Green "Flower" (Patterns in Nature)

New Weekly Assignment: Jumptography

Time to take an action shot! Take a picture of someone jumping. Look for someone on a skateboard or a motorcycle, find a game of 3 on 3 at a park or take a family photo with the whole family in mid-air!

If you need inspiration, I would suggest listening to:

Van Halen - "Jump"

House of Pain's "Jump around"

Kris Kross's "Jump Jump"

Patterns in.... Agate!

ISO 1600

f5.6

1/40

minimum focus distance.

lit by a large window behind.

This is a rock, in case you didn't know what agate is. I took my kids to the dinosaur park in Ogden yesterday, and my boy bought this example of awesomeness.

Capturing Fireworks

With the upcoming holiday, I thought it would be a good time to share this article I found about shooting at a fireworks display. Happy 4th of July everyone!

http://digital-photography-school.com/how-to-photograph-fireworks

Patterns in Nature: the pine cone

I just got a reverse lens mount to take macro pictures and I thought this would be a good assignment to give it a try.

WPG Field Trip!

Hey groupies! It's time for our next field trip. We are going to take a drive down to Delta, Utah! If you've never been, they've got some fantastic architecture that would be awesome for photographing! This will be a day trip so I think we should wait until August to go due to the holiday weekends in July. So, the 7th, 14th, or 21st are my proposed dates.

Please let me know what date you'd like so we can try to pick a date that is best for everyone. This should give us plenty of time to plan!

Thanks,
Rye

F/5.6

1/640 exposure

ISO-100

Macro, PATTERNS IN NATURE> flower taken just outside my house

New Weekly Assignment: Patterns in Nature

There has been a lull in posts over the last week or two and so I decided I would post this week's assignment (mainly to force me to get out and take a few pics). This is a pretty broad subject so it should be pretty easy to find something fun to capture. The weather is nice so no excuses!

PS - congrats to Jed on gettin' hitched and welcome back!

From the Kitchen

Ok so these weren't in MY kitchen but they were in my mom's kitchen.

Kitchen Pillar (From Your Kitchen)

My Blog

What up my peeps. I didn't turn in my assignment for this week yet but I have updated my own blog. Let me know what you think.

http://bradensadventure.blogspot.com/

Werd up!

Jello juice - always present in my kitchen.

Please note - with all of my images so far, I have at least done color corrections. This is Straight from the camera - no alterations.

here's the data -

ISO 200

1/125 second

f 5.6

50 mm focal length

A bathrobe over a kitchen bowl. A seamless sheet of white paper lit from behind by my strobe at 1/16 power. The glass was 30 inches from background. Camera was 4 feet from subject. My wife poured the juice into the glass. By the way, this was not a series of multiple shots. This is my first attempt and I snapped the shutter at exactly the right moment. very lucky - but I did it.

Weekly Assignment - "From Your Kitchen"

It should be really easy to find a subject for this one. Try to focus on composition and how you can make the photo uber compelling even though it may be a household item. Look forward to seeing what comes in. Good luck.

This oughta get me caught up...mostly.

I bet you thought I would never post again. HA. Let me know what you think.

Water

Mirror

Long Exposure.

Geometry.

For Fun.

Opposites.

Balance.

The Art of Science Made Clear.

Abstract.

f/22

ISO 100

Bias 0 step

1/4 sec exposure
The gradient effect was just for fun.

Science made clear...

Yup, Science made a clear stone which is similar to a Diamond. Science also made a light source which uses a 650 nm wavelength. Both are depicted here. Enjoy!

Exif data:

manual settings and focus

ISO 100

35mm on a $40 crap lens with the front element removed. It makes an excellent macro lens. :) distance of about 2" from subject.

f 11

AV 1/125

Lit with my AlienBee B400 at about 3/4 power, with the same setup as the one in the scissors photo 2 weeks ago.

The Art of Science Made Clear: The Sound of Science v1.0 and 2.0

v 1.0

v 2.0

So I was listening to the Beastie Boys and it hit me... so I took some old ear phones and plugged them into my iPod. I filled a cookie sheet with a bit of water, rustled up some Paul's Boutique and tah dah!

f-stop: f/2.2

exp: 1/125 sec

ISO: 400

Focal Length: 50mm

I added a color gradient to the image in Photoshop. It was too funky fresh not to post yo!

Battery Power!! (The Art Of Science Made Clear)

Multiple Exposure MagLite

The Art of Science Made Clear: A Robin's Eggs

Science: Reproduction works! This is a robin's nest outside the backdoor of my parent's house.

Okay here it is...

The assignment this week is pretty easy and self explanatory. Ready?.... OK....

The Art Of Science Made Clear

Direct any questions about the assignment to Jed.

Weekly Assignment: Braden

No our assignment isn't to take pictures of Braden, though that could prove to be interesting. Braden, lets hear it, what's the assignment this week?

Abstracticus

okay here is my real submission for this weeks abstract picture.

Abstract

This is actually 2 trees. The original was struck by lightning and died and the new tree grew around it (the dead portion is the darker part inside that looks burnt).

f/stop: f5/6

exposure: 1/250 sec

ISO: 400

focal length: 55mm

lighting: natural

Post: Just dinkin' around in Photoshop. I really wish I knew what I was doing in there. Anyone wanna volunteer to teach a Photoshop 101?

