Thread: LGK Photography Challenge #4

LGK Photography Challenge #4

Alright, everyone! Here’s the theme for LGK Photography Challenge #4. "Me" has made his choice for the photographer who best illustrated the theme of Challenge #2 in his photographs, and his choice was Watti! Watti gets the opportunity to choose the next Challenge theme! And here it is, as chosen by our good friend, Watti!

MOTION

Watti sez: "I want to see things that are clearly in a state of motion; shots that literally can never be repeated. A nice sharp, fast exposure of water dripping from a faucet, for example. Or on the other side of the coin, shots that seem to take on a new life with longer exposures, like the surreal look when you use slow exposures on a waterfall. Bonus points for depicting motion in as many different ways as possible, which should keep it interesting and keep us thinking."

Legal Disclaimer: No points of any kind will be given out for any images.

Pictures submitted to this thread should all reflect something to do with the theme. Of course, individual interpretation of the Challenge’s theme is what will make the photographs unique but please, explain the artistic intent of the image if it isn’t obvious! YOUR LGK PEERS ARE YOUR CRITICS, so don’t try pullin’ a fast one!! Please remember critiques are not personal attacks, take them with a grain of salt and apply it towards your art!

PLEASE FOLLOW THE RULES OF THE LGK PHOTO CHALLENGE THREADS, which can be found by clicking the link below.

LGK Photo Challenge Rules

This thread will be heavily moderated (by adhering to the rules) to maintain an easy format. Following the rules will help me keep this thread from straying from its original intent, so "Thank You!" in advance!

This Challenge will end at NOON on Monday, March 31, 2008! You have THREE WEEKS to get your best images into your photo post! REMEMBER, you don’t have to put them all up at once, but you have to have at least one image in your image post to openly critique or applaud others!

Start carrying your cameras with you, everyone! I can’t wait to see what we all come up with!

Please PM me with any questions or concerns!

LET'S GET IT ON!!

Click here for Photo Challenge #1 archived to .pdf.
Click here for Photo Challenge #2 archived to .pdf.
Click here for Photo Challenge #3 archived to .pdf.

Yikes.

Tripod? Check.
Fast Lens? Uh-oh.

This should be interesting.

And here i was glad "X" was gone....

I think this Challenge will be a tad easier than "X" because creativity factors into it more (versus having to find visual elements that make an X and then be creative with it).

That being said, I have no f'in clue how I'm going to approach this one.

Ideas are here... camera is not.

I have a feeling I might be approaching this one with a 7.99 Kodak and hoping for the best!

Damn... and no NASCAR race out here for a few months!

Here's one that would fit the subject, but was taken several weeks ago and I'm using only as an example...

Let's Go Racin' Boys!

Here are a couple that i took a while ago but fall under the subject.

The Blackout Pact


The Darlings




Handplant - Mammoth Mountain



I will take more that are specifically for this project and add them as they are ready.

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Breakfast of Champions
1/160 sec f/7.1 ISO 400, tripod, cheapy light box, Exposure bias +1 1/3

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Page 29 of Every Camera Manual Ever Written
1/3 sec f/18 ISO 100, tripod, Originality bias -4 1/3

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Speed Trap
1/13 sec f/22 ISO 100, 184 MPH, tripod. Exposure bias -4

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Incensed: Redux
1/60 sec f/5.6 ISO 800, tripod. Halogen lighting "barn doored" from the side. Exposure bias +1 1/3

Second batch:________________________________________________



El Monte Zoomer's Revenge
30 sec f/20 ISO 100, tripod

I'm just kinda "meh..." about this image, but have posted it because I've been thinking about doing this image for a while, and I hope to be able to re-shoot it with better results before the challenge is over. See if I have learned anything from my self-critique.

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Army of Me
Continuous shutter snapshot

This isn't for the challenge or open to critique because, a)it's a snapshot, and b) it's got some Photoshop (though nothing advanced). But I figured I would share it since it is a different angle on the whole motion idea. I shot my son's walk along the wall in continuous shutter mode, and when I was sorting the images I noticed how well sequenced they looked, especially with the final frame of him looking back, as if he was leading a gang of himselves somewhere. So I just imported them all into one Photoshop file as layers, and just cut off the parts of each layer that did not include him. What was left was a nifty little composite that is effectively an old school multiple exposure that does a pretty nifty job of showing motion.

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Mysterious Cop Circles
30 sec f/10 ISO 100, tripod

Final Submission:________________________________________________



No Eggs, No Peace: The Inhumanity of The 2008 Easter Riots
1/15 sec f/22 ISO 100, tripod

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