Assignment #30: Half

[Nikolai]

Frame-by-frame (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=57697) turned out to be a bit more challenging that the others.
While you can continue to submit entries to it (as well as to all the prior topics, just remember: fresh pictures!) let's switch to something a bit simpler. Maybe even 50% simpler. Let's shoot half!

This week assignment is to frame only one half of your primary subject. Half of a face, half of a car, half of a glass, half of the building, etc. Your entry should deliver the message of showing the half. Your half should be bold and unambiguous.
Note: pictures of a spouse/bf/gf do not count :deal, as do not the images of half of a family (unless you prepped it with a chainsaw :wink).

Fresh pictures only (as always).
For the rest of the basic rules and index please check out this sticky (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=41800).

Let's get some halves!

[Annie222]

http://anniesphots.smugmug.com/photos/133089404-L.jpg

[Nikolai]

Half of Teddy
w00t! :clap
Great entry, thanks a lot! :thumb

[Antonio Correia]

http://antoniocorreia.smugmug.com/photos/141802723-M.jpg http://antoniocorreia.smugmug.com/photos/141801881-M.jpg http://antoniocorreia.smugmug.com/photos/141802262-M.jpg

[Nikolai]

Look who's back from India! :clap :-)

Thanks, I like the last one a lot! :thumb Add some PP and it would be a totally awesome image! :deal

[Antonio Correia]

Look who's back from India! :clap :-)

Thanks, I like the last one a lot! :thumb Add some PP and it would be a totally awesome image! :deal
Hello Nikolai.

Have you seen my proposal for Spring ?
Excuse me: PP :dunno

Cheers :thumb

[JillG]

Half Rose. I bought these roses to try to do something with the current challenge, but they dried out overnight!!! I took some shots anyway and remembered this half thread ( such a good idea:D )and did this shot for here. Jill

http://alpinelane.smugmug.com/photos/142028693-M.jpg

[Nikolai]

Half Rose. I bought these roses to try to do something with the current challenge, but they dried out overnight!!! I took some shots anyway and remembered this half thread ( such a good idea:D )and did this shot for here. Jill



Nice entry, thanks! :thumb

[Nikolai]

... and my take on it ...:-)

sorry, I know it's artsy, could not help it...

http://nik.smugmug.com/photos/142068570-L.jpg

[dlscott56]

http://4scotts.smugmug.com/photos/142176583-M.jpghttp://4scotts.smugmug.com/gallery/2685412/2#142176583http://4scotts.smugmug.com/gallery/2685412/2#142176583-L-LB

[Nikolai]

half a flower
Cool, thanks fro the entry!:thumb

[Bendr]

Hello Nikolai.

Have you seen my proposal for Spring ?
Excuse me: PP :dunno

Cheers :thumb

Post Processesing,

AKA.. Photoshop.

[ericgtr]

Lots of cool stuff here everyone! This is my take, I know it's more of a wedge but it is cut in half :D This is my first night with my custom made Bill Hubber light tent http://www.pbase.com/wlhuber/light_box_light_tent so I had a little fun. It's.. well, bright if nothing else lol. I shaded one half of the light with my left hand so it would appear more to be shining through a bit.

[pyroPrints.com]

mediocre shots, I'll prolly shoot more

http://athena.divshare.com/athena2/files/2007/04/09/366985/P4079651.jpg

http://athena.divshare.com/athena2/files/2007/04/09/366984/P4079649.jpg

[Nikolai]

Lots of cool stuff here everyone! This is my take, I know it's more of a wedge but it is cut in half :D This is my first night with my custom made Bill Hubber light tent http://www.pbase.com/wlhuber/light_box_light_tent so I had a little fun. It's.. well, bright if nothing else lol. I shaded one half of the light with my left hand so it would appear more to be shining through a bit.


Great technical shot! :thumb
Would you be willing to recrop to match the requirements? If not, fine too:-)

[Nikolai]

mediocre shots, I'll prolly shoot more


I actually like #2, wish the wire weren't there...

