May 2010 - Photography assignment - Vintage

I know it's early but I thought I would throw it out there:

Ideas anyone?

Beginnings and Endings -up to you to define what either of those are.
Depth of field (shallow or deep) and bokeh
Minimalism
Reflections
transportation modes - if it gets you there it gets you in here!
Slow/fast shutter speeds - play with your shutter.

That's all I got...lol.

April showers bring May flowers...or is everyone sick of flower shots? I know that I am not yet.

In Canada May brings us Victoria Day. Maybe something "Victorian"? Architecture, furniture, someone named Victoria?

I like all of these ideas. Another one that's been percolating in my brain is photos that show off your area. Ones the could be in a tourism magazine or ones that show the darker side of your area.

Flowers is a good idea but I don't want to do seasons as we have people who's seasons are opposite to us.

"May I" something you have to ask to photograph.

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Originally Posted by Greg_Nuspel

"May I" something you have to ask to photograph.

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That would certainly make it challenging for some of us! :)

"May I" would be a challenge.

Adding to the list, found objects. I'm thinking of the stuff I find washed up after the spring runoff. You wonder why people were wearing some of the things I find.

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Originally Posted by QuietOne

"May I" would be a challenge.

Adding to the list, found objects. I'm thinking of the stuff I find washed up after the spring runoff. You wonder why people were wearing some of the things I find.

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or why they took them off!

I forgot to post in my list of ideas "Repeating Patterns" also....just remembered now. :headslap:

Abstract
Overexposure
Graffiti
Motion

Well, architectural fragments but I do that all the time anyway, so why not portraits in landscape or horizontal orientation? That is something that you have to ask for. (May I?) Plus portraiture is very challenging.

I think that in honour of our own Greg Nuspl turning 50 we should do a 'vintage' theme. It could be done either via treatment or subject matter.

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Originally Posted by Bambi

I think that in honour of our own Greg Nuspl turning 50 we should do a 'vintage' theme. It could be done either via treatment or subject matter.

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OOOOOH I like that one! :thumbup:
I vote that! :clap:

I like the ode to Greg's 50th, vintage idea as well :D

If we do vintage..can anyone do up a post on techniques.

I for one..have no clue how to do that effect.

But... I've always wanted to learn how..

WB marko..i gather you had a great time off. :P

Well that must mean I'm getting better with age like a fine wine, or just rusting out a creaking at the joints.

Being new here I am not sure what you have done but how about having the assignment theme be WATER. There is lots to play with from bubbles, reflections, dynamics of water in mid-air(sprinklers, or dogs shaking off water) to the different look of wet objects/scenes. Of course, we can also play with longer exposures, and lighting. Plus it might just be that excuse to get out on that rainy day :P

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Originally Posted by Mediahaze

Being new here I am not sure what you have done but how about having the assignment theme be WATER. There is lots to play with from bubbles, reflections, dynamics of water in mid-air(sprinklers, or dogs shaking off water) to the different look of wet objects/scenes. Of course, we can also play with longer exposures, and lighting. Plus it might just be that excuse to get out on that rainy day :P

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We had water so many times...
We need to start challenge us more.

Vintage it's a nice idea.

Vintage is a nice idea....

how about food?

Vintage sounds good and btw happy birthday Greg!

I guess I can submit a self portrait
I'm thinking "vintage" is the winner this month. :)
I'm looking forward to this one.

I am thinking "vintage" pretty much gives us carte blanche to torment Greg for a whole month so why not? We did do nostalgia last May, however.

Tormenting would be a funny assignment ;-) - I'll go with vintage too!

woo hoo! I'm in! Perhaps Greg could start us off with a self-portrait :p

I kinda like the darker side of where you live

Hi members!

Vintage had the most support so that's the theme this month. It's quite a wide open term actually so I drool with anticipation at the potential creativity here.

BTW - You've been WOWING my pants off recently, please continue :p :footinmou

OK then - who will post first?

I guess it's me. Took a tour around a property my friend bought.
this is an old hinge on an old shed. :D

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3471/...3218f516_b.jpg

Nice start bambi - cool shot!

Ok I'll bite...McDougall Center in Calgary built 1907 as seen through a fish eye lens.....

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4009/...9dc4bbc2_o.jpg

giddy-up casil - well done!

Thaks Marko...loving that fish eye...I was dissuaded from buying it from several sales people b/c they say it is kind of gimmicky but I like the distortion and I have used it quite a bit since getting it last week. The Tax Gods were especially kind to me this year. :D

I'll trade you tax gods mine were cruel.

Andrew playing with his wooden garage, processed in photo shop.

Nice one there too Richard and Bambi love the old weathered door...great texture!
The old Alberta Boot Company which now sits empty:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3480/...96905fcc_o.jpg

A vintage processing of a previous shot done in Lr 3 Beta 2

Is this vintage? Halifax Law Courts, 1860.

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if this isn't vintage I don't know what is. From the Tower:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3363/...0029cc2524.jpg

I took this images a few summers back while visiting the West End of the Olympic Peninsula and Ruby Beach.

Best to ya'all, Ernst

Ok, I'm not digging the resolution on this post. The image is very sharp. ;-(

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Originally Posted by Ernst-Ulrich Schafer

I took this images a few summers back while visiting the West End of the Olympic Peninsula and Ruby Beach.

