The theme for this Assignment is: Texture. This has TONS of possibilities, so everyone should be able to come up with something.

Guidelines (just to keep us all on track)

* Photo(s) must relate to the Theme in some way. Creative relation to the theme is certainly allowed (and encouraged). Anything that is related in some way is legal.
* Assignment is officially over!
* Only photos that have been shot within the assignment date range are allowed.
* No signup is required, participation is encouraged regardless of skill or equipment level (after all, its not the camera, it’s the photographer,)…we’re here to have fun.
* Photo size limit: 800px on the longest side
* Basically, photograph however you like and normally do…whatever photography is to you. As many (or few) bodies/lenses/formats//Post-processing as you’d like. Sticking to basic PP is encouraged, tho’.
* If you’d like, post brief but relevant photo information and note PP (if any) is done (*Free GIMP software*). Maintain EXIF data if possible.
* Keep comments on topic, constructive, and considerate.
* posting finals shots in diptych or triptych form is strongly encouraged.
* Have fun!

Thread format shamelessly cut and pasted from Satan's post. Thanks.

what is diptych or triptych?

Texture seems cool.

A diptych or a triptych is two or three (respectively) in this case individual photos or portions of photos shown together as a set. Usually sharing some theme or content in common.

what am i testing?

Originally Posted by distorto

what am i testing?

?

Originally Posted by distorto

what am i testing?

My patience?

OK, so an example of that is Ben's 2-3 shots of the sheep that are in the same style, of teh same/similar subject? Thanks for clarifying.

ps-shouldn't this be assignment #5

Originally Posted by jacobsen1

The theme for this Assignment is: Testure.

just making sure i am not the only one that knows we should study for this one.

Haha!

Sandy texture

[img width=800 height=534]http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1379/1348754481_aa0487cf25_b.jpg[/img]

Camera: Pentax K100D
Exposure: 0.008 sec (1/125)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 55 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Exposure Bias: 3/2 EV
Flash: Flash did not fire

Date and Time: 2007:09:09 00:04:20

Yeah, if you hadn't already figured it out, I copy and paste from the previous assignment and just change the date's assignment... I also did this last second as I ran out the door Friday so hence the assignment 4/6 and testures... Anyway, yes, textures, diptych or triptych if you can, and lets have some fun. I have a bunch of good ideas, but didn't get to any this weekend and have a boat show both days this coming weekend, so I'll have to find/make time this week.

Nice sand shot wyn. That was one of my ideas...

But there is lots of texture at boat shows, you are bring a camera with you right?

Scott

of course, but I'm not sure what I'll see there....
I have other, more fun ideas....

Toooooooooooooo slow Benny boy! :P





Thanks!

OK, what I have so far (I have another idea if I have time, and I'll be looking for fun stuff at the boat show Saturday):


rain on sand:


I guess the local deer also like to walk on th beach...

I just noticed this assignment ends on the 17th (I'm not very good with time). I start a string of 5 doubles in a row starting today, so I hope I can pull off something on Monday!

BTW, that super narrow DOF makes your shots look very 3D, Ben. Very cool!

yeah, I'm loving the 1.4 so far... And if you can't get something up "in time" it's not like anything happens for shooting/posting late.

first it was the wide angle, now Ben has discovered shallow DOF. He probably doesn't know the lens has apertures other than 1.4!

*cough* one of those is at f/2.8

my 50 spends alot of time at 1.8...not quite 1.4, but it works for me.

Originally Posted by jacobsen1

*cough* one of those is at f/2.8

Ahh a slip of the finger!

Here's what I've come up with. Playing with and LOVING my new Sigma 10-20... to anyone who's on the fence, just doooo eeeet!!!



Going to search for more textures now...

Mark

I'm excited to get the 10-20 Mark, its on my birthday/xmas list so hopefully the fiancee picks up all the hints I've been giving her.

out playing today... thought this had some texture



re shot it today at iso 100... looks better IMHO alot crisper... just auto level/contrast and border on both

OK, here's my shots so far. I'm not super happy with them and especially not happy that I left the ISO at 1600. I have no idea how it got there, I thought I had checked it to be sure it wasn't set wrong even. Its evident in the noise in the photos, but I didn't do any NR to get rid of it.

I also added Ben borders to try them out and try out the tutorial. I made them b&w also, which I'm not sure if I like or not.


