All time best -- Posed Group

[rutt]

Rules for All Time Best Threads

Actually, this game has only one rule. You can only have one all time best photograph in any given category. This follows from the definition of "all time best".

You may make a gallery of you best shots in a category and post a link to it. I find that doing this helps focus the mind on choosing the best. And besides, it's fun.

Here is another ATB category.

I find this a particularly challenging kind of photo to take. Most of mine come out really boring. Yet people love them and demand them, often in place of much better indivitual or candid shots.

So this was relatively easy for me. I only have one posed group shot that I really like. It was taken after my grandmother's funeral a couple of years ago. Three of these women kept house for her on alternate days (and took care of her; she was 100 years old when she died.) The young woman in black is a nurse and the daughter of the woman on her left. She happened to have been assigned to my grandmother's ward the last time she was in the hospital.

http://rutt.smugmug.com/photos/3122393-M.jpg

[tmlphoto]

Rules for All Time Best Threads


Actually, this game has only one rule. You can only have one all time best photograph in any given category. This follows from the definition of "all time best".

You may make a gallery of you best shots in a category and post a link to it. I find that doing this helps focus the mind on choosing the best. And besides, it's fun.




I find this a particularly challenging kind of photo to take. Most of mine come out really boring. Yet people love them and demand them, often in place of much better indivitual or candid shots.

So this was relatively easy for me. I only have one posed group shot that I really like. It was taken after my grandmother's funeral a couple of years ago. Three of these women kept house for her on alternate days (and took care of her; she was 100 years old when she died.) The young woman in black is a nurse and the daughter of the woman on her left. She happened to have been assigned to my grandmother's ward the last time she was in the hospital.

http://rutt.smugmug.com/photos/3122393-M.jpgHere is another ATB category.

No one seems to be posting in this catagory, so here goes. I don't have much to choose from. Olympus point & shoot.

[Sandy]

I have taken many group photos, but most are not on the computer. I think this one may be worthy.http://images.snapfish.com/33%3A389%3B923232%7Ffp54%3Dot%3E232%3B%3D%3A37%3D56%3C%3DXROQDF%3E23234%3C2%3B3426%3Bot1lsi

[lynnma]

Here is another ATB category.

No one seems to be posting in this catagory, so here goes. I don't have much to choose from. Olympus point & shoot.lovely shot... love the toenails:D

[lynnma]

I have taken many group photos, but most are not on the computer. I think this one may be worthy.http://images.snapfish.com/33%3A389%3B923232%7Ffp54%3Dot%3E232%3B%3D%3A37%3D56%3C%3DXROQDF%3E23234%3C2%3B3426%3Bot1lsiAdorable!!! great picture.. what happened to the right side... looks a bit odd.
Lynn

[lynnma]

Rules for All Time Best Threads


Actually, this game has only one rule. You can only have one all time best photograph in any given category. This follows from the definition of "all time best".

You may make a gallery of you best shots in a category and post a link to it. I find that doing this helps focus the mind on choosing the best. And besides, it's fun.

Here is another ATB category.


I find this a particularly challenging kind of photo to take. Most of mine come out really boring. Yet people love them and demand them, often in place of much better indivitual or candid shots.

So this was relatively easy for me. I only have one posed group shot that I really like. It was taken after my grandmother's funeral a couple of years ago. Three of these women kept house for her on alternate days (and took care of her; she was 100 years old when she died.) The young woman in black is a nurse and the daughter of the woman on her left. She happened to have been assigned to my grandmother's ward the last time she was in the hospital.

http://rutt.smugmug.com/photos/3122393-M.jpgThats a really nice shot... has something special in it.

[Sandy]

Bad PS, lynnma, I saw that after I posted it.

[zero-zero]

Here's one I'm still fond of, after several years: Rock group Gracias a Eva. Their debut CD bombed, but I hope I played no part in that. :D

http://zero-zero.smugmug.com/photos/3184083-M.jpg

[wxwax]

Nice one, zed. What lens was that, d'you remember?

[zero-zero]

Nikkor 24mm f2.8. One of my favorite focal lengths, tough to master but soooo sweet when used well.

[rutt]

Nikkor 24mm f2.8. One of my favorite focal lengths, tough to master but soooo sweet when used well.
I have never got the hang of very wide angle shots. What do went into mastering this?

[zero-zero]

Oops... I never said I have mastered it - I haven't mastered a thing in my life. But I do try to learn from the very best out there. I have found that to speak 24mm fluently, you need to work with different layers within the image (thus playing with perspective and relative sizes), have a strong foreground interest, and not let the funkiness of the superwide perspective carry the weight of the picture. Superwides tend to be spectacular per se, and you gotta fight that to a point to avoid being plain gimmicky.

But, what do I know...

[wxwax]

See, it's only just past midnight, and already I learned something today. Thanks Z-Z, that was a great little instructional.

[fish]

Oops... I never said I have mastered it - I haven't mastered a thing in my life. But I do try to learn from the very best out there. I have found that to speak 24mm fluently, you need to work with different layers within the image (thus playing with perspective and relative sizes), have a strong foreground interest, and not let the funkiness of the superwide perspective carry the weight of the picture. Superwides tend to be spectacular per se, and you gotta fight that to a point to avoid being plain gimmicky.

But, what do I know...

Is 24mm considered "superwide"? In digital with a 1.6 multiplier (38mm)?

bhphoto.com seems to think superwide is 8-21mm. Canon apparently thinks it's "ultrawide" up to 20mm.

:ear










fwiw, I've got a nikkor 24/2.8 and it's a super lens :D

[wxwax]

FWIW, I think Z-Z shot that on film.

[zero-zero]

Yessire, film was it. Today, I wouldn't even think about it.

Superwide, ultrawide... empty terms, really. Back in the "100% film" days I'd classify wide angles as moderately wide (the "noble" ones, down to 28mm), superwide (24 to 20 or so), and ultrawide (the specialist stuff below 20). Things have evolved, but I guess the terminology stuck in my mind. I remember the first time I used a 21, thinking there couldn't possibly be much use for that. Now I routinely use a 14 (on 35mm film), and I guess we'll be seeing much wider in the near future.