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hi folks, i'm a newbie. Think the site is great and wasn't aware anything like this existed till my friend told me today. I would like to take part in the 52 challenge, but haven't done anything like this before so please keep me right.

I took photo's a few days ago that have curves in them but don't know if they count and if they don't i will get off my ass to get more tomorrow.

I edited them in black & white, very so slightly tweaked the brightness up a notch and nothing else I hope you enjoy them.

Week 1 curved:

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Week 2 POEM:

Why do women wear high heeled shoes?

I mean if they needed to play dodge ball they would most definitely lose.
Before bed they frown at their feet that have been hurting for hours,

But strap them on in the morning as if putting on Super Woman Powers.
They spend days looking for the perfect, black, pointed, 2 ½ inch heel,

And actually pay $200 to say "Ouch" with a painful squeal.
But, today I figured out why they wear these crazy things,

High heel’s purpose are to remind women that they are human beings.
You see when a woman wears high heels she has to walk very, very slow,

Which is very hard when their mind is telling them,"Go, Go, Go!"
High heels give women blisters, which makes them stop and admire the sky,

And then think, “I should call my dad and say, hi.”
High heels make women trip into the office of a quiet co-worker,

And say “We’re going out to lunch. Would you like to join us
for a veggie burger?”

High heels make women realize that they have done enough,
"can’t feel my little-toe, time to wrap up this stuff."

Now you know that there is a reason why women do what they do,
walking on pencils and pretending their shoes.

If it weren’t for high heels a woman’s smile would never be seen,
She would just run from thing to thing.

The world is a lot better for high heels, yes it’s true,

If it wasn’t for them I wouldn’t be sitting here with an owie on
my toe writing this for you!

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Love B/W's. I like the snowy bridge, is it a little over exposed or is that the look you wanted.

Welcome to TP btw :thumbs:
 
Thanks davie, I wasn't sure about the exposure to be honest but I do like it. But will keep that in mind for future. It was my first attempt at b/w. :lol:
 
Hi sue,

These are great. I've photographed Callander Park many many time and havent seen any good black and white ones but these are superb, especially number one. The snow works giving the house great tones and brilliant contrast.

Well done. cant wait to see some more and maybe some more of falkirk!:thumbs:
 
Like #2, muchly. Would like to see a crop of one of the curvey towers in #1 though - "Curved" kinda gets lost in the overall grandeur of the picture.

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Having a retry to bring in more curves. The following pics I have not edited apart from changing one to b/w.

Finding the 52 harder than I thought it would be, especially with lighting and what can I possibly do to improve the shot. Suggestions welcome. :)

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Just looks a bit soft to me slightly out of focus

Keep on going though we are all here to learn and welcome to the site.
 
cheers Briony. Yeh I think I could do with in investing in a better camera too. struggling to get the focus I want on close-up shots. It going to make it more difficult when im trying to keep to themes I think. But the practise will be good.:)
 
Hi Sue.
Welcome to the site and to the 52 challenge :wave:

-ayla- said:
I took photo's a few days ago that have curves in them but don't know if they count and if they don't i will get off my ass to get more tomorrow.
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This is an entirely personal challenge and the objective (for most people anyway) is to learn new things and improve their photography, so it's entirely up to you what you want to include. The themes are there to give us inspiration and try to make us think about doing something different . . . it's also nice to have a bunch of people all doing the same thing and supporting one another :)

I really like your first 2 shots.
The first one is very elegant - I'm not quite sure that it really fits the curved theme . . . but you probably didn't have that in mind when you shot it and as I said it's an entirely personal challenge.

The second one is just gorgeous. Yes it's overexposed, but for me that actually works on this particular shot. I keep wanting to go back and look at it again.
It's definitely a good fit for "curved" even if it wasn't taken for the challenge, and I only have one niggle with it. I'd quite like to see it rotated so that the bridge is horizontal (even if it wasn't in real life) You might need to crop the space from the side of the left hand tree if you rotate it too because I think it will look like it's leaning too much.

I agree with Briony about your Rose shot being a bit soft, but it will come with practice and that's what this 52 is all about.
 
Thanks for all your helpful comments Sarah, much appreciated. You have gave me lots to think about. I know what you mean about the bridge it annoyed me and I couldn't figure out how to sort it so thanks. Looking forward to the next week to see where it takes me and everyone else.

Thanks too for the welcome from yourself and everyone else, it is nice to have people to share your passions/obsessions with. :)
 
The 1st 2 shots are the better ones. I like #2 although slightly over exposed but I think that adds to the whole scene
 
I do like the second B&W Sue. I'm trying to figure out if it's straight as the handrails look right but the bridge looks like it was built on the slant :thinking: Welcome to TP and stick with it :)
 
I like your second shot although as has been said it is overexposed, but in a pictorial sense I don't think it detracts. The only part of the image I don't like is the white corner at the top left and would be tempted to try a small crop to the tree to lose it.
 
cheers ed, yeh few people have mentioned the cropping, definitely something to keep in mind for future.

Hope I haven't taken too much on here. Really struggled with inspiration for this week especially indoors as weather rubbish.

Have now discovered how hard it is to get correct lighting indoors, not bloody easy.
 
Love the bridge shot, I think that the overexposure adds something special, it gives it an arty yesteryear look which I really like.

Not so sure about the shoes, I think it’s because the shadow is causing an imbalance. It looks a little grainy too. Like the idea though and if you could balance out or remove the shadows it may have also worked well rotated to landscape.
 
Hi Sue, welcome to TP. I really like the first shot, although it doens't shout curved (not really whispering either ;)... ) The bridge shot on the other hand is very clearly curved. It is overexposed, although I don't think it's a problem with this scene. It wasn't what I noticed first.

The Poem is an interesting thought... the image works for it, but I think I agree with Irus, although it took me a while to work it out. What you might find works is to put one shoe on a mirror...

Not so sure about the tulip, it looks a bit soft.

What camera are you using ?
 
Hi Sue

I like the idea behind the shoes. Not seen that poem before :)

The shoes have nice curves too even if they were for week 2 ! :lol:
 
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Hope I haven't taken too much on here. Really struggled with inspiration for this week especially indoors as weather rubbish.

Have now discovered how hard it is to get correct lighting indoors, not bloody easy.
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You're doing fine Sue. This is all about learning for all of us.
Love the poem and very good arrangement of the shoes to complement it. I particularly like the shape made in the space between the arches of the heels.

The lighting / shadows need a little work as said above - I really like John's idea of using a mirror to get the same effect.
This is all about practice though - you'll look back in a couple of months and see how far you've come.
 
Couple of nice shots to start with Sue.I purposely don,t look at the thread I,m working on so as not to be influenced I,m glad I didn,t see yours else I,d of been scratching my head for ideas again.;)
 
For me, your week 2 poetry shot would have made a cracking week 1 entry for curved. I like the composition, processing, pretty much everything about it. :thumbs:
 
Jeez, I post a positive comment and they still give up! Might as well just go back to posting negative things...
 
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