Photo Assignment or simply an Exercise

[asnow]

Not sure if this is an assignment or simply an exercise to try. I just finished listening to the latest podcast on film photography and and it brought back memories of when I used to shoot film/slides. I remember I used to slow down more and take more time with each picture (and this was pointed out in the interview that this is one advantage of film photography).

This made me think as an assignment or maybe just an exercise to do. Go out and take just one picture (or just a few) like you had had film in your camera. You will have to slow done and make sure each picture counts. I know a lot of us (well at least I'm at guilty of this) of taking a lot of pictures, chimping a lot, and hoping one will turn out.

[Iguanasan]

It's a good idea, to be sure. I find some people can be shutter happy and simply click away at everything they see and then they end up with thousands of frames to go through when they get back to their computer. I tend to think more and shoot less. Probably because I originally learned on film where every shot cost me money. :) Though the ability to get in a few extra shots with digital is definitely a bonus I don't recommend relying on it all the time.

[Marko]

It's a great idea - and I DOUBLE- DARE anyone to try it. :evil2: :evil2:

[AntZ]

It's a great idea - and I DOUBLE- DARE anyone to try it. :evil2: :evil2:
It would be a fun assignment to see say 12 successive shots(is it possible to check that from EXIF data?) like when you went out with a 12 exposure film roll.

[Bambi]

this is a great idea!

[Iguanasan]

Alright, I'm down with this... did something similar as part of the online photo course I did last year. Let's set a challenge.....

Pick a date range (1 week?) and we'll take exactly 12 shots, no more, no less and post the results of all of them... we need a name for it... how about "The Photographer's Dozen"?

What date shall we start? Should we have a minimum date range to keep people from shooting too fast (keep your mind out of the gutter, MA)???

[Runmonty]

In keeping with the theme, I assume this would mean no post processing, cropping etc. i.e a jpg straight out of the camera

[Iguanasan]

In keeping with the theme, I assume this would mean no post processing, cropping etc. i.e a jpg straight out of the camera

Ooooh, that would make it even cooler... gotta shoot in JPG mode. :)

[Marko]

http://www.photography.ca/Forums/images/misc/quote_icon.png Originally Posted by Runmonty http://www.photography.ca/Forums/images/buttons/viewpost-right.png (http://www.photography.ca/Forums/f3/photo-assignment-simply-exercise-18451.html#post129769)
In keeping with the theme, I assume this would mean no post processing, cropping etc. i.e a jpg straight out of the camera

The Jpeg part takes care of the levels and the sharpening.....But then that means we can't dodge and burn? (Which is an essential part of darkroom work or digital work and must be done locally for images to sing)
That would be the only thing to think about.

[Runmonty]

I hear you Marko, but for those of us that never had a darkroom, that was the reality. We were stuck with what came back from the photo processing store that just set the machine to 18% grey and that was it. For that reason I eventually started shooting Kodachrome transparencies, so the processing didnt interfere.

[Marko]

Yeah no prob at all - I was thinking about slide film after I wrote this actually. S'all good :)

[Iguanasan]

Ok, then... when do we get started? What kind of a timeline do we want to put on this?

[Marko]

I'm getting into the game late but I'll play....

We could choose to make this a separate thing no worries at all.

If we wanted to make it the level 2 assignment for next month, that's also an idea that I'm just throwing out....and that would give 30 days....not sure if people feel that's too long...again just throwin'.

[Iguanasan]

Oooh, I like that idea of a level 2 challenge... we could pick any say 5 day period or 3 day period within the 31 days of August and take 12 shots. Then you have to post all 12 shots.

- No editing (including cropping)
- JPG only (no RAW)
- B&W's must be done in-camera
- 12 successive shots

[asnow]

WOW. I just threw this out as a suggestion. Didn't realize this would become a serious challenge/competition. Oh well since I suggested it I guess I better join in. With my general success rate in exposure, etc this could be embarrassing. I have a feeling I'm going to prove that this is harder than you think.

As a suggestion, perhaps we should each have a separate post. If we get a lot of people joining in, this could result in a post with a huge number of pictures (people x 12) and could be a bit unwieldy.

By the way, even though they are jpeg, they will still have to be resized to fit in the limits of 1024 and 275kb so I'm not sure what's the point unless you plan on using a small point and shoot or iPhone.

[Marko]

yes this is true - the photos will need to be resized and saved for web - but aside from that we are on the honour system. No processing of ANY kind, not even cropping. This part will be very hard actually because many viewfinders do NOT show a 100% view...but it is what it is.

We could even state the width for horizontal images and the width for vertical images. (I'd suggest 800 width and 500 width for horizontal and vertical images respectively)

This WILL be hard for sure...and it will be a fab learning experience.

If people are okay with it being a level 2 assignment....then I'll make it so on august 1.

The only issue I see is what asnow mentioned about posting 12 images...... Not sure how to handle that part....
It would be most cohesive if the images were posted in the same thread...but 12 is a lot. We could reduce it to 8 images.... I'm open to suggestions on this.

Thx!

[AntZ]

I'll be in. Although I haven't taken 12 images in a week other than sport shots for quite a while.

[Iguanasan]

How about we pick and post our top 4 images. That way we don't clutter up the thread too much and you have some room for error :)