Weekly Assignment #63: Paper

NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
edited April 22, 2008 in Assignments
Welcome to the new Year 2008! :clap
The winter break is finally over and our Academy is back in full swing.

Our very first subject of this school year is gonna be paper. :wink

Try to find an interested way to present it.
It can be the texture of the heavy gauge artistic paper, or a translucency of the parchment, or a gentle curve of a half-turned page...
Fresh pictures, moderate post-processing only.
Let's get your papers started! :thumb
"May the f/stop be with you!"
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  • weronikaweronika Registered Users Posts: 44 Big grins
    edited January 9, 2008
    Cool idea!
    Wow, I love this assignment idea! We'll see how long I manage to stick around...

    Here's a first try on "paper".

    I hope my photo attachment actually worked...
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited January 9, 2008
    weronika wrote:
    Wow, I love this assignment idea! We'll see how long I manage to stick around...
    Here's a first try on "paper".
    I hope my photo attachment actually worked...
    Weronika, thank you, nice entry!thumb.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • SystemSystem Registered Users Posts: 8,186 moderator
    edited January 9, 2008
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited January 9, 2008
    captain78 wrote:
    shredded paper and paper on a table
    Captain, welcome to the Class!
    I like the shredded version, interesting take. thumb.gif It would be even better if the crop was tighter, methinks.
    The second one leaves me cold. While there is some paper in the frme, it does not act as a primary subject IMHO. ne_nau.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • SystemSystem Registered Users Posts: 8,186 moderator
    edited January 10, 2008
    How's this look with the tighter crop?
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited January 10, 2008
    captain78 wrote:
    How's this look with the tighter crop?
    Better thumb.gif , but I now think I would simply fill the whole frame with it. It would give you more dynamic range on paper only, so you don't have to adjust for the black b/g.
    Oh, and btw, please don't delete/modify your original entries, simply make a new one. Otherwise it kinda ruins the logic of the thread, since there is no sense in what's being discussed. deal.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • SystemSystem Registered Users Posts: 8,186 moderator
    edited January 10, 2008
    Thanks for your comments....Sorry about deleting the first one.
  • SystemSystem Registered Users Posts: 8,186 moderator
    edited January 10, 2008
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited January 10, 2008
    captain78 wrote:
    cropped
    Yeah, I think this is about as much as you want to go "in" without reshooting mwink.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • Antonio CorreiaAntonio Correia Registered Users Posts: 6,241 Major grins
    edited January 10, 2008
    This is more like "In the kingdom of paper" type :D

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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited January 10, 2008
    Antonio Correia wrote:
    This is more like "In the kingdom of paper" type :D
    All I see is plastic binders :-( ne_nau.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • Antonio CorreiaAntonio Correia Registered Users Posts: 6,241 Major grins
    edited January 10, 2008
    Nikolai wrote:
    All I see is plastic binders :-( ne_nau.gif

    Sorry but those are paper binders !
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited January 10, 2008
    Antonio Correia wrote:
    Sorry but those are paper binders !
    aaaaaahhhhh. ooookaaay.... paper... yeah...thanks!thumb.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • Antonio CorreiaAntonio Correia Registered Users Posts: 6,241 Major grins
    edited January 10, 2008
    Nikolai wrote:
    aaaaaahhhhh. ooookaaay.... paper... yeah...thanks!thumb.gif

    I am serious Nikolai.

    I just showed what you wrote to my wife and she said that you have never seen these kind of files, so you may think it is plastic but it is not.

    Anyway: If it was not paper I would not post it ! mwink.gif

    I will try something that is not so dubious.

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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited January 10, 2008
    Antonio Correia wrote:
    I am serious Nikolai.

    I just showed what you wrote to my wife and she said that you have never seen these kind of files, so you may think it is plastic but it is not.

    Anyway: If it was not paper I would not post it ! mwink.gif

    I will try something that is not so dubious.

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    I believe you. It's a carton/think paper folders/binders. I vaguely remember similar things from USSR.deal.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • MooreDrivenMooreDriven Registered Users Posts: 260 Major grins
    edited January 10, 2008
    Two entries.......
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    Sorry, a bit more serious this time.....
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited January 10, 2008
    MooreDriven wrote:
    Two entries.......
    Sorry, a bit more serious this time.....
    2d one is nice, thank you!thumb.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • MooreDrivenMooreDriven Registered Users Posts: 260 Major grins
    edited January 10, 2008
    Nikolai wrote:
    2d one is nice, thank you!thumb.gif

    I had planned to do a shredded paper version, but Captain78 beat me too it!

