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P52-3-29 Subject - Glass
Posted By: Rense, 02-12-2011, 01:39 AM

I guess the running week was a bit difficult, but this and next week we'll step away
from 'perspective', and concentrate simply on subjects. So, no difficult photo-
graphy techniques, but things that can be found everyday everywhere. This weeks
subject is glass, or better, made of glass. So, not only the thing you drink off
(be it the glass or the bottle...), but also glass ornaments, windows, lenses, whatever!

Just some backgrounds and some ideas:
Not necessary, I think? You know what glass is!

Time Frame: pictures for week 29 are to be taken and posted between
20110212 and 20110220, so from February 12th 2011 - February 20th, 2011.

Rules:
1. Anyone and everyone who is interested in eligible. The goal continues to be
have fun and share comments, concepts, insights, and techniques with fellow
Pentaxians.
2. Each week will feature a Theme and Sub-concept for you to explore.
3. Post your single picture in Project 52-3 thread for the week. Explain what
motivated you to take the picture and/or how you feel it represents the weekly
theme.
4. Some post-processing is OK (adjusting white balance, exposure, color
saturation), but let's try to stay away from heavily PP'ed images here. Try to
keep the creativity to photographic techniques and the captures themselves.
5. Since this project is about technique, and not camera, shots taken by nonPentax
cameras are allowed. Cameras can be SLRs, DSLRs, Point & Shoot and Medium Format.
6. There is one “Theme Concept” labeled “black and white,” but feel free to post
black and white, sepia, monotone, etc., for any of the other themes.
7. The picture you post should be taken during the week in which the theme is
active to be eligible for judging.
8. Any picture taken from 20100731 to listed closing date is acceptable for the two
“Seasonal” competitions – Projects 52-3-51 & 52.

Additional Information, including the scheme with subjects: https://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/mini-challenges-games-photo-stories/10506...-year-3-a.html.

Have fun shooting!
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QuoteQuote:
It's late here, and I had 3 quite dark and strong beers....
A good dark beer sounds really good right now...Paulaner Salvator maybe...or Optimator Spaten...nothing better...and all I have is empty bottles...dammit...and nowhere to get one for 30 miles...I hate this town...

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Understood-the rule is kind of a rule but more of a guideline but talk to you in any case...Pffft! Either drop the rule and suggest people go out and shoot or stick to it and too bad.

Wait my excuse,erm reason is no beers and no coffee yet either at 7:00 AM. Not hating just feel something simple has been made complicated
No, it's a rule. But if you don't want to stick with it....
I'm not in this world to tell you all how to live, let alone to tell you how you want to do your photography..... Again: you have to have fun to shoot something with this challenge in mind, and then P52 is something that works. Every now and then there is someone who wants to enter a photo from a day early.... I think it's the 3rd time now, in 29 weeks, so that makes about 1:10..... I myself see no problem in that...as long as 'mainstream' P52 is according to the rules....guidelines.... rules? It's a rule. But rules are for men, men are not for rules.....

And probably this tells - above all - more about me than I've ever shown here....
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Oh, and the weeks judge has to say something too, I think....????
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Mark, you're quite an earlybird, not?

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Oh, and the weeks judge has to say something too, I think....????
Ona different topic-can you fix my toaster for me?
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Ona different topic-can you fix my toaster for me?
Yeah.... bring it between 12:00 and 13:00 tomorrow, and it'll be fixed by 16:00....
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Yeah.... bring it between 12:00 and 13:00 tomorrow, and it'll be fixed by 16:00....
Can I bring it yesterday just this once... LOL!!!

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Great shots all around.
@bbluesman, man that looks like a macro of a rubik's cube; real nice.
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Great shots all around.
@bbluesman, man that looks like a macro of a rubik's cube; real nice.
Heh-thanks Jools-<3 that analogy
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I'll go ahead and enter it for now, but try to do a reshoot also. Who knows, the light may be even better. I can understand both sides of the coin, the whole purpose is to challenge ourselves to shoot different things or in different styles and conditions, and it's just easiest to break it up into a topic per week. I just happened to be shooting something with glass in it, started Thursday and decided to revisit it Friday for some more angles, backgrounds, etc. Had I the forethought to look at the schedule ahead of time, I probably would have waited til today or tomorrow. But...I do really feel that, if there's to be the rule for the timeframe, that really can make it a challenge and cause us to think outside the box if weather, etc. doesn't make for the "easy" shot that fits the theme. With Rense's comment in mind:

EDIT: I got a reshoot done that I like enough to replace this one, so this one is no longer my entry.


It's About The Marbles

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I'll go ahead and enter it for now, but try to do a reshoot also. Who knows, the light may be even better. I can understand both sides of the coin, the whole purpose is to challenge ourselves to shoot different things or in different styles and conditions, and it's just easiest to break it up into a topic per week. I just happened to be shooting something with glass in it, started Thursday and decided to revisit it Friday for some more angles, backgrounds, etc. Had I the forethought to look at the schedule ahead of time, I probably would have waited til today or tomorrow. But...I do really feel that, if there's to be the rule for the timeframe, that really can make it a challenge and cause us to think outside the box if weather, etc. doesn't make for the "easy" shot that fits the theme. With Rense's comment in mind:

It's About The Marbles

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Hey nice one-I recognize it from series you've been working on.
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Hey nice one-I recognize it from series you've been working on.

Thanks. I really liked the way the glass caught the sun in this shot and then reflected the little sparkles onto the copper. I may try it with the lens opened up even more than about f/4 to get rid of the hexagons, but then I'd probably lose the starbursts too.
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Dichroic skylight.
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A tree in glass

A little impressionism here.
Using the venerable Tamron 90mm f2.5.
This is a closeup of a pane of irridescent purple/blue glass (Spectrum) on a late winter afternoon, one of the few that made it intact through today's delivery to my house without being broken. They left the opened box in the snow that is why you see the water droplets on the pane of glass. Bad delivery day (lost a lot of glass and behind on business) but that is another story.



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It's About The Marbles Too

Here's my entry now, in the correct time frame (today). The sky wasn't quite as blue, but after the past couple windy days, the mainly calm air was better to shoot in. I lucked into good timing with this shot as the windchime turned in the wind. If you look in the blue marble, you'll see an "eclipse" complete with the diamond ring effect from the red marble blocking out the sun (though it could be a reflection of the copper banding too). Lots of other cool things going on with reflections bouncing off the copper and even a little lens flare (more glass!!!).

Eclipse

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