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Morat's Assignment #1

.Morat
03/21/07 12:29 AM GMT
Welcome to Morat's Assignments. This is the first in a series of challenges aimed at keeping our photography (or other medium) fresh by working to an assigned scope. There's no caedes gallery or flash prize for this and the rules are simple. All you have to do is take a look at the assignment and decide if you'd like to do it or not. Assignments might involve a technical aspect of imaging, artistic expression or virtually anything else.

I'll try not to exclude anyone, so you won't see any "post an image taken with a 600mm lens" assignments. You might see some things that you think are just too basic for you. That's fine, just wait for the next one :)

If you do take part then your aim should be to produce at least one image suitable for caedes upload based on the assignment. Please post a link to your assignment images in this thread so that other posters can find them and offer heartfelt appreciation and constructive criticism.

Them's the rules, on with the first assignment.

No pilot takes off without running his pre-flights first and no photographer should be in the field without knowing where his buttons are. So for the first assignment we're going back to basic. Hut hut hut.

Your first assignment is to demonstrate that you know where that aperture control is. Please produce an image clearly demonstrating shallow depth of field.

Helping art happen, because that's nice.
Morat.

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.Canuck_Photo_Guy
03/21/07 12:35 AM GMT
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"To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy." ~ Henri Cartier-Bresson
.Canuck_Photo_Guy
03/21/07 3:10 AM GMT
Perhaps Gladys is a tad better for this as it's a newer submission (yesterday), with less technical comments.
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.isaacp
03/21/07 8:38 AM GMT
Just wanted to feel included. not exactly new, but fits the topic, so here it is.
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.Morat
03/21/07 10:47 AM GMT
I love your images and I think I could pick out one or two from my own gallery, but that's not really playing the game ;)
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.Canuck_Photo_Guy
03/21/07 1:21 PM GMT
Very nice photos!

So should we say that the submissions for the assignments should be completely new (ie not from our galleries), specially created and uploaded specifically for your assignment Morat? Makes sense to me :)... now that I've actually thought about it (I was so happy to have something like this assignment, that I jumped the gun! :) )
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.Morat
03/21/07 2:09 PM GMT
Yep, that's the idea. New images created especially for the assignment only. I should have put it in the original post, my apologies.

I still like your images though, thanks for posting.

I've been out and taken some this lunchtime, but they need some processing. I'll hopefully get to do that in the next day or two.
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::kodo34
03/21/07 3:35 PM GMT
Nice idea , here mine link
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.Morat
03/21/07 10:02 PM GMT
Now that's nice. Great macro.
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.noahnott
03/21/07 10:41 PM GMT
that was pretty good, but wait until you see my entry.


....goes off wondering what the heck I'll do w/out a macro lens. :-S
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+ppigeon
03/22/07 3:03 PM GMT
Link
Not easy with a lens closing at 5,6... ;-)
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.Canuck_Photo_Guy
03/22/07 6:15 PM GMT
Oops, I seem to have inadvertently started the posting of old images, my bad

hopefully I'll be able to get out this weekend and shoot some photos!
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.Morat
03/22/07 8:32 PM GMT
Nice one Pierre.

I'm not sure I managed to get the picture I was after when I reviewed yesterday's shots. I'll have to wait for another bright day next week.
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::third_eye
03/23/07 8:06 PM GMT
good, bad, or ugly...i present to you...a delicate touch
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Hi,my name is Rob..ok, so I'm not the greatest at replies and comments. Sorry. For anyone needing to contact me, my email is back up in my profile. >> my cluttered mess of a gallery
.Morat
03/23/07 10:56 PM GMT
It's got DoF and I like the muted colours. Good image.
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.Morat
03/24/07 10:13 AM GMT
Here's mine.

