Assignment 1 "Harmony" -- Congratulations Keith B!

Hey! A poll in another thread showed some interest in doing similar themed assignments to compare, contrast, and critique. So here is the first idea. I am starting broad to see what kind of variety we will bring to the table. Future ones may be more specific.


Assignment: A picture that shows "harmony." Harmony is defined as:
<ul class="std" type="disc"][*]compatibility in opinion and action [*]the structure of music with respect to the composition and progression of chords [*]a
harmonious state of things in general and of their properties (as of
colors and sounds); congruity of parts with one another and with the
whole [*]agreement of opinions [*]an agreeable sound property [/list]


Please post EXIF data, the shot, and a shot of your setup in your post! Enjoy.





CONGRATULATIONS KEITH B on winning this assignment! You can collect your prize of naming the next assignment by contacting me here, or in a private conversation.


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We have had a little over a week on this assignment, so entries are closed! Sean Setters and I narrowed it down to 4 pictures we thought best represented harmony. We each chose 5 and these 4 were the same. I am reposting the images below, along with the author's name. Poll at the bottom of this post. PLEASE VOTE. The winning picture gets to choose the theme for our next round. Voting ends Friday. The images are in no particular order.


musickna


http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2729/...d2ae022a_o.jpg





Keith B


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Chuck Lee


http://chucklee.zenfolio.com/img/v1/p92777370-4.jpg





piiooo


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[Poll]

I'll start off.


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Taken with my XTI, 18-55mm kit lens, f/3.5 (the lens was stuck wide open), 18mm,ISO 100, 4/1000th. I used levels, tone curves,saturation, sharpening and thats it. Hopefully this picture show some harmony, the tracks lead the veiwers eye too the horizon.


This picture is VERY SOFT from using f/3.5 and not having enough DOF,but youcan't see it at this low rez. I focused to infinity.


John.

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XTi 24-70mm f2.8 ISO 100 34mm editing to sat, sharpness, contrast and brightness, all in DPP. Found this driving through Worthington State Forest in NJ last spring off a dirt road.





EDIT: sorry about the water marks, I had to dl it off my website server.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2729/...d2ae022a_o.jpg


Replica Indian tent frame, Ulm Pishkun State Park (now known as First Peoples Buffalo Jump State Park), Montana.


Canon 40D, 100-400mm L at 400mm, f/5.6, 1/640, ISO 100. RAW processed in DPP, 'Landscape' setting, contrast boosted.


The Montana landscape in this region, mostly high prairie, is flat, almost endless and produces a true 'big sky'. Today, of course, there are towns and buildings but before then, when the buffalo roamed and the only people were the native Americans, dwellings such as these served as shelter. I find it hard to conceive of a more harmonious interaction between man and nature as represented by these skeletons of branches and twigs.

Sunrise at The Bosque Del Apache, NM. Canon XTI, 100-400L @100mm, 1/30th,7.1, ISO 200.


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40D, f7.1, 1/250, ISO 400, 365mm, cropped, curves, contrast, saturation.


http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/e...or/harmony.jpg

Some really great shots here..



And if I'm not mistaken, the last three all taken with the 100-400 L. [:D]

5DmkII, 24-105 @105 Manual mode 1/125 f/11 ISO 100.


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XTi 50mm f/1.8


ISO 100 f/6.3 1/1250s


http://lh5.ggpht.com/_txxcOCWRgac/SW...#39;flower.jpg

I'll play. The Renwick Art Gallery in Washington, DC


5D Mark II
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EF 24-105mm f/4 L(24.0 mm)
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rebel XSi,135mm/2.0, f3.5.1/2000,iso 100,croped


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http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/6308/img1068e.jpg


iso 400, 50 mm, f/8.0, a/1600 sec, canon 40d, canon 50mm f/1.4

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This challenged me. I don't think many of my shots are harmonious.. Unless you want to talk band photos.. But that's sound.. hmm oh well. Here's my contribution.

I'll take a stab at this too.


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Taken in Denali National Park with Canon 30D and 100-400L


@400mm, f7.1, 1/400s, ISO 100

May I suggest a Judge or panel of Judges review the photos and award a 1st, 2nd and 3rd place for each assignment. Perhaps the winners could be awarded a free 1month's membership to The-Digital-Picture.com--Just an idea

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mpphoto12/4054467176/ what do you guys think of this?





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Great pictures everyone! I must say, Rodger's is incredible!

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May I suggest a Judge or panel of Judges review the photos and award a 1st, 2nd and 3rd place for each assignment.

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That is a good idea. The judge shouldn't be allowed to enter.

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Perhaps the winners could be awarded a free 1month's membership to The-Digital-Picture.com--Just an idea

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What do you mean? I thought the website was free. [:)]

This picture to me shows harmony:


http://ChuckLee.zenfolio.com/img/v1/p92777370-4.jpg


Cool Thread!![:D]

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What do you mean? I thought the website was free.

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No, most of the site is free, but there are a few links involving money. You see those links at the end of the reviews to buy lenses and cameras? If you click those they start wanting money from you. If you could get those links to stop pestering you for cash, that'd be awesome. ;)


One day I own you, DSLR... one day. Right now I see threads like "How do you set your camera for low light", and think to myself "How? I set my camera aside, that's how."

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You see those links at the end of the reviews to buy lenses and cameras? If you click those they start wanting money from you. If you could get those links to stop pestering you for cash, that'd be awesome. ;)

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Those links, at least from my point-of-view, are to help the reader make with their purchase or rent decision. I think it's really great to have the price information handy, linked to the review.

