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Week One "Assignment"
DIR By: ianplant
Date: August 13, 2015, 6:02 am
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Hi everyone, every week I'll give an optional assignment. It
would be great if you can go out and shoot images related to the
week's topic, but I understand that the time constraints of work
and other obligations won't always make that realistic, so feel
free to post old images related to the week's topic if you like.
Or, if you don't have anything old and can't make anything new,
please feel free to post images unrelated to the week's topic
for critique!
This week, I'd like to see your images that have used
backlighting/ contre-jour lighting. It doesn't matter if those
images are of nature, people, architecture, pets, or anything
else. Anything and everything goes (thought try to keep things
decent and professional, of course)!
I don't want to set an arbitrary limit to the number of images
you post for critique in a given week. I think 5 photos from
each of you should be enough, but if you have a few more you'd
like to post, that will probably be fine. Just please don't
flood the gallery with a ton of images. I'll let you know if you
are posting too many for me to handle!
You can post images using the Gallery Tab above - I have set up
a gallery for participants to post their images.
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Re: Week One "Assignment"
DIR By: CB Friedland
Date: August 23, 2015, 6:45 pm
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Hi Ian,
In reading the first weeks handout some questions came to
mind...
Image 1: From the way the light beams are falling from the sky,
it seems like more of the foreground should be lit, not just the
center of the image. Am I seeing this correctly, and is it
artistic choice/vision to darken everything except what is
directly below the sun in this case, or did the rays not fully
reach the floor?
Image 4: (Tree at Mt. Ranier) My less experienced eye would
have passed by this shot (even with the backlight glow) because
I would have seen it as "busy. I see how gorgeous it is… What
makes this work to overcome so much going on? When is "too
much" really "too much? Also, I notice you shot it at ISO 400.
Was there a breeze that you had to speed up the shutter? If
not, what does ISO 400 get you here that ISO 100 wouldn't?
Am I ready too much into things when I see that you have shot
most of the backlit photos in the handout at ISO 400?
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Re: Week One "Assignment"
DIR By: ianplant
Date: August 23, 2015, 7:08 pm
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Hi CB, thanks for your questions. Here are my answers. ;D
For the sunbeam shot, the sun beams were only hitting the forest
floor in that one place. Everything else was in shadow.
For the backlit tree in Mt. Rainier National Park, regarding ISO
400, I choose that speed in order to increase my shutter speed
because there was a breeze that was moving the trees. As a
general matter, if I shot something higher than 100 ISO, it was
probably because I was trying to increase my shutter speed to
avoid motion blur. Regarding making busy scenes "work," I'm
always trying to find a way to simplify the composition by using
a bold and prominent shape to focus the viewer's attention. So,
with the tree shot, the bold line of the tree trunk helps
simplify and organize the composition. With most of my complex
compositions, you will usually see something like this going on
- I've made a strong shape the focus of my composition, or I've
made it my foreground - for example, read the "visual anchor"
section of the Week Two PDF, that's strongly related to what I
am talking about here.
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