The Dallas Camera Club had its annual photography scavenger hunt about a month ago and I’ve uploaded my images. I took 76 images and I’ve posted 8 of those in the Gallery. Like any scavenger hunt, there are items that need to be found; but, in this case, participants are awarded based on the categories found along with the quality of their images.
The categories this year were: “An Old Building”, “A Modern Structure”, “The Color Red”, “A Statue”, “A Reflection”, and “Lines of Perspective”. We started at 9am and met back up for lunch, so we had around three hours to get all the shots. The extent of my knowledge on Dallas is largely limited to how to get to work downtown; so, I mostly just wandered around.
This isn’t my first scavenger hunt with the Dallas Camera Club — I also went last year — but I really enjoyed myself. I found that walking through Dallas has a much different perspective than driving through it and Dallas can be a surprisingly photogenic city at times. The hardest category for me was probably “Lines of Perspective”. I ended up going with a long shot down a street and I’m curious whether heavier traffic may have improved the shot.
Standard photo-entry text: All my photos are released under a Creative Commons license which roughly states that you’re free to “copy, distribute, display, and perform the work”. Also, I’ve resized all the images to 1024-width before uploading them as it can be a bit hard to get your head around a full 5 MP image. However, if you want the full-resolution version of any images, just ask.
Looks like too much fun. I definitely must try to fit this into my schedule next year.
first, you should title all your photos if they are in a small collection like this. it makes you seem like you know stuff. they don’t need to be fancy titles: A Saturday Afternoon on [blah] Street might be a good one for the first photograph.
Comments:
Saturday afternoon on Beale Street: I agree, the colors seem muted and it seems overall pretty bland. (though, just for kicks, take it and make it black and white, brighten it up a bit an pump up the contrast a little bit and my guess is it’ll be a much better photo)
and now I can’t access the Gallery any more. I guess I’ll continue this later.
okay, I’m back.
Fence and House: I like the colors of the grass and the house. I’m unsure as to whether I like the blurred fence. I think perhaps it would have worked better if it was a full-frame rather than a bottom border. However, I’m pretty sure the tree [the tree trunk, particularly] is too big and the placement makes it seem like the subject which, I hope, it is not.
Parking Meters: I like this one overall. I like the repetative nature of it. I think the two moving cars don’t add to the overall composition and it would benefit from perhaps a wide-angle shot, starting closer to the first parking meter and having the parked car near the right of the composition.
Reflections #’s 1, 2, 3: Good shots. The shots with the rounded mirror are more interesting. I’d like to see a pose of the photographer that is neither the “wave” or the “hunched over tripod. A more interesting placement of the camera and subject might make the shot more interesting.
Two Buildings: Nice colors and good composition. I might try to do the metering on the smaller building because it shows up a little dark.
Bryan Tower Statue: Composition is fine. Colors are good. Depth of field is appropriate (though perhaps not as noteworthy as you make it).
okay. enough from me!