Photography Challenge #4 *Drop Off*

Alright- better late than not at all. Thank you all for your patience. This next week's challenge isa two-weeker!

LINK TO OUR MAIN GROUP THREAD
http://forum.baby-gaga.com/about507952.html
Please read through the original post to get info about what we are doing. You may join the challenges without joining the main thread but ALL submissions shared in the Challenge threads need to be new, just for the challenge. Thanks for playing! 

Urbanscapes and Streetscapes....depends on where you live, so don't stress out! Remember photography is an art. Think about the shot before you take it. Anyone can take a snap shot of a street sign. But an artist can make that sign come alive, convey a feeling or thought and make it look interesting. So try your hand at more than just a snapshot.

Use focus, depthof field and ISO to test the limits of not only your knowledge but your subjects image. This challenge you MAY edit freely without showing 'negative' unless asked (someone just may want to see how you achieved that amazing look).

So what is an Urbanscape? It's simply a 'landscape' style picture in the city rather than the country.
http://sfguild.exposuremanager.com/g/urbanscapes

And what is a Streetscape? Same idea as above but not everyone lives in a big city. So a street will suffice.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/streetscape
http://www.gaithersburg-list.net/streetscapes.shtml

Again- don't just snap pictures. CREATE a an idea, thought or feeling with your image. Post-editing can help setting a tone you are trying to convey. If you do not have editing software there are many free places on the web...like Picasa and Photobucket among others. You do NOT have to edit but you may find it will help you with your 'story'.

Happy Snapping!

***There are NO limits to the images you share in the Drop Off thread but make sure that they are among your very best and it mut be a completed photo- not half done and getting feedback- use the main thread for that ok?

****And absolutely no old photos. In order to participate in any of the photo challenges- all submissions must be taken specifically for the challenge. Otherwise we are not growing or learning!  

do we have to have a proffesional quality cam to do this?

Quoting Crumb Snatcher's Mama&tra:“ do we have to have a proffesional quality cam to do this?”

Nope!
http://forum.baby-gaga.com/about507952.html
That is to the main thread of our group. You are welcome to jump in anytime. Even if you don't want to be a chatty person in the group, at least read through the main post - it will give you a lot of info regarding what we are doing. You can still join in the challenges without being active in the main thread.

=0D

Quoting NikonGirl_SASM:“ Nope! http://forum.baby-gaga.com/about507952.html That is to the main thread of our group. You ... [snip!] ... lot of info regarding what we are doing. You can still join in the challenges without being active in the main thread. =0D”

thank u!

this is new to me but I am planning trips to better places with better streets then my suburb ghetto loverlyness here  

Quoting ~Kim~ aka timba43:“ this is new to me but I am planning trips to better places with better streets then my suburb ghetto loverlyness here  ”

Going other places is fun and challenging. I also want to encourage you with your own 'hood. Like...what does a child see when they look down your street? Is there something in your neighborhood that is interesting? A rundown building, ghetto art (you know that lurvely spray paint art on buildings), abandoned boxcar or old railroad....stuff like that....but a view that has the street in it? I am going to try on location and elsewhere to test myself but either way- this is not up my usual alley. LOL

Quoting NikonGirl_SASM:“ Going other places is fun and challenging. I also want to encourage you with your own 'hood. Like...what ... [snip!] ... the street in it? I am going to try on location and elsewhere to test myself but either way- this is not up my usual alley. LOL”

I am reading that and thinking ewww... everything here is pretty ugly. But I will take a walk and see what I can find.

Quoting NikonGirl_SASM:“ Alright- better late than not at all. Thank you all for your patience. This next week's challenge isa ... [snip!] ... photo challenges- all submissions must be taken specifically for the challenge. Otherwise we are not growing or learning!  ”

oh man!!! that SF urbanscape is awesome!!! I wanna pack up and go there now!! I have not been to the city in years! You dont live to far... lets go  

Quoting ~Kim~ aka timba43:“ I am reading that and thinking ewww... everything here is pretty ugly. But I will take a walk and see what I can find.”

I feel the same way. I look around and think...ugh. LOL But I love it here- I need to find something to represent where I live...even if it's ugly....no one said pretty....just interesting...feeling....a thought...ya know? I really do not have an eye for this. I like people! But it's could to climb out of the box- it can still certainly influence my portraiture in a good way.

I have been reading alot about lighting. That as long as you have amazing lighting - sometimes photogs call it the 'golden hour'....you can make anything look interesting. I am going to test this theory out.

Well here is mine.

Here are just a couple that I took today, they aren't the best that I can do but It is what I have come up with so far, I plan to keep going out and taking them, hopefully they will be much better than these 

This one is at a local state park, I just laid down on the ground(the pavement, which was wet...lol) and snapped a sideways picture and I think I turned out good, but I did edit it, I just changed it to black and white, I just love the way it looks in black and white better, it's what I saw in my head when I saw it on my camera after I took it, I just thought how much better b&w would be.

You can see the road I'm laying on and the one across the patch of leaves with the tree.

And this one was driving through town, I just put it against the back window, I'm surprised how it turned out....lol I edited this one too because the other one just looked to plain to me...I just tinted it orange somewhat, to me it looks more natural(I just love the church in the background, always have...well ever since I moved here...lol)


I will be back with more 

Quoting {[Mommy & Wifey]}*IAAL*:“ Here are just a couple that I took today, they aren't the best that I can do but It is what I have come ... [snip!] ... just love the church in the background, always have...well ever since I moved here...lol) I will be back with more ”

I like those!

Quoting {[Mommy & Wifey]}*IAAL*:“ Here are just a couple that I took today, they aren't the best that I can do but It is what I have come ... [snip!] ... just love the church in the background, always have...well ever since I moved here...lol) I will be back with more ”

Before I looked at your state- I KNEW from the second pic you were from back East. 2 story houses are more rare here unless you have bucks. I like the orange cast it looks like sunset. I like the shadows playing around in the first one!

This is actually from last January Not this January so its no recent but i thought i'd share. Ill be doing this challenge this week.

Quoting NikonGirl_SASM:“ Before I looked at your state- I KNEW from the second pic you were from back East. 2 story houses are ... [snip!] ... here unless you have bucks. I like the orange cast it looks like sunset. I like the shadows playing around in the first one!”

lol. I did the orange for the sunset look because it really was sunset, I just didn't feel it captured it right