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Saturday, March 27, 2010

photo workshop {framing an egg}

This egg collage is part of a photo workshop I am participating in. It is the result of our first assignment; framing an egg. The workshop began March 20th and will last until April 17th. It is my first photo workshop ever.

I am one of those photographers scared to leave the automatic modus. With my analogue camera I knew how to do it, I was not afraid at all. With my N80 I haven’t even figured out how to do it yet *embarrassed*. I need to read the manual.

For these egg photos I decided the shutter speed, while the camera decided the frame size. For our next assignment I will have to do it all by myself. Don’t you think?

38 comments:

  1. You've managed to pick up some really great colours and I love the way you played with cooking the egg in your grid. I need to be more methodical with my "experimenting" on the manual setting. I tend to take lots of photos with all different shutter speeds, frames, exposures and then forget what I've done. Makes it difficult to replicate at a later point!

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  2. Nice mosaic. I concentrated on speed and white balance this first time out.

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  3. I love th eyellows and yolk picture. I too stick to auto a lot so will join you in learning more about my D60.

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  4. Your are the first I've seen that actually cooked the egg. Makes sense -- why didn't I think of that? You can photograph your egg and eat it too! Love the windowsill view.

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  5. So pretty! A plain white little thing - and look at how lovely it can be. You are talented!!

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  6. Anne I love your images, your grid is so "clean & simple" your use of negative spaceis very nice. I think your exposure is really good, also intersting to see your differnt lightsources. Neat that you fried the egg the yellow creates such a beautiful contrast. Lovely work you have very creative eye.

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  7. Your eggs make for a very golden and satisfying morning. I'd like to hang out with them for a while. Really lovely.

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  8. I think you did a fantastic job. Keep posting your work!

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  9. the class sounds awesome! and i´m loving this! happy shooting!

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  10. I really like the pure look of your photos and the fried egg is wonderful.

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  11. Thank you everyone for your feedback! A special thanks to Camilla for giving me such detailed feedback and for my favourite compliment: "clean & simple".

    I can also manage to hear what I could work on :-) ...I know I have a lot to learn.

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  12. i like the brightness of all your photos together. individually they are composed so beautifully. love your work.

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  13. I absolutely love your grid!! The cooked egg is wonderful..a nice touch of yellow in the grid! That egg carton is wonderful too!

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  14. Your exposure looks great! I love the look of your mosaic with those peeks of yellow!

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  15. These are gorgeous! I'm so impressed with you actually breaking the egg and frying it :-) Silly how that never even entered my mind! (not that I didn't eat it, but that was off-camera!) Lots of light in your images - makes me feel light too :-) & your grid is very nicely balanced!

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  16. Something about the yellow in the grid adds so much to the simplicity of it all. Yay for cooking your egg and taking pictures of it!

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  17. You are one of very few people who actually BROKE their egg open! Very nice work, thanks.

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  18. Those shots have very lovely subtle lighting and great composition. Like you, I always used manual settings on my film camera but seem to revert to auto mode a lot on my digital camera, too, especially when in a hurry. I need to read my manual, too, but those things are so dang boring. I bought a field guide for my Nikon but it's boring, too! Anyway, your shots are great and yours are the first I've come to where the egg has finally been cracked open!

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  19. A note: The egg is actually not fried. It is raw on a white plate.

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  20. Wow - these are really good. Like everyone else, I am verklempt over the yolk pictures. They are all great (Like the one with the stamp showing, too) but the yellow of the yolk is fantastic.

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  21. I'm just beginning to try to manage all the settings manually. You seem to have done a great job with these. Love the cooking yolk especially.

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  22. A beautiful mosaic! Yellow goes well with eggs...

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  23. I think you did a fabulous job...what a great mosaic~

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  24. Beautiful shots!! These photos of egg yolk make me apptite...
    Hope you are having a great weekend!

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  25. Wonderful cropping and framing of your subject here...and I LOVe that you showed us the finished product (ie. the cracked egg insides). My fav part of your collage is the top right and bottom left cropped pics.

    :)Lisa

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  26. I love your egg frame, happy Easter holiday! And regarding shooting in manual - once you've started, you won't stop. It's so much easier to get the result you want.

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  27. i am right there with you, learning a little bit more about how to get out of auto mode. such a great thing. you captured the essence of the yolk so well. i haven't seen that so far! and yeah, the yellow and white theme is lovely and so springy! so nice to have a reason to come check out your blog!!

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  28. gorgeous grid.
    and certainly the most delicious of the lot!
    the vividness of the yellow makes me smile.

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  29. Ha ha...yep, I will try it too! No auto...
    Love your pictures and the yellow :)

    Nice to meet you!

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  30. I love the egg shots! I particularly like the ones with the yolks. Adding colour to the egg. I would love to learn how to take a proper photo - I love framing shots but never have the patience to actually learn how to take a good photo - considering the light etc.

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  31. Hi Anne Marie,
    Amazing how you managed the whole assignment in one grid. Beautiful photos and color theme!

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  32. What a fantastic blog.
    Amazing photographs.
    Compliments!

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  33. Geniales! Cuanto da de si un simple huevo cuando se tiene imaginación! :)

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  34. Funny, I was just looking at the expensive camera I had to have. I've owned it for over a month and have not yet even used it. Talk about embarrassed.

    I do, however, pull out my tiny little Nikon point and shoot and capture things everywhere I go. Too bad my new Canon won't fit in my pocket!

    (I love your egg pix)

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  35. i'm lazy with my camera too.....

    these shots are great ! [and yay for learning more in photoshop!]

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