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The 39th Scavenger Hunt had an overarching theme, Rose, and 10 other words to associate to it. I went for a very literal interpretation of that, got myself a rose bouquet (on discount because they were starting to fade quite a bit) and managed the whole Hunt in one (long) afternoon.

This was my entry for the bonus word, “Break the Rules!”. And, well – the first rule of photography is that you don’t destroy your subject 😉 So, that’s what I did first. I also went for a very “on-the-nose” centered composition (which is supposed to be “boring”). I also had a lot of out-of-focus takes, but they were working significantly less well than this one.

And the original – not much to be said here except for the exposure/color and crop.

Camera	Pentax K-1 II
Lens	smc PENTAX-D FA 50mm F2.8 Macro
Focal length	50mm
F-Number	F/5
Exposure time	1/50s
ISO	800

Other pictures from my fellow Scavengers: Break the Rules

The 39th Scavenger Hunt had an overarching theme, Rose, and 10 other words to associate to it. I went for a very literal interpretation of that, got myself a rose bouquet (on discount because they were starting to fade quite a bit) and managed the whole Hunt in one (long) afternoon.

This was my entry for the word “Silhouette”, and it is both my favorite picture… and the one I spent the most time on 😉 (Coincidence? Probably not.) I wanted the rose bouquet to be recognizable as such; I wanted it to be reasonably “tidy”, I wanted the wooden support to have the “right” angles on each side, and I was working with a fairly narrow margin on my white wall. This is not PERFECT, but this is the closest I could get. Probably should have gotten a tripod out there 😉 (yeah, it’s a theme of this hunt.)

Here’s the original version, which DOES show the narrow margin on the background 😀 I’m quite happy I decided to process it in a pink hue, I think it worked really well.

Camera	Pentax K-1 II
Lens	smc PENTAX-D FA MACRO 100mm F2.8 WR
Focal length	100mm
F-Number	F/8
Exposure time	1/100 s
ISO	800

Other pictures from my fellow Scavengers: Silhouette

The 39th Scavenger Hunt had an overarching theme, Rose, and 10 other words to associate to it. I went for a very literal interpretation of that, got myself a rose bouquet (on discount because they were starting to fade quite a bit) and managed the whole Hunt in one (long) afternoon.

This was my entry for the word “Framing”, which is probably the image where I displayed most my smartass character – typically one would use framing to frame the subject, and here I used my subject as frame parts.

I long pondered *what* I could frame with my roses – until I thought of the hexagon pictures I have in my office. I detached them from their magnets, re-set them up on a horizontal surface, and arranged my roses around them.

I’m not very happy with this image, because it feels like it had potential to be much cleaner; as it is, it feels more like a first concept than a final image. But, it was the last image I shot, and I was tired, so it stayed that way. I also tried to edit away the shadows, but it was honestly much worse than leaving them, sooo.

The original, showing the source of most issues: the light was *terrible* (because I hadn’t made the effort to make it right!).

Camera	Pentax K-1 II
Lens	smc PENTAX-D FA 50mm F2.8 Macro
Focal length	50mm
F-Number	F/6.3
Exposure time	1/60 s
ISO	800

Other pictures from my fellow Scavengers: Framing

The 39th Scavenger Hunt had an overarching theme, Rose, and 10 other words to associate to it. I went for a very literal interpretation of that, got myself a rose bouquet (on discount because they were starting to fade quite a bit) and managed the whole Hunt in one (long) afternoon.

This was my entry for the word Patterns/Repetition. I think this was the first one that I shot, because I wanted my rose bouquet to still be tied so that I could get some kind of easy repetition!

The original was quite close from the final picture, up to exposure and cropping.

Camera	Pentax K-1 II
Lens	smc PENTAX-D FA 50mm F2.8 Macro
Focal length	50mm
F-Number	F/8
Exposure time	1/80s
ISO	1600

Other pictures from my fellow Scavengers: Patterns/Repetition

The 39th Scavenger Hunt had an overarching theme, Rose, and 10 other words to associate to it. I went for a very literal interpretation of that, got myself a rose bouquet (on discount because they were starting to fade quite a bit) and managed the whole Hunt in one (long) afternoon.

This was my entry for the word “Golden Ratio”. I went for the “spiral” interpretation of the word, and it was mostly a matter of cropping the image in the “right” way so that the golden spiral would appear, somewhere, somehow. I also learnt things about my tools grids – there ARE guides for golden ratio and golden spiral! that was very useful.

