Game Single in January 2014

photolady95 · 01-16-2014, 10:40 PM

can't blame me though, it's one lens I thought about buying a year ago, would be nice to test one before making a costly decision, eh!

Wired · 01-17-2014, 11:42 AM

I promise I'll get to commenting tonight or this weekend. Been nutty busy!

I got my first shoot with a local weekly cycling magazine this weekend! I can't wait.

Tsuken · 01-18-2014, 01:08 AM

Good one!

**OzzRod** · 01-18-2014, 02:56 AM

FEBRUARY THEME ?? Discussion requested.

Hi everyone. I know we're only just over half way through January but I'm going to be traveling late January/early February and that means I'll probably post the new month's threads a bit earlier than usual.

The issue for which I seek discussion is the nature of the theme for February. It has already been suggested that it be images using a fisheye lens. This immediately attracted some support, but it also prompted awareness that many members do not have such lenses. Now while I believe firmly that no theme should be obligatory, I just wonder if the fisheye suggestion might lead to a lower participation rate because too many members will feel excluded because they don't have access to a "suitable" lens. It's quite different to nominating say "yellow" or "bokeh" as a theme - everyone has the capacity to contribute to those sort of themes if they choose to do so.

I have done two months before using the DA 10-17mm "fisheye" and during that time I posted quite a few images that were closer to the 17mm end. So I'm just wondering would it be more inclusive to suggest a theme of say "pictures using a focal length of x mm or less", in which case, what is the preferred value of x?

Please post your thoughts/suggestions on this during the next week or so; I'm keen that as many people as possible can participate as fully as possible.

Thanks. Rod

disco_owner · 01-18-2014, 03:24 AM

I will do my best to post some shots for the remainder of jan , unfortunately I have come down with the common cold and have been in bed . I was planning on shooting sunrise tomorrow morning but that's not going to happen. :-(

**OzzRod** · 01-18-2014, 03:59 AM

Originally posted by disco_owner

I will do my best to post some shots for the remainder of jan , unfortunately I have come down with the common cold and have been in bed . I was planning on shooting sunrise tomorrow morning but that's not going to happen. :-(

Sorry to hear you're crook, but I do hope the sun comes up tomorrow

**jackassp** · 01-18-2014, 05:07 AM - **1 Like**

Here are a few themes to select from.

