Photo Assignment #3: Perspective

[anaconda]

Use this thread for posting shots previously taken, or current shots asking questions, or just talking about the assignment. We'll open up a different post a few days before the contest assignment ends for you to post your actual submission entry. Your submission entry can be something new or one you posted here, but the picture HAS to be taken between now and Monday April 20th midnight. A winner will be chosen sometime after midnight Monday and announced at that time. The winner will then post the next two week assignment topic and so forth.

The challenge this round is, Perspective. I liked how Duke's reflection challenge would lend itself to so many interpretations. So, along those same lines, the new challenge, perspective, its also open to your own views and (ahem) perspective...

To me the first thing that came to mind when I though of this challenge is the joining of lines and elements on a focal point somewhere on the infinite...where the impossible can happen like parallel lines connecting while still being parallel. Also how perspective can make a subject matter more interesting than just having everything on the same plane. Of course, being there many meanings for the word "perspective" makes this a very open challenge.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v290/anaconda_aggie/Colorado%202007/col3.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v290/anaconda_aggie/Colorado%202007/col12.jpg


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v290/anaconda_aggie/misc2/persp.jpg

This one really "put things in perspective" for me...seeing the joy of a child for whom sitting on a motorcycle and cranking the throttle was good enough to forget about her illness...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v290/anaconda_aggie/SCRC%20National%20Rally--Memphis%202006/memphis49.jpg


So lets go out and find me some perspective!!!! :sun:

[Tracker]

cool. I think this will be fun. I'm debating on taking my camera to Vegas next week.

I thought rotating this pic 90 degrees kinda made it look like the photog was floating in air to take the pic.

http://photos.leavelles.net/photos/505286124_fZZay-L.jpg

[anaconda]

cool. I think this will be fun. I'm debating on taking my camera to Vegas next week.

I thought rotating this pic 90 degrees kinda made it look like the photog was floating in air to take the pic.

http://photos.leavelles.net/photos/505286124_fZZay-L.jpg

Cool shot! Between the 90 degree rotation and that it's in B&W it really makes it look like an abstract artwork.

[BexarWolf]

I wish I could take credit for this shot but it's my wife's.......

http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/259/cranep.jpg (http://img16.imageshack.us/my.php?image=cranep.jpg)

[Azylum]

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m81/zcarninja/my%20photos/livingroom.jpg

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m81/zcarninja/my%20photos/doorknob.jpg

[Janet]

http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff32/jbee101/Florida/DSC_0038-1.jpg


http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff32/jbee101/Florida/DSC_0170.jpg

[ed29]

http://www.twtex.com/photopost/data/586/medium/DSC00631.JPG

[Desert Skies]

This one may have worked better in #2

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/DesertSkies/Yellowstone%2007/IMG_5902_800.jpg

So here's another:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/DesertSkies/Yellowstone%2007/IMG_5988_800.jpg

[anaconda]

:clap: keep'em coming!

[ed29]

http://www.twtex.com/photopost/data/586/medium/DSC00585.JPG

[Desert Skies]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/DesertSkies/Big%20Bend%2002-05/113_1335_800.jpg

[Squeaky]

Perspective both in the view and the introspection...

http://squeaky.smugmug.com/photos/198390475_GGoFq-M.jpg

[BexarWolf]

http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/1433/perspec.jpg (http://img207.imageshack.us/my.php?image=perspec.jpg)

http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/9697/perspec2.jpg (http://img207.imageshack.us/my.php?image=perspec2.jpg)

[Desert Skies]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/DesertSkies/Big%20Bend%2002-05/16e08533.jpg

[Kit_McConnico]

This one may have worked better in #2

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/DesertSkies/Yellowstone%2007/IMG_5902_800.jpg




[QUOTE=Desert Skies;593928]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/DesertSkies/Big%20Bend%2002-05/16e08533.jpg

uhhh, these are awesome. You're right about the first one working better for 'reflection' and I just love the second one with your GS splashing through a creek.

