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1/31/11 - Week 5
Posted for Daily Shoot assignment #442: "Make a photograph that features repetition." The difference between this brick wall and every other one is the detail in the jointery. Not the typical raked joint.
1/29/11 - Week 5
This shot was taken on the Halsted Street bridge over a branch of the Chicago River. There has been no sun, and therefore no hard light, but this bridge structure provides some strong shadow for Daily Shoot #441: "Make a photograph using hard light today. Feature the crisp and strong shadows as a major element of your photograph." It is a stretch, but I'm submitting it anyway.
1/29/11 - Week 5
Frank and I took a class today on black & white conversion. I felt like a kindergarten kid in a high school physics class. Pretty complicated stuff. Therefore, before trying any of the techniques provided at the class, thought I'd try Nik Software's Silver Efex Pro plug-in. This shot is taken on the Halsted Street bridge over a branch of the Chicago River. I didn't understand the reasoning behind the pattern in the steel plate at the top of the bridge.
This week my friend Frank and I are taking a course called "Every Black and White Conversion Technique Known to Man with Vincent Versace." Naturally, this week's theme therefore should be based on applying this new knowledge.