OK folks, this weekends photography Challenge/homework is a simple one. All you need to do is take a close up of any small object in your house (can be found else where too), something that has a story to it.
I'll start this out. While up in NY last week we visited my Uncle David who I hadn't seen in nearly 11 years or so. My Uncle is a collector of antiques and entire house if full of cool stuff to photograph. One of the objects that caught my eye right away was this gold hunk of metal and gears which ended up being the guts of an old clock.
With so much stuff all over the place it's hard not to get a busy back ground. In this photo my Uncle had a antique light he was holding about 2' above the clock, I had a 24mm lens set at f/1.4 ISO 500 with shutter at 1/5000 sec. . With the fast shutter and light over head I was able to get a black back ground and keep the focus on the gears.
Your turn! Find something in your house with a story to it, and share it here!
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Interesting ... I thought it was a gear from a clock.
In response to your 'challenge', I found this little basket sitting on a bookcase.
Nikon D700
f/9 1/3 sec (tripod mounted) no flash.
28-300mm lens set at 70mm
No post processing, just downloaded and posted.
Got these from my bro when i got out of the hospital just before Christmas, yeah they bring back good memories,lol,lol
Canon Powershot
shutter speed 1/50 sec
F-stop f4.0
ISO 1600
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This was my grandmothers coffee grinder that sat on her living room table since I was a child, when she passed away the one thing I ask to have was this. I played with it, pretended I was grinding coffee , opened the drawer at the bottom. Oh the memories. I wouldn't take $1,000 for it
Father's guitar he bought when he was a youngin with paper route money.
When the last candle has been blown out
and the last glass of champagne has been drunk
All that you are left with are the memories and the images-David Cooke.
The first image is the sun coming thru the cut glass on the front door reflecting across the room onto the door leading to the basement.
Image 2 is a Galileo thermometer on top of a glass covered table with a lamp lighting the scene. No flash was used in either photo.
Perhaps something that very few people know about me is I am a hearing aid wearer, almost deaf in my right ear. And thanks to my two little friends here, I can hear stereo sound beautifully now instead of living in a mono-toned world.
Lighting sucks but here is what I used;
Nikon D70, f16, 1/500 sec, 200 ISO. Sigma EF-500 DG Super NA-iTTL fired wirelessy in the D70 Commander Mode TTL.
Oh yeah, the lens was my AF Nikkor 35-70mm 2.8D which has a macro feature on the 35mm end.
Perhaps something that very few people know about me is I am a hearing aid wearer, almost deaf in my right ear. And thanks to my two little friends here, I can hear stereo sound beautifully now instead of living in a mono-toned world.
Lighting sucks but here is what I used;
Nikon D70, f16, 1/500 sec, 200 ISO. Sigma EF-500 DG Super NA-iTTL fired wirelessy in the D70 Commander Mode TTL.
Oh yeah, the lens was my AF Nikkor 35-70mm 2.8D which has a macro feature on the 35mm end.
Barry, I have been hard of hearing since birth, I wear hearing aids in both ears. I have a severe loss in both ears but with the aids, it's like night & day. Once I take them off, there are lots of things I can't hear (good for when my wife is asking me to do "Honey Do chores:rofl: )
awesome shots guys. now I'll have to get looking around here to find some interesting things to shoot... I'll post something later. Keep the pics rolling
Picture of a grandfather's clock that my son bought for $5 at Goodwill while away at College...because he said it reminded him of his beloved Great Grandmother who recently passed...
Shot with my Nikon D3100
f/6.3
24mm focal length
1/160
no flash
ISO 1600
AF-S Nikkor 18-55mm 5.6G lens
Anyone can take a picture...a person with a passion sees the picture before it's taken. - Anonymous
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