Photo Stimulus

Just thought I throw up a couple of pictures to look at, talk about a little maybe. Hope the camera is working or a fix is in the works. If I buy a new one while I'm here... . Though greedy in a sense, I've certainly taken note of the feature improvements I'll need on a new camera. 

I took this photo a while ago on a trip to an agricultural community of earthen buildings. The authentic ambiance was heavily diluted by tourist-directed commerce, but I did manage to get something that I thought could go in a National Geographic somewhere. I think it turned out pretty cool. The settings were almost spot on when I took the first shot. Didn't have much tinkering to do after that. Pretty lucky. Though I have to say the best picture from the trip goes to one of my students with a shiny new Canon compact. She's got a shot of a colorfully clad Chinese boy doing a gongfu pose. The up-close, full frame of the shot is perfect and all the colors mesh really well. I'm jealous. Maybe I can get a copy from her so you can see it. 

Anyway, whaddya think of this one?

I took this one while I was waiting for delivery one night. It's pretty much the only way I get food. Each restaurant has their delivery boy and you get to chat it up with them when you pay for your food. You can get in a certain rhythm with one if you order consitently from the same place (which I do: The other day a restauraunt comped my meal because I didn't have anything smaller than a 100RMB note) and know just when to walk to the streetcorner for a rendesvous.

I remember arguing/discussing some pan photos from Photography a few months ago in a prior life. It took me a while to get myself turing at the right speed, but these things zip around everywhere so I had a steadily flowing river of practice subjects. Unfortunately I think the light in the front seems to be blurred in some way that makes the pattern of movement discontinuous in the photo. The way the light is blurred seems unnatural, or some forensic bullshit, but it's just a glow from the basket on the front - the light isn't really blurred at all. So I think it would be better if the light weren't a little funky. 

So again, thought I'd throw some photos up and make something outta this! 

Assigment 4.1 - Confessions of a weak participant.

I haven't been thinking much about this blog lately, but it came into mind for some reason. I looked through my pictures and found one I thought was interesting that fits the criteria. I apologize for not thinking about your assignment more actively, but I wanted to give you something to look at at least for tonight. I have a feeling I will be thinking about it more for the next few days. I need to try and take advantage of the slight motivational boost given to me tonight, so expect another posting within the next few days.

Here is the first image I have chosen to put towards the assignment 4 set.



It was a haphazard shot, luckily, i think my motive to capture movement worked rather well. What do you think?

Assignments 4 and 5

Hello all, we have moved from lovincouple.wordpress.com to this site. Here was the last assginment from Matt to me:

Roy Beerstein, new assignment. I love the pure emotion of competition, and from the pulsing hearts of a world enraptured in sportly battle I want you to submit 5 action photographs. Try to capture that elated, unadulterated outlet of emotion when an athlete puts wholly into use all their capabilities. Or look for it in the game of life, in an innocent and unsophisticated, fundamentally human display. Good luck. I am eager for your results, but, as always it could be a while to get something really special.

柯迈平–

I have not yet completed the assignment, but look for a full response shortly. Matt, here is your assignment:

A pair of images, visually and contextually juxtaposing with the theme foreign/unforeign. Now think hard about these words and what they mean. What is foreign? Foreign to who?

Roy