I cheated just a little :)
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.Canuck_Photo_Guy
03/24/07 3:34 PM GMT
Hmm....I'm a little undecided on it.... it seems to me to have too much blurred out with only some cobblestones in focus. I think it, perhaps, lacks a point of interest in the focal plane. Although, this could be due to the post-processing effects you've used on it.
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::third_eye
03/24/07 5:09 PM GMT
well, in your attempt to create the appearance of a scale model, you've succeeded. the radial blur you've applied added to this. however... that's one wide open DoF...so I'm not really feeling the oomph of a controlled aperture setting here. overall, good image.
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Hi,my name is Rob..ok, so I'm not the greatest at replies and comments. Sorry. For anyone needing to contact me, my email is back up in my profile. >> my cluttered mess of a gallery
.Canuck_Photo_Guy
03/25/07 9:16 PM GMT
ok ok ok, so here is my actual submission for Morat's Assignment #1.

I give you On The Lookout, for your critique and commentary.
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+ppigeon
03/26/07 6:24 AM GMT
Nice one!
For this 'assignment', it would be very interesting to see the technical datas of each photo...
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::phasmid
03/26/07 6:33 AM GMT
EXIF Data would be great.
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.Morat
04/01/07 7:27 PM GMT
Any more for any more, or shall we declare this lesson closed?
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+ppigeon
04/01/07 7:30 PM GMT
I think you could wait a few days more...
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.Canuck_Photo_Guy
04/01/07 9:21 PM GMT
two weeks from the start date should be sufficient enough eh?
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.noahnott
04/01/07 11:44 PM GMT
I have one photo to enter, but it's not uploaded on caedes (i wasted my last upload on a tutorial instead)....

...anyways: here.
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.noahnott
04/02/07 1:29 AM GMT
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+ppigeon
04/02/07 6:35 AM GMT
I like the first, Noah, despite the fact that the main sujbect isn't perfectly focused, or lighted.
What is the object in foreground on the second image?
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.noahnott
04/02/07 7:12 AM GMT
The first one is a bit blurry for a few reasons:

1) I used a monopod instead of a tripod
2) 200mm (plus 1.5ish crop factor) so 300mm
3) My 80-200 lens for somereason have some sand/dust in it. It's really wierd, b/c it seems perfectly sealed so that large (well not large, but bigger than your average dust) chunks of sand cant get it...a while ago, when i used the MF, i heard a crunching noise and the MF doesnt work anymore. :-S

The thing in the foreground in the second is a...instrument panel. >_>

This part i left out on my first post: now for the edit:

Thanks, glad you liked the first. :)
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.MiLo_Anderson
04/03/07 2:06 AM GMT
Is that lens still on warranty? if so id send it in. It doesn't take extremely long (6-8 weeks i think it took for them to fix my macro). I would say on a lens like that you want it to be working right. You shouldn't ever have to replace something like that one.
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No one wanted to pay to say something in my sig, so i will have to try and think of something creative now...
.noahnott
04/03/07 2:29 AM GMT
...yeah about that. My dad bought it in Nepal about mmm, oh, 5 years ago or so. I believe it's a so called 'grey market' and didn't come with warranty.

Learned our lesson there. :) I'm just annoyed w/ the 'pieces' of dust inside.

PS: For now, i'm (uh, i mean my dad) arn't too concerened about plopping some $$$ to get it fixed up....especially since I/we don't use it much.
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.noahnott
04/03/07 3:08 AM GMT
Sorry for hijacking this thread...

One more thing, i used 200mm. I just remembered that 200mm is not as sharp as 135mm. So i wanted to see it for myself. I did both at 500th of a sec (handheld) which is more than double the rule of thumb. here. 135mm is by far sharper...it makes the 200mm look blurry and out of focus.
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.Morat
04/03/07 5:13 AM GMT
Here's another from me.


There are a number of firsts for me with this upload. It's the first I've uploaded from my D40, my first widescreen wallpaper and one of my first shots with extension tubes.


It was taken on the kit 18-55 lens at 55mm with 73mm of extension. Shutter was 1/500 and aperture F/16. The ISO is 200 and lighting was from an SB-600 bounced off a home-made paper diffuser. The image has been cropped and reduced only.
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.Morat
04/12/07 7:32 PM GMT
It's been a while since the last post, so this assignment is closed. Thanks to all who participated. Keep an eye out for another.
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+ppigeon
04/13/07 7:53 AM GMT
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