Thread: Photography Task Week of August 05, 2007

Nice, Pj! I like the lighting, and the guy's gaze is perfect for the feel of the shot. I'm amazed that the sun didn't white out the whole shot, even that early - it must have been pretty cloudy/smoggy!

Originally Posted by thegnome54

Nice, Pj! I like the lighting, and the guy's gaze is perfect for the feel of the shot. I'm amazed that the sun didn't white out the whole shot, even that early - it must have been pretty cloudy/smoggy!

Thank you!

It was EXTREMELY humid - the sun rose an angry red. I was getting a nice bounce off of a light colored building just off to my right, helping to give some definition and keep it from being a total silhouette. I shot it at around 70mm, 100 ISA, program mode.

I'm a bit torqued though - hadn't noticed before, but there's ANOTHER oil spot on my sensor - just below center right. I just went through the cleaning ritual the day before.

That is my only gripe about this otherwise wonderful camera - a Canon 350D... it tends to splat the sensor from time to time from who knows where, and cleaning is delicate and difficult.

Thank you for the comments! I'm glad to see this thread - and might suggest starting a new thread each week rather than just keep stringing this one along. People can keep posting to the relevant thread if they wish even after the task is "complete." It will make a nicer gallery, methinks.

Originally Posted by pj

Thank you for the comments! I'm glad to see this thread - and might suggest starting a new thread each week rather than just keep stringing this one along. People can keep posting to the relevant thread if they wish even after the task is "complete." It will make a nicer gallery, methinks.

With your permission, I think that'd be great. We should probably start anew next week, but this one's already started so it would be a shame to move on now.

To the general public - if anyone wants to suggest a task/theme for next week, feel free to pm me - I'm bound to run out of ideas after a few weeks and I'd like this whole thing to be as interactive as possible so it won't get boring.

I thought it might be cool to make each week have a 'winner' who gets to choose the next week's theme, so that there's more incentive to post things, but I'm not sure if I want this to be competitive, and I have no idea how we would manage the judging. Maybe we could pick a name out of a hat from everyone who completed the task of the previous week, or something? I'm totally fine with coming up with them all myself, but it might be more interesting this way. Any suggestions?

Has been a beautiful day today so I took advantage of it and got some motion pictures of me watering the plants: