LPS#18 seconds or milliseconds? frustration

VisualXpressions

I really don't get the theme this time? First of all these are both units of time, not really oposite themes... All I can think of is shooting something fast or faster... I'm really having a hard time with this concept... does anyone else feel this way? or do you get it? if so please explain your thoughts or ideas? It makes it even harder without guidence or input from Master Shay, the mighty and all powerful LPS Guru... :bow Anyway, I took a break and enjoyed watching LPS 17 developments from the sidelines, thinking I would jump back in this round... Now my mind is decaying trying to get wrapped around this concept of shooting seconds or milliseconds... I keep thinking I should shoot a running stop watch...:huh

Winston

Ozone

VisualXpressions wrote:

I really don't get the theme this time? First of all these are both units of time, not really oposite themes... All I can think of is shooting something fast or faster... I'm really having a hard time with this concept... does anyone else feel this way? or do you get it? if so please explain your thoughts or ideas? It makes it even harder without guidence or input from Master Shay, the mighty and all powerful LPS Guru... Anyway, I took a break and enjoyed watching LPS 17 developments from the sidelines, thinking I would jump back in this round... Now my mind is decaying trying to get wrapped around this concept of shooting seconds or milliseconds... I keep thinking I should shoot a running stop watch...

Winston

As near as I can tell, this is about quick and very fast. But seconds can be a minute, etc. and milliseconds can be a second. You catch my drift, I hope. Actually, a stopwatch with the old sweep type second hand, perhaps with the second hand in motion blur against a runner in the background might be a millisecond or even seconds type of picture.

I hope you aren't as confused as before. I have several ideas, but it will take some time to work them out. (I have the time-I'm on vacation until Jan.)

Greensquared

From my point of view, since these were stated to be technical rounds, I understood it to mean using slow or very fast shutter speeds. Obviously there will be multiple interpretations of the theme, as there always are, but I beleive that stopping motion or showing motion in any way will cover this one.

Have fun with it...there really are so many possibilities!

PaulThomasMcKee

Just a couple of alternative ideas for "Seconds" :

1) A geographic measurement system
b) Off-quality, defective, or substandard
iii) What you didn't get when your hungry partners got there first :eat

Milliseconds:

Going back for the tiny extra sliver of pie a thousand times (guilty).

pyroPrints.com

Greensquared wrote:

From my point of view, since these were stated to be technical rounds, I understood it to mean using slow or very fast shutter speeds. Obviously there will be multiple interpretations of the theme, as there always are, but I beleive that stopping motion or showing motion in any way will cover this one.

Have fun with it...there really are so many possibilities!

if you're shooting ar 1/1000 you're only capturing 1 millisecond of light if you're shooting for a full second, you'll capture quite a bit more light ande depending on what you're shooting there can be a lot of motion in that shot.

VisualXpressions

pyroPrints.com wrote:

if you're shooting ar 1/1000 you're only capturing 1 millisecond of light if you're shooting for a full second, you'll capture quite a bit more light ande depending on what you're shooting there can be a lot of motion in that shot.

Soooo... basically you're saying, any really great shot using a real fast shutter speed or a real slow shutter speed... makes sence, I guess...

Winston

Tango

i have been brainstoming also....
more like hit my head on the wall

anyway, i may be way off, but i think im going to do a night shot of the local airport with 60sec exposure....
also i was thinking of doing the freeway at night....
i just dont know....
i figured there would be 10 entries of clocks.....

so to answer you : i dont get it either...i would like to see hours instead of seconds...or maybe years....

maybe it is all about the shutter speed....?

Travis

PaulThomasMcKee wrote:

Just a couple of alternative ideas for "Seconds" :

1) A geographic measurement system
b) Off-quality, defective, or substandard
iii) What you didn't get when your hungry partners got there first :eat

Milliseconds:

Going back for the tiny extra sliver of pie a thousand times (guilty).

Does that mean that it is okay to reshoot the gluttony sequences??? Sign me up as the subject.

pyroPrints.com

VisualXpressions wrote:

Soooo... basically you're saying, any really great shot using a real fast shutter speed or a real slow shutter speed... makes sence, I guess...

Winston

Yeah, but shooting a stationary object with really faster shutter speed, in my opinion wouldn't meet the theme. That shot can be made regardless of the shutter speed. Its capturing the motion over time that will make this shot fir the theme IMO. I could be wrong, but thats how I understand this challenge.

richtersl

I was struggling with this theme too. The notion of speed crossed my mind as did Paul's notion of "seconds" .

Never did think of the off-quality or defective perspective.

This ought to be a most interesting round once it gets going.

TylerW

Why'd they have to do this topic once the race season is over and done with!?:cry

Aequitas

pyroPrints.com wrote:

Yeah, but shooting a stationary object with really faster shutter speed, in my opinion wouldn't meet the theme. That shot can be made regardless of the shutter speed. Its capturing the motion over time that will make this shot fir the theme IMO. I could be wrong, but thats how I understand this challenge.

Or capturing a shot NOT over time... Like freezing something that you would not typically be able to see. A flash only lasts about 1/5 a milisecond on the long end.

LiquidAir

My center-of-the-road take on this theme is

Seconds = significant blurred motion
Milliseconds = dramatically stopped motion

Beyond that, I think there is plenty of room to play with time in this theme. It looks like a lot of fun to me.

HoofClix

VisualXpressions wrote:

... All I can think of is shooting something fast or faster...

Hey, the way I read the theme, it says secondS or millisecondS, not second or millisecond, so we can also see it as meaning perhaps "slow or slower" (slow or more slowly) depending on adjective or adverb. The plural indicates that there can be multiples of the time increments. So the photo can represent a lot of things...

OK, back into the philosophy classroom for a little while!

peterst6906

LiquidAir wrote:

My center-of-the-road take on this theme is

Seconds = significant blurred motion
Milliseconds = dramatically stopped motion

Beyond that, I think there is plenty of room to play with time in this theme. It looks like a lot of fun to me.

I had the same first take on it.

To me, the millisecond theme relies on the decisive moment concept, triggering the shutter at just the right time to freeze the motion in a scene, whereas the seconds theme is not so much a decisive moment, but capturing movement by blurring time over a longer shutter speed.

Regards,

Peter

squiddd

What about a reflecting surface, say mirror or water. One side have a very shot exposure to stop motion, another side have a long exposure to blur motion. The subject can be a waterfall or something.

getchphoto

Ok maybe I will jab you with a second right and a second left! We live in a 3D reality, shooting for a 2D Image to create our own interpretations of whats happening in the realm of the 4D called Time. Its all about time and the brilliance of energy.

jdryan3

PaulThomasMcKee wrote:

iii) What you didn't get when your hungry partners got there first :eat

Well, scratch that one off my alternate meaning list - "Pardon me sir, may I have another?":hotcake

Oh, and I grew up in a family with 5 kids. Seems Mom always made only 6 or 7 of everything: pork chops, cupcakes, you name it!