[DancesWithCurves]

http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w245/ckleerun/bike/pedestal_galatyn_md.jpg

[Janet]

A picture that I posted in another thread....

http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff32/jbee101/Florida/DSC_0124.jpg

[gixxerjasen]

This is actually a trail I had just hiked...sideways in some places.

http://www.leanangle.com/jalbum/2007/Nelson%20Ledges%207-17-2007/slides/DSC_4826.jpg

[M38A1]

Not the lines and angles of most, but it IS perspective - isn't it?

http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg237/M38A1_bucket/TxBowHunter/PA16-Fear_sm.jpg

[TexasShadow]

http://texasshadow.smugmug.com/photos/509188053_VafdS-L.jpg

[BexarWolf]

Not the lines and angles of most, but it IS perspective - isn't it?

http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg237/M38A1_bucket/TxBowHunter/PA16-Fear_sm.jpg

:eek2::giveup:

I know more than one forum that would be hammering away at you for a pic like that. lol :lol2:

[sparkyphotog]

Not the lines and angles of most, but it IS perspective - isn't it?

http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg237/M38A1_bucket/TxBowHunter/PA16-Fear_sm.jpg

Now that's cool. Scary, but cool. Unfortunately, several years ago I got that perspective in real life. It was a nice spring day, temp in the 70's and we were cycling (the pedal kind) in Memorial Park when some gang bangers in an old Camero started crowding us off the park road. I was leading and I stuck my hand out to signal we need more room, and the guy in the passenger seat pulled out a .45 and pointed it at my face. :eek2: I kept riding and just stared back at him, not really knowing what else to do. After a few seconds (seemed like several minutes) they just drove off. Place must have been too public to waste us.

Sorry for the highjack, just had a flashback. :shock:

[sparkyphotog]

Motorcycle perspectives...

http://sparkyphotog.smugmug.com/photos/482804863_QtMX6-L.jpg

http://sparkyphotog.smugmug.com/photos/482806819_sxMJ6-M.jpg

http://sparkyphotog.smugmug.com/photos/482807678_btiiX-L.jpg

[TexasShadow]

This one implies a perspective and a story.
Lines aren't always straight or direct. Neither are points of view. Both are perspectives.

http://texasshadow.smugmug.com/photos/509196609_N9HyF-L.jpg

[M38A1]

:eek2::giveup:

I know more than one forum that would be hammering away at you for a pic like that. lol :lol2:

A little background on the 'shot'.... The assignment was "Fear" so I came up with this idea to try and capture a round in the pipe showing lands/grooves and the copper jacket, in addition to having my eye lined up on the front/rear sights. I set the camera on a tripod and used the remote with a few second delay and must have taken 50 shots to get it for what you see above.

So...... no people were in harms way for the shooting of the picture. Only my camera. ;-)

[BexarWolf]

A little background on the 'shot'.... The assignment was "Fear" so I came up with this idea to try and capture a round in the pipe showing lands/grooves and the copper jacket, in addition to having my eye lined up on the front/rear sights. I set the camera on a tripod and used the remote with a few second delay and must have taken 50 shots to get it for what you see above.

So...... no people were in harms way for the shooting of the picture. Only my camera. ;-)

It's most definitely a cool shot. ;-) When I saw it, I remembered a forum I frequent where a guy's avatar was similar. Talk about taking safety to the next level........it was pretty outlandish.

I might have to try it with my 27. Having a shorter barrel may lend to more light getting down the pipe to reveal more lands/grooves....and copper. :clap:

[ceddec]

A little background on the 'shot'.... The assignment was "Fear" so I came up with this idea to try and capture a round in the pipe showing lands/grooves and the copper jacket, in addition to having my eye lined up on the front/rear sights. I set the camera on a tripod and used the remote with a few second delay and must have taken 50 shots to get it for what you see above.

So...... no people were in harms way for the shooting of the picture. Only my camera. ;-)

The look on your face Scott, no more Mr Nice Guy.:eek2:

[M38A1]

The look on your face Scott, no more Mr Nice Guy.:eek2:

I'm harmless. :sun:

"...Hello Mr. Bad Guy. Meet Mr. Sig. He's .40"

[BexarWolf]

This should conjur up some "perspective". :) Taken today.

http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/116/sparky2.jpg (http://img26.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sparky2.jpg)

http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/1796/sparky2bw.jpg (http://img26.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sparky2bw.jpg)

[M38A1]

This should conjur up some "perspective". :) Taken today.

http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/1796/sparky2bw.jpg (http://img26.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sparky2bw.jpg)

Very nice. Donroger1's avatar was the first thought that came to mind. ;-)

[BexarWolf]

Can you tell where we spent a large portion of the day today? LoL

http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/904/houstone.jpg (http://img9.imageshack.us/my.php?image=houstone.jpg)

http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/1012/picket.jpg (http://img8.imageshack.us/my.php?image=picket.jpg)

http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/5823/picketbw.jpg (http://img8.imageshack.us/my.php?image=picketbw.jpg)

[silvElise]

when is the entry thread opening up?

