Treasure Hunt 4
Round 4!
You have until 11:59 on Tuesday, 16th of Feb, to take and post one picture in each of the following concepts/categories. No archived pictures allowed.
Then we'll vote on the best in each category. One point scored for each favorite pic.
The person with the most points sets the next treasure hunt. In the event of a tie, the oldest poster gets the honor.
1. portrait
2. macro
3. landscape/scenic overlook
4. forced perspective
5. motion blur
[SIZE=5][B]Take and post one picture in each of the above concepts/categories. No archived pictures allowed.[/B][/SIZE]
Everyone is encouraged to vote. Posting ends 11:59 on Tuesday, 16th of February, Cellar time, and voting begins when monster else gets around to creating those voting threads.
If you wanted to join in last time around, but didn't, this is you chance now.
um.... what does forced perspective mean? I feel like I woke up in art school and realized I was nekkid!
...by portrait do you mean a portrait or portrait as opposed to landsacape, or can i interpret as I please?
sorry to be so needy, but but but......
......If I ever win I swear I'll get you back with categories like "poop" and "whatevah"..... :p
Both of those things. Yes. Mostly A portrait though...
Thank goodness I have a digital camera for idiots.
oh! take mah pickcher wiff it den!
Thank goodness I have a digital camera for idiots.
Aw c'mon! They are way easier words than Youtube ffs!! And you won that one, so stfu and take some pictures.
I was gonna do "red barn" as one of my words so we could all submit our entries to that contest too...
then I decided I didn't want the competition. I want to win that damn meat.
I have NFI what you're talking about, but as it's snowing here, I'm glad there are no color categories that aren't white. :lol:
um.... what does forced perspective mean? I feel like I woke up in art school and realized I was nekkid!
for those of you too lazy to wiki.....here is a cool example of forced perspective:
wait, I don't see how that is forced perspective -is that not a guy holding a barbie doll? and if not, then surely some shopping is involved as I doubt she was just floating in front of the camera with no background?
No, it's some chick further up the beach.
edit: salt flats?
Oh I see. although it still looks false, even knowing that.
thanks.
Motion Blur: Making Pizza
Yup, pizza is being made right now, in our house :D
I took some macros of snowflakes too, but they were crap and I got cold.... I need better quality snow!
and yet hot at the same time.... ;)
you should totally bang him
I was in Utah last week skiing with the family.
Landscape (looking from the top of
Snowbird, at around 11,000 ft.)
Portrait (my older brother and his girlfriend got engaged during the trip)
Tell me about the macro. It looks like a couple mutant snowflakes on a sand dollar.
Those are the "doves" from inside a broken sand dollar. Found in OBX.
googleCool. I never heard of doves.
A friend showed me when I was a kid and ever since then I'd wanted to find a sand dollar. Since we always went to crowded beaches in NJ and MD when I was growing up, I never even found an unbroken clam shell...
Then we stayed in 4wd area at OBX the first time... I parked the jeep (on the beach), stepped out, and immediately found a perfect sand dollar. I was so excited! Started telling the kids what it was and how psyched I was to find it and Jim's all like "Oh cool. And look, here's another one".
Not to display my ignorance, but, what (where) is OBX?
Probably not quite IT. I hope the way the yellow letters stand out in relief makes it almost forced and the glasses too.
Taken with a camera phone.
Another cell phone shot.
It was way more beautiful than my camera phone was able to capture it but it's a submission such as it is. It's fun.
Yah yah of course it has a dog in it! ;)
Can't see the forest thru the trees...
Outer Banks, NC
Ah. [SIZE="1"](Makes perfect sense.)[/SIZE]
Thx, btw.
Landscape? The tree over my house. A 200 yr old Old Growth Oak or aka Live Oak.
Macro. Petrified Dragonfly covered with baby spiders from the garage.
Doesn't your oak ever lose it's leaves, then, Merc?
Nope. It just drops acorns and sheds the Spanish Moss.
Live oak or evergreen oak is a general term for a number of unrelated oaks in several different sections of the genus Quercus that happen to share the characteristic of evergreen foliage.
The name live oak comes from the fact that evergreen oaks remain green and "live" throughout winter, when other oaks are dormant, leafless and "dead"-looking. The name is used mainly in North America, where evergreen oaks are widespread in warmer areas, along the Atlantic coast from southeast Virginia and North Carolina to Florida, west along the Gulf Coast to Texas and across the southwest to California and southwest Oregon.
