September 2012 Photography assignment - Circles

**casil403** · 09-03-2012, 11:24 AM

Hi members -

It's September 2 and no assignment ideas yet.

Who has level 1 and level 2 ideas?

Thx!
Marko

Maybe for level 2 we could investigate the "black card technique" I'm getting ready to give it a try and it would be interesting to compare notes with others to gain some understanding of method. It's kind of dodging a shot on the fly and looks promising for landscape photography where high contrast (in sunsets especially) has to be effectively handled to render a properly exposed image. Normally we would shoot HDR or mess around in post to achieve this but the black car technique gives us another more natural method. I have still yet to try it though.

This seems like in camera dodging which is very cool. I found a flickr group on it Hanjié's Blog: Black card photography Part I and another link. Hanjié's Blog: Black card photography Part I

For regular assignment, here are a few ideas:
- the mouth
- red

Level one idea ..how about Circles?

I like circles for level one!

For level 2 - how about black on black or Low key subjects

I just saw this and it looks like fun!

19 More Creative Mirror Self Portraits

There's no consencus so I'm going to make the call.

Regular assignment - Circles
Level 2 assignment - Mirror self portraits

merging suggestion posts now.
Thx - marko

**Marko** · 09-04-2012, 08:57 AM

Ok members - suggestion posts have been merged and the regular assignment this month will be circles.

Ok then - who will post first?

The level 2 assignment can be found here.

**casil403** · 09-06-2012, 08:17 PM

Well [I] guess [I] might start first...I realize this fall outside the parameters of theassignment guidelines; that is I took it in May, however I did not process it until now thinking it would be perfect for the assignment...I hope that is ok with me bending the rules a little...

**Iguanasan** · 09-06-2012, 09:10 PM

While the purpose of the assignment is to encourage everyone to get out and shoot we also don't mind bending the rules from time to time. Nice addition, casil.

**edbayani11** · 09-07-2012, 07:16 AM

Took this early this week thinking Black on Black would be for level 2 and I thought I could 'shoot' two birds with one stone.

**Iguanasan** · 09-07-2012, 08:12 AM

Very interesting, Ed. I like the way it's lit with rim lights defining the shapes.

**Runmonty** · 09-07-2012, 08:18 PM

Nice start so far Casil & Ed.

I think this is a great assignment. The more you think about about it the more ideas just keep rolling in. Here is my first one.

6 sec exposure - lit with a moving giveaway key-ring LED torch

cd1 by runmonty, on Flickr