Assignment #30: Half

NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
edited April 20, 2007 in Assignments
Frame-by-frame turned out to be a bit more challenging that the others.
While you can continue to submit entries to it (as well as to all the prior topics, just remember: fresh pictures!) let's switch to something a bit simpler. Maybe even 50% simpler. Let's shoot half!

This week assignment is to frame only one half of your primary subject. Half of a face, half of a car, half of a glass, half of the building, etc. Your entry should deliver the message of showing the half. Your half should be bold and unambiguous.
Note: pictures of a spouse/bf/gf do not count :deal, as do not the images of half of a family (unless you prepped it with a chainsaw :wink).

Fresh pictures only (as always).
For the rest of the basic rules and index please check out this sticky.

Let's get some halves!
"May the f/stop be with you!"
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  • Annie222Annie222 Registered Users Posts: 69 Big grins
    edited April 7, 2007
    Half of Teddy
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited April 7, 2007
    Annie,
    Annie222 wrote:
    Half of Teddy
    w00t! clap.gif
    Great entry, thanks a lot! thumb.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • Antonio CorreiaAntonio Correia Registered Users Posts: 6,241 Major grins
    edited April 7, 2007
    My proposals for Half
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    All the best ! ... António Correia - Facebook
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited April 7, 2007
    Antonio,
    Look who's back from India! clap.gif :-)

    Thanks, I like the last one a lot! thumb.gif Add some PP and it would be a totally awesome image! deal.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • Antonio CorreiaAntonio Correia Registered Users Posts: 6,241 Major grins
    edited April 7, 2007
    Nikolai wrote:
    Look who's back from India! clap.gif :-)

    Thanks, I like the last one a lot! thumb.gif Add some PP and it would be a totally awesome image! deal.gif
    Hello Nikolai.

    Have you seen my proposal for Spring ?
    Excuse me: PP ne_nau.gif

    Cheers thumb.gif
    All the best ! ... António Correia - Facebook
  • JillGJillG Registered Users Posts: 285 Major grins
    edited April 8, 2007
    Half Rose. I bought these roses to try to do something with the current challenge, but they dried out overnight!!! I took some shots anyway and remembered this half thread ( such a good idea:D )and did this shot for here. Jill

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    Jill
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited April 8, 2007
    Jill,
    JillG wrote:
    Half Rose. I bought these roses to try to do something with the current challenge, but they dried out overnight!!! I took some shots anyway and remembered this half thread ( such a good idea:D )and did this shot for here. Jill

    Nice entry, thanks! thumb.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited April 8, 2007
    My half...
    ... and my take on it ...:-)

    sorry, I know it's artsy, could not help it...

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    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • dlscott56dlscott56 Registered Users Posts: 1,324 Major grins
    edited April 8, 2007
    Half a flower
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited April 8, 2007
    Dave,
    dlscott56 wrote:
    half a flower
    Cool, thanks fro the entry!thumb.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • BendrBendr Registered Users Posts: 665 Major grins
    edited April 9, 2007
    Hello Nikolai.

    Have you seen my proposal for Spring ?
    Excuse me: PP ne_nau.gif

    Cheers thumb.gif

    Post Processesing,

    AKA.. Photoshop.
  • ericgtrericgtr Registered Users Posts: 105 Major grins
    edited April 9, 2007
    Lots of cool stuff here everyone! This is my take, I know it's more of a wedge but it is cut in half :D This is my first night with my custom made Bill Hubber light tent http://www.pbase.com/wlhuber/light_box_light_tent so I had a little fun. It's.. well, bright if nothing else lol. I shaded one half of the light with my left hand so it would appear more to be shining through a bit.
  • pyroPrints.compyroPrints.com Registered Users Posts: 1,383 Major grins
    edited April 10, 2007
    mediocre shots, I'll prolly shoot more

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    pyroPrints.com (my little t-shirt shop)
    pyroPrints.com/5819572 The Photo Section
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited April 10, 2007
    Eric,
    ericgtr wrote:
    Lots of cool stuff here everyone! This is my take, I know it's more of a wedge but it is cut in half :D This is my first night with my custom made Bill Hubber light tent http://www.pbase.com/wlhuber/light_box_light_tent so I had a little fun. It's.. well, bright if nothing else lol. I shaded one half of the light with my left hand so it would appear more to be shining through a bit.