[Stan]

I have two very active pigs which are not very good at posing for the camera. After about 30 shots I managed to get a front on, half shot without too much blur, some cropping and lots of rotation gave this

http://www.stan.smugmug.com/photos/142625973-L.jpg


Flip and move gave this

http://www.stan.smugmug.com/photos/142626286-L.jpg

Cheers
Stan

[ericgtr]

Great technical shot! :thumb
Would you be willing to recrop to match the requirements? If not, fine too:-)

Sure, done. :thumb

[Nikolai]

I have two very active pigs which are not very good at posing for the camera. After about 30 shots I managed to get a front on, half shot without too much blur, some cropping and lots of rotation gave this

Flip and move gave this

Cheers
Stan

Great entry! I like the mirrored image, too:-) :thumb

[Nikolai]

Sure, done. :thumb

Thanks! Now you got yourself TWO halves:-)

[ChrisJ]

Fresh capture, not a fresh catch...
http://chrisandjoy.smugmug.com/photos/142737095-L.jpg
Caught at an Angels game a couple years ago...

[Nikolai]

Fresh capture, not a fresh catch...
Caught at an Angels game a couple years ago...

Cheater, it 2/3, not 1/2 :lol3

[ChrisJ]

Cheater, it 2/3, not 1/2 :lol3 You be the judge!
http://chrisandjoy.smugmug.com/photos/142741148-S.jpg
This is a second shot, not the original... I was only eyeballing it and handholding, but I got pretty close to half! :D Maybe 17/32? :wink

[Nikolai]

You be the judge!

This is a second shot, not the original... I was only eyeballing it and handholding, but I got pretty close to half! :D Maybe 17/32? :wink
OK, smartlens (tm:-), can we finally get the "half"? :wink
Cropping is OK :-):deal

[ChrisJ]

OK, smartlens (tm:-), can we finally get the "half"? :wink
Cropping is OK :-):deal http://chrisandjoy.smugmug.com/photos/142744368-L-2.jpg
:rofl:rofl:rofl

[Nikolai]

:rofl:rofl:rofl
We've got half-a-ball!:clap

[Antonio Correia]

Look who's back from India! :clap :-)

Thanks, I like the last one a lot! :thumb Add some PP and it would be a totally awesome image! :deal
May be this one is better ... :dunno
:D
http://www.antoniocorreia.com/photos/143003331-M.jpg http://www.antoniocorreia.com/photos/142999841-M.jpg
On the right is the older version.

[Nikolai]

May be this one is better ... :dunno
:D


It is, it is... Although.. do you think you can turn it CCW 90 degrees and take a shot with the handle cropped at the middle? Maybe even the whole vessel heightwise...

[Antonio Correia]

It is, it is... Although.. do you think you can turn it CCW 90 degrees and take a shot with the handle cropped at the middle? Maybe even the whole vessel heightwise...

My idea of half in this case is/was not to show half the jar but to point that the water is at half height inside it.

I did not want - I still don't - cut the jar at half - in the photo - just to justify the picture.
The idea is to show the half behind ...

A glass of whine half full is also a glass of whine half empty ...:D
Whine or whatever.

Remember when the assignment was one ? I shot one Euro.
That was a poor way to do the assignment.

Half would be, for example, to shoot 50 cts which is in fact 1/2 Euro.

See what I mean ? Did I made myself clear ?

:thumb

[Nikolai]

See what I mean ? Did I made myself clear ?
:thumb

The idea of this assignemnt is exactly to cut the subject in half - compositionally. :deal
Trust me on this :-) :wink
We'll get to the half-empty/full concept some other time... :lust

[ChrisJ]

See what I mean ? Did I made myself clear ?


Hi Antonio, I see what you mean now... but only after you explained it. Nik's directions called for "Your half should be bold and unambiguous" and I think the water misses that mark slightly.

Cool shot though...

[Nikolai]

Hi Antonio, I see what you mean now... but only after you explained it. Nik's directions called for "Your half should be bold and unambiguous" and I think the water misses that mark slightly.

Cool shot though...

I also didn't notice the water until Antonio pointed that out. Must be 8 hr time lag between Setubal and LA, it would dawn upon us next morning :lol3

[Antonio Correia]

I also didn't notice the water until Antonio pointed that out. Must be 8 hr time lag between Setubal and LA, it would dawn upon us next morning :lol3

Nikolai, you are pulling my leg :rofl

[ochong]

Half with curves....

http://bitartifact.smugmug.com/photos/145337154-L.jpg

Okay should be fixed now... I had for some reason assumed that the dgrin forums wouldn't require setting external links allowed. *hint to developers, that would be a nice feature*

[Nikolai]

Half with curves....
[X]
No picture :dunno
Please check your site/gallery options, make sure externals links are allowed, etc. :deal