Photo Assignment #2: Getting Closer

@dredwerker, I like the big wave, great abstract picture. Would be out of my comfort zone as well, so well done.

Under the benches is just gross, do you have a version where the top of the front bottle is in focus and all the gunk (+bud) kind of disappears in the bokeh, I like this one, but that might also be a nice variation on the same theme.

Last holiday in Belgium I was determined to make a great picture for this assignment, but did end up with 4 pictures (and 1 for assignment 4 but first I have to pass this one)

1
no mater what I am told something hanging on a cable, like the gondola from this cable train is never ever save. But for this picture, I did stand in the front of the gondola and had my camera almost against the window. (The white on the bottom is from the frame from the window)

iso 400, 70mm, f4,0, 1/100sec
2
This I like.. fire But I tried to get as close as I dared

iso 400, 28mm, f4,5, 1/200sec
3
Next stop.. inside a weir. Normally I would like to get more in the picture and would not think of making it like this.
But I like the result.

iso 1600, 50mm, f5,6, 1/5sec
4
This is a embarrassment... after making some pictures in a nice church, making pictures of a boring door handle. And forgetting that the camera was on high iso, manual focus en manual settings. It took me around 20 shots before I did get a reasonable result. With the others waiting for me wile I was making this picture.

Iso 400, 24mm, f2,8, 1/4sec

Edited by spook - 30 November 2009 at 18:04

Hi pegelli, you are harsh but that's good.
Id did start with assignment 1 and will try all of them on order.

For picture 2 I have a other one, that I like better but is a little less close.
a

iso 400, 35mm, f5.6, 1/30sec
Picture 3, Without this assignment I would never have made this picture, the grey on the bottom is a later placed balustrade, but yes it is a distraction I could not get around in this picture. So maybe I had to go closer.

Picture 4, I believe this is the best picture for the assignment but I am happy you did not let me pass on it.

and a other try..
For this picture I was glad that the band did know me. because I had to clime on the stage.
b

iso 1600, 24mm, f2.8, 1/60sec
c
I dont like this so much as b but it is more cut out. It breaks most of my rules, not to cut off feet and parts of instruments

iso 1600, 50mm, f.7, 1/30sec

Edited by spook - 01 December 2009 at 07:42

oke, closer...

iso400, 18mm, f3.5, 1/6sec

I can't go closer, would not normally make a picture like this, sending co workers away to make a picture from smoked cigarettes is not something I feel comfortable with.
And despite the subject I do like the picture and the composition.

Edited by spook - 05 December 2009 at 11:25

thanks

I hope I did not make it to difficult for you
I knew the other pictures would be difficult to pass on, but I did wanted to push my self to the limits of my convert zone, and make pictures that I would not make normally.

and I have to admit that without you I would not have thought about making this picture. But I love the result. Thanks

Here's my attempt at getting closer - I hope it satisfies the requirements. Thanks for your comments in advance.

I agree with brettania, can you tell something about this picture, how you took it and what was challenging you taking it. The picture in itself looks like a quite normal close-up.