Assignment: "Repetition and Patterns" Nov. 17- Dec. 1

[Saralonde]

This week: One more composition assignment, "Repetition and Patterns". With a little looking, you can find this anywhere, in nature, man-made objects or you can create your own. The trick is to make it interesting to your viewer.

Using Repetition and Patterns in Photography
Repetition and Patterns in Photography

I didn't have time for a new shot, so I dug through the archives but didn't find much to chose from. This is a real oldie and I'd surely do it differently now, but it does show repetition and pattern and, hopefully, has a bit of interest .



As always, rules:

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 17th of November and the 1st of December. 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 "Repetition and Patterns" (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 (740px 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 week: We'll get less technical and try for more interpretation with "Breakable". No more composition assignments for the rest of the year, but keep them in mind as you take all your holiday shots.

[WildRain]

Camera Canon PowerShot S5 IS
Exposure 0.003 sec (1/320)
Aperture f/3.5
Focal Length 59.7 mm
ISO Speed 200
Exposure Bias 0 EV
Taken: November 20, 2010

[RJKs Daughter]

This photo was taken over a year ago, but it stands out in my mind as one of my favorite pattern images. I had collected wine corks for years, and decided to make them into place card holders for my wedding. Here is the before shot.

[Reinardina]

Repetiton and Patterns.

Normally I go out with my camera to 'catch' whatever it is that is required for the weekly assignment. Not this time though, when I got up from the computer and looked out to see what the weather was like, the repeated pattern stared me in the face. Didn't even have to leave the house.

Camera
Make Panasonic
Model DMC-FZ8
Datetime 2010:11:23 21:50:48
Image
Exposure time 0.008 s
F-number f/4
Exposure program Landscape mode
ISO speed ratings 100
Date/time original 2010:11:18 10:34:22
Date/time digitized 2010:11:18 10:34:22
Max. aperture value f/2.8
Focal length 19 mm
Pixel X dimension 536 pixels
Pixel Y dimension 740 pixels
Focal length in 35mm film 114 mm
Scene capture type Landscape

[doodles]

Once again my sweet camera is still in hospital so the olde reliable pocket point & shoot makes another appearance.

We manage a Christmas tree lot and those beauties will be making their appearance the day after Thanksgiving in the US!!

DPS repetition.jpg
Exif data
Camera Sony DSC-W100
Exposure 0.05 sec (1/20)
Aperture f/2.8
Focal Length 7.9 mm
ISO Speed 200
Exposure Bias 0 EV
Flash Off, Did not fire
X-Resolution 96 dpi
Y-Resolution 96 dpi
Orientation Unknown (0)
Date and Time (Original) 2010:11:25 09:41:52
Date and Time (Digitized) 2010:11:25 09:41:52
Compressed Bits Per Pixel 8
Max Aperture Value 2.8
Metering Mode Multi-segment
Light Source Unknown
Color Space Uncalibrated
Custom Rendered Normal
Exposure Mode Auto
White Balance Auto
Quality Fine
Anti- Blur Off
Compression JPEG (old-style)

[kristenh]

Here's my contribution, taken the other day at valley forge national park:

[treewolf]

This was a chest on display in the Wild Africa exhibit in the Dallas Zoo. I liked the mirrors and the pattern.
Exposure 1/15 sec at f/2.0
focal length 35 mm
no flash fired
ISO 800
nikon d60
lens: 35mm f/1.8

[bremzie]

This is a photo of a ceiling at the Erasmus hospital in Rotterdam. I walked by this ceiling many times, and now was the time to shoot some pictures of it.

picture taken: november 23, 2010

Exif data:
Camera Nikon D300S
Exposure 0.04 sec (1/25)
Aperture f/5.3
Focal Length 42 mm
ISO Speed 400
Exposure Bias 0 EV
Flash No Flash
Exposure Program Aperture-priority AE
Max Aperture Value 5.3
Subject Distance 2.24 m
Metering Mode Multi-segment
Exposure Mode Auto
White Balance Auto

gr Bram

[Obijuan]

PM

From Drop Box

[marline]

I found a lot of repitition in this subject.

taken on 24th november 2010
Exif data
Fujifilm Finepix S1500
ISO:400
F/2.8
focal length 5.9mm
shutter speed 1/58