Abandoned Buildings
Abstracts
Amphibian
Anger
Arches
Architecture
Autumn
Back Alleys
Bad Weather
Bald Heads
Balloons
Bare Feet
Bark
Barns
Bees
Bicycle Parts
Bikes
Birds
Black and White
Blimps
Blue
Bolts
Bones
Books
Bottles
Bridge
Bridges
Broken Glass
Bronze
Brown
Bump
Butterflies
Butterflies / Bees
Campsites
Car Details
Catching People Unaware
Cats
Celebrations
Choice
Church Windows
Churches
Circles
City Hall
City Skylines
City Street Scenes
Close-up
Clouds
Cold
Colours
Columns
Computers
Contrasts
Covered Bridges
Critters
Culture
Curves
Custom Cars
Dancers
Decorations
Demonic
Demonstrations
Devilish
Digital
Disappearing Professions
Disappearing Technologies
Dishes
Documentary
Dogs
Dominating
Doom and gloom
Door Knobs
Doors
Dots / Dashes / Diagonals
Drawers
Duplicates
Easter
Eggs
Elation
Embrace
Emergency Situations
Enthusiasm / eager
Environmental Trash
Events
Eye Glasses
Eyes
Farm Animals
Feathers
Feet
Feisty
Feline
Femininity
Fences
Fetes & Festivals
Fetish
Fire
Fire Engines
Fireworks / Fire
Fish
Flags
Flower Petals
Flowers
Food
Forks
Forms in Nature
Fountains
Framed
Freeways
Frozen
Fruit
Games
Gardens
Gates
Gears
Geriatric (older folks)
Glamour
Glare
Glass
Gold
Graceful
Graffiti
Green
H Hands
Halloween
Hallways
Handles
Hands
Happiness
Harbours
Harvest
Hats
Hidden
History
Holiday
Horizon
Horses
Hot Rod Cars
Hunger
Ice
Inclines
Indian Ruins
Indigenous Things Or People
Industrial
Insects
Inspiration
Iridescent
Iron
Isolated Objects
Jails
Jets
Jewelry
Jobs
Joints
Journalistic
Joy
Jugs
Junk Yards
Keys
Kids
Kin or Families
Kite
Kites
Knives
Landscapes
Lazy
Learning
Leaves
Legs
Letters
Light
Lightning
Lights
Locks
Machine Parts
Macro
Marine life
Masculinity
Masks
Mass flowers
Mirrors
Money
Monuments
Mood
Movie Theater Marquees
Muse
Mushrooms
Neon Signs
Night
Night lights
Nighttime
Nonsense
Noodles
Numbers
Nut
Nuts
Objects
Odd Couples
Old Everything
Olympic
Opposites
Opulent
Orange
Pairs
Paper Abstracts
Parallel Lines
Patterns
Peacocks
Peeling Paint
People
People At Work
People Walking Dogs
Peppers
Perspective
Pets
Pictures in Pictures
Piles of Things
Pink / Purple
Polished
Porches
Quad
Quarters
Queens
Railroad Cars
Railroad Tracks
Raindrops
Rainbows
Red
Red Barns
Reenactments
Reflection
Reflections in Glass
Reflections in Water
Religious
Roadscapes
Rocks
Round Things
Rows of Things
Rust
Rustic
Sand dunes
Sand Patterns
Sea Shells
Seascapes
Seasons
Self
Shadows
Shoes
Signs
Silhouettes
Skulls
Sky
Sleeping Animals
Sleeping People
Small Furry Animals
Smiles
Smoke Stacks
Snow
Soft Curves
Sorrow
Spanish Moss
Speed
Spoons
Sports
Spring
Squirrel
Stacks
Stairs
Statues
Steam Railroads
Still life
Strange Signs
String Instruments
Structures
Summer
Sunrise
Sunset
Superstitions
Sweets
Swings
Tattoos
Teddy Bear / toy
Textures
The Local School
The spot (X marks it, you know)
Toads
Tombstones
Tools
Tools of the Trade
Transport
Tree Knots
Trees
Ugly Everything
Umbrella
Umbrellas
Ungulates (hoofed animals, pigs, goats, deer horses)
Uniforms
Urban
Utensils
Vacation
Valves
Vegetables
Vices or Habits
Views
Vignettes
Vines
Visitors
Watches
Water
Waterfalls
Weather
Weathered Wood
Wet
Wheels
White
Wide Angle Everything
Wildlife
Windows
Winter
Woods
Xenon
Xenophobia
Xylophones
Yachts
Yellow
Yo-yos
Zebras
Zig Zags
Zipper
Zombies!
Zoos

utak · 01-18-2014, 09:42 AM

Originally posted by jackassp

Here are a few themes to select from.

Wow that should keep us going until after 2024. There are some great themes in this list. I think that themes are more inclusive than focal lengths. Part of the reason why this challenge is so compelling is that it gives people the motivation to try out a *new* lens they have just got, or one they don't use very much, and share their photos with others...If someone said "only use a certain focal length" etc. that could reduce participation IMO.

I also have a bee in my bonnet with fisheye and wide-angle lens perspectives on crop-sensors. I inherited a Takumar 24mm some time ago and its called an "extreme wide-angle" in lens reviews. But its nothing like that on a crop sensor, and the results don't look very "wide-angle" let alone fisheye. And 17mm crop is hardly fisheye. So my vote goes to sticking to the current format and selecting our own personal themes if we need inspiration. Having said that, the bokeh month was fun!!

Tsuken · 01-18-2014, 10:38 AM

Originally posted by jackassp

Here are a few themes to select from.

Now go on; get all of them in one photo

I'm lens-challenged, and presently can't go shorter than 28 mm or longer than 50mm (my Tokina tele zoom is pretty dodge), so almost any focal-length based theme would be impossible for me.

A (flexible) subject theme is all good.

**OzzRod** · 01-18-2014, 02:27 PM

More thoughts …… the lens has to be the underpinning element of this challenge - that’s what sets this game apart from all the other themed games/challenges elsewhere in the Forum.

Suggestion … could February be “your shortest/widest lens”, whatever that may be? That would bring in those with fisheyes, but everybody, without exception, has a shortest lens in their kit, and would be able to participate. Those that wanted to go further and combine that with their own sub-theme (colour/lines/shapes/subjects etc) could still do so.

Come in Tim, and others .....

bigted · 01-18-2014, 02:42 PM

Originally posted by OzzRod

Suggestion … could February be “your shortest/widest lens”, whatever that may be? That would bring in those with fisheyes, but everybody, without exception, has a shortest lens in their kit, and would be able to participate. Those that wanted to go further and combine that with their own sub-theme (colour/lines/shapes/subjects etc) could still do so.

I like this as an idea. I was thinking about using my new lens but I can use my FE for Feb. I doubt I'll get out very much since my health took a nose dive, but I'd like to try to get back in the game.

Bill2849 · 01-18-2014, 03:00 PM

Shortest/widest works for me although this would leave me to decide between my Pentax M 28mm f2.8 or my Pentax D AL 18-55 kit lens trying to restrict the latter to its shortest focal length - of which my choice would be the former since mmost my my photography has been with the kit. And individual sub-themes I can live with.

**jackassp** · 01-18-2014, 04:08 PM

How about a simple, easy, all encompassing theme: "My neighbourhood through just one lens" (maybe "My home town...")

I'm sure everyone could do this.

patolds · 01-19-2014, 01:36 AM

Originally posted by jackassp

How about a simple, easy, all encompassing theme: "My neighbourhood through just one lens" (maybe "My home town...")

I'm sure everyone could do this.

Now there's a bloody good idea! Bonzer mate!

Cheers Paddy

mtux · 01-19-2014, 03:16 AM

Still not sure about the theme, I might not join the theme because I'd rather try my new DA35 lens to get familiar with it.
Bought it for the coming trip to Iran this April so it's better to get to know it. :-)
Hmm, but I can leave it for March and join the wide angle theme with DA21.

01-18-2014, 09:42 AM	#188
utak Pentaxian Join Date: Jul 2012 Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 928	Originally posted by jackassp Here are a few themes to select from. Wow that should keep us going until after 2024. There are some great themes in this list. I think that themes are more inclusive than focal lengths. Part of the reason why this challenge is so compelling is that it gives people the motivation to try out a new lens they have just got, or one they don't use very much, and share their photos with others...If someone said "only use a certain focal length" etc. that could reduce participation IMO. I also have a bee in my bonnet with fisheye and wide-angle lens perspectives on crop-sensors. I inherited a Takumar 24mm some time ago and its called an "extreme wide-angle" in lens reviews. But its nothing like that on a crop sensor, and the results don't look very "wide-angle" let alone fisheye. And 17mm crop is hardly fisheye. So my vote goes to sticking to the current format and selecting our own personal themes if we need inspiration. Having said that, the bokeh month was fun!! Last edited by utak; 01-18-2014 at 10:55 AM.

01-18-2014, 02:27 PM	#190
OzzRod Loyal Site Supporter Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Newcastle, N.S.W. Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 1,322 Original Poster	More thoughts …… the lens has to be the underpinning element of this challenge - that’s what sets this game apart from all the other themed games/challenges elsewhere in the Forum. Suggestion … could February be “your shortest/widest lens”, whatever that may be? That would bring in those with fisheyes, but everybody, without exception, has a shortest lens in their kit, and would be able to participate. Those that wanted to go further and combine that with their own sub-theme (colour/lines/shapes/subjects etc) could still do so. Come in Tim, and others ..... Last edited by OzzRod; 01-19-2014 at 01:02 PM.

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01-16-2014, 10:40 PM	#181
photolady95 Otis Memorial Pentaxian Join Date: May 2009 Location: Cruising the forum watching his back Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 12,712	can't blame me though, it's one lens I thought about buying a year ago, would be nice to test one before making a costly decision, eh!

01-17-2014, 11:42 AM	#182
Wired Veteran Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Edmonton, AB Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 2,519	I promise I'll get to commenting tonight or this weekend. Been nutty busy! I got my first shoot with a local weekly cycling magazine this weekend! I can't wait.

01-18-2014, 01:08 AM	#183
Tsuken Pentaxian Join Date: Oct 2013 Photos: Gallery Posts: 2,420	Good one!

