Originally Posted by Harryb On Thursday, October 20th I'll start a thread for folks to post their assignment results and to report their experiences in trying to get the shots. I also hope that folks might have ideas for future assignments.
Pineapple pizza eating contest, with of course wildlife somewhere in the frame
Pineapple pizza eating contest, with of course wildlife somewhere in the frame
Well I asked for ideas. So far we got seagulls and bikini babes and wildife & pineapple pizza. Looks like I get to pick the next assignment again.
Harry http://behret.smugmug.com/NANPA member How many photographers does it take to change a light bulb? 50. One to change the bulb, and forty-nine to say, "I could have done that better!"
Since food is the best subject how about wildlife eating? Not "eating wildlife", but "wildlife eating", just to be perfectly clear on that. How's that sound Harry?
How about animals in funny/unusual shots ?? Non-typical poses....situations etc. Not your usual "view" of the "stereo-typical" shot. Perhaps even something a bit abstract??
NOT LIKE THIS:
...................but more like these.
If you don't like this idea..........................
Well I asked for ideas. So far we got seagulls and bikini babes and wildife & pineapple pizza. Looks like I get to pick the next assignment again.
Oh heaven forbid and
I haven't even got a decent shot for the 1st one yet :cry
Ok thinking ahead
working with the light is always good work/assignment ??
i. e. ;
sidelight, backlight, sweet light (of course with wildlife as the subject)
"Show us your best Light" sorta thing or maybe just shows us your wildlife in a particular kinda of light
working with the light is always good work/assignment ??
i. e. ;
sidelight, backlight, sweet light (of course with wildlife as the subject)
"Show us your best Light" sorta thing or maybe just shows us your wildlife in a particular kinda of light
Not to knock that idea...but IMO that thought should ALWAYS be part of the shot if situations permit. After all...."capturing light" is what we are doing...and it's kind of what it's all about. To use that as a subject/theme seems kind of....... well..."standard operating procedure". If you are not looking for that "special light" from the beginning.... :uhoh
Picture yourself in a boat on a river,
With tangerine trees and marmalade skies
Some birdy calls you, you raise it quite slowly,
Your camera with Canon L glass.
Yellow Legged Egret with plumage well preened,
Flying right over your head.
Look through the lens but the sun's in your eyes,
And it's gone.
wildlife in the air in context.
Seriously, I do like some part of "light" for an assignment. The reason I like it, I don't usually notice light as much as I should. I am more of a "subject" photographer.
Well I have completed the first assignment but im getting bummed out for the rest.You see the birds are getting harder and harder to find out my way as many are migrating south.The deer will be harder to find very soon as people start plugging them full of holes (damn),and soon our daylight hours will be very short as well.I have many funny and interesting lighting type of wildlife shots but I wont be able to use them because they wont be in the date required to be shot in.
Oh well I can post in the first one and then sit back and watch the rest:cry
Keep clickin.....ice
I took a picture once
but they made me give it back.
Well I have completed the first assignment but im getting bummed out for the rest.You see the birds are getting harder and harder to find out my way as many are migrating south.The deer will be harder to find very soon as people start plugging them full of holes (damn),and soon our daylight hours will be very short as well.I have many funny and interesting lighting type of wildlife shots but I wont be able to use them because they wont be in the date required to be shot in.
Oh well I can post in the first one and then sit back and watch the rest:cry
Keep clickin.....ice
That is a bummer. I'm gonna try to keep these assignments as geographically neutral as I can. I'm also considering a longer span for the assignments so folks will have two weekends instead of the one they had on this one.
Harry http://behret.smugmug.com/NANPA member How many photographers does it take to change a light bulb? 50. One to change the bulb, and forty-nine to say, "I could have done that better!"
That is a bummer. I'm gonna try to keep these assignments as geographically neutral as I can. I'm also considering a longer span for the assignments so folks will have two weekends instead of the one they had on this one.
Oh, Harry, the longer time will help me a lot. Not that I don't shoot, but in the last week I have shot a month's worth of photos, and that is without my husband here to go with, drive, complain, whatever.............
I am just whipped.
ginger (now I don't know how to slow down, but I could learn.) I am having "find the birds" problems too. That is not to say I could not find another bird, after a break, I could go back to the shrimp place. It is just that other than that place, I am so "tide" dependent. Plus what birds have gone south.....you know "south", as in Florida............
And the ones I find, they are not tethered to me, nor are they interested in putting on a show. For some strange reason they see me as a threat. They are extremely smart except for the fact that their MaMa done told them that if they don't move an inch, and certainly don't fly, they will be safest.
That night heron. He moved three times. I was there, my dogs in the car for over an hour, and he moved three times. WHEN I WASN't looking for some reason, or had given up. He flew from one place to a dock, I have a gazillion photos of him on the dock, just waiting for him to move.............would he, no! Not until I got back in the car surrounded by dogs. Then he went to the trees............. And I said, "sorry dogs"! So then I finally got one/two shots as he was very uncomfortable perched in the bush/tree.
