2024-10-08 Awareness Gym

This two week challenge is about exercising your photographic eye by making the ordinary special. Alex Kilbee shows you in one of his videos how you can start exercising your photographic awareness with everyday objects around you. Click here for the video. Think about the composition elements and arrange ordinary objects in your environment. Or look around static objects you can’t arrange, such as architecture and use your zoom lens to isolate what interests you.

Keep your image uploads at 1600 pixels wide or 1050 pixels high.

19 Responses to 2024-10-08 Awareness Gym

  1. Henri says:

    This is a study in how light curves around an object. The vertically scalloped grooves give a sense of depth. Two light sources on the left. The furthest left is designed to accentuate the first scalloped grooves. Processed in Photoshop using the Levels tool and the B&W layer to play with the colour channels to enhance the shadows.

  2. Ron says:

    Bridge railing and shadows. ISO 100, f/22, 1/60. Converted to b & w, 50% dramatic warm filter applied in Apple Photos.

  3. Ron says:

    Burnt log in a fire pit. ISO 100, f/16, 1/200. Converted to b & w, sharpened in GIMP.

  4. Della 朱世芸 Ho says:

    ISO 320 400mm 1/640 f5.6
    the bright yellow reflection was enhanced

  5. della says:

    the dried leaves have a nice pattern ISO 350 200mm 1/400 f5.6

  6. Frankie says:

    I was looking for an interesting detail for this assignment in Boney, a sculpture in front of the building across from the South Health Campus, when I noticed the distorted reflection. The bus was a bonus.
    ISO 200, 40 mm, f/5, 1/400s

    • Frankie says:

      I’d taken a picture of Boney with my cellphone as I was parking. He’s a knockoff of Jeff Koons’ Balloon Dog series, which are 12 feet long, different colours and made of stainless steel. The orange Balloon Dog was auctioned for $58.4 million in 2013.

  7. Sue says:

    Not sure I got this assignment right. I was looking for interesting objects around my house and found the following two items.

    The first is a miniature moai from the Easter Islands taken at 1/125, F 3.5 and iso 6400.

  8. Sue says:

    This is a walrus vertebrae that I found on the beach in the Bering Sea along with the glass fishing float painted with an orca whale design

    1/60, F 3.5, iso 6400

  9. Karen Sandra McDaniel says:

    This is a Cackling Goose – smaller version of a Canada Goose. Taken at the WID Irrigation Canal by the Inglewood gold course. Settings: FL 400mm, S 1/500, F 7.1, ISO 640, WB Auto, Matrix Metering.

    I liked the reflection.

  10. Shannon says:

    Electrical Tower and reflection from the Calgary Zoo Bridge. Canon EOS 6D Mark II. Shot at 1/200 sec @ f/4.0, 75 mm focal length, ISO 100. Adjusted exposure, contrast, clarity and vibrance in Lightroom.

  11. tony campos says:

    Stone protruding in the water (Griffith Woods)
    f/7.1, 1/400, iso100

  12. tony campos says:

    Cloud reflections (Griffith Woods)
    f/5.6, 1/800, iso100

  13. Grant says:

    I call this the Dead Dahlias. A bouquet my wife put on speaker beside the TV. The first thing I noticed was that I thought the stems in the vase looked like two legs treading water. Some minor editing, saturation and clarity, in lightroom and cropping. I thought the blue on the left complimented the still alive yellow bloom. 85mm f3.5, 1/60, ISO 800.

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