01-18-2014, 02:56 AM	#184
OzzRod Loyal Site Supporter Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Newcastle, N.S.W. Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 1,322 Original Poster	FEBRUARY THEME ?? Discussion requested. Hi everyone. I know we're only just over half way through January but I'm going to be traveling late January/early February and that means I'll probably post the new month's threads a bit earlier than usual. The issue for which I seek discussion is the nature of the theme for February. It has already been suggested that it be images using a fisheye lens. This immediately attracted some support, but it also prompted awareness that many members do not have such lenses. Now while I believe firmly that no theme should be obligatory, I just wonder if the fisheye suggestion might lead to a lower participation rate because too many members will feel excluded because they don't have access to a "suitable" lens. It's quite different to nominating say "yellow" or "bokeh" as a theme - everyone has the capacity to contribute to those sort of themes if they choose to do so. I have done two months before using the DA 10-17mm "fisheye" and during that time I posted quite a few images that were closer to the 17mm end. So I'm just wondering would it be more inclusive to suggest a theme of say "pictures using a focal length of x mm or less", in which case, what is the preferred value of x? Please post your thoughts/suggestions on this during the next week or so; I'm keen that as many people as possible can participate as fully as possible. Thanks. Rod

01-18-2014, 03:24 AM	#185
disco_owner Veteran Member Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Sydney Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 1,629	I will do my best to post some shots for the remainder of jan , unfortunately I have come down with the common cold and have been in bed . I was planning on shooting sunrise tomorrow morning but that's not going to happen. :-(

01-18-2014, 03:59 AM	#186
OzzRod Loyal Site Supporter Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Newcastle, N.S.W. Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 1,322 Original Poster	Originally posted by disco_owner I will do my best to post some shots for the remainder of jan , unfortunately I have come down with the common cold and have been in bed . I was planning on shooting sunrise tomorrow morning but that's not going to happen. :-( Sorry to hear you're crook, but I do hope the sun comes up tomorrow

01-18-2014, 05:07 AM - 1 Like	#187
jackassp Site Supporter Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Adelaide, South Australia Photos: Gallery Posts: 813	Here are a few themes to select from. Abandoned Buildings Abstracts Amphibian Anger Arches Architecture Autumn Back Alleys Bad Weather Bald Heads Balloons Bare Feet Bark Barns Bees Bicycle Parts Bikes Birds Black and White Blimps Blue Bolts Bones Books Bottles Bridge Bridges Broken Glass Bronze Brown Bump Butterflies Butterflies / Bees Campsites Car Details Catching People Unaware Cats Celebrations Choice Church Windows Churches Circles City Hall City Skylines City Street Scenes Close-up Clouds Cold Colours Columns Computers Contrasts Covered Bridges Critters Culture Curves Custom Cars Dancers Decorations Demonic Demonstrations Devilish Digital Disappearing Professions Disappearing Technologies Dishes Documentary Dogs Dominating Doom and gloom Door Knobs Doors Dots / Dashes / Diagonals Drawers Duplicates Easter Eggs Elation Embrace Emergency Situations Enthusiasm / eager Environmental Trash Events Eye Glasses Eyes Farm Animals Feathers Feet Feisty Feline Femininity Fences Fetes & Festivals Fetish Fire Fire Engines Fireworks / Fire Fish Flags Flower Petals Flowers Food Forks Forms in Nature Fountains Framed Freeways Frozen Fruit Games Gardens Gates Gears Geriatric (older folks) Glamour Glare Glass Gold Graceful Graffiti Green H Hands Halloween Hallways Handles Hands Happiness Harbours Harvest Hats Hidden History Holiday Horizon Horses Hot Rod Cars Hunger Ice Inclines Indian Ruins Indigenous Things Or People Industrial Insects Inspiration Iridescent Iron Isolated Objects Jails Jets Jewelry Jobs Joints Journalistic Joy Jugs Junk Yards Keys Kids Kin or Families Kite Kites Knives Landscapes Lazy Learning Leaves Legs Letters Light Lightning Lights Locks Machine Parts Macro Marine life Masculinity Masks Mass flowers Mirrors Money Monuments Mood Movie Theater Marquees Muse Mushrooms Neon Signs Night Night lights Nighttime Nonsense Noodles Numbers Nut Nuts Objects Odd Couples Old Everything Olympic Opposites Opulent Orange Pairs Paper Abstracts Parallel Lines Patterns Peacocks Peeling Paint People People At Work People Walking Dogs Peppers Perspective Pets Pictures in Pictures Piles of Things Pink / Purple Polished Porches Quad Quarters Queens Railroad Cars Railroad Tracks Raindrops Rainbows Red Red Barns Reenactments Reflection Reflections in Glass Reflections in Water Religious Roadscapes Rocks Round Things Rows of Things Rust Rustic Sand dunes Sand Patterns Sea Shells Seascapes Seasons Self Shadows Shoes Signs Silhouettes Skulls Sky Sleeping Animals Sleeping People Small Furry Animals Smiles Smoke Stacks Snow Soft Curves Sorrow Spanish Moss Speed Spoons Sports Spring Squirrel Stacks Stairs Statues Steam Railroads Still life Strange Signs String Instruments Structures Summer Sunrise Sunset Superstitions Sweets Swings Tattoos Teddy Bear / toy Textures The Local School The spot (X marks it, you know) Toads Tombstones Tools Tools of the Trade Transport Tree Knots Trees Ugly Everything Umbrella Umbrellas Ungulates (hoofed animals, pigs, goats, deer horses) Uniforms Urban Utensils Vacation Valves Vegetables Vices or Habits Views Vignettes Vines Visitors Watches Water Waterfalls Weather Weathered Wood Wet Wheels White Wide Angle Everything Wildlife Windows Winter Woods Xenon Xenophobia Xylophones Yachts Yellow Yo-yos Zebras Zig Zags Zipper Zombies! Zoos

