letter “T” and after searching around the house I came up with a travel razor that was even more T-like.
Now I am certain that Paul was thinking that we might find things and photograph them in place. I did that, but the while the result might have fit the theme, it looked quite boring to me.
So I set up a Nikon SB-900 series light as the key light, a bounce card for fill, and then remembering an article I saw in an issue of PDN (Photo District News) about some homemade lighting tools, I set up another SB-900 flash projecting light through a narrow slit onto a blue tagboard background.
To me it looks like a razor, and it looks like a “T”. Now whether T stands for Terrific or Terrible is up to you.
Nikon D4s mounted on a Manfrotto 055CXPRO4 tripod with a Acratech GP ballhead, 105mm f/2.8 Micro-Nikkor lens, ISO 200, f/40 at 1/250th of a second (flash sync).
Admittedly when Paul named the Alphabet theme, in the specific way that he did, I was, shall we say displeased. Obviously I love photography challenges. But what I don’t love is scavenger hunts, prowling around hoping to find an object or objects that vaguely resemble letters of the alphabet. In an email I expressed as much to Paul. His response was far more polite than I deserved, and while not using the phrase he essential reminded me of my “pixels are free” line and told me to live with it. Understood.
But I still had the issue of being a little short on time this week and living in an environment where cold, wind and snow decided to make an early appearance (though fortunately not as bad as the Halloween blizzard in 1991).
As I was shaving I was aware that a razor vaguely looked like the letter “T” and after searching around the house I came up with a travel razor that was even more T-like.
Now I am certain that Paul was thinking that we might find things and photograph them in place. I did that, but the while the result might have fit the theme, it looked quite boring to me.
So I set up a Nikon SB-900 series light as the key light, a bounce card for fill, and then remembering an article I saw in an issue of PDN (Photo District News) about some homemade lighting tools, I set up another SB-900 flash projecting light through a narrow slit onto a blue tagboard background.
To me it looks like a razor, and it looks like a “T”. Now whether T stands for Terrific or Terrible is up to you.
Nikon D4s mounted on a Manfrotto 055CXPRO4 tripod with a Acratech GP ballhead, 105mm f/2.8 Micro-Nikkor lens, ISO 200, f/40 at 1/250th of a second (flash sync).