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Photo Challenge: Transportation

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There are many means of transportation in this world and this weeks photo challenge is about describing or picturing a means of transportation that you feel for in some way.

You are allowed to interpret transportation in a very open fashion, i.e. walking is a means of transporting yourself. Transporting people, goods or inanimate objects makes no difference here, so there really should not be any problems finding something creative to picture.

As usual post a link to your photo in the comments section. I know that there is still a problem with using the proper img tag but I will edit the comments to include your picture when I look at them.

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Photo Challenge: The Orton Effect

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From Wikipedia:

Orton imagery, also called an Orton slide sandwich, is a photography technique which blends two completely different photos of the same scene, resulting in a distinctive mix of high and low detail areas within the same photo.[1] It was originated by photographer Michael Orton.

It is time to get creative with Photoshop, or perhaps just using your cameras double exposure feature if you have it (the D300 does). Working with Photoshop or GIMP has the added benefit that you can take any photo, apply lens blurr and work on it even if you never did an out of focus exposure when you took it…

These are the steps in creating an Orton Effect:

  1. Select a nice scene and take a photograph that is +1 EV over-exposed.
  2. Defocus so that the scene is out of focus by switching to manual focus and blurring the picture slightly. This should also be +1 EV over-exposed.
  3. When you are home in photoshop or the photo editing software of your choice add the two images together in two different layers. Change the blending from ”Normal” to ”Multiply”.
  4. (Play around)

Of course you can stard with any photo you already have and make two lightened copies of it and then blurr one of them and blend them together. This is also acceptable.

Here are examples of the orton effect on Flickr.

Below are links to other sites that explains how to attain this effect both with film and digital cameras:

Good luck!

(Post your contributions in the comments section with links to your photographs)

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Saturday photo challenge: Still life

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This is what Wikipedia says on the subject:

A still life (plural still lifes) is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which may be either natural (food, flowers, plants, rocks, or shells) or man-made (drinking glasses, books, vases, jewelry, coins, pipes, and so on) in an artificial setting.

This week is stilleben week! Arrange your objects, light them and shoot :)

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Friday photo challenge: Bokeh

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Bokeh (derived from Japanese boke, a noun form of bokeru, ”become blurred or fuzzy”) is a photographic term referring to the appearance of out-of-focus areas in an image produced by a camera lens using a shallow depth of field.[1] Different lens bokeh produces different aesthetic qualities in out-of-focus backgrounds, which are often used to reduce distractions and emphasize the primary subject. —wikipedia

This week, create a photograph with out-of-focus background to emphasise the subject, either using the photo editor of your choice, or by focusing ;)

Happy weekend!

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Introducing photo friday @ ichimusai.org

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Hi guys, my name is Jenny and I will post photo challenges here at ichimusai.org every friday from now on and at least until July 31th, 2011.

If you’d like to participate, please use the comments feature to link to your challenge image.

Here’s your first Ichimusai Photo Friday challenge!

Quietly sit down for fifteen minutes, and think about where you are
right now in life, and the feelings you have about this.  Describe
this in your photograph.

Good luck!