Camera: Canon EOS Digital Rebel
Exposure: 0.02 sec (1/50)
Aperture: f/4
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 1600
Exposure Bias: 0/3 EV


Camera: Canon EOS Digital Rebel
Exposure: 0.04 sec (1/25)
Aperture: f/3.5
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 1600
Exposure Bias: 0/3 EV


Camera: Canon EOS Digital Rebel
Exposure: 0.033 sec (1/30)
Aperture: f/3.5
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 1600
Exposure Bias: 0/3 EV



I have another idea, but not sure if I'll actually do it or not.

Originally Posted by thechickencow

I'm not super happy with them and especially not happy that I left the ISO at 1600. I have no idea how it got there, I thought I had checked it to be sure it wasn't set wrong even. Its evident in the noise in the photos, but I didn't do any NR to get rid of it.

im glad im not the only one. i was kinda pissed mine shot at iso 1600 also. i plan to reshoot it tommorow if i can, see if i can get a cleaner image. good thing its just sitting around behind our workshop up here at camp :P

very nice guys.
I didn't get a chance to shoot anything else over the weekend. I took my P&S to the boat show and snapped a few shots of interesting boats, but nothing for this as I left my 5D at home (it was pouring all AM and I knew my bag would be heavy enough with the brochure's we'd be picking up and our wet weather gear once it got nice...)

Also great work with borders. It really dresses up the images IMHO.

Ya know, I'm really not sure the 1600ness bothers me that much, especially with the B&W, it gives it a graininess. The only one that really bugs me is the noise in the darker spots of the first one. Of course, they all look worse in the small sizes than the bigger ones on my comp, but oh well.

w00t for brownie points for using teh "ben border"

I'll have to make some of my own and automate them so its easy.

the grain isn't all that bad as it is. w/o exif I would have just guessed you needed it for the light available.

Also, what's with the border in one, it's missing the white at the top and bottom?

I think its cause I resized after I did the border, it'd be easy enough to fix I suppose.

yeah, that will do it with the 2 pixel wide white boarder. I resize my images down to 758 first, then add the white and black.

Well, here it is in all its glory. I've had no time lately, so I carved about an hour out tonight to try and pull this off.




This is a road cut that ascends through about 200 vertical feet of Texas limestone, representing about 50 million years of deposition during the lower Cretaceous. Behind the shot and downhill you can find bivalve clams and snails. At the level of this shot you can find urchins. Further up the hill you can find corals.

Being a geology geek, I thought this was some pretty cool texture.

Tardy seems you sight is down this AM.
Sounds like a cool spot, can't wait to see the pic.

Scott

Originally Posted by porschewrx

Tardy seems you sight is down this AM.
Sounds like a cool spot, can't wait to see the pic.

Scott

Back up? And you're sure to be disappointed.

Originally Posted by tardypizza

Back up? And you're sure to be disappointed.

Not yet.

It's been there the entire time Porsche, what's your problem?

I don't know I'm at home and I don't have a fire wall.

I can see it too. Looks great, what'd you use to light it?

Did you check the exif ? That's almost 3 minutes of exposure, during which I was running around like a mad man with a flash and some gels. Hurry up dammit and recharge! I flew thru 2 sets of nimh's trying to get a correct exposure.

Not sure about the colors, I like the blue and yellow, but the green doesn't seem to help the rock at all.

TBH the colors almost distract from the texture, which looks like it should be really interesting.

Yeah, the blue/yellow seem to give the most contrast. If I had it to do again I would only use either the blue or yellow gel and that might emphasize the texture. But towards the end last night my flash was taking about 10 seconds to recharge, and it took about 6 flashes through the blue gel to get that exposure.

Oh well, it was fun anyway.

I might try it with longer exposure times to get more natural light on the foreground. You'll also get better star trails. Then I'd use some flash or flashlight to fill in a bit or add some contrast/color to the rock walls.

I can see, I can see and I am not disappointed at all. That is an awesome shot. Any day light shots of the limestone?

Scott

Originally Posted by tardypizza

Did you check the exif ?

since when do you leave us the exif to look at...

Originally Posted by jacobsen1

Originally Posted by tardypizza

Did you check the exif ?

since when do you leave us the exif to look at...

Huh?? It's there, I swear!

Originally Posted by porschewrx

Any day light shots of the limestone?

Scott

Not yet. Still looking for that elusive freetime.

Originally Posted by tardypizza

Huh?? It's there, I swear!

Yes it is, you just don't normally leave it intact... I'm so used to not being able to get it I don't bother with right clicking on your shots anymore... I will now though.

Originally Posted by jacobsen1

Yes it is, you just don't normally leave it intact... I'm so used to not being able to get it I don't bother with right clicking on your shots anymore... I will now though.

I've been leaving it intact for some time now, I just never told anyone.

i don't understand how you did the lighting. would you mind explaining it?