"Found Objects" Aug. 24-Sept. 7 (2011)

[Saralonde]

This week: "Found Objects". Something you see along the side of the road? A treasure you found in your attic? Did you find something that seems unusual or out of place? Keep your eyes open and really look at the things you might not generally notice.


by geezaweezer

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 on or between the 24th of August to the 7th of September 2011. 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 "Found Objects" as the title or in the text (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) or here and this thread.

Next Week: "Cameraphone Shots". A lot of us have phones in our cameras these days. Very handy to have when you don't happen to have your camera with you. But a lot of people use them as a good secondary camera, too. The popularity of phone camera apps have risen tremendously lately. So no matter what type of phone camera you have, prove that "it is not the equipment, but the photographer that makes a good image."

10 Cameraphone Photographs that Rock

[lisapenzone]

My submission for the assignment: Found Objects

Radiant
Taken August 26, 2011

Camera: Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XS
Lens: Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6
ISO speed: 100
Exposure: 1/60 sec
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 55mm
No flash

I was outside in my yard photographing my pretty petunias when I happened upon this spider web. I wasn't seeking one out to shoot, in fact, I wasn't even working on this assignment at the time, which is why I thought it would be a good fit for this assignment.

I loved the way the late afternoon light highlighted the strands.

[bhadeed]

My husband gave me a set of diamond earrings for my 30th birthday. One earring's post broke off about 11 months later, two days before we were to hold Thanksgiving dinner at our house. We set them aside for safekeeping until we would have time to mail them in for repair. The Friday after Thanksgiving, we couldn't find the earrings. We turned the house inside out looking - all to no avail. After months, I accepted that they were gone. It was a shame, because I had no intentions of replacing them. In my mind, they were a precious one-time gift, both financially and sentimentally. Many months later, I was working at my desk, when my son, only two at the time, walked up to me with the earring and post in his outstretched hand. He wasn't verbal at the time, so I will never know where they were all that time or how he found them. But I thank God he did, because they really are very, very precious to me. I never take them off - except for this picture, of course!



I tried a lot of different things for this assignment - my photography partner and I discuss some other options here.

[hburmeister]

This was actually taken in the backyard of a gift shop. ( I just put the view of the gift shop from it's backyard up on Flikr too!) Sadly, the bike was not for sale, so my quest to obtain such a bike continues.

[FlyingKiwiGirl]

An rail worker's discarded glove-



Taken on
August 31, 2011 at 3.28pm NZST
Exif data-
Camera Sony DSLR-A350
Exposure 0.003 sec (1/320)
Aperture f/4.5
Focal Length 45 mm
ISO Speed 100

[Obijuan]

I found my old broom in the attic. I can't believe my kids didn't know about it.


Camera Nikon D7000
Exposure 0.005 sec (1/200)
Aperture f/4.0
Focal Length 24 mm
ISO Speed 400
X-Resolution 1
Y-Resolution 1

[john_52993]

Exif data-
Camera Canon 60D
Exposure (1/320)
Aperture f/22
Focal Length 18 mm
ISO Speed 640

[shammuramat]

"Found objects"


EXIF data
camera: Nikon Coolpix L120
exposure: 1/50
aperture: f/3.6
lens: 8.4 mm
iso: 80
24th august 2011, Florence, Italy

[Rainman]

I was walking on a local biking / hiking path that runs along a river. I ventured off the trail a bit to the river bank and found this chair in the water. I'm not sure if the person that put it there was using it as a place to cool off or as a way to get comfortible while fishing.....


Found by Rainman51, on Flickr


Taken on September 1, 2011 at 7.04am PDT (edit)

Exif data
Camera Nikon D90
Exposure 0.002 sec (1/500)
Aperture f/8.0
Focal Length 75 mm
ISO Speed 400
Exposure Bias 0 EV
Exposure Program Aperture-priority AE
Metering Mode Spot

[4umfreak]

Originally Posted by shammuramat

"Found objects"
Broken bicycle

This reminds me of the painting by Salvador Dalí... as if the bent wheel were melting into the street.