Thread: LGK Photography Challenge #2

Blurker, those mixing board shots are NICE. I like the cool color tone.

And rinkrat, I LOVE the neon sign shots!! Awesome exposures! They evoke a certain feeling.... and somehow I can't stop thinking of Charles Bukowski....

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Just a heads up: Ovation channel is doing a photography show marathon today. Looks like some pretty good stuff. I'll put this in the DSLR thread too...

LOVE the shots rinkrat something about neon signs always gets me

Added another.

Still battling the weather and a ****ed up schedule with no daylight hours to shoot and stuck inside at night. But added a small set here and should have a few more up before the end of this challenge.

Added new pics to my set. Feeling a bit under the weather this weekend, so there was minimal picture taking, but I managed to get something.

OK, starting to recover from yesterday's Super Bowling, so a round of comments:

Blurker:
Really like the first shot of the board. The angle and the lighting are great, it makes for a very interesting image. My one suggestion for this image would be to crop out some of the headroom above the board. Perhaps cropping to a to a 1.85:1 aspect ratio? I also like the red circles image, I like the way it conveys the texture of the fabric. If I were going to comment on it, I would say I wish the focal plane where pushed slightly so that some part of one of the circles was tack sharp, right now it is pretty close to the left hand circle, but slightly in front. Nice shots.

RR:
Nice shots of the neon signs! I agree with OVB, they do have a nice feel to them. When you posted those shots from the Derby Dolls, I could help but think that they would be perfect for this challenge, so I'm glad to see that you included them, and the Doo Dah Parade is the epitome of color

FBJ:
I like the B+W conversions you are doing (the one of the dinosaurs is fantastic). With the one posted here, are you adding any noise to the image? All the others from that body are so clean, so with Puckmonkey talking about noise, I was wondering if you were adding some to this shot. I like it, either way, it adds some texture and feeling.

OVB:
The Tack Attack is fantastic! How did you get some of the shots that look like they are stuck into a mirror (shot #1)? Really great. I think that the color balance is the best on the tacks that are against a black background, the colors of the tacks really pop, where with the first two tack shot the color balance feels off, and the tacks aren't as saturated. The tacks into the newspaper are nice as well, but they also feel a little of color balance wise (the paper feels too warm). But I love the idea and concept of the shoot.

Thanks, ValleyFan. Actually the first two were tests to see if the concept worked (shooting up through glass, and with a mirror on top for some), and after hanging the black background and shooting lots, I made the amateur mistake of thinking they looked sweet (in the LCD review), breaking everything down, importing to the computer and finding that there were lots of problems. I wasn't happy with most (and the good ones were too similar to post), so decided to throw in the tests. One more shoot and I probably coulda nailed it. Anyway, I have a p&s pic of the setup in case your interested.

But I was ready to move on to my next subject, and was pretty excited about it.... Until.....

Originally Posted by ValleyFan

8 Second Stop Light:

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I may post mine anyway, as the shots are already taken. But you got exactly what I wanted and couldn't pull off: One 6 or 8 second exposure covering the 3-light progression. Had only a small time window yesterday (around noon), chased by the rain with the skies ultra-bright and glary. So had to take three separate shots--one of each light. Since I *finally* got my first copy of photoshop on Saturday from a friend, started cutting out the lights to put them onto one single image. I'm having fun with it--and it's going to look slightly different than yours--so hope you don't mind if I post it later in the week.

btw... your other new ones are well done, and look VERY cool. Everyone is posting good stuff, but you and FBJ, RR and PuckMonkey are definitely showing your experience.

Originally Posted by OTTo VoN BLoTTo

I may post mine anyway, as the shots are already taken. --so hope you don't mind if I post it later in the week.

By all means, please do. I think FBJ was pretty on the money about duplicate subjects, it can be very informative and a good learning experience to be able to compare two peoples interpretation of the same subject.

Originally Posted by OTTo VoN BLoTTo

but you and FBJ, RR and PuckMonkey are definitely showing your experience.

Experience??

HAH!!!

Have I got YOU fooled or WHAT?!

The reality of it all is that I've only really been taking this photography thing seriously for a little over a year. I personally feel I have a LONG way to go, especially in the creativity department, to come anywhere near some of the other images in these Challenges.

I do appreciate the thought, though. Thanks.

BTW, I was absolutely FLOORED by the thumbtacks! AMAZING composition. I want to know how it was done!