So, you’re probably wondering what happened with the latest krishenblog assignment. Well, I had no submissions, but I did get bites from three people, and they all needed more time. So, rather than just saying that is that, I am extending the deadline to next Friday, October 27th, at noon. If you haven’t told me you’re going to submit something, it’s not too late!
A recap, the assignment is to submit six pictures: three of patterns, and three of texture. Patterns are obvious enough, but I needed a little help with the definition of texture, so here it is again: it’s the way in which light strikes a subject, making surface features visible. A photo of a man’s beard would be a good example of texture.
When you’ve got your photos ready, resize them if you wish — I’ll take as large as I can get, but please no smaller than 800×600 — and send them off to my gmail account: asterizk at the gmail dot com. Please include a small description of each.
What I’ll do is that when noon rolls around next Friday, I’ll gather up all the photos and feature them here, and we can have a look and see what everyone came up with and perhaps discuss a bit, see if we can learn something from each other. It should be good fun!
And with that I’m off to do some laundry and chase around a plastic disc a bit 🙂 Have a good afternoon, and I’ll be checking back in shortly.
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Assignment
Remember, the krishenblog assignment is due this Friday! it’s pretty simple: send in 3 pictures of patterns, three of texture (how light reflects off a surface). Do I have any takers?
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So what’s new? …and krishenblog assignment
Well, for starters I’m taking a photography class. It’s an introductory course, but I wanted to start at the start, so I here I am. It’s less about the technical aspects of using your camera, and more about the art of photography, so that’s perfect for me. Having had my camera since 2002, we know each other pretty well.
That said, we covered F-stops vs shutter speeds on the first day 🙂 Wheee… it’s gonna be fun. At the end we have to present a portfolio, and somewhere along the way, we have to do a presentation on a photographer of historical significance of some kind (our choice). So that’s pretty neat. And I convinced Louis to take the class with me, so that’s pretty fun too! Our first assignment was to bring in 3 pictures of both patterns and texture (the way light strikes a subject), so last Saturday I traipsed about Sarasota in search of things to photograph.
And photograph them I did. I took 88 photos that day; shortlisted 33 and picked out these six (click for bigitude):
What do you guys think? It was actually a pretty fun assignment; if you’re up for it, I’d love to see what you come up with. Send your shots to my gmail account, and next Friday and I’ll post whatever I’ve got. Again, three shots of texture (how light hits a subject) and three of patterns.
Anyway, I’m pretty happy about the class so far. Our next class is a field trip out to Siesta Key to take some long exposure shots, so that’ll be fun. Last class we were out in the parking lot and had one of our classmates drive his car by so we could take slow-shutter shots of his taillights 🙂
Also, just in case any of you are trying to decide on a movie, do not see: Flyboys (okay special effects, not much else), Employee of the Month (a few laughs, but not quite enough to be worth it), or, especially, The Marine. After that film you’ll be wishing you had spent the last 90 minutes getting a root canal. On the plus side, at least it was short.
