Assignment Photography Challenge/Game #1 [lampposts] - Page 2

Woolies · 25th May 2008, 2:20pm

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Originally Posted by mishelle

I have one dodgy photo of it

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Originally Posted by 2plus2isfive

Took this aaaages ago

boo to you two, old pics indeed!

One of the things I'm hoping for is (for myself & others) to be inspired to go out and see & take new photos (cos like it's Summer and that's always a good time for it!) so aye mishelle go out and see if there is a really cool pic to be had of that lamp post.

And 2plus2isfive - one of the problems I've found online with photo stuff is that there is always someone who has a larger back catalogue of great pics and so it can be unfair to newer folks interested to use old stuff for topics like this. A good few of the comments in another thread suggested folk feel intimidated posting in the photo forum so I think we should help level the field a bit so I suggest only new pics.
It's also good for us sometimes to try meet the challenge outside of how we normally shoot things

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Originally Posted by dil_em_ma

Aye i think so. Didn't pay much attention to the name. But it is by the bridge over the kelvin. Think it's belmont street it's on.

aye that's the one, I can never remember the streets name despite using it so often!

Woolies · 25th May 2008, 2:35pm

My first wee attempt, quick snap on the way back from the 24 hour shop last night - two street lights looking like monster eyes in the trees...?

When I took it I saw (after it being pointed out to me...) the face with the keep left sign as a mouth - I now want it as the nose and the fence to be the mouth...
Also one of the few pics I've ever taken that I think could be helped by MSPaint overdrawing, urmm am I allowed...? I did say "no rules"!!!

Mwezzi · 25th May 2008, 2:35pm

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Originally Posted by Woolies

One thing though, I reckon camera phones don't do too well with night scenes unless you can use the flash to highlight some detail.
It's something that everyone has to deal with even if they have top of the range cameras - some photos just can't be taken with the gear you have. It's always a pain and I sometimes think more than half of photography is learning what is and isn't possible and how to work around that!

Even with the phone set to highest resolution, best possible ISO etc. it's not brilliant, but you can get unintended (or, in the case of this picture from last night, intended) side-effects such are odd glare. I first got a picture like this a while back and now I take such images all the time because they make for pretty phone wallpapers.

katinacooker · 25th May 2008, 2:50pm

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edit : its really annoying me that its slightly squint

Charlicat · 25th May 2008, 3:13pm

I'm from the ~LEE~ School of Photography.

mishelle · 25th May 2008, 6:15pm

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Originally Posted by Woolies

boo to you two, old pics indeed!

Im sorry, I havent been to that street with that lamp for a while, just wanted to show my future intention to get a proper pic! Shall be my task this week. Tis in a pretty random place so finding a time to take piccies will be a challenge.

**djtoast** · 25th May 2008, 8:30pm

Just back from a wee jaunt around town, some okay ones but no photoshop on this laptop so shall have to get them onto higgertrappy's to crop 'em etc.

bugpowderdust · 25th May 2008, 9:33pm

Playing about with my GR digital this evening. This lamp post is just outside my flat and it was such a pain to keep leaves and buildings out of the frame. I was probably a bit excessive with the contrast but I kinda like it.

*Potatojunkie* · 26th May 2008, 4:05pm

**Shannow** · 26th May 2008, 6:35pm

Back to basics.

triggerhappy · 26th May 2008, 7:59pm

A few from yesterday:

**djtoast** · 26th May 2008, 9:26pm

Well I spent about an hour in Gimp trying to paint out the wee specks of dirt on my sensor; I want a healing brush please.

That aside I gave it a wee touch of levels to darken the blacks and a mite of colour balancing; less than what it looks like though

There's a couple more to follow I took that I like but it will require photoshop to fix a couple of blemishes in them.

**Shannow** · 26th May 2008, 10:56pm

I have another.

~LEE~ · 26th May 2008, 11:04pm

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Originally Posted by Charlicat

I'm from the ~LEE~ School of Photography.

"ok, i have no experience at all when it comes to taking photos"

did you miss that part, aye?

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Originally Posted by Shannow

Back to basics.

love how you have the sun shining through the lamp.

Jenpot · 26th May 2008, 11:04pm

I'm pretty sure I fell over on that street last week, while sober. Tripped over my own feet.

I like this thread, this will be my lunchtime challenge tommorow