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Post by peterob on Mar 23, 2024 15:57:00 GMT
Into the last week now, so probably time to start on a final selection of 3-5 images. I've got mine (I think) but they are on my phone and too big to attach, so I'll need to get them onto Flickr later. Gone with stuff I have seen on/from the streets, processed in a consistent style with a preset I created in Snapseed. I'm giving up. I hadn't managed to think of anything to build on since I made a start in January. I've taken the camera into town a few times but nothing. I can't do deliberate photography. Funny that we've lived in or near Chester, one of the more photogenic English towns, for over 40 years and I still haven't got any pictures of it that would make a coherent set. |
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Post by zx9 on Mar 23, 2024 17:35:22 GMT
I think that I got off to a good start in January but very quickly realised that saturated colour in an English winter was not going to be as easy as I had thought having only two real sessions before I fell back to B&W.
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Post by zou on Mar 23, 2024 18:53:40 GMT
Into the last week now, so probably time to start on a final selection of 3-5 images. I've got mine (I think) but they are on my phone and too big to attach, so I'll need to get them onto Flickr later. Gone with stuff I have seen on/from the streets, processed in a consistent style with a preset I created in Snapseed. I'm giving up. I hadn't managed to think of anything to build on since I made a start in January. I've taken the camera into town a few times but nothing. I can't do deliberate photography. Funny that we've lived in or near Chester, one of the more photogenic English towns, for over 40 years and I still haven't got any pictures of it that would make a coherent set. Surely you can prefer together a few images from the archive, you're the keyword wizard I thought?  Joking aside, old images are fine, it's how you curate them into a coherent set that I am looking for. |
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Post by Kath on Mar 25, 2024 8:55:18 GMT
I have a short series, most of which I actually took yesterday. I have more images but to keep things visually similar, decided that the light/weather needed to be more consistent so some of those taken at dusk or at night didn't really fit. I may extend the project and work on getting more images to make thematic groupings.
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Post by zou on Mar 30, 2024 20:40:58 GMT
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Post by Kath on Mar 31, 2024 11:29:45 GMT
Interestingly I have very similar subject matter, but a slightly different take on it. Will post in just a moment. I love these - the treatment and use of colour is particularly effective. |
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Post by Kath on Mar 31, 2024 11:34:06 GMT
What is it we're looking at?
240324-Bin Project-001 by Kath Polley, on Flickr The Inventor Of Television (It's all rubbish now) (Shortly after taking this shot, a couple walked towards it as I was walking away. All I heard from him was "Wit f***n' cooncil eejit thought that wiz a guid idea, putt'n' that yon midden right there? How's we sposed to get a decent photae now?") Summed up my project in one succint sentence I thought.) 
240324-Bin Project-002 by Kath Polley, on Flickr Helensburgh monuments 
240324-Bin Project-003 by Kath Polley, on Flickr Nice spot for an ice cream. 
240324-Bin Project-004 by Kath Polley, on Flickr More bins. I've been very conscious of the ridiculous number of bins we now have in Helensburgh, largely in areas where tourists come to enjoy the seaside and take photographs. I feel like this is a project to be continued and haven't decided if it will be called Bin City or Welcome To Helensburgh yet. |
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Post by zou on Mar 31, 2024 12:27:21 GMT
Interestingly I have very similar subject matter, but a slightly different take on it. Will post in just a moment. I love these - the treatment and use of colour is particularly effective. I've been using Snapseed to edit phone photos for years but there's often a very obvious 'digital' look with them, especially the blues and greens, so I took a few images I liked that had a good range of colours and played with RGB curves, grain/structure/etc. before saving as presets. These presets are now my go-to for 95% of my phone camera output since I made them back in January/February. |
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Post by zou on Mar 31, 2024 16:14:24 GMT
Anyone else playing?
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Post by peterob on Mar 31, 2024 16:42:25 GMT
No sorry, I still don't get it. I'm even more confused now. I thought seeing examples might help me understand the objective but not. |
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Post by zx9 on Mar 31, 2024 17:40:32 GMT
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Post by zou on Apr 1, 2024 5:15:52 GMT
Well thank you both for taking part. I'm not sure if for a 3 month period the theme was too open, or if 3 months is just too long. It's easy to lose momentum, especially if one goes on holiday (excuses excuses)! Kath, I think yours are the set that works better as presented, but Keith I agree that you are onto something there, even if it ran out of steam. So Kath, you get to pick the next theme.