    Great technical shot! thumb.gif
    Would you be willing to recrop to match the requirements? If not, fine too:-)
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited April 10, 2007
    Pyro,
    mediocre shots, I'll prolly shoot more

    I actually like #2, wish the wire weren't there...
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • StanStan Registered Users Posts: 1,077 Major grins
    edited April 10, 2007
    I have two very active pigs which are not very good at posing for the camera. After about 30 shots I managed to get a front on, half shot without too much blur, some cropping and lots of rotation gave this

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    Flip and move gave this

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    Cheers
    Stan
  • ericgtrericgtr Registered Users Posts: 105 Major grins
    edited April 10, 2007
    Nikolai wrote:
    Great technical shot! thumb.gif
    Would you be willing to recrop to match the requirements? If not, fine too:-)

    Sure, done. thumb.gif
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited April 10, 2007
    Stan,
    Stan wrote:
    I have two very active pigs which are not very good at posing for the camera. After about 30 shots I managed to get a front on, half shot without too much blur, some cropping and lots of rotation gave this

    Flip and move gave this

    Cheers
    Stan

    Great entry! I like the mirrored image, too:-) thumb.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited April 10, 2007
    Eric,
    ericgtr wrote:
    Sure, done. thumb.gif

    Thanks! Now you got yourself TWO halves:-)
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • ChrisJChrisJ Registered Users Posts: 2,164 Major grins
    edited April 10, 2007
    Fresh capture, not a fresh catch...
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    Caught at an Angels game a couple years ago...
    Chris
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited April 10, 2007
    Chris,
    ChrisJ wrote:
    Fresh capture, not a fresh catch...
    Caught at an Angels game a couple years ago...

    Cheater, it 2/3, not 1/2 lol3.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • ChrisJChrisJ Registered Users Posts: 2,164 Major grins
    edited April 10, 2007
    Nikolai wrote:
    Cheater, it 2/3, not 1/2 lol3.gif
    You be the judge!
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    This is a second shot, not the original... I was only eyeballing it and handholding, but I got pretty close to half! :D Maybe 17/32? mwink.gif
    Chris
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited April 10, 2007
    ChrisJ wrote:
    You be the judge!

    This is a second shot, not the original... I was only eyeballing it and handholding, but I got pretty close to half! :D Maybe 17/32? mwink.gif
    OK, smartlens (tm:-), can we finally get the "half"? mwink.gif
    Cropping is OK :-)deal.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • ChrisJChrisJ Registered Users Posts: 2,164 Major grins
    edited April 10, 2007
    Nikolai wrote:
    OK, smartlens (tm:-), can we finally get the "half"? mwink.gif
    Cropping is OK :-)deal.gif
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    rolleyes1.gifroflrolleyes1.gif
    Chris
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited April 10, 2007
    Yay!
    ChrisJ wrote:
    rolleyes1.gifroflrolleyes1.gif
    We've got half-a-ball!clap.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • Antonio CorreiaAntonio Correia Registered Users Posts: 6,241 Major grins
    edited April 11, 2007
    Nikolai wrote:
    Look who's back from India! clap.gif :-)

    Thanks, I like the last one a lot! thumb.gif Add some PP and it would be a totally awesome image! deal.gif
    May be this one is better ... ne_nau.gif
    :D
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    On the right is the older version.
    All the best ! ... António Correia - Facebook
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited April 11, 2007
    May be this one is better ... ne_nau.gif
    :D

    It is, it is... Although.. do you think you can turn it CCW 90 degrees and take a shot with the handle cropped at the middle? Maybe even the whole vessel heightwise...
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • Antonio CorreiaAntonio Correia Registered Users Posts: 6,241 Major grins
    edited April 11, 2007
    Nikolai wrote:
    It is, it is... Although.. do you think you can turn it CCW 90 degrees and take a shot with the handle cropped at the middle? Maybe even the whole vessel heightwise...

    My idea of half in this case is/was not to show half the jar but to point that the water is at half height inside it.

    I did not want - I still don't - cut the jar at half - in the photo - just to justify the picture.
    The idea is to show the half behind ...

    A glass of whine half full is also a glass of whine half empty ...:D
    Whine or whatever.

    Remember when the assignment was one ? I shot one Euro.
    That was a poor way to do the assignment.

    Half would be, for example, to shoot 50 cts which is in fact 1/2 Euro.

    See what I mean ? Did I made myself clear ?

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    All the best ! ... António Correia - Facebook
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited April 11, 2007
    Antonio,
    See what I mean ? Did I made myself clear ?
    thumb.gif

    The idea of this assignemnt is exactly to cut the subject in half - compositionally. deal.gif
    Trust me on this :-) mwink.gif
    We'll get to the half-empty/full concept some other time... iloveyou.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • ChrisJChrisJ Registered Users Posts: 2,164 Major grins
    edited April 11, 2007
    See what I mean ? Did I made myself clear ?

    Hi Antonio, I see what you mean now... but only after you explained it. Nik's directions called for "Your half should be bold and unambiguous" and I think the water misses that mark slightly.

    Cool shot though...
    Chris
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