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.

March Assignment.

4 Assignments

• Oxymoron (Photograph two opposite concepts within one frame)
• Green
• B&W Portrait
• the Night

I think every month should have one focused challenge assignment such as the Oxymoron one above. This is one assignment that pushes us to try something new and is more focused than the other 3. What you all think?
We'd talked about the role of post-process in these and I think the concensus was that minimal photoshop can be used if desired (levels, saturation, cropping, straightening), but you must declare along with the image what exactly was done. I think the idea though is that the less photoshop the better and hopefully we'll all get good enough that we barely ever need it. We can discuss more in the comments for this post if wished. Maybe the original untouched photo should be available for others to view also?

Assignments are due end of day, March 31st.

Welcome.

Let's kick this photo challenge off. I've gone ahead and started us off with a few assignments. If any of these are overwhelmingly disliked we can pick something else, but i figured it'd at least get us started.
Using this blog as the format I think will be the cleanest way of doing this, you are all authors of the blog so you can all post your pictures here too. As such:


There's 2 ways to post photos, either by uploading from your hard disk or linking to an external site. If you have a flickr or picasa account and have photos hosted there, it's preferable to do that as this blog only has 500MB of space for uploading pictures. Any questions post in the comments.