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If you could get those links to stop pestering you for cash, that'd be awesome. ;)

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Those links, from what I know, are to help support the site. To run such a large site and a forum costs money. Alot of it. A portion of each purchase made from one of the links on the site goes directly to offset the costs of mainting The-Digital-Picture.com.

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What do you mean? I thought the website was free.

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No, most of the site is free, but there are a few links involving money. You see those links at the end of the reviews to buy lenses and cameras? If you click those they start wanting money from you. If you could get those links to stop pestering you for cash, that'd be awesome. ;)


One day I own you, DSLR... one day. Right now I see threads like "How do you set your camera for low light", and think to myself "How? I set my camera aside, that's how."

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Oh, I see. [:)] I hope you are able to get a DSLR soon.

Thanks Johan! It was actually hand held seeing as I don't have a tripod with a ball head haha.





I'm not opposed to the idea of a judge pannel. Maybe the thread admin (not Bryan but the "OP" is what I'm referring to I think) could post a deadline for the assignment and then post a reply with a poll in it and people could vote on which picture they liked best. Do the polls go that high?


Just an idea.


-Rodger

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I'm not opposed to the idea of a judge pannel. Maybe the thread admin (not Bryan but the "OP" is what I'm referring to I think) could post a deadline for the assignment and then post a reply with a poll in it and people could vote on which picture they liked best. Do the polls go that high?

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I don't think that it is possible to post a poll in any post other than the opening post. Of course, then there should also be a rule that no one can vote for their own photo. :-)


Another idea: Maybe the OP can edit the thread so the subject is: Assignment 1 "Harmony" and all subsequent assignments can follow the same naming pattern.

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Edit: Here is the missing info: Canon Rebel XSi, Canon EF-S 17-55 2.8 IS @ 47mm, 1/15s, f/5.6, ISO-400, handheld.


Location:some accidentally found ruins near Sleepy Hollow,NY

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I don't think that it is possible to post a poll in any post other than the opening post. Of course, then there should also be a rule that no one can vote for their own photo. :-)

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Right. Should have checked that before opening my mouth! :X haha.

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Another idea: Maybe the OP can edit the thread so the subject is: Assignment 1 "Harmony" and all subsequent assignments can follow the same naming pattern.

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I like that.

It could be like NG photo of the day, where the admin selects maybe 10 of the best for the month, then we vote on them, because it would be a huge poll with a greater possibility of ties, unless there are rounds of voting.

Nice shot, Chuck

It is free, Tha was just a joke.


Oops

Hey Guys (consider that term gender-neutral, I tried to come up with something better, but "hey people", and just "hey" weren't working for me),


Thanks for all the responses! The submissions are excellent. I don't have a submission because my picture of a grand piano didn't turn out quite how I expected it. I am going to try something else tomorrow. As far as the suggestions go I have updated the thread subject to reflect the name of the assignment, that was a good idea. I have also emailed Bryan to see what he would think about taking some time to narrow the pictures down to maybe 1/3 of the total submissions. (I got that idea from a camera club I am in, that is how they do the first round of narrowing.) I was thinking that we could take a week to post submissions, then give our judge a couple of days to turn in favorites, then a few days for polling for the best picture, taking about a total of 2 weeks per assignment. I believe I can insert a poll into my original post, so possibly I could change the subject to "Assignment 1 "Harmony" -- NOW VOTING" during that time. I don't know what to do with the winner picture, maybe a best-of-assignments thread?


Let me know your ideas, they have been great so far!





THanks


Dan

Great photos all,


Maybe it would be interesting to add a requirement that people can't use photo's taken before the beginning of the assignment. This would make the assignments a 'get-people-off-their-ass' thing instead of digging through your collection of photo's you've taken earlier.


Jo&euml;l

Great idea--especially since I was one of those that went digging through my collection

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Great idea--especially since I was one of those that went digging through my collection
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ditto haha

Great Idea WhatsReal!


I've looked through my email backlog and can't find the referenced one from you. Sorry about that - I'm not sure where it may have gone. I'minfull support or your"Assignment" idea and while it sounds like a lot of fun, I'm so far behind in everything else I have goingthat I'm nervous aboutcommitting tohelp withthis on a regular basis right now.


Another idea - If you can get this concept going (and if desired), I'd be happy to create a new forum just for the Assignments and polls.


Thanks!

Bryan, thanks for finding this and getting back to me. Sorry the email disappeared, it is quite possible I sent it to a misspelled account, though I did not get an undeliverable message. I will see if I can get some interest in judging from current members who have shown their ability. (HINT at the rest of you: if you would be interested in judging message me!) If we can get enough interest an assignment specific forum would be excellent, but if you are backlogged don't worry about it for the time being.





Thanks again,


Dan

Hey!


I don't think it sends out an email when I edit a post, so this is a note to let everyone know that voting is open for best picture! The prize is choosing the next theme. (Thanks Sean for that idea.) Sean and I did judging this time, if you want to help on a future assignment please let me know.


Enjoy!

Regardless of how the voting goes, I feel honored to have been chosen to be one of the final photographs. Thank you, Sean and Whatsreal.[:)]

Keith B and Chuck Lee's photos have a similar theme. :-)

One more day of voting!

I too feel very honored. My work has never been chosen in any way so I am very proud of myself. [:D]

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Regardless of how the voting goes, I feel honored to have been chosen to be one of the final photographs. Thank you, Sean and Whatsreal.[img]/emoticons/emotion-1.gif[/img]

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I too feel very honored. My work has never been chosen in any way so I am very proud of myself. [img]/emoticons/emotion-2.gif[/img]

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Me too! Thank you very much everyone. I've seen a lot great shots on this sight and hold you all in very high regard.