[dixonduke]

when is the entry thread opening up?

Ana will open up an entry thread most probably the Friday before the deadline Monday.

That bridge shot in your ride report is really interesting. I bet you were able to secure many more "perspective" shots on your ride.....

[silvElise]

I did not really think of it :(

The bridge is prolly the one I will enter as only one that really fits.

[liltxfreebird]

I love this one!
http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m277/liltxfreebird/wood.jpg

He was thinking,, ya know, working it all out,, This bull did this almost every morning I took my boys to school...

http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m277/liltxfreebird/Image400.jpg

I love the clouds..
http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m277/liltxfreebird/11-30-08_1350.jpg

[Tim Kreitz]

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y158/TimKreitz/roadtrips/stonesilike.jpg

[ctoons]

If you look closely, you can see the helicopter flying over the mountain...
http://i558.photobucket.com/albums/ss23/ctoons/Photo%20Assignments/P7121141-1.jpg

Leaving Death Valley
http://i558.photobucket.com/albums/ss23/ctoons/Photo%20Assignments/P7010695.jpg

I wish this was a better shot-on top of a mesa in Utah looking at the road below.
http://i558.photobucket.com/albums/ss23/ctoons/Photo%20Assignments/P6270465.jpg

[Tracker]

critique, please. brutal honesty and suggestions appreciated

http://leavelles.smugmug.com/photos/510922566_ByRrn-L.jpg

http://leavelles.smugmug.com/photos/510922445_DmJDa-L-1.jpg

http://leavelles.smugmug.com/photos/510922347_Ldp35-L-1.jpg

[Tourmeister]

It's all a matter of your perspective...
http://twtex.com/linkfiles/041009-GoodFridayRide/IMG_5525.jpg

[M38A1]

critique, please. brutal honesty and suggestions appreciated

http://leavelles.smugmug.com/photos/510922445_DmJDa-L-1.jpg



I'm really digging this one of the three. Your choice of using a focal length to draw me to the first seat is excellent, because that's where my eye goes. I KNOW what the others are and the first sets the stage for the rest. The others sort of tug at where to look. That and about $3.50 will get you a cup-o-joe. :clap:

[seanmhor]

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[seanmhor]

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[Tracker]

I'm really digging this one of the three. Your choice of using a focal length to draw me to the first seat is excellent, because that's where my eye goes. I KNOW what the others are and the first sets the stage for the rest. The others sort of tug at where to look. That and about $3.50 will get you a cup-o-joe. :clap:

Thanks. I don't figure I'll get any better without input. Do you think the chain link shot would be better if the depth of field was less (i.e. the background a little more in focus, but still blurred?)

[M38A1]

Thanks. I don't figure I'll get any better without input. Do you think the chain link shot would be better if the depth of field was less (i.e. the background a little more in focus, but still blurred?)

For me, the fence was just that.... a fence. As there was nothing behind it which could be identified, all I saw was the fence. I'd guess if there were more to keep my focus on what was behind the fence it might work. Or for the really imaginative, the totally blurry is just fine as it could be anything they want. Confused now?

[Tim Kreitz]

Some pictures I took today of an old Army tank over in Big Spring:

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y158/TimKreitz/roadtrips/tankturretperspectivekreitz.jpg

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y158/TimKreitz/roadtrips/tanktrackperspectivekreitz.jpg

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y158/TimKreitz/roadtrips/tankwindowperspectivekreitz.jpg

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y158/TimKreitz/roadtrips/tankundersideperspectivekre.jpg

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y158/TimKreitz/roadtrips/tankboltperspectivekreitz.jpg

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y158/TimKreitz/roadtrips/tanktopperspectivekreitz.jpg

[anaconda]

Judging by the posts so far, I'm beginning to think it I'm going to have a hard time picking the winner once we get the final entries in! :clap:

