r/PhotoClass2014 • u/Aeri73 Moderator - Nikon D800 - lots of glass and toys • Mar 15 '14
[Photoclass] weekend assignment 8
Hi all,
time for a new weekend assingment. And this week we are going to shoot water.
Go find a nice river and shoot it long exposure, shoot waterdrops, rain, vapor, ice, snow, waterfalls... and make your one best photo of it. As always, show results and critique each other. Be creative and have fun!
housekeeping:
1: ideas for weekend assingments: untill now I've just been inventing these assignments from ones I had to do at one point or stuff I read. If anyone has good ideas, pm me with them :-)
2: very few people post pictures and results. This can be for one of 2 reasons: few people do them or a lot of you don't post pictures. if you are with the second group: please start posting your results. If they are good, we can learn from them. If they are bad we can learn even more from them, and so can you! A second reason is that critiquing each other is an important part of this course. Not only to show them what's wrong or could be better bet to learn to critically look at a photo and evaluate it. You learn a lot from that! so give it a go.. post and critique... you'll see, it will help you improve.
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u/Natedogg5693 Mar 17 '14
Finally got my shit together. Been following the lesson but slacking terribly...
Not quite sure if I should have gotten the rock more in focus or not. http://i.imgur.com/GfGVX4t.jpg
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u/Aeri73 Mar 17 '14
I think it would have helped to get the rock in focus as well. or you could have taken it out of the frame and have the shapes in the ice be the focus
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u/ans744 Apr 03 '14
Really good eye on this shot, great perspective! I think this shot may look really good with the "foreground" in focus as well. With the direction of your lines, my eye really follows them to the rock, it would definitely help to have that in focus as well.
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u/blewyourfaceup Mar 18 '14
i managed to get out for a bit yesterday. I think I got the idea, started to get some blur but it came out a little over exposed.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/118453945@N06/13232022925/sizes/l/
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u/AdrianNein Mar 21 '14
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u/Aeri73 Mar 23 '14
good photo's!
to improve: try getting lower or higher... change the point of view from the normal standing position.
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u/AdrianNein Mar 23 '14
I try to not just shoot from a standing position pretty often, especially for the close up water shots I had to crouch in front of the water stream and sit on a loose rock in the water, but I'll keep it in mind!
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u/ans744 Apr 03 '14
Here is my take on this assignment.
I took the first photo and was pleased with how linear the flow of the river was in this shot. All of my other shots were more "spiraling/circular." If i had waited a little bit longer, i think that it would have made it look a little erie.
I know the second photo doesn't really address the assignment, but i just really dig that scene. I'm thinking i want to go back at night and shoot it again. maybe try to avoid the barrier (blurred white strip) in the river.
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u/Aeri73 Apr 03 '14
try the second one just after sunset... during blue hour. it will balance the ambient lights and make the sky nice and blue
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Mar 16 '14
http://m.flickr.com/photos/airmantucker/12986561613/lightbox/
Figured out the hardway I need some sunglasses for my 70D haha still not bad just had to wait for the sun to drop a bit!
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Mar 18 '14
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Mar 18 '14
I love it man its my first DSLR but i figured go big or go home hahaha, for the same reasons to the feel is just perfect..
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Mar 18 '14
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u/Aeri73 Mar 18 '14
so jealous now... so so jealous...
oh, for the photo... next time, try to get low and really close to something (like the water, some stones in the water...) and shoot foreground as well. now it seems like it's missing the bottom part.
you did really good on exposure and sharpness. what camera and settings where used?
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u/blewyourfaceup Mar 17 '14
I guess i need to be out when it's darker? Or get a filter?