Evergreen oak species are also common in the warmer parts of Europe and Asia, and are included in this list for the sake of completeness. These species, although not having "live" in their common names in their countries of origin, are colloquially called live oaks when cultivated in North America.
When the term live oak is used in a specific rather than general sense, it most commonly refers to the Southern live oak (the first species so named), but can often refer to other species regionally.
The live oak is the official state tree of Georgia.
From Wiki.
That tree is awesome Merc.
oh you guy's photos are awesome.
This one will be a hard call except those crayons are just about perfect and the perspective of the tree is dizzying but that dragonfly is cool. :)
You're off to a good start Nirvana! Like those rings!
The live oak is the official state tree of Georgia.
I was about to say it's Texas' state tree too... but it turns out we chose the Pecan. Which is nuts (...get it?,) because there are way more live oaks around here than pecan trees.
Live oaks are especially great for climbing, because their trunks are all twisty and often they turn back down towards the ground, so they have great crooks to perch in.
cool perspective shot, glatt.
jinx, is that Hopewell lake?
Landscape ( ;) ) and Forced Perspective
Shame I already posted a Motion Blur entry....
just took these:
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mah portrait, I is ready for it. Don't give me a double chin.
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We can use photoshop? :eyebrow:
We can use photoshop? :eyebrow:
that banana is hanging from a black thread in the foreground. I DID sharpen it just a touch....and resized it.
The old hanging banana trick ;)
Dennis looks like he's thinking " Not again !!!"
The forced perspective thing is really more challenging than I thought it would be.
I think the critical thing is that both the distant object and the close object need to have the same focus. Otherwise you can tell that they aren't the same distance from the camera. To have them both in focus, you need to play with the depth of field by having the smallest aperture you can get. (Which ironically is the highest number.) A smaller aperture means you have less light hitting the sensor, so you need a lot of light to start out with, or you need a slow shutter speed to try to collect more light that way. So you should either be outside where it's bright, or else if you are inside, you need a tripod and a couple still subjects.
A telephoto lens tends to exaggerate the limited depth of field in a shot, and you want to avoid that. So if you have a zoom lens, you want to be zoomed out to the wide angle end of things.
With all these technical constraints, it makes the artistic side of things even more difficult, because you can't be all that spontaneous. You're fiddling with the camera and your subjects are getting bored.
I'm impressed with all the entries so far, so don't think I'm criticizing anyone. I'm just ruminating about the thing.
yarly. fucking banana kept twirling.
I tried putting an apple in a snowbank by the street to make it seem like it was the size of a car and actually in the street, but it just didn't work. It looks like an apple in a snow bank.
I decided to force it in a different way ;) -theose cranes are one fourth of the size of each other :lol:
Yeah, yours is cool. I wasn't expecting an interpretation like that. And you did a good job lining them all up so they look the same size in the image.
My biggest question though is did you de-clutter a section of floor to take the picture? :-P
an earlier attempt at forced perspective.....too dark, crap blackberry camera
Landscape (please disregard the disjointed bow, I haven't gotten the hang of panorama mode yet)
Yeah, yours is cool. I wasn't expecting an interpretation like that. And you did a good job lining them all up so they look the same size in the image.
My biggest question though is did you de-clutter a section of floor to take the picture? :-P
only the tinyest bit of sweeping required ...then I had Hebe hold a rug behind the step down into the family room to hide that clutter :lol:
Forced perspective non-entries...
Beautiful Doggie!
Thanks but don't let that sweet face fool you! He tried to car jack me yesterday! :eyebrow:
I like the coffee cup one :D
Post 81 is my favorite.
...and gravdigr I like your landscape shot.
I like Monster's motion blur too.
Someone needs to do the voting threads....
Jim is working on motion blur.
I don't know how to do it... sry
kewl thanks. I'm cleaning and packing like crazy. more on the cleaning less on the packing right now. 48 hours and we'll be GONE! bwahahahaha.
Those forced perspective ones came out great, jinx!
Thanks! They were definitely the most most difficult holy crap.
we should try that coffee cup one with a tripod and focus one pic on the cup...and layer it over the kid focused shot.
Thanks but don't let that sweet face fool you! He tried to car jack me yesterday! :eyebrow:
That's what ya get for letting him run around armed. (As opposed to just legged.)
