March Assignments (Dhabih)

So unfortunately, i didn't end up getting a photo for the Oxymoron challenge. The couple ideas I had, one i didnt have time to do, and the other i missed my chance. I was gonna take a picture of the snow with the cherry blossoms out front our house but it melted by morning. Looks like Sean already beat me too it anyway ;) So anyway here's the rest of mine:

Sajen being weighed

I'm including another shot i liked but decided not to submit as my main one :

I didn't have any night shots i really liked but since i wanted to post something here is the only one that looked interesting:

Night
Finall here is the Green one, from a flowershop in my building:

As far as touch-ups:

for the B&W i chose the green channel from the full color photo as my b&w image, other than that no photoshop.

For the Night shot i cropped and rotated it a bit

For the Green I had to boost the brightness a bit because i accidently had my camera taking -1 brightness pics and didn't realize it. I also took a little bit of the yellow out.

March Assignments (Poya)

Alright so here are my entries:

B&W portrait: I've looked at this way too much and not sure if it works. It definitely looks better in color. I also tried to crop out the distracting person in the background but it made the picture too...cramped. Any suggestions (besides photoshop action) is welcome.


Green: I did take this photo in March, but it's cheating a little since I took it after I found out about this blog. It's taken in Bahji


Oxymoron: This was very though. Couldn't think of much, and I don't know if the following can really be considered an oxymoron. I just thought having a big rock in the middle of a path was bizzare and interesting.


And here is one that didn't make it to the final cut:

Springless in Seattle

This is Seattle.

It's Spring, or so the cherry tree thinks...
But wait!


an oxymoron production by Sean Youssefi

Time to Deliver

Alright, the time has come to post your March contributions and here are some suggestions for how to do it:

• Write a post on this blog, make smaller versions of your pictures and include them as part of your post commenting each picture if you wish.
• Put them on another site (e.g. flickr), write a post with your comments including the links to the pictures
• Any other way that works for you as long as all we need is to come to this blog to find the pictures.

Look forward to seeing the pics!

One week left!

Sup y'all, Just a reminder there is a week left for March assignments. It's looking like 4 assignments might be a bit much for some, so perhaps next month we'll do two instead. Also in the comments part of this post please submit ideas for next months assignments.

Clarification

I just wanted to clarify i was thinking there are 4 assignments for March, not just the Oxymoron one. I heard there might be confusion on that. Obviously if you don't want to you can only do the first one, but its more fun to have a variety of things and the first one is just the challenge which is supposed to be a bit harder than the rest.

Using your SB-600 as a slave.

Wow, i just found this out! I know a couple of you have this flash, and i love the fact that you can do this with the sb-600:

http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/ittlslave.htm

Scroll down to see how to do this. He explains it for the d70, on the d80 its item #22 and not #19 (if your CSM menu is in in fullmode)

It lets you put your SB-600 anywhere in the room and use it as a slave! I just tried this out and its awesome! This could come in handy especially for portrait shots.