Assignment #1: Creative Composition

dandantheadminman · Assignment #1: Creative Composition

Assignment #1: Creative Composition

for September and October

This is your first assignment, interesting to see how it goes. Your task is creative composition, by this I mean you have to be as creative and original as possible in composing your shots...

Composition is the way your frame your shot, the way you place certain things in the frame, basically how the thing fits together as a whole.

Some ideas to get you going:

looking through crazy shape tree branches, using the branches to frame the rider.
craetive angles, maybe looking from an angle that no-ones done before.
seeing the rider through the hole is someones frame maybe.
maybe having the rider a small part of a dramatic background.

theres just a few ideas, nothing really amazing there as i didnt really think about them much, its up to you come up with wicked ideas....

dave

This sounds like a fun assignment Very Happy

Ill get my camera out and see what i can come up with.

dandantheadminman

wicked, I will too, probs give through round some round some ideas too on own forum ride on mon...

maxthefilmer

ok so i thought about it for a while and then came up with the perfect pick for your "assignment"
http://www.pinkbike.com/photo/997880/
i hope u like
viewr descretion is advised

dandantheadminman

hehe

p.s. told you auto settings don't work, the rider blurred to fuck...

farm boy

haha "i like this picture because theres a willy in it" lol made me chuckle

John

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums...amp;refPage=&imgAnch=imgAnch1

duncan_g

Very cool pic, but its not biking.

Here is mine:

dandantheadminman

yeh it not biking, but o well. this aint a competetion after all, anyways it a great shot and very well composed...

dandantheadminman

I like it cause the rider is kinda small relative the background it gives you a good idea of the forest area

farm boy

i framed a rider (geddit, geddit lol)
(ps i cant get the contrast etc right feel free to help)

dandantheadminman

i love that shot!, that was the sorta thing I was after in this assignment.

I'll tweek it for ya,

gimme 10 mins...

dandantheadminman

soz i couldn't tweek it properly without making it too grainy.
the way to sort this is to (if possible), use the spot metering system to set exposre right for the rider, because the sky confused the standard metering system.

tbh, its a very hard shot that I don't think i could do properly, so I can't tell ya exactly how to get it looking gd unfortunately....

farm boy

okies

dandantheadminman

unusual for a plan blur, being soo close up, but i liek how it turned out...

peanut

just an older pic, nothing special, enjoy Razz

duncan_g

It is special IMO!
Bloody awsome shot!

dandantheadminman

amazing shot dude!!!!!!!

i agree it aint special, well for a newish photographer like me it would be special but anwyays, it v. well shot!

howd you get the rider so lit up? look sliek you used a flash but from where?

peanut

yeah i use a remote flash so you can put it wherever you want on different angles so it adds a cool affect and u can see the shadow most of the time. pretty expensive though

hope that helps

dandantheadminman

yeh I'll probs end up gettign a remopte flash at some stage, once i get more experience

le toy boy

i got this shot with my phone, sorry about size aswell
http://www.pinkbike.com/photo/1012293/

dandantheadminman

quite a cool shot, shame about size and quality though

Hamish

Here's a different type of creative composition - showing where the rider has come from.

It's basically a case of trying to use the lines and depth of the terrain in the background to show the rider has 'arrived' in the foreground with a story behind them.

Okay, that's quite a pretentious description but hopefully you'll see what I'm on about:

duncan_g

I understand, its a good idea.

dandantheadminman

ooo v. nice

orignal idea too, something i havnt really seen before. congrats.

only slight annoyence with that pic is the other riders behind him kinda spoil it a tad but it doesnt really matter, cause its still a cool shot.

fozzybear

Ok hope this doesn't go down wrong..

i really like the location, angle and timing of peanuts shot but the flash effect looks like it has over emphasised the riders face and wheels. Maybe a hood or filter / reflector would have helped.. please do not be insulted.. overall it's a great photo (may fav kind of MTB shot) even down to the dust trail whisps off the ledge. just that flash effect is a bit to much..

Hamish

dandantheadminman

dave took this shot while i was building

dave

or

my 1st attempt at framing, i hope its unique as i thought that hollow tech bb havent been out for that long and so probly hardly anyone has tryed taking pic thou it be for lol

dandantheadminman

lol, yeh, next time we go out Ill try and get someone riding through the bb hole, hehe

dave

thats guna be well hard but maybe if we stage it then we could get a good shot

dandantheadminman

yeh, worth a try i say

crazywelshman

I just had a search through my pinkbike album and found a few

Me pushing back up

My mate pushing to the top

Another of my mate

dandantheadminman

not really that gd of a shot bu to well, kinda unusal as the rider is int eh distance showing where the rider has come from

jacob

here what i have for creative composition

duncan_g

Like the first, reminds me of a shot in DIRT of the yeti 303 testing, real nice.

jacob

uploaded the top one to flickr instead of pinkbike for better quality and no logo Smile

duncan_g

Good, logos are a bother. But your second has gone!

jacob

no it hasnt

dandantheadminman

yeh 2nd is still there

i love the first, for some reason i dig the whole short and wide size stuff

just being picky though, you might be able to use to photoshop to get rid of the telepoghone wire thingy, using clone tool maybe? just an idea

duncan_g

OOO, the 2nd is back now, soz