    I couldn't help myself with the first one. My daughter thought it was funny, so it got posted. Sorry, did not intend for it to be tacky! No pun intended.:D
  • OffTopicOffTopic Registered Users Posts: 521 Major grins
    edited January 11, 2008
    OK Nikolai, I made a commitment to myself that I would stop just lurking in Weekly Assignment and start showing my regular attendance by posting. :D
    If I play with this one any longer I'll never get around to posting.

    I decided to try side-lighting to emphasize texture (well, it was side-lighting until I rotated the photos rolleyes1.gif), hand-made paper with botanical stuff. Turned out to be a lot tougher to light then I thought it would be - started out trying with a strobe set up to light directly across the paper, but the shadows were just too harsh for this delicate paper no matter what I tried. Ended up using late afternoon sunlight coming in through a window.

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    Exif here

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    Exif here

    If nothing else it got me playing with my lights for a few hours (and deciding I need a softbox). nod.gif
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  • AzzaroAzzaro Registered Users Posts: 5,643 Major grins
    edited January 11, 2008
    Nikolai........Does this work.....they are drawings from my sketch book...AZZAROheadscratch.gifscratch

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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited January 11, 2008
    Azzaro wrote:
    Nikolai........Does this work.....they are drawings from my sketch book...AZZAROheadscratch.gifscratch
    It does, thank you!
    Nice entry, and very cool sketches!thumb.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited January 11, 2008
    OffTopic wrote:
    OK Nikolai, I made a commitment to myself that I would stop just lurking in Weekly Assignment and start showing my regular attendance by posting. :D
    If I play with this one any longer I'll never get around to posting.

    I decided to try side-lighting to emphasize texture (well, it was side-lighting until I rotated the photos rolleyes1.gif), hand-made paper with botanical stuff. Turned out to be a lot tougher to light then I thought it would be - started out trying with a strobe set up to light directly across the paper, but the shadows were just too harsh for this delicate paper no matter what I tried. Ended up using late afternoon sunlight coming in through a window.



    Exif here



    Exif here

    If nothing else it got me playing with my lights for a few hours (and deciding I need a softbox). nod.gif

    Lori, thank you!
    Very interesting!thumb.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • MooreDrivenMooreDriven Registered Users Posts: 260 Major grins
    edited January 12, 2008
    Azzaro wrote:
    Nikolai........Does this work.....they are drawings from my sketch book...AZZAROheadscratch.gifscratch

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    Nice sketches!! It might be interesting in B&W, and posssibly some noise added. I've always been envious of anyone you can hand draw.

    Dale
  • AzzaroAzzaro Registered Users Posts: 5,643 Major grins
    edited January 12, 2008
    MooreDriven wrote:
    Nice sketches!! It might be interesting in B&W, and posssibly some noise added. I've always been envious of anyone you can hand draw.

    Dale
    Thanks for commenting......I will give adding noise a try.......learning to draw is a never ending process.....but then so is learning photography. AZZARO
  • douglasdouglas Registered Users Posts: 696 Major grins
    edited January 13, 2008
    Turning pages
    Turning Pages

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    Best regards,
    douglas
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited January 13, 2008
    douglas wrote:
    Turning Pages
    What a comeback! Great entry, thanks, Dougals!thumb.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • douglasdouglas Registered Users Posts: 696 Major grins
    edited January 13, 2008
    Nikolai wrote:
    What a comeback! Great entry, thanks, Dougals!thumb.gif

    Thanks alot Nik, enjoyed taking shot very much, and nice to be back.
    Best regards,
    douglas
  • Antonio CorreiaAntonio Correia Registered Users Posts: 6,241 Major grins
    edited January 13, 2008
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited January 13, 2008
    Antonio Correia wrote:
    something
    I have no idea what it is, but I'm gonna assume it's made of paper.
    I looks cool anyway, thanks for the entry! thumb.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • gooniegoonie Registered Users Posts: 8 Beginner grinner
    edited January 13, 2008
    Beach Trash
    First I would like to say how cool "Assignment" thread is

    Second, I'm a total neophyte in the photography world. This is my first photo entry, actually my first postne_nau.gif

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