This picture is also the reason why I went for a B&W processing on “Fill the Frame“, so that two fairly similar pictures would still have a different feel!

The original was less golden-spiraley, but I knew I could make it work on the crop.

Camera	Pentax K-1 II
Lens	smc PENTAX-D FA MACRO 100mm F2.8 WR
Focal length	100mm
F-Number	F/7.1
Exposure time	1/160 s
ISO	800

Other pictures from my fellow Scavengers: Golden Ratio

The 39th Scavenger Hunt had an overarching theme, Rose, and 10 other words to associate to it. I went for a very literal interpretation of that, got myself a rose bouquet (on discount because they were starting to fade quite a bit) and managed the whole Hunt in one (long) afternoon.

This was my entry for the word Leading Lines.

Flowers have some natural leading lines, which I shamelessly exploited for this shot; I had shot multiple settings but I liked the diagonal arrangement best.

My initial idea was to have them somewhat less straight than vertical, but that didn’t work as well in my view. My lack of tripod (and proper lighting) was disturbing.

Camera	Pentax K-1 II
Lens	Pentax D FA 24-70mm F2.8 smc PENTAX-D FA 50mm F2.8 Macro smc PENTAX-D FA MACRO 100mm F2.8 WR Pentax DA 18-55mm 1:3.5-5.6 AL
Focal length	63mm
F-Number	F/1.8
Exposure time	1/100 s
ISO	111

Other pictures from my fellow Scavengers: Leading lines

The 39th Scavenger Hunt had an overarching theme, Rose, and 10 other words to associate to it. I went for a very literal interpretation of that, got myself a rose bouquet (on discount because they were starting to fade quite a bit) and managed the whole Hunt in one (long) afternoon.

This was my entry for the word “High key/low key”.

I was wondering if there was a way to use the same image for both and let the processing play on the high/low key, but it didn’t feel like something I wanted to explore with that little time. So I took two pictures – and yeah, both are vastly underexposed because I was working without a tripod.

My images were initially not looking symmetrical to one another, so I flipped the lowkey one, because it looked better side by side 🙂

Camera	Pentax K-1 II
Lens	smc PENTAX-D FA MACRO 100mm F2.8 WR
Focal length	100mm
F-Number	F/8
Exposure time	1/100 s
ISO	800

Camera	Pentax K-1 II
Lens	smc PENTAX-D FA MACRO 100mm F2.8 WR
Focal length	100mm
F-Number	F/8
Exposure time	1/100 s
ISO	800

Other pictures from my fellow Scavengers: Low key/high key

The 39th Scavenger Hunt had an overarching theme, Rose, and 10 other words to associate to it. I went for a very literal interpretation of that, got myself a rose bouquet (on discount because they were starting to fade quite a bit) and managed the whole Hunt in one (long) afternoon.

This was my entry for the word “Blue Hour”. For this one, it felt quite necessary to go outside, so that’s a shot of my roses on the balcony. It did require some acrobatics to be able to shoot it in a reasonably stable way, while keeping the fence of the balcony out of the frame! I particularly like the sky on this one 🙂

And that’s the original picture. As you can see, there has been some creative crop and, as for all the pictures in this Hunt or so it seems, a vast underexposure of the original material.

Camera	Pentax K-1 II
Lens	smc PENTAX-D FA 50mm F2.8 Macro
Focal length	50mm
F-Number	F/8
Exposure time	1/60 s
ISO	800

Other pictures from my fellow Scavengers: Blue Hour

The 39th Scavenger Hunt had an overarching theme, Rose, and 10 other words to associate to it. I went for a very literal interpretation of that, got myself a rose bouquet (on discount because they were starting to fade quite a bit) and managed the whole Hunt in one (long) afternoon.

This was my entry for the word “Negative Space”.

The original had a few more roses on the left of the image – I chose to frame the image that way to give a bit more mystery about the exact angle (it could almost be turn 90° and seen as a shot from the side rather than the top!).

Camera	Pentax K-1 II
Lens	smc PENTAX-D FA 50mm F2.8 Macro
Focal length	50mm
F-Number	F/6.3
Exposure time	1/100 s
ISO	1250

Other pictures from my fellow Scavengers: Negative Space