Assignment: "School Days" Aug. 26 - Sept. 9

[Saralonde]

Seems fitting that your "assignment" this time is "School Days". Hopefully this assignment is more fun than the ones given while you were in school. School hasn't quite started around here yet, but we do have an old one room schoolhouse in our community that has been refurbished as a museum. I tried to give it an "old photograph" look.



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 26th of Aug. and the 9th of September. 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: School Days" (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 week is another creative assignment: "Seven Deadly Sins". Lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy, and pride. Pick one and and create an image that shows that particular sin. And no, taking a picture of your children and saying you're proud of them won't work. Try to stretch your imagination!

[GwenieThePooh]

CLASSROOM IN 1901



This was an actual classroom equipment used in 1901 its now preserved in Stockton Museum

EXIF:
Camera: Nikon D50
Exposure: 0.3
Aperture: f/3.3
Focal Length: 31 mm
ISO Speed: 800
Flash: Off, Did not fire
Date and Time (Original): 2009:09:05 21:52:54

[l.k.madison]

[This photo not only symbolizes the growing violence in schools today, but also symbolizes the destruction of creativity caused by our educational system.

Haha, just kidding. I just like destroying stuff, and crayons are cheap]

That's hilarious!! If I trusted myself with firearms, I'd blow stuff up, too!!

So enlighten me, Saralonde, what does chocolate fall under? Greed? Lust?

There's only two shots up so far and both are brilliant, oh what to do for this assignment??

[karwash]

School days mostly remind me of coming home from school to freshly brewed tea and a listening ear. The teacups shown here have pictures on them from an old Dutch learning aid, referred to as "reading plank" or "Aap-Noot-Mies". The words depicted on this "reading plank" contain all possible Dutch vowel combinations.

Tea time:


Date picture taken: August 28, 2009
EXIF:
Camera: Nikon D40
Exposure: 0.4
Aperture: f/7.1
Focal Length: 22 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Exposure Bias: -2/3 EV
Flash: No Flash
Post processing: used PaintShopPro to give the picture an "aged" look.

[MiltonBrown]

This is AWESOME, would you mind sharing how you did it?
-Milton

Originally Posted by rt80639

Bullets & Crayons

This photo not only symbolizes the growing violence in schools today, but also symbolizes the destruction of creativity caused by our educational system.

Haha, just kidding. I just like destroying stuff, and crayons are cheap

Date Taken: August 31, 2009
Camera: Canon EOS REBEL T1i
Exposure: 2.5
Aperture: f/11.0
Focal Length: 116 mm
Exposure: 0.00
ISO Speed: 100
Flash: 580exII and 430exII, both with omnibounces (mainly for debris protection), 1/32 power, at 5 and 7 o'clock position, triggered by Hiviz sound trigger.

[barabe]

This is a shot of my son Anthony now 5 years old and going to school for the first. They grow too fast.





Camera: Canon EOS Digital Rebel XS
Exposure: 0.017 sec (1/60)
Aperture: f/8.0
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: Off

[thebubblybeginner]

I was at the park today and with all the children in school, the swings seemed to be so lonesome. They were just begging for someone to come and play.



Camera: Canon EOS Digital Rebel XSi
Exposure: 0.005 sec (1/200)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 194 mm
ISO Speed: 400

[RLucas]

Device: Nikon D40
Lens: 55-200mm F/4-5.6G
Focal Length: 165mm
Focus Mode: AF-S
AF-Area Mode: Single
Aperture: F/20
Shutter Speed: 1/60s
Exposure Mode: Manual
Exposure Comp.: -0.7EV
Exposure Tuning:
Metering Mode: Spot
Sensitivity: ISO 200

PP= minor crop, value tweak, dodge and burn, overused the unsharp mask for the poor man's HDR look. Hope you enjoy!

[Tinamarie2401]

OMG this is to funny to me....I work out every morning and decided to take my camera to take pics when I finished. Next to the park I jog in, the school district park all of the school buses. I decided to take a picture and put my camera through one of the links and snapped one. I just checked my email and saw the new assignment! I had the prefect picture and did not even know it...lol!



Camera Model: Canon PowerShot A560
Shooting Date/Time: 09/02/09 0855
Shooting Mode: Man.
ISO: 80
Aperture: F5.5
1/320

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2489/...1337cb0e17.jpg

[thebubblybeginner]

Originally Posted by Saralonde

Next week is another creative assignment: "Seven Deadly Sins". Lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy, and pride. Pick one and and create an image that shows that particular sin. And no, taking a picture of your children and saying you're proud of them won't work. Try to stretch your imagination!

Just for clarification so I know whether to participate or even view this assignment. I can see that we may have some delicate subject matter on the "lust" part of this subject. I didn't happen to notice any restrictions. Will there be any in regards to nudity, sexual type stuff or anything along these lines? I just want to make sure before I open myself up to seeing anything I'd prefer not to see.

Thanks