This week's assignment is from our Super Mod
Peeperita and so we're doing
kinetic photography where the only moving object is part or all of your camera. Be it a zoom of your lens, movement of the camera in your hands, or, if your truly brave, tossing your equipment in the air. Trickier than you might think, these images will require long shutter speeds and small apertures.
EXAMPLES:
Confused where to start? Here are a few links to get you started.
Kinetic Photography from Wikipedia
Kinetic photography - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Threads from our members.
Abstract Motion by Sjlarue, using a side to side motion
Abstract Motion
Abstract by Harksie Photos, using a single light source
First try at abstract
Hibiscus Abstract by veronicaburges, using zoom.
http://digital-photography-school.co...-abstract.html
Hope you had fun with this one!
As always, rules:
Please note the change in closing time.
Just a note to new posters: DO NOT start a new thread for your post. Please just hit the reply button at the bottom of any current post and put your image there.
1. Your original image you submit should be taken between the 11th of November and the 25th of November. Each week as an assignment closes on the Wednesday, it will be AUTOMATICALLY deemed *CLOSED* after 8am GMT ( 3am EST) and any posts after that time will not be eligible for the assignment competition.
Don't wait until the last minute to post!
2. Your post must include
"Assignment: Kinetics" (to show your permission to count it for the contest) and
the date the picture was taken (to show that it is a valid entry)
.
3. EXIF data should be intact. It helps if you can include the main points (including camera, lens, date taken, ISO, shutter speed and aperture) in the text of your message.
4. Only one entry per member (if you can't restrain yourself until the end of the first week you can post two or three separate pictures but your entry should be in a separate post and the only marked with the text above). It must be an original image taken by you.
5. Remember the cross-site image size limit (800px on the longest side).
6. If the image does not exist in post at the end of the contest, it is disqualified. If you modify anything on flickr and re-save the image then the link is broken and the message needs edited to link the picture again before it will be included in the contest.
For everyone, please do not repeat other people's photos by quoting them until the contest is over. If you want to comment on or discuss an entry you can use a link to it (or just delete the picture from the quoted text).
7. If you are looking for the winners of the mini-contest, please check the front page of the
DPS blog Saturday late afternoon (EST) and
here.
Next assignment:
50mm is generally considered the accepted "standard" focal length for what the eye sees. Although this might be debatable, depending on camera sensor sizes, etc., for our purposes this week, we will all shoot at
50mm. If you have a 50mm prime lens, use it. If you don't, set a zoom lens at 50mm for your shot for this assignment. If you have a point and shoot that will not allow you to set focal length, hang on a minute.
Right now we're somewhere between the Thanksgiving holidays in Canada and the United States. There are versions of this in many countries represented here. Sometimes they are called Harvest Festivals, often they involve food, but gratitude is a primary component.
So what I want you to do for this assignment is choose something for which you are
thankful to be your subject and shoot it at
50mm.
If you are one of those point and shoot users that can't get 50 mm, you just take the "thankful" shot. Your post will include "Assignment: Thankful/50mm" or "Assignment: Thankful" if your camera cannot be set at 50mm if you are interested in the mini-contest.
And for everyone, good composition is imperative. Snapshots are not what assignments are all about. Applying what you already know is. If your picture doesn't come out well, analyse it, decide what you can do to make it better and retake it.