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I shot these with my Mamiya RZ67 and got it scanned. I made no adjustments to contrast, levels or curves. No retouching.

Title: High Contrast

Assigner: Carolyn

Description: Deep dark shadows and/or bright blown out highlights. Use it to create silhouettes, or abstract -landscape or portraits, or still life – the subject matter is your choice, but use dark and bright to it’s extreme. Break the rules of a perfectly exposed shot!

iPhone vs. Holga (First one is Holga, second is iPhone)!

The first one was shot with my Blackberry pearl. The second and third are with my Canon digital.

Since I’m stuck in a Verizon contract and won’t buy a new phone until next month when I can switch to AT&T (yeah, iPhone!), I have a cell phone camera that’s the pits. So I don’t use it much, except for the purpose of sending my husband pictures of our dogs sleeping. So, here’s a shot I took while sitting for my neighbor’s new puppy.

[with the cell]

[with the 5D]

The biggest difference is the light sensitivity. Interestingly, once I pulled out the 5D, I switched into photographer mode and started playing a bit. I guess I’m one of those people who needs a “real camera” in my hands to really turn on. That’s when I noticed Shoup’s cute little frog-leg position while he sleeps:

The first one was shot with my Blackberry and the second one with a Hasselblad. The film shot was taken earlier in the day when the light was a little better but I think you can get the idea.

i think i like the camera phone one better. 1st shot, iphone, available tungsten light, processed with camera bag. 2nd shot, 5dmkII, one bare Lumedyne head over camera.

Title: Everyone is a Photographer

Assigner: Blake

Description:
Everybody has a camera on their phone. Everybody carries a small digital point and shoot. Everybody has a web cam on their computer. I don’t mean photographers, I mean everyday people wandering the earth. Because of this, I hear a lot of complaining from commercial photographers about the over-saturation in the marketplace by amateurs. It’s time to differentiate yourself from the amateurs.

I’m sure all of you have cell phone cameras, or little digital point and shoots. I want you to re-shoot a photograph you made with either of those devices. I know I have personally photographed someone in perfect light, or a quick capture at a party, but ended up with a noisey, out of focus 1mb file that is pretty much worthless. For this assignment, I want you to revisit one of those scenes and make it better. Shoot with your professional gear, and make it stand out from the crowd.