Workshop, Week 5 - Colours

This week was quite hard for me.
Colours at this time of the year are slightly hard to come by.
Yes, we have blue skies out there, but that's about it.
The sun bleaches out everything. Sunsets and Sunrises are pretty much non existent thanks to a lot of haze.
I had to resort to a few things I found inside.
And on some I had to play heavily with the colours, so please excuse the noise.
I just try to give some examples.
;)

If you are interested in this weeks theme, check out Ron's Blogpost.

Week 5 - An example for 'Contrasting colours'

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Week 5 - An example for 'Contrasting colours'

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Week 5 - An example for 'Contrasting colours'

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Week 5 - An example for 'Harmonious colours'

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Week 5 - An example for 'Analogous colours'

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Week 5 - An example for 'Analogous colours'

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Week 5 - An example for 'Monochrome / Selenium tone'

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Week 5 - An example for 'Monochrome / Sepia tone'

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Week 4, Day 1 - Gotcha!

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 (The happy grin on my face doesn't exactly fit, but I couldn't help it ;))

G+ Mentorship program, Week 3 Summary

I can't believe week 3 is already over.
Albeit a short week, it was a good and productive one.
I finally managed some 'staged' inside photos, had a bunch of fun playing at the beach and in my neighbourhood.
Now, trying to summarize why I chose the three photos for this week's summary:

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From the technical aspect, this one is not perfectly the way I wanted it to be. I was going for a sharp focus on the tip, running up the edge.

I still like the unnerving outcome. Feeling like me (the camera holder) is going to be in big trouble.

I think it shows (or should show) perspective in two ways. The angle (and supposed leading line along the edge) and the perspective of the emotional (thanks Ron, for giving me the right words here ;))

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This one got into the collection because it disturbs also the viewers perspective. An arrow should lead the way, not the other way around.

The leading lines go the opposite direction of the viewer, but his eyes are drawn back by the arrow.

What lacks here maybe is a story.

Not sure.

When I took this, I was trying to get the man in the background to play along in the photo. But later decided it doesn't work.

Do you see a story?

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And number three is an attempt at leading lines. The story showing you the decay and the forgotten with the new and shiny on the horizon.

Kai posted a very good comment on the original photo in my weekly album:

I really find this one intriguing. Like a street that's been lost / forgotten - life has passed it by, new developments already on the horizon. Will they finish that new building or leave it half done and start another... 

Workshop, Week 3, day 5

Mentorship program by +Ron Clifford Week 3, Day 5

A 3 hour photo walk at the beach with lots of crouching down and a bucnh of photos.
Today my back's aching and I feel how out of shape I am, but I am still quite happy with the results.
I tried to implement the experiences from the two weeks before as well with this weeks assignment (Perspective) and besides that just had fun playing around.

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Workshop, Week 3, day 4

One of those days where the photos in my mind turned out a bit different than the real ones.
The angles didn't work quite the way I wanted or the sky got blown out.
Some I didn't show, 'perspective' wasn't achieved.
Or there was no story at all.
Not sure if these work, but that you can decide for yourselves =)

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Workshop, Week 3, day 3

A bit late with my first Mentorship post for week 3?
Yes, indeed it is.
Ron's been sick though and most of us had to deal with some issues this week, so cutting everyone a little slack wasn't really bad.
Wishing Ron a speedy recovery though!
Here's the assignment for this week, Ron can in explain it so much better than I ever could ;)

It's about putting things into perspective. Well, that's gonna be an interesting one.
I desperately need to find some new places to shoot and some new ideas.
Doodling down some of them right now.

Meanwhile here's one of my favorites from way back in Korea (2005)

From The kids

It's still very dusty outside, but maybe I'll doodle with some inside ones =)

Cool thing, Tripod and Remote work =)It was fun finally playing with the Remote again =)
Hubby had to bend my Horse shoe, I must have bent one side of it somewhere on the travels. Ugh.

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I think I might have found my first 2 shares for the 3 shots on perspective.
But I'm not going 'public' on those one yet =)
Just saving the links.
https://plus.google.com/u/0/113104944605785201866/posts/77iHtVwa3YK
https://plus.google.com/u/0/103082123239646171933/posts/MjHUdcWDxg9

365-2012-03-075 - That explains a lot!

'Our resistance to our creativity is a form of self-destruction. We throw up road-blocks on our own path. Why do we do this? In order to maintain a illusion of control. Depression, like anger and anxiety, sluggishness, confusion'
from Julia Cameron
(http://juliacameronlive.com/
Edit: I only have the book, not doing the online workshop here)

I was feeling great, with a great wave of creativity and motivation.
And this week it started to creep in. The anger for no reason, sluggishness, excuses.
=)
I am finished with the book now and will start it for real this time.
I decided after the first 3 chapters to 'just read' it and then work it through for real.
It goes along well with the Mentorship program.
In fact, Ron is going along very similar lines in some of his statements =)

Workshop, Summary of week 2

Can't believe the week is already over.
Dang.

Overall I had a lot of fun playing and a hard time choosing the final 3 images.
I kind of like my wide ocean shots, but I think these might fit the theme better than most.
(You can go back to the album to check for yourself, if you care to =))
I'm a bit tired tonight, so my judgement might be clouded.

It was very interesting to try to find a story in a photo, shoot it accordingly and also implement the lesson from last week.
Playing with focus is always fun, I just wish for a faster long lens ;)
I hope the shots are fairly self-explanatory. I'm just not able to form lengthy explanations tonight.

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#365 - 073 - nothing

365-2012-03-072 / nothing

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also for Workshop, Week 2, day 6 and 7
Haze and dust is dragging down my spirits a bit

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Workshop, Week 2, Day 5

A windy, hazy day.
Made it to the beach though.

Just playing around, looking for things of interest, stories or POVs and playing with angles.
Had my 18-200mm with me and shot in manual mode (not manual focus).

On my way to the beach

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Go try to figure why my dog turned into a Dalmatian ;)

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And a quick hop to Kuwait Magic (a mall, well, a clothes, shoe, Make-up and food Hub with 1 stationary store)

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Why would a stationary shop sell Ink Cartridges and then not have Fountais pens? The worker looked at me like I asked for ice cream while holding the cartridges. I mean, why would I want to buy a pen for those?

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Adding this one for the chuckle, read the text ;)

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