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Post by Sepiana on Mar 19, 2018 5:02:07 GMT
ATTENTION!!!
There is no longer a "next Sunday" posting deadline. You can grab your camera, take your photo, and post it in this thread any time you wish to.
Hi everyone,
Would you like to participate in the Weekly Photo Challenge? Just take a photo that is your interpretation of the theme and post it in this thread.
- Your photo(s) should be your own, i.e., they should not have been taken by someone else.
- Photoshopping is allowed but should be kept to the basics only rather than a total transformation.
- Grab your camera, experiment, and, most of all, have fun.
NOTE
This week’s challenge comes with a twist. The idea is to take two shots of the same scene, location, person, thing, etc. For the first shot, try to capture most or all of your subject. For the second shot, look for something (a detail) in your subject and capture it. The inspiration for this theme came from these images by tonyw . (Thanks, Tony!) |
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Post by Bailey on Mar 21, 2018 3:27:44 GMT
NOTE
This week’s challenge comes with a twist. The idea is to take two shots of the same scene, location, person, thing, etc. For the first shot, try to capture most or all of your subject. For the second shot, look for something (a detail) in your subject and capture it. The inspiration for this theme came from these images by Tony. (Thanks, Tony!) Hi Sepiana, I think the "images" you refer to is actually one shot because in Tony's original post he states I believe Tony's close up is actually a crop of a single high res photo because he talks about "this shot". Is it ok if members do the same for this challenge as not everyone will have a long telephoto lens or macro lens to capture fine detail and after 2 days (it's 21 March here in Australia) since your post no-one has posted an image yet? |
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Post by preeb on Mar 21, 2018 7:27:47 GMT
NOTE
This week’s challenge comes with a twist. The idea is to take two shots of the same scene, location, person, thing, etc. For the first shot, try to capture most or all of your subject. For the second shot, look for something (a detail) in your subject and capture it. The inspiration for this theme came from these images by Tony. (Thanks, Tony!) Hi Sepiana, I think the "images" you refer to is actually one shot because in Tony's original post he states I believe Tony's close up is actually a crop of a single high res photo because he talks about "this shot". Is it ok if members do the same for this challenge as not everyone will have a long telephoto lens or macro lens to capture fine detail and after 2 days (it's 21 March here in Australia) since your post no-one has posted an image yet? You don't need a telephoto or macro for this theme. I plan to do it all with one lens. It may be a zoom lens, but I don't have any of those really wide range zooms. I'll probably use my 70-200, which is less than a 3:1 zoom factor. I'll do most of the "zooming" with my feet. What you could do is use a stitched pano for the broad view, then move closer and take a single image for the detail shot. I like this theme because it lets me pick my own subject, and my creative juices seem to do better when I'm not trying to focus on something that I know I'm not very good at. |
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Post by Bailey on Mar 21, 2018 7:47:10 GMT
no problem preeb  I didn't say you have to use anything. I was just asking if cropping was an option because "zooming with your feet" is not always an option if you need a long telephoto lens and you don't have one  |
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Post by dennis9 on Mar 21, 2018 8:28:07 GMT
Bailey, I am going to take (gentle) issue with you. The point you made about using a single shot to produce two images is a valid one. However, I think one could also make a case in favour of such an approach: surely it is permissible to use one’s imagination plus the technology we have at our disposal to highlight a salient detail in any shot we take. If we can make two shots out of one, I would say this is perfectly permissible. After all, this is not a competition, the aim is to get us all out, using our cameras and having fun. If I can, I intend to try and get a photo using two separate shots, as I think the theme suggests. But I think we can be flexible on this point. If anyone has a different point of view, other opinions would be welcome.
Dennis
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Post by Bailey on Mar 21, 2018 9:14:15 GMT
This week’s challenge comes with a twist. The idea is to take two shots of the same scene, location, person, thing, etc. For the first shot, try to capture most or all of your subject. For the second shot, look for something (a detail) in your subject and capture it. The inspiration for this theme came from these images by Tony. (Thanks, Tony!) Hi dennis, Maybe you misunderstood what I said. It was a simple question "...the same..." being cropping a high res photo to see finer detail, similar to a digital zoom as opposed to an optical zoom. I have a 600mm lens but even it doesn't have the legs I would need to capture the fine detail of the subject I intended to shoot, and zooming with my feet is definitely not an option for the subject. Maybe I am taking the 2 shot requirement (highlighted in red above) too literally. |
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Post by tonyw on Mar 21, 2018 11:46:46 GMT
I like the theme and I’m sure any approach would be fine - or try more than one!
BTW that original clock photo was in fact two shots from roughly the same spot at two ends of a zoom lens Both were also cropped and had some perspective adjustment applied especially to the second to make it look more up close. So a bit of every approach except moving my feet!
Tony
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Post by kdcintx on Mar 21, 2018 19:09:39 GMT
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Post by kdcintx on Mar 21, 2018 19:11:23 GMT
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Post by tonyw on Mar 21, 2018 21:43:07 GMT
I was at a local historic oil field today which still produces oil in the same way it was done back in the 1850's and they have life size displays dotted around depicting life as it was then - this is one of the bigger ones. The overall shot was actually two shots stitched together as my lens wasn't quite wide enough to fit everything in without backing into a fence. The close ups of the tin man and tin horse were a combination of zooming in and moving up closer.  Tony |
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Post by dennis9 on Mar 22, 2018 16:30:54 GMT
This very early eighteenth century dovecote in Beddington Park, Surrey replaced an earlier Tudor structure and supplied the nearby Carew Manor with poultry meat and eggs. It housed about 1360 nesting boxes and an internal rotating staircase which gave easy access for egg and bird collection. The wooden turret highlighted below enabled the birds to come and go.
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Dennis
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Post by hmca on Mar 22, 2018 20:44:34 GMT
Traveled a bit along the shore on this snowy Spring day. I thought seeing a snowman on the beach might be a bit novel for some of you.   |
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Post by bobharron on Mar 22, 2018 22:01:24 GMT
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Post by bobharron on Mar 22, 2018 22:03:48 GMT
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Post by bobharron on Mar 22, 2018 22:09:49 GMT
This shot tower was built in 1856 and was used to make shot during the civil war. Lead was melted at the base of the tower, hoisted to the top, poured through screens of different gauges, tumbling smoothly round as it fell into the water vats below. The shot was then sorted and packed. When completed, the tower could produce between 6 to 8 tons daily. image.ibb.co/jjm2LH/POW_8.jpgimage.ibb.co/cB1DSx/POW_7.jpg |
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