Best to ya'all, Ernst

Ok, I'm not digging the resolution on this post. The image is very sharp. ;-(

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Hey, Ernst. I suspect the image was > 1024 pixels or > 250KB. In either event the image is automatically resized by the board software and can get quite soft when that happens. Also, just a note - not a problem - but the idea of the assignment is to get out and shoot something during the assignment month. Leave this one here, it's an interesting image nonetheless but now the challenge is to find something vintage before the end of May :) Cheers.

- Wonderful vintage shot of Andrew RICHARD - very well done!
- Nice vintage processing Edg!
- Iggy - I like your shot, and composition. it's sort of vintage because of the age of the building. Buuuut.....processing looks modern for the way this was shot.
bambi - Love it - very cool shot and processing
Ernst-Ultich - I just love, love the feel here - Totally captures the vintage mood. There's no hard a fast rules for the assignment but most of us try to shoot something new as opposed to finding something old that fits. If you feel the creativity, of course please feel free to post again in this thread.

Mine to come soon.... got my thinkin' cap on tho. :)

Yup uploading directly is totally fine but please keep the image under 250K or the forum software will compress the file which will affect sharpness. personally, I upload all my images at around 100-200k and have never had a problem.

My Bad!!! Thanks for the heads up and I will keep that in mind for the future.
Also thanks for the comments.

That is a very cool shot Ernst-Ulrich Schafer!

Wheel hub of a B18 bomber that crashed into a mountain in 1942 -

http://wickeddark.smugmug.com/Hikes/...10_KpGYZ-L.jpg

Yay! Great images! Going to have to get my butt in gear!

Halifax Law Courts, 1860... Is this more appropriate then?
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Cool shot WD! I prefer this PP to your original Iggy - sorry to make you work extra :D

Tried a technique out..only took me two hours to get it done..lol. Will try more once I get out shooting hopefully this weekend (if the rain would ever give)

So a shot from the kids at the fair a couple of days ago..tried to give it that..a polariod long faded from sitting in a box for decades look.. 2 hours seems way to long for what I ended up with though..

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4046/...7e25dc53_o.jpg

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Originally Posted by Marko

Cool shot WD! I prefer this PP to your original Iggy - sorry to make you work extra :D

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No worries. It was worth it. I like it better too.

Playing with Lightroom 3 left me with something leaning towards an antique photo. Not sold yet. More to come.

Two older shots and slightly different approaches to mimicking old photographs in a digital medium -

http://wickeddark.smugmug.com/Nature...6_ghBeY-XL.jpg

http://wickeddark.smugmug.com/Archit...14_FXoZ6-L.jpg

Both were done using Lightroom presets as a base and then playing with the sliders. They're actually the same river as well - the Souhegan, separated by 50 miles or so in totally different towns and taken months apart. Kinda weird.

Jack Sinclair Cabin in Banff:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4047/...e48426ee_o.jpg

Antique Door knocker:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4035/...d319b3b6_o.jpg

I came across this photoshop tutorial on creating a vintage look. Some of you might be interested.

Flickr: Discussing Vintage Film Effect in Technique

I took this shot with this exact assignment in mind. You might recognize it as Casil's tub. My grandparents had one of these. We used to use it as kids to keep the pets we found: frogs, polywogs, and once, a turtle

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4030/...dfb089fb_b.jpg

That door knocker is amazing! I would love to know who and how that was made :P

Basingwerk Abbey was probably founded in 1131 by Ranulf, earl of Chester. Which should get it into vintage bracket.
http://www.photography.ca/Forums/mem...tered-exam.jpg
The abbey has very little left and when I wanted to take images for art exam I realised there was not enough to cause enough interest so I decided to use the images but warp them to an extent where visitors would have a hard time to place where taken. I wanted to make it look like something from Disc World or Harry Potter.
There is a government web site here which tells a little about the Abbey and I have already taken pictures of the other abbey talked about and when I look at my album on here it seems all the images from what I had considered for exam as "Structures in the landscape" would fall into vintage.
This is the image entered for exam except reduced in size.

Old Paddock at Cochrane Ranch:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4039/...7c721f4a_o.jpg

My father took this photo in old format 120 film. I can estimate the time frame because there are other pictures of me at about 8 years old. I scanned the negatives, did dust and scratch removal and added the frame. Vintage, yes. (There are no longer any grain elevators like these on the prairies.) Original, no.
Mike

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4006/...8583a766_b.jpg

Love the elevators Mike...my Uncle Joe used to paint them...he would travel all over Alberta and Saskatchewan to paint the old elevators. :)

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4028/...d35ef858_o.jpg

Oh the McDougall United Church is lovely. Not just subject but way taken one feels it would take you straight to alter.

I'm loving the variety here folks. Great job!

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Originally Posted by casil403

Old Paddock at Cochrane Ranch:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4039/...7c721f4a_o.jpg

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This is a wonderful picture. I saw the picture on my desktop at first but later on I happened to be looking at the forum on my iPhone and noticed that there was a sepia background to it. But on my desktop in Firefox, the background is completely white and blends into the page, so I only see the wood fence and frame and the hill in the background. I checked in Google Chrome, where it is white as well, with no border visible to the picture. I far prefer this version. But in Safari on my desktop, the sepia, sort of noisy/grainy background is visible, right up to the borders of the photo. So I checked on my Macbook using Safari and Firefox. In both browsers on my Mac the sepia is present. Again it's much darker with the sepia tone. So I was wondering what you intended, and if this sort of difference in the way browsers render photos is common?
Mike