Just to add a bit of spice to my challenge for the month, I also have a Get Pushed challenge this week! My Get Pushed partner, Gosia @gosia said "My challenge for you will be to take some action photo that will require quick shutter speed like sport, action."
I have a further complication in that Mrs S and I are on holiday so time and facilities are limited: this is not a sports picture but it did require a high shutter speed.
@gosia Hi Gosia - I haven't forgotten your challenge but I am on holiday so it is a little more difficult to do a challenge like this, plus I have a personal challenge for the month which limits me to using only a 50mm lens and using images straight from camera with no additional processing.
This isn't a 'sport' photo, but it is an 'action' one and it did require a high shutter speed so I hope it satisfies your challenge. I had fun... thank you!
@joansmor No ice here Joan, it's just the liquid rebounding as it hits the bottom of the glass... and Mrs S was taking a siesta so I was pourer and picture taker!
Love the way the beverages flowing in the glass is there ice in there. Well that's what it looks like to me. Too bad they don't put things in glass bottles anymore I hate those plastic things. They are not very pretty and less you're doing a Coke or Pepsi ad.
@joansmor@janiskay@gosia I figured I might need a few goes at this so I wasn't prepared to use wine; the 'beverage' in question is water coloured with a little red wine. I used an empty plastic water bottle because I didn't intend the bottle to be in the shot - in the event, I liked it in better than out.
Hi, Richard. I feel quite humbled to be your Get-Pushed partner this week. I've browsed through your work before and had already read your SOOC challenge. I hope my challenge doesn't seem simplistic to you. Back in the 70s when I took Beginning Photography in college, I used a Yashica rangefinder which was eventually replaced by a series of Minolta SLRs. The professor was very adamant about taking pictures that told a story, conveyed emotion, and contained people. Of course, there were all the usual things about exposure, focus, and composition, but what he wanted us to produce were photos that moved the viewer. So since you're going back to the good old days with your project, I would like to challenge you to take a photo that does those things old Doc Martin wanted from his students: tell a story, convey emotion, and include more than one person. It will be like you're a photojournalist from the 70s! Because we would develop and print our own in b&w, I would also like for your news photo to be in b&w. Will that work for you?
@mbemis Hi Mannie - be not humbled... you don't see the got-aways! This is a great and thoughtful challenge, whether I'm up to it or not... well, we'll see. Thank you.
@fishers Thank you Katharine but you've not been reading the comments: there is no ice in the glass, the effect you see - which is the effect I was aiming for - is simply the liquid rebounding from the bottom of the glass... and yes, it did take a few tries to get one that I was happy with!
This isn't a 'sport' photo, but it is an 'action' one and it did require a high shutter speed so I hope it satisfies your challenge. I had fun... thank you!
Katharine