Abstract

ISO 200, f/5.6, 1/100 second, 80mm

ISO 200, f/6.3, 1/160 second, 28mm

Completely unaltered images ;) Ok... maybe not.

Abstract...I guess...

I really did not know what to do for abstract, so I guess this is my submission for this week.

This actually is an HDR shot....

green in the abstract

So... here is my submission.

F 5.6

300 MM

ISO 200

Manual settings, including focus. Yes, I know the focus is a little soft - that's what happens when eyes get old :(

Abstract

Butter utensils

Weekly assignment

sorry if this isn't what you are looking for this week.. I only saw the take a picture of whatever you want, I missed the abstract part. I am working on something more abstract so until then.
I couldn't find just one so I am gonna post two out of about a thousand pictures I took on saturday for our annual charity softball event.

Image 3710 throwing the ball

f/ 6.7

1/750 sec

ISO -200

210 MM

Image 6984 sliding

F/ 5

1/1600 sec

ISO - 400

220 MM

Here is my submission for Opposites. I am sorry I am behind an assignment.

ISO: 200

Focal Length 50 mm

AV F 5.6

TV 1/125

manual mode

here is the lighting setup in case you care:

That is a roll of paper I'm using as a diffuser for my strobe. It was effective as a bounce card as well. note the really bright spots on the fridge...

Weekly Assignment: Abstract

Alright, last assignment may have been one of the more difficult ones, sorry if it was a deterrent for anyone. I hate to say it again, but I'm not going to bother posting assignments if we aren't getting participation. This week is Abstract, which means you can take a picture of ANYTHING! Take a picture of your cubicle wall if you want, lets see WPG's talent!

Opposites

FL: 200mm

Ap: f/5.6

ISO 360

Shutter: 1/3 second

Weekly Assignment: Opposites

This is my porch light at midnight

F Stop: f/5.6

Exp: 1/320 sec

ISO: 100

Focal Length: 300mm

Post: Inverted the photo in Photoshop

Weekly Assignment: Opposites

Enough posing. Start posting.

Edit: Lets see if we can get some more submitted in the next day or two. Next assignment will be given tomorrow. For anyone looking for ideas (this was a bit of a harder theme)...

Hot and cold
Big and small
Rough and smooth
Old and new
Black and white
Life and death

Water

Mirror...or lack thereof

GREAT salt lake

I was just up at the Great salt lake the other day when we had all that smoggy smoke in the air, and got this shot.

bored water

I took this photo on Friday evening whilst I was locked out of my car in the parking lot of The Pie.

I liked the way the water was running, but it still was quite serene.

Av: 1/10 sec

ISO 100

f14

18mm focal length

Photo Shoot

Wasatch Photo Group photo shoot = Awesomeness

Mirror Assignment

focal length: 28mm

f/stop: f/4.8

ISO: 800

shutter speed: 1/800 second

Group email and contact info!

Hey groupies!

I created an email address for the group for me to be able to be the main point of contact for the group in terms of organization of activities, addressing group issues/concerns, and other cool stuff. The address is wasatchphotogroup@gmail.com. Please send an email to that address with your contact information (emails and phone).

I am also putting together a news letter, group policies/bylaws, and other cool information and I want to be able to have a mailing list. I think that is the only way to make sure everyone is included on all the communication. And also when we add new members, they can be easily informed of how the group functions.

Thanks groupies!

RyRy

Weekly Assignment: Water

So, that last post was just a joke (unless you have a picture to post for that one)

The real assignment for this week is water. Be creative!

Have fun!

Mesa Mini - First!

I took this a while ago but I am going to use it because I couldn't drive down to Mesa Verde during work. Enjoy!

Thanks Shizzle!

New Assignment- Tilt Shift of a Pueblo Village

This weeks assignment is a very specific assignment meant to entice certain members, nay, a member (singular) , of our group to start posting again.

This weeks posting can be an existing picture and does not need to be taken this week.

Hope you all have fun with this one! (I know one of you will)

Mirror: Reflections from the city

So I had a couple of ideas throughout the week, but most of them didn't work out like I had hoped. What you see is an HDR image I threw together. This was taken Saturday afternoon, it's the reflection from the Nu Skin building in Provo. I would have liked to have the tree branch removed, but after cropping it out I felt like I was missing some important parts of the photo.

ISO 200
f/8.0
1/250 shutter
55mm

Wasatch Photo Group banner

As you can see we're sporting a new banner, hope you all like it. I'll be working on a group logo as well, if anyone has some suggestions about what you think would make a good logo for our group, feel free to comment and I'll see what I can come up with.

Mirror

I had to get up really early to take this. Stupid fishermen

my name is....

ISO 200

exposure 6 seconds on manual timer

f7.1

a $4 safety light/ light stick in a room with no windows

thanks for looking!

Long Exposure - American Flag

I am still learning how to do long exposures... in fact, this is my first one.

Long Exposure: The Hands of Time

Focal length: 34mm

ISO: 200

Aperture: f/6.3,

Shutter: 6.5 seconds

Lighting: TV in the background

Technique: I used my camera remote to start and stop the exposure as I manually turned the hands.

Weekly Assignment: Mirror

We've had some excellent posts on long exposure, and I know we have a couple more to come. The new assignment is Mirror. I think this will be really interesting to see what people turn in.

Happy shooting!