OK, so I decided I’d just go ahead and start a new photo assignment since there seems to be enough interest in this thread.
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[li]An item in your kitchen. No fair going out to buy saffron to look cool ;)[/li][li]The view from your front door, lawn, or similar[/li][li]Your favorite possession[/li][li]Photographer’s Choice[/li][/ul]
I’ll post mine tomorrow.
I’ve been wanting to buy a camera, but feel guilty about buying a toy as money is a bit tight. But this is an assignment! I have to do it, right? Plus the photos in the previous thread where great fun to see. I’m in… get ready for some truely bad shots from a beginner.
Count me in. I’ll post something in the next couple of days.
Ooo, count me in! I’ll also post over the next few days.
This sounds cool! Do we need to take one photo for each category and submit the ‘portfolio’ or do we just choose one category?
(Apologies for slowness, it’s Monday…)
This one I will be able to participate in, since I already have 3 of these 4 shots in my collection. I tried several times for really good macro and perspective shots but none turned out worth sharing.
I can do this, I got a digital for Christmas!!
I’ll play, too. I’ll dig up my camera or borrow someone else’s.
This looks fun. I’ll play!
Item 1: Painted by a friend, hanging on the kitchen wall
Item 2: Say hello to the neighbours
Item 3: I almost hate to admit it, but this is definitely my favourite posession. A recent birthday gift from two very dear friends.
Item 4: The autographed set-list of a band I went to see recently. Score!!! (Actually, I went to see them twice. And yes, its hanging on my bedroom wall. Please try to laugh WITH me, not AT me.)
I hope the links work!
Nick
I’m game - but will take my time taking new shots for this. I expect my Photographer’s Choice will be more IR, though - that ozone hole sure makes for great IR photos, I guess 
OK so here are mine:
A Kitchen Item This one highlights (to me) my need to get some external flashes so that I can light the scene properly without flash spots on the subject. I’m in the market for a soft box, so if anyone can recommend one…
View from my front door Now, in the interest of honesty, I took this one a while ago, but it’s my favorite picture of all the ones I’ve taken from my front door (I live on the fourth floor).
My favorite posession It really is. I have a lot of gadgets and gizmos and toys, but if I had to give away all but one, this is the one that would stay. This picture was a challenge to take - I only had one hand mirror in the house, and it was a magnifying makeup mirror at that. Plus getting the lighting right so that I didn’t have to fire the flash, getting the focus the way I liked it… it was tough. But I like the result (I flipped the image in Photoshop so that it wasn’t backwards, but I probably should have left it alone.)
Photographer’s Choice I love photography in general, and am working to improve my abilities, but what I find myself enjoying the most (and possibly best at) is flower portaiture. This is one of my favorite pictures, though not one of my best.
An item in my kitchen - Shrimp & Crab Boil
We decided to have a shrimp and crab boil on New Years day. My brother who used to live in New Orleans told me that the Cajuns always take a picture of the food spread out before they eat it; so we did to.
View from my front door - Sunrise
Not really well composed with the electric lines in it, but a pretty sunrise.
Favorite possession - My Camera
My wife gave me this Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT for our anniversary in November. She gave me the Canon Speedlite 550EX flash for Christmas. I tried for hours to have the camera take a picture of itself but I wasn’t happy the results so I took this one with my previous camera, a Canon Powershot S50.
Photographer’s Choice - Contemplation
I took this last Saturday on a trip to the zoo.
OK, here we go. All but the second one were taken for this project.
Kitchen Object: my plump, juicy tomato-shaped cutting board.
View from my front door: first cloud bands from Hurricane Rita move into the area, 23 September 2005.
Favorite possession: I could have said any number of things, but I’ve aged to the point where I’ve got to give the nod to my spectacularly comfy Ikea sofa. Bit sad, innit?
Photographer’s Choice: the wall of my dining ‘room’, or alcove, rather.
All shot with my Panasonic DMC-FZ20, which is my other most prized possession.
Cheers.
Let me know when the next one is and I’ll be there with my camera, a bib, and a claw cracker! :smacks lips:
This is my response to the photo assignment.
Kitchen Object: A shot of my freezer door. It’s not dirty, it’s just old…I hope. My kitchen is small and somewhat empty so I used what was there.
View from my front door: That tree is about 3 stories tall. It’s like living in a TV Christmas Special.
Photographer’s Choice: I couldn’t believe I got that close. I took it in April.
Favorite Possession: That’s not me, that’s not my brother, that’s not my house but that is my hat. I got it in Denmark.
Great stuff, guys! Keep 'em coming!
Kitchen Object
View from my front window
Photographer’s Choice
Favorite possession. It’s much neater now.
Forgive the crappiness of these I took them in about five minutes cause I was bored.
Kitchen Picture A picture of the freezer. We like magnets 
I fuzzed out the numbers cause…yeah…that’s a smart move.
Outside Picture Here’s what it looks like from our back porch. Nice view During the Fourth of July you can see four seperate firework shows.
Favorite Thing This is a doll my dad got for me from Japan when I was little. He was in the Marines and travelled alot and always brought us back neat things. This remains my favorite!
My Choice Just for the hell of it, my two kittens, Rabi (left) and Kyo. I had to foster them when they were 4 weeks old and had to do ALOT of supportive care. Three different meds twice a day and twice daily subcutaneous fluids for little Rabi. They’re about 6 months old now and completely healthy!
I got all of mine except for the view from the front door tonight. I’ll get that first thing in the morning, and hopefully post it tomorrow night.
Here we go, fresh from my crappy 2.0 megapixel digital camera:
Kitchen - Just a still life of some fruit and veggies on a checkerboard stool.
Outside Picture - Here is the view from my front porch at around midnight (8 second exposure).
Prized Possesion - My beloved '75 Titan cafe racer!
And pulled from my files of older pictures;
Photographer’s Choice - My inquisitive niece.
