Assignment: "Thankful/50mm" or "Thankful" Nov. 18 - Dec. 2

[Saralonde]

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.

I'm thanful for a lot of things: family, my home, etc. But at this time of the year when I'm incredibly busy and often cold, I'm thankful for the little things, like coffee...



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 18th of November and the 2nd 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 "Assignment: "Thankful/50mm" or "Thankful" " (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: Storyboards. Try to tell a photographic "story" in 3 images. Your story should have a beginning, middle, and end. It need not be elaborate, no fancy plot lines, simple is fine. It should not need any explanation. If you feel you need a written explanation, then you're not getting your story across in a visual way..

To set up your storyboard, check out Big Huge Labs. They have something called a Mosaic Maker. Choose "Square Tile Layout" and choose 1 column 3 rows or 3 columns 1 row. Now plug in your shots. If you have a similar way of presenting your storyboard, that's okay, too.

[cwalker71]

Beth - "Waiting"



Camera: Nikon D80
Exposure: 0.008 sec (1/125)
Aperture: f/1.8
Focal Length: 50 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Flash: No Flash

Shot at Ft. Mott in NJ, late afternoon.

You can view this on Flickr at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cwalker71/3639323596/

[Keikyu]

I'm thankful for the companionship of my four-legged friend

Camera: Nikon D40
Exposure: 0.017 sec (1/60)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 50 mm
ISO Speed: 400
Taken on November 23, 2009

[brainwashercornelius]

I have lots of things to be thankful about.

One of them is having the ability and the equipment to make the people around me smile. Even when they are not showing it



Exposure: 0.125 seconds
Aperture: F/2.8
Focal Length: 50mm
ISO Speed: 100
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Taken on: November 18, 2009

[mustlane]

Assignment: "Thankful/50mm" or "Thankful"

I'm thankful for the flowers at my home, helping me through dark and cold season. I'm thankful to DPS to give me reason to think about it.
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.- Henry Ward Beecher, Life Thoughts



Camera: Nikon D90
Exposure: 10
Aperture: f/4.5
Focal Length: 48 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: No Flash
Date and Time (Original): 2009:11:25 18:22:48.00+02:00

Argo the mustlane

[GwenieThePooh]

Baby Shoes

I am Thankful for my son and his wife and the child they've created that will be here soon (about 2 weeks or less)



EXIF:
Camera: Nikon D5000
Exposure: 0.167 sec (1/6)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 50 mm
ISO Speed: 1600
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: Auto, Did not fire
Date and Time (Modified): 2009:11:27 13:50:58
Date and Time (Original): 2009:11:27 13:15:03-08:00
Date and Time (Digitized): 2009:11:27 13:16:22

[Joedit]

I am thankful for small mercies...

Camera: Nikon D50
Exposure: 0.033 sec (1/30)
Aperture: f/1.8
Focal Length: 50 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: No Flash
Date and Time (Modified): 2009:11:25 18:00:22
Exposure Program: Aperture-priority AE
Date and Time (Original): 2009:11:25 17:37:48Z
Date and Time (Digitized): 2009:11:25 17:37:48

[lrivetz]

It took me 20-shoots just to figure how to get to 50mm since I don’t have 50mm prime lens. What I have is a DSC-H1. I can’t set it to an exact 50mm but was able to get to 50.7mm. So I guess this would have to go under “Thankful” and not “Thankful/50mm?”

[wulf]

That's pretty close... although, to be honest, I'm not sure whether "50mm" on your camera will compare to the more standardised 50mm on DSLRs. Even there, crop factors mean that many people are working with a lens that is effectively more like an 85mm one.

Explain what you have done in your entry and I think we'll allow that. The whole point of restrictions is to force you into new ways of looking at things.

Wulf

[Lydiafairy]

Assignment: Thankful / 50mm (my fave lens)
Nikon D80 50mm
11-23-2009
ISO 320
Shutter 1/100
f2.8