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Photography Homework Week 2 – Black & White

stuicide — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 03:07:50 +0000

I thought I’d post this up on here in case any non-TTL members wanted to participate. Week 2’s homework assignment is rather simple. Take a picture in Black & White.

For those that aren’t used to post processing your images, you can do it easily using several online services. Google’s Picasa gives you Black & White control and is free to download. Flickr has a free image editor as well and I’m pretty sure you can transform pictures there. Also, if you are using iPhoto that can do it too. It’s one of the most basic tools of any photo processing application.

All entries are due in Sunday night, and I’ll post a blog post Monday morning of the results. Be Creative this week everyone, and try to stretch yourself creatively. Use last week’s line homework as something to keep in mind when composing your shot.

I can’t wait to see what everyone comes up with.

If you want to participate, leave a link to your photo in the comments, or e-mail me at mcardwll at gmail dot com. Just mention it’s something photography related and I won’t miss it. I’ll link everyone’s photos back to their Flickr stream/Website/Whatever. If someone digs your pictures, they’ll need a place to go track down more of it.

Photography Homework – Lines

stuicide — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:58:08 +0000

Last week I turned to my buddies at TiedtheLeader for a photography homework assignment. The only thing they had to do was capture “Lines” in their photograph. It was a fairly abstract assignment, but there were a lot of amateur photog’s that were learning a lot right now, so I thought it would be good for them.

There are a lot of great results and it was great to see so many varied shots and how people interpreted the homework assignment. Comment and lemme know which ones are your favorite!

Here are the results…

From Dru:

From Legacy Virus:

From Mvuakali, all the way in Norway…

From Jayman:

From Faithkeeper:

From Anti Pro:

From Freqe C:

From Lindsey a.k.a. Mrs. Dru

From Utopia:

From Waynoka:

and Finally here are mine:

Some inspirations

stuicide — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:15:18 +0000

After taking pictures for a while, it’s easy to get disuaded and feel that my pictures aren’t good enough. The best way for me to find some inspiration and realize that I just need to learn more, and put in more time is to browse some of my favorite photographer’s sites. They range from top of the line photographers, to people that just do it for fun on the weekends.

Vincent Laforet – Got addicted to him when I saw the pictures he took for Newsweek during the 2008 Olympics. Some really great moments in there.

Chase Jarvis – First heard about him through the Nikon D90 announcement video (almost made me switch to Nikon!) and then spent a long time watching all of his videos, great stuff and a full archive of videos.

Strobist – Just now starting to get into it, I have to get more off camera lighting before I can really start to experiment with this stuff.

GreyscaleGorilla – I don’t even know how I stumbled onto this site, but he works out of Chicago which is one of the cities I love most. I even caught a picture of my old apartment building when looking through his archives.

Zack Arias – Just found this guy last week, his studio work is amazing, what he does with lighting/white backdrop is amazing and really inspirational. Especially since a lot of that can be reproduced although, not as great as what he’s done.

Luke Wilkins – A student from Knoxville. Just across the state. Some great pictures and a lot of good compositions. Made me realize I need to step up my composition skills.

Tim Crowson – A personal friend of mine, takes some amazing pictures, I love his series from Japan, must be a great place that I want to visit one day.

Homework Assignment – Morning Rituals

stuicide — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:51:04 +0000

This week’s homework assignment is here!

After having a lot of fun with the last one, I did a lot of brainstorming for something that would be fun and anyone could participate in. Some really great ideas were mentioned by some friends, but they were a bit more advanced so, some Point and Shoot photographers may not have been able to join in easily. We’ll get to those ideas in due time, but for this week. I wanted something Stu-ish, something snazzy, something that would spark creativity, while also allowing freedom.

This week’s assignment is titled “Morning Rituals”. Take a picture of something that represents the morning rituals that people do. Anything that makes you think early in the day. Be creative with your ideas, there are a lot of things people do in the morning before they go to work, or things people don’t do because it’s the weekend and they may or may not be hungover.

This should allow everyone with some freedom to be creative and it will get us all completely different results.

Homework is due in 1 week. June 25th. To submit your images please e-mail the Photo URL (medium size if you’re using Flickr, roughly 500 pixels) for your photo. If you have a Flickr account, send me the link so I can make sure people find a way to your photography if they like your picture. My e-mail is Mcardwll (at) gmail (dot) com.

Homework Results

stuicide — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:30:33 +0000

So, after mentioning last week’s homework, I’ve started collecting the results and there are some really cool ideas I never would have thought of.

Baby Drumstick’s “Guitar Series”

TTL Nodak’s “Ode to Capown”

Crim’s “Fork Series”

Al Capown’s “Vodka Series”

My “Revolver” series

“Death Dealer”

“Reload”

“Old School”

“The Hammer”

“Gun and Shadow”

All my photography can be found on my Photostream at Flickr here.

Homework Result – TTL Nodak

stuicide — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:01:20 +0000

This is a great set of photos that when I first saw them made me laugh. Taken by TTL’s own Nodak, who has been a great help and influence for my photography in the last few months. Nodak is a Senior Photography for a newspaper and I greatly appreciate him doing some “work” on his week off.

Check out the rest of the homework results here.

TTL Nodak’s “Ode to Capown”

That poor poor bear. See all of the hilarious outtakes and behind the scenes special here. Check out Nodak’s Flickr photostream here.

Homework Results – Crim

stuicide — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:00:35 +0000

Another set of amazing photography by a newcomer to the TTL Gunslingers, Crim.

His subject of choice was a fork and he used a lot of different lighting and colors to get completely different pictures. They are all so bright and amazing, I could stare at them for hours.

To see other homework results look here.

Crim’s “Fork Series”

Homework Results – Al Capown

stuicide — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:00:30 +0000

Here is Al Capown’s entry for the homework assignment. He decided to document a bottle of vodka of what I am presuming, over the course of one Friday night. I’m suprised he kept it in focus for the last few pictures.

To see other homework results look here.

Homework Results – Baby Drumstick

stuicide — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:00:06 +0000

Here is a friend of mine’s entry for the homework assignment. There are some simply stunning pictures that he took of his guitar. To fully enjoy the pictures, you should go view them at full size on his Flickr account which you can find here. My favorite is the first one.

To see other homework results look here.

“Where the road begins”

“Dangerous Curves”

“Round and Round”

“Don’t Fret”

“Untitled”

Homework Assignment

stuicide — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 01:46:17 +0000

I want to try something a little new. I am going to pick a topic every now and will publish my results. This should help me try to photograph a certain object or style every week that I may not think of when just walking around taking photos.

This week’s assignment is to get an object from the house and take at least 50 pictures of that item. It can be something mundane like a utensil or something cool like a toy that you have around the house for whatever reason.

If anyone else out there has a camera and wants to take some pictures, please let me know and I will publish your homework assignment as well. This will make a great community event, if I had a community that ever reads this.

Pictures are due Sunday night at 10:00 central time. I will publish the results Monday morning.

50 Pictures
An object you have in the house
Will post 5 pictures from each person
Due Sunday Night