Another week another photo. Here are last weeks framed photos:

Photo By: Christopher D. Bennett. Go check out his website www.photography139.com for many other photos.

“Frames” Photo By: Lee

“New Beginning” Photo By: Mike

A Long night of fishing didn’t produce any fish for dinner but it was a beautiful night of fireworks, lightning and stars. I couldn’t get those images out of my mind as I returned to Dr. Tech duties. I almost forgot the random theme machine. Thankfully Chris stopped by to remind me. The machine seemed to spin forever and finally stopped on:

“Night”

Perfect choice I thought. Night photography can be challenging, luckily most modern box cameras have a setting: change the setting to night, put camera on tripod or solid surface and take photo. For the rest of us with SLR or other type multiple adjustment cameras; set to manual, autofocus off, ISO 400, 800 or 1600, exposure as needed, use remote or self timer, camera on tripod or solid surface then take photo and continually adjust exposure or ISO as needed. Feel the force as it flows through you.  Longer exposure can produce very interesting surreal photos, another image search.

As always it’s up to your interpretation, take and submit the photo in a week and If you submit it, I’ll post it. Submit at 52week@waxenmedia.com. FAQS

Last week was all about games. If only my website wouldn’t have been playing games I might have actually had this post done on Monday! Here are last weeks games photos.

Photo By: Christopher D. Bennett. Go check out his website www.photography139.com for many other photos.

"Oh Farkle" Photo By: Lee

"Tay" Photo By: Mike

As I lay here wondering if the eggs I’m cooking on the sidewalk are done yet, I looked through the window and noticed the cat had started the random theme machine. The AC cooled machine is laughing at me or is that my mind melting? Once the eggs had finished cooking I noticed the machine had stopped on:

“Framing”

Think of photographing your subject through a window. Framing is a technique of drawing attention to the subject by obscuring other parts of the image with something in the scene.  This gives images a sense of depth and leads the eye towards the main focal point.  An image search shows several examples of how to frame a photo. Framing – 2010.

As always it’s up to your interpretation, take and submit the photo in a week and If you submit it, I’ll post it. Submit at 52week@waxenmedia.com.  FAQS

While last week was all about B&W I think of it more as monochromatic. Here are last weeks photos:

Photo By: Christopher D. Bennett. Go check out his website www.photography139.com for many other photos.

Photo By: Mike

It was a stormy morning and the power was out everywhere… In the still of the night and running on battery backup, I activated the random theme generator. As the machine spun round and round I took an opportunity to practice my trashcan basketball and office darts.  I won a game of office darts. Is this love or what? Awards are next week. As the machine final stopped, I couldn’t help but think here I go again:

“Games”

Seems this weeks theme is all about games. This is a new theme and should be easy to find somebody playing a game of some type, somewhere. After all who hasn’t ruled at a game of hopscotch. Meager image search.

As always it’s up to your interpretation, take and submit the photo in a week and If you submit it, I’ll post it. Submit at 52week@waxenmedia.com.  FAQS

The random photo of the week experiment might have hit the half way low point. Only the diehards are holding out. I was slightly late getting my photo submitted myself. I think I’ll remove the link from the website at the top but continue it until next year and see from there. Here are last weeks “light placement” photos:

Photo By: Christopher D. Bennett. Go check out his website www.photography139.com for many other photos.

A flag celebrating the 4th of July. Photo By: Mike.

The machine was powered on a bit early due to the Monday holiday. It was a quiet ceremony only witnessed by a two people. Nothing fancy, I just walked down the stairs and pressed the button. The machine quietly, and maybe for the first time, picked something at random.

“B&W”

Otherwise known as “Black and White” and is new for this year. These photos are shades of gray or sepia. There was a time when B&W photography was all that existed. While color has been around as far back as 1860s,  B&W was the only commercial photography up until 1907 and home users didn’t get color until several years after world war II. It wasn’t until the 70s that it was wide spread. Once color came around B&W almost disappeared, everybody wanted color. With the wide spread use of modern digital cameras came a small resurgence in B&W. There are many great B&W photographers out there.

To me a well balanced detailed B&W photo is visually appealing. Without the color distraction your eyes naturally focus in on the subject reveling all the hidden detail. My suggestions for a good B&W photo is to find something with a bit contrasting light and lots of detail like Flowers, Tree bark or anything bumpy. An image search reveals all the possibilities.  Most modern cameras have the ability to select B&W as should all imaging software be able to convert color to B&W.  If you don’t have either use your favorite search engine and search for “online convert to black and white” There are many sites that do it for free. 

As always it’s up to your interpretation, take and submit the photo in a week and If you submit it, I’ll post it. Submit at 52week@waxenmedia.com.  FAQS