I did get two or three very boring egret shots, worked them up before I went to bed. I kept the horizon tilted in one just for interest. Remember the "happy tilt", well I shot it and kept it. I always get a comment on that.
One thing to remember is that we have roads surrounding very wide open spaces. The birds here can stay as far away as their food and need for personal space permits.
Also, if it is confined to raptors, I am dead meat. I am not seeing them in general.
I do like the idea of light, even if that is confining as to "time of day", but I would prefer a specific light assignment so that light can continue to be assigned in one way or another.
As an aside, while working this assignment and other things, I got "sweet light" bird shots.
They are UP IN THE AIR, not for this assignment, and I never got a chance to post them. But they started as Golden Yellow, remember that bird, Harry, that you posted for weird natural colors on the Rutt thing, well that is what my birds were.
The ibris, they had the decency to be reddish, but the night heron, wonderfully shot, but IN THE AIR, was the most godaweful color.
What do you all do? I might get around to posting them.
I'm unsticking this thread as I will be starting the assignment thread stickies soon. There will be a sticky to post your pics and a second sticky for comments about the assignment and the work posted. If the feedback about the assignment idea is positive we will do another assignment selected from the recommendations received so far. If the feedback is eeeh then we can say we tried.
Harry http://behret.smugmug.com/NANPA member How many photographers does it take to change a light bulb? 50. One to change the bulb, and forty-nine to say, "I could have done that better!"
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NOT LIKE THIS:
...................but more like these.
If you don't like this idea..........................
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Oh heaven forbid and
I haven't even got a decent shot for the 1st one yet
Ok thinking ahead
working with the light is always good work/assignment ??
i. e. ;
sidelight, backlight, sweet light (of course with wildlife as the subject)
"Show us your best Light" sorta thing or maybe just shows us your wildlife in a particular kinda of light
My Galleries
Flicker
G+
Sorry, I would like to be able to think in all ways..........I have not mastered that skill, yet.
ginger
"Osprey Whisperer"
OspreyWhisperer.com
Wildlife in the Air in Context
Picture yourself in a boat on a river,
With tangerine trees and marmalade skies
Some birdy calls you, you raise it quite slowly,
Your camera with Canon L glass.
Yellow Legged Egret with plumage well preened,
Flying right over your head.
Look through the lens but the sun's in your eyes,
And it's gone.
wildlife in the air in context.
Except Australopithecus afarensis was an ape.
Noticing the light would be "good" for me.
ginger
Oh well I can post in the first one and then sit back and watch the rest:cry
Keep clickin.....ice
but they made me give it back.
http://behret.smugmug.com/ NANPA member
How many photographers does it take to change a light bulb? 50. One to change the bulb, and forty-nine to say, "I could have done that better!"
Oh, Harry, the longer time will help me a lot. Not that I don't shoot, but in the last week I have shot a month's worth of photos, and that is without my husband here to go with, drive, complain, whatever.............
I am just whipped.
ginger (now I don't know how to slow down, but I could learn.) I am having "find the birds" problems too. That is not to say I could not find another bird, after a break, I could go back to the shrimp place. It is just that other than that place, I am so "tide" dependent. Plus what birds have gone south.....you know "south", as in Florida............
And the ones I find, they are not tethered to me, nor are they interested in putting on a show. For some strange reason they see me as a threat. They are extremely smart except for the fact that their MaMa done told them that if they don't move an inch, and certainly don't fly, they will be safest.
That night heron. He moved three times. I was there, my dogs in the car for over an hour, and he moved three times. WHEN I WASN't looking for some reason, or had given up. He flew from one place to a dock, I have a gazillion photos of him on the dock, just waiting for him to move.............would he, no! Not until I got back in the car surrounded by dogs. Then he went to the trees............. And I said, "sorry dogs"! So then I finally got one/two shots as he was very uncomfortable perched in the bush/tree.
I did get two or three very boring egret shots, worked them up before I went to bed. I kept the horizon tilted in one just for interest. Remember the "happy tilt", well I shot it and kept it. I always get a comment on that.
One thing to remember is that we have roads surrounding very wide open spaces. The birds here can stay as far away as their food and need for personal space permits.
Also, if it is confined to raptors, I am dead meat. I am not seeing them in general.
I do like the idea of light, even if that is confining as to "time of day", but I would prefer a specific light assignment so that light can continue to be assigned in one way or another.
ginger (two weekends would help.)
They are UP IN THE AIR, not for this assignment, and I never got a chance to post them. But they started as Golden Yellow, remember that bird, Harry, that you posted for weird natural colors on the Rutt thing, well that is what my birds were.
The ibris, they had the decency to be reddish, but the night heron, wonderfully shot, but IN THE AIR, was the most godaweful color.
What do you all do? I might get around to posting them.
ginger
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How many photographers does it take to change a light bulb? 50. One to change the bulb, and forty-nine to say, "I could have done that better!"