PROJECT 52-11-20-COMPOSITION TECHNIQUES-Rule of oddsReport Post
Posted By: noelcmn, 23-01-23, 05:16 (Online)
Welcome to the 11th Edition of Project 52, which I will be hosting for the year. Thanks to djb47 for hosting Project 52-10.
Let's get some Motivation
I have participated in a few Project 52 kind of thing and there are plenty out there. One of the many aspects that have come to the fore is the value of participating, one of them being how much you learn-about technique, out of the box thinking, getting to know your camera's potential and a host of other values. WHY NOT JOIN THE PROJECT! Besides some discipline, there is not much else required except if you are chosen the winner, in which case you judge the next weeks challenge.

Themes covered will include but not limited to:
Colour
Architecture
DOF
Focus
Exposure
Landscape
Lighting
Perspective
Shutter
Subject- Multi-subject challenge
People
Ideas
Shapes
Home
Animals
Seasonal
Leisure


Rules
1. Anyone and everyone interested in the challenge is eligible. The goal continues to be to 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. The theme/sub-concepts are chosen by the facilitator every week. You are only
required to submit a photo taken during the week of the challenge.
3. Post your single picture in Project 52-11 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 non Pentax cameras are allowed. Cameras may be SLRs, DSLRs, Point & Shoot,
Medium Format, et cetera. And we will include images taken with phones as well.
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. It is up to the discretion of the current week's
Judge to accept or decline early/late entries i.e. a day earlier or a day late. Usually there is some flexibility here to allow as many entrants as possible. BUT
PLEASE DO NOT POST IMAGES TAKEN DAYS OR WEEKS OUTSIDE THE PERIOD OF THE CHALLENGE. TRY TO KEEP IT AS CLOSE AS POSSIBLE
TO THE TIME FRAME. SOME FLEXIBILITY IS ALLOWED (after all life comes before photography) FOR OUT OF DATE/LATE SUBMISSIONS.
8. Additional images are welcome, but please keep them to a minimum. If more than one image is posted, make sure you identify your entry for the challenge.
Additional images should also please comply with rule 1 and rule 7.
9. Any picture taken from thread start date
By default, attached photos will be shown below your message
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to listed closing date is acceptable.
10. The WINNER of each weekly challenge is the JUDGE of the next weeks Project 52-11 and may not participate in the challenge.
11. The host/facilitator (in this case noelcmn) may participate in the challenge, provided he/she is not the judge.

This week we get to what every photographer like to achieve, reasonable Depth of Focus. or Depth of Field. Here's the definition from Wikipedia "The depth of field (DOF) is the distance between the nearest and the furthest objects that are in acceptably sharp focus in an image captured with a camera". I recommend readin that article.

Interesting infor here too:Depth of Field for Beginners: The Essential Guide

And here: https://www.photopills.com/articles/depth-of-field-guide

Fine examples here:10 Deep Depth of Field Examples. How To Get A Large Depth of Field


Choosing this example from my recent expeditions

Read more at: PROJECT 52-11-22- CAMERA AND LENS CONTROL-Use a Prime lens - PentaxForums.com

[jheu02]

Congrats. Also thought the dominoes worked well for either this challenge or this week's "selective focus" and would have been my choice as winner too. Just as food for thought, here's the pinecones at f/2.8...really changes the DOF when at min focal length. Kind of 3D effect from this lens.

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[noelcmn]

Congrats Don, quite agree with that choice. I have a set of those dominoes too, so guess who is going to try something like that, maybe for the Selective focus challenge. Thanks Vaskebjorn for the Judging exercise and the C&C's. Appreciate that!

[jcdoss]

Congrats to djb47 for the well deserved win, and to all participants. Thanks to the host and to Vaskebjorn for the judging exercise. See you all next week!

[ramseybuckeye]

Congrats Don, that is a cool photo, you've got the two unrelated things (dominos and the background) that really work together.

I'm impressed with the volume of excellent shots in the thread. Richard, great job judging, I'm glad it was you or anyone but me, because there is a lot of quality here, but I do agree with you selection at the top.