01-18-2014, 10:38 AM	#189
Tsuken Pentaxian Join Date: Oct 2013 Photos: Gallery Posts: 2,420	Originally posted by jackassp Here are a few themes to select from. Now go on; get all of them in one photo I'm lens-challenged, and presently can't go shorter than 28 mm or longer than 50mm (my Tokina tele zoom is pretty dodge), so almost any focal-length based theme would be impossible for me. A (flexible) subject theme is all good.

01-18-2014, 02:42 PM	#191
bigted Moderator Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Jessica Lake, Whiteshell Provincial Park, or Winnipeg Manitoba, Canada Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 1,593	Originally posted by OzzRod Suggestion … could February be “your shortest/widest lens”, whatever that may be? That would bring in those with fisheyes, but everybody, without exception, has a shortest lens in their kit, and would be able to participate. Those that wanted to go further and combine that with their own sub-theme (colour/lines/shapes/subjects etc) could still do so. I like this as an idea. I was thinking about using my new lens but I can use my FE for Feb. I doubt I'll get out very much since my health took a nose dive, but I'd like to try to get back in the game.

01-18-2014, 03:00 PM	#192
Bill2849 Veteran Member Join Date: Dec 2011 Photos: Albums Posts: 579	Shortest/widest works for me although this would leave me to decide between my Pentax M 28mm f2.8 or my Pentax D AL 18-55 kit lens trying to restrict the latter to its shortest focal length - of which my choice would be the former since mmost my my photography has been with the kit. And individual sub-themes I can live with.

01-18-2014, 04:08 PM	#193
jackassp Site Supporter Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Adelaide, South Australia Photos: Gallery Posts: 813	How about a simple, easy, all encompassing theme: "My neighbourhood through just one lens" (maybe "My home town...") I'm sure everyone could do this.

01-19-2014, 01:36 AM	#194
patolds Inactive Account Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Macedon Ranges, Victoria Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 300	Originally posted by jackassp How about a simple, easy, all encompassing theme: "My neighbourhood through just one lens" (maybe "My home town...") I'm sure everyone could do this. Now there's a bloody good idea! Bonzer mate! Cheers Paddy

01-19-2014, 03:16 AM	#195
mtux Veteran Member Join Date: Apr 2013 Location: the Netherlands Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 2,444	Still not sure about the theme, I might not join the theme because I'd rather try my new DA35 lens to get familiar with it. Bought it for the coming trip to Iran this April so it's better to get to know it. :-) Hmm, but I can leave it for March and join the wide angle theme with DA21.