Happy with 3 months or want to reduce it? Your call as theme setter.
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Post by Kath on Apr 1, 2024 7:11:20 GMT
Thank you! Will have a think and come up with something today.
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Post by peterob on Apr 1, 2024 7:34:48 GMT
Well thank you both for taking part. I'm not sure if for a 3 month period the theme was too open, or if 3 months is just too long. It's easy to lose momentum, especially if one goes on holiday (excuses excuses)! Kath, I think yours are the set that works better as presented, but Keith I agree that you are onto something there, even if it ran out of steam. So Kath, you get to pick the next theme. Happy with 3 months or want to reduce it? Your call as theme setter. Well done Kath! Thank you Zou for this idea of a challenge and a thank you to Kath and Keith for taking part. I wish I'd been able to see it through this time and I hope it continues and that there will be future opportunities. I like taking pictures when I'm out. Recently for (very) few daily themes I've been able to take a relevant picture on the day but generally I can't go out with intent as it were. Birding is OK - go out and take pictures of birds - but that is opportunistic and a technical challenge. All the RPS stuff involves portfolios and themes, completely foreign territory to me, so I'm looking to learn really. The three months just went in a flash. I went out on Jan 17th and took some pictures. I went into town a few more times and took none. Kath's pictures were interesting because one of the reasons I have difficulty taking pictures in town is that there is always something in the way, be it street furniture, scaffolding, parked cars, people or just general detritus that spoils it. Anyway, I hope this portfolio theme continues a bit and maybe I can get some insight into what lies behind the choices. From this round I get "something spoiled" from Kath, mainly because I'd never take the picture, but I don't understand the bins Zou (although Kath does) or the buildings Keith even though I possibly would take a picture of a colourful bin and I do take lots of building photos. |
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Post by Kath on Apr 1, 2024 12:35:04 GMT
Well thank you both for taking part. I'm not sure if for a 3 month period the theme was too open, or if 3 months is just too long. It's easy to lose momentum, especially if one goes on holiday (excuses excuses)! Kath, I think yours are the set that works better as presented, but Keith I agree that you are onto something there, even if it ran out of steam. So Kath, you get to pick the next theme. Happy with 3 months or want to reduce it? Your call as theme setter. Well done Kath! Thank you Zou for this idea of a challenge and a thank you to Kath and Keith for taking part. I wish I'd been able to see it through this time and I hope it continues and that there will be future opportunities. I like taking pictures when I'm out. Recently for (very) few daily themes I've been able to take a relevant picture on the day but generally I can't go out with intent as it were. Birding is OK - go out and take pictures of birds - but that is opportunistic and a technical challenge. All the RPS stuff involves portfolios and themes, completely foreign territory to me, so I'm looking to learn really. The three months just went in a flash. I went out on Jan 17th and took some pictures. I went into town a few more times and took none. Kath's pictures were interesting because one of the reasons I have difficulty taking pictures in town is that there is always something in the way, be it street furniture, scaffolding, parked cars, people or just general detritus that spoils it. Anyway, I hope this portfolio theme continues a bit and maybe I can get some insight into what lies behind the choices. From this round I get "something spoiled" from Kath, mainly because I'd never take the picture, but I don't understand the bins Zou (although Kath does) or the buildings Keith even though I possibly would take a picture of a colourful bin and I do take lots of building photos. Yes, there was a distinct sense of things being spoiled by the inept positioning of and quantity of bins near places where tourists are likely to want to enjoy a view or take a photograph to remember their visit. It didn't necessarily start out that way. Initially, I was just taking photos of bins, almost counting them by taking pictures. I did go through a period of trying to make something attractive out them by making abstracts of the reflections I found in them but eventually realised that there were lots of opportunities to show how they impacted on people's experience of visiting the town because people can't help but be near them, around them or sometimes even using them. I have what I think is a great shot of our local council bin empty-er hoiking the whole top cover off one of the big grey plastic ones...but that's his job, not an instance of it rather spoiling the view so I didn't include it here. I've now set a new theme of documentary which you can interpret in a lot of different ways. One thing I noticed about your early musings on this thread was that you had a lot of potential themes - alley ways, clocks, things closing down, signs...you could have kept going with any one of those and had a coherent set! |
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Joking aside, old images are fine, it's how you curate them into a coherent set that I am looking for.
