Your Assignment Is

"Your Assignment Is..." Photo Challenge

Now that the 365/52 Photo Challenge has ended, the Rockbridge Camera Club is starting a new challenge "Your Assignment is...", for 2022. Each month we will assign a photographic technique, and you may submit images taken using that technique.

Click here for description of the challenge and instructions on submitting your photos.

Click on the box below for the description of this month's assignment.

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January 2023 Assignment: Light Painting the Still Life Image

November submittals: ICM (Intentional Camera Movement)

Keith Bowen - Shake

Lad Sessions - Horizontal Camera Movement

Horizontal camera movement, Main Street, Lexington.

Sony A7III, 31 mm, ISO 100, 1/15@f/8, EV -1.70.

Lad Sessions - Zoom Out

Zoom out, Lexington.

Sony A7III, 27 mm, ISO 125, 0.8s@1/22, EV -0.70.

Lad Sessions - Vertical Camera Movement

Vertical camera movement, Fenwick Mines, Craig County.

Sony A7III, 24 mm, ISO 125, 1/3@f/22, EV -0.30.

Lad Sessions - Vertical Camera Movement 2

Zoom out, Lexington.

Sony A7III, 27 mm, ISO 125, 0.8s@1/22, EV -0.70.

Chuck Almarez - Hole In the Middle

I used a 360 degree camera rotation to get the motion in this Fall scene, but it needed more subject. So, I then used another Fall image that was shot through a glass ball to fit in the center of the motion.

Chuck Almarez - Diagonal Sweep

This was a scene in a forested area that had plenty of color. The motion used was a diagonal sweep that created the lines. I then duplicated one image and did a vertical flip in Photoshop. The images were well over exposed and very light in tone, so I used a lot of contrast enhancement (Dehaze, Contrast, Clarity, Texture and Saturation) to get the patterns and color to stand out a bit more. Final step was to darken the edges just a bit.

Chuck Almarez - Zoom

The zoom-while-exposing effect usually provides some dramatic motion in the image, and works best when the camera is secure (tripod, rock, tree limb, etc) so you get the perspective effect without vertical or circular motion. Having said that, give it a try handheld to get an even different effect.

Ted Burrowes - Adrenalin

With my currently being attracted to abstract images, I have happily experimented with ICM this month, and I used my Sony RX100 for all my images, using simple shutter priority. This first image's title reflects the response I have to these streaks of holiday lighting outside of Lexington Presbyterian Church, where the camera motion was wiggly but uninterrupted.

Ted Burrowes - Kroger

But I also had fun using jerkier movement with brief pauses so that the subject is revealed more clearly along with the motion blur. Here I almost got the amount of motion just right to stack the store names just above and below each other.

Ted Burrowes - Time Marches On

I cannot help but include this cousin of the Kroger image – the digital clock face got highlighted twice, but just as the time moved ahead a minute so that the two times are not quite the same.

Ted Burrowes - Trio

And then going one step further, moving the camera with brief pauses but using my hand to cover the lens between the pauses, allowed me to get this triple image of the single dried flower with a minimum of blur.

Ted Burrowes - Celebration

Finally, returning to the style of uninterrupted camera movement, this one does a lot more to communicate the color of so many Christmas lights.

Peggy Fleming - Lila