August 2010 Photo Challenge

lost my camera at the weekend :( Hope it turns up before the end of the competition as I had managed to grab a couple of shots that seemed to work.

This theme has certainly made me look at things differently!
 
StormFeather said:
lost my camera at the weekend :( Hope it turns up before the end of the competition as I had managed to grab a couple of shots that seemed to work.

This theme has certainly made me look at things differently!
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Oh nooo, hope you find it!

I know what you mean about looking at things--at first I couldn't think of anything, and after a while everything seemed to qualify! Oh look, five horses lined up at the fence...there's a field of sunflowers...hmm, clouds...and so on. :D
 
Here's my second shot. I wasn't going to use this one because of Mouse's flower shots, but in the end I decided it was different enough from hers, conceptually - plus I really like it and despite having many ideas, haven't managed to capture them to my satisfaction, mostly because its been raining raining raining! (Not that I'm unhappy about it - we haven't had a year like this since about '98 ;))

I love moments like this. I did not have to "engineer" this shot. I was photographing flowers in the garden under the pepper tree (those pics were almost identical to Mouse's, being much the same idea) when I noticed this rather extraordinary juxtaposition. It had been rainy, windy, and then the sun came out. I was just lucky enough to be there with a camera.

Mr Happy

 
OK I'll play before its too late:
2 of my cameras-both Canon, both SLRs but technically quite differenty-one digital, the other film:

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Well, I was thinking outside the box a little bit. I wanted to get a reflection shot for something different, cutting in the new with the old in post (everyone else seemed to do the side-by-side shot, so didn't just want to repeat that theme). That never came together, though. So the more I thought about it, the more this said 'the same but different' to me. It's the exact same thing that so many of us use on a day to day basis (I believe you might have used one to snap your pics in the competition, yeah?) but it couldn't be more different. Same but different.

I guess I'll see how successful I was when the voting comes around. Which, as a reminder, will be in about twenty-four hours time, people! Get your last minute entries in!
 
Culhwch said:
Well, I was thinking outside the box a little bit. I wanted to get a reflection shot for something different, cutting in the new with the old in post (everyone else seemed to do the side-by-side shot, so didn't just want to repeat that theme). That never came together, though. So the more I thought about it, the more this said 'the same but different' to me. It's the exact same thing that so many of us use on a day to day basis (I believe you might have used one to snap your pics in the competition, yeah?) but it couldn't be more different. Same but different.

I guess I'll see how successful I was when the voting comes around. Which, as a reminder, will be in about twenty-four hours time, people! Get your last minute entries in!
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Ah I see! Well for the 2 cameras shot I used my third camera- a Panasonic Lumix FZ7, and for the grasses shot I used the Canon 10D dslr.
 
Each one the same but different to Kodak's trusty Box Brownie!

I think it was Ansel Adams that said there are two people in every photograph - the photographer and the viewer. I'm hoping the latter is thinking about the former when viewing my subject...
 
ah very subtle Cul, and quoting the great Ansel. His books the Camera, The Negative and The Print, were my bible, I still miss working in the darkroom and still haven't brought myself to dismantle it. I used the zone system religiously when taking photos and also used it in the darkroom.
 
Yea I loved my time in the darkroom I had while on my photography course, during which time I studied the work of Ansel Adams as well as my favourite, Edward Weston.
 
For me at least Adams just edges Weston out but of course they were contemporaries who worked together and respected each others work. I think I prefer Adams' work because he tended to go for the full range of max black to max white (my own preference) whereas Weston tended to go for the mid tones. But it is a pretty close run thing.
 
Vertigo said:
For me at least Adams just edges Weston out but of course they were contemporaries who worked together and respected each others work. I think I prefer Adams' work because he tended to go for the full range of max black to max white (my own preference) whereas Weston tended to go for the mid tones. But it is a pretty close run thing.
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Well for me Adams was more the pictorialist, chocolate box type of photographer, whereas Weston was more the artist-more expressive-and obsessive! He would spend days on one subject, till he got it to look exactly how he wanted it. But both of them are photographich soldiers-they went out and paved the way with their huge, heavy cameras-especially Adams who would carry his 10x8 (10x8!!) plate camera on a hike, up and down mountains. Can you imagine the quality of a 10 inch negative!!:eek: Or today, a 10 inch sensor (they do in fact exist!)
 
I am a great one for landscapes which probably also explains my preference, as Adams focused more on them than Weston did. Incidentally if you want to see some brilliant contempory mountain photography you should check out Gordon Stainforth, I much prefer his work to the better known Colin Prior. I have two of his books The Cuillin and Eyes to the Hills both contain simply superb (colour) mountain photography. Mostly taken on a Hassleblad but also some on a 4" x 5" plate camera. He sometimes pitched a tent and waited several days to get a single shot!
 
Hope I'm not too late.......... Off out in a sec, so I'm rushing....


I've gone for the idea of "The same old mineral/rock/geode, but taken in a different way".

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(Silicone Carbide taken with a macro lens.)



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(Art geode taken with a red filter and a macro lens.)
 
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