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Have you fallen into a photographic rut? Do you find yourself shooting the same subjects, places, or people over and over? Repeatedly using the same techniques, settings, or angles? It's time to shake things up a bit. Our challenge for you: figure out what well-trodden territory you're still pacing and cross over to the road less traveled. For example, if you always photograph sports, take some still lifes. Trade in people for inanimate objects or vice versa. Or if you only rely on shutter-priority mode, try aperture priority. Always look for the telemacro shot? Switch to wide angle. Then post a comment entry telling us what you decided your box was, the approach you took to think outside it, and provide links to two (please, no more than two) of your best out-of-your-safety-zone photos. We'll discuss the results in our show the week of October 29.
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Here are my best two results:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/allex/3983251987/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/allex/3983250089/
Allex Radu
HDR: http://www.flickr.com/photos/22756141@N06/3988328043/
RAW: http://www.flickr.com/photos/22756141@N06/3989075970/
Thanks for having these excercises. I learn so much from them!
Heidi Fischer
http://www.flickr.com/photos/37791728@N07/4002665079/sizes/l/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/37791728@N07/4003428748/sizes/l/
Highgloss
I have been fascinated how a dropped leaf, particularly oak and maple, can dye cement when they get wet, and the impression can last for many months.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hmr638b/4033204298/sizes/o/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hmr638b/4032451029/sizes/o/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hmr638b/4033208758/sizes/o/
I suppose they could also be entered in the Seasons contest, from quite a different point of view.
Mike Roberts
This may have been my seasonal change entry but changed my mind on realizing that i seldom have people photos and so this fits into the break out of your box category. Hope you like the double transition anyway. http://www.flickr.com/photos/30978872@N03/4041442174/
Best to all,
grace
This is my out of box submission it is an image inspired by the change of season contest. The texture is made up from the leaves on the ground from my entry and the depth object is a maple leaf. My apologies if you can't see the big leaf.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/35413458@N03/4054851558/sizes/o/
Sidenote - Wonder if looking into random or seemingly random scenes would produce such an image...will keep looking and hope to shoot one someday.
Dane outofbox in ny
markitect
I was surprised when looking at the image on another monitor and the depth image was reversed. The background became the foreground and the leaf was a hole in it. It may be a hardcopy works best if the monitor can't get the image correct.
My out of the box situation is shooting people. So I tired shooting photos of people this time. A lot of people around me were surprised that I was shooting them. I was totally out of my comfort zone asking people smile. So I just shot them like I would shoot wildlife and took shots from a distance. Here are some results. Just for fun took some in black and white.
The ones I asked people to smile
http://www.flickr.com/photos/38413087@N02/4052763783/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/38413087@N02/4052766167
These ones were taken from a distance. I think these came out better
http://www.flickr.com/photos/38413087@N02/4052777165/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/38413087@N02/4053512050/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/38413087@N02/4052768675/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/38413087@N02/4052772671/
Karthik
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by super6s
October 30, 2009 6:37 PM PDT
- Hope I am not too late... Well, everyone knows my rut... buildings/architecture. i don't know if I stepped out much. I love to shoot cars as well. This is the first time I have gotten to shoot with the new camera.
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(11 Comments)I think my new rut is short depth of field, tight focus, blurred background. I need to get better at controlling the depth. Right now it is my new crutch & I need to work on that.
here are my favorites in order to favorite... hope you like my new subject matter:
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p58/super6s/classic%20cars/t-birdcrop-2.jpg
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p58/super6s/classic%20cars/ratrod-3.jpg
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p58/super6s/classic%20cars/ratrod-1.jpg
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p58/super6s/classic%20cars/68-detailsmall.jpg
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p58/super6s/classic%20cars/challengersmall.jpg
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p58/super6s/classic%20cars/cobradetail-2.jpg
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p58/super6s/classic%20cars/t-birdcrop.jpg
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p58/super6s/classic%20cars/cobradetail-2.jpg
...and if I had been able to control my depth of field, the final one could have been one of my all time favorites:
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p58/super6s/classic%20cars/cobradetail-1.jpg
Markitect