[Tourmeister]

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y158/TimKreitz/roadtrips/tanktrackperspectivekreitz.jpg

Chain wax or WD-40... :ponder:

[Tim Kreitz]

Chain wax or WD-40... :ponder:

PJ1! :lol2:

'Course, you've gotta buy the special government contractor formula that costs $5,000 per can, but is no different than the civilian version.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[M38A1]

I read and re-read the assignment "Perspective" to get an idea of where Ana's head is on this one. I then spent Easter in downtown Austin trying to figure out if I was right or not. :doh: No PP done, all straight out of the camera. Critiques welcome.

http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg237/M38A1_bucket/Photography/09Perspective025.jpg

http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg237/M38A1_bucket/Photography/09Perspective028.jpg

http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg237/M38A1_bucket/Photography/09Perspective049.jpg

http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg237/M38A1_bucket/Photography/09Perspective082.jpg

http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg237/M38A1_bucket/Photography/09Perspective106.jpg

http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg237/M38A1_bucket/Photography/09Perspective116.jpg

[Janet]

I love the tracks Scott.

[Tracker]

I agree with Janet.
The other shots are nice, but don't grab my attention. The assignment seems to be open to wide interpretation, but focused somewhat on "lines"

The hi-rise under construction, in my ignorant opinion, would be better if focused on the floor designations and excluding the crane. Maybe even a crazy diagonal angle on it? To me, the lens flare is a little distracting, too.

[Tracker]

feeble PP attempt

[M38A1]

feeble PP attempt

I like your line of thinking, er.... "perspective" on the shot.;-)

[poser]

I need to get out and take some pics
some great looking shots in here

[sparkyphotog]

Scott, I like the tracks too. However, I think they could have been framed a little differently so that the line runs through the entire frame. The line of the tracks is the subject matter, but you seem to have too much of the brighter gravel that competes for attention. I also like the reflection shot, and the stair-stepped towers.

All the other images have really good composition, exposure, and color. Your photos are getting better and better all the time! :thumb:

[M38A1]

I love the tracks Scott.

I agree with Janet.

Scott, I like the tracks too. However, I think they could have been framed a little differently so that the line runs through the entire frame. The line of the tracks is the subject matter, but you seem to have too much of the brighter gravel that competes for attention.

Thanks for the input. I may find myself downtown tomorrow if it's sunny out and try to get more track and a bit better exposure down. Funny part is, I'll take my earplugs out this time..... you never know when a train is coming by!

[poser]

These were taken at a recent mini-golf trip we took the youth group on.
Though they were taken before this contest started, but I thought I'd share

http://thebohacpage.smugmug.com/photos/512951298_rMv3t-L.jpg

http://thebohacpage.smugmug.com/photos/512952876_nTNvE-L.jpg

http://thebohacpage.smugmug.com/photos/512952715_K3Uni-L.jpg

http://thebohacpage.smugmug.com/photos/512958417_gwiYY-L.jpg

http://thebohacpage.smugmug.com/photos/512958520_QkKoU-L-1.jpg

I'll see if I have any good ones from our paint ball trip that would work for the assignment, those were taken last weekend

[sparkyphotog]

Nice shots, Jason! I really like the last two. :thumb:

[ekms377]

Nice shots.....I'll see if I can figure out how to get my pics from smugmug on here.

http://ekms377.smugmug.com/photos/512584900_MJwh2-L.jpg

http://ekms377.smugmug.com/photos/512626850_XBiSU-L.jpg

There we go...

[Voni]

Nice shots.....I'll see if I can figure out how to get my pics from smugmug on here.

http://ekms377.smugmug.com/photos/512584900_MJwh2-L.jpg


There we go...

Great new perspective!!

Voni
LOL!

[Brotha J]

Here's my entry.

This was taken Saturday at 6:30 P.M. from the dock in back of BassPro Shop lake in Garland.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v312/brothaj55/TWTex%20Stuff/Sailboat1.jpg

[BexarWolf]

Psssst. Ya gotta post it in the proper thread.

http://www.twtex.com/forums/showthread.php?t=38915

[Tracker]

Psssst. Ya gotta post it in the proper thread.

http://www.twtex.com/forums/showthread.php?t=38915

yeah, but with no comment. :-P