Stick with me on this, I know this is a little different from what we've done so far:
My last cell phone was a generic flip phone with a pretty awful 640x480 (0.3 MP) camera. But I loved taking photos with it. Part of the reason is that I always had it with me, and so when I thought about taking a photo, I always could. Then I started to actually appreciate some of the blurring, noise, and distortion in certain situations. These kind of cameras certainly aren't appropriate for all (most) photos, but for some, particularly closeups, I think they can fit a certain style.
So I propose the half-megapixel challenge. Ideally, you'd use a cell phone camera or web cam.
If you only have access to a regular camera (and thus way more megapixels), an alternative would be to crop out a section that contains less than 500,000 pixels - without resizing the photo first. This is important, because resizing the photo before cropping would utilize the full badassery of your fancy camera's sensor. While there are numerous ways of doing that, one of the easiest that works in pretty much all editing software is to create a new blank image at a low resolution, and then paste in the larger photo, dragging the photo around until you have the small resolution window on what you want. Feel free to add noise, wash out colors, destroy contrast, or do anything else with post-processing.
For reference:
640x480 is 0.3 MP
800x600 is 0.48 MP
What do we think? I've been thinking about this for awhile, and was reminded by a story of a guy doing portraits with a 0.3 MP cam. Attached are some of my favorite cell phone pics, mostly close-ups. When it comes to getting a candid photo of a cat, cell phone camera FTW.
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Still learning my way around here!
Epic Fail or Win
-Bobby
I know what my comp looked like after my video card melted. I can't imagine what Icrontic photographers could come up with
Pick one: Sky, Clouds, Sun, or Moon.
if so:
-PEOPLE!
Get creative
8/11 Colors of the wind (This'll be fun)
You've got a couple weeks. Sheesh, figure it out.
TEXT. I really like this one. Added.
08/13 - SHOES
Stick with me on this, I know this is a little different from what we've done so far:
My last cell phone was a generic flip phone with a pretty awful 640x480 (0.3 MP) camera. But I loved taking photos with it. Part of the reason is that I always had it with me, and so when I thought about taking a photo, I always could. Then I started to actually appreciate some of the blurring, noise, and distortion in certain situations. These kind of cameras certainly aren't appropriate for all (most) photos, but for some, particularly closeups, I think they can fit a certain style.
So I propose the half-megapixel challenge. Ideally, you'd use a cell phone camera or web cam.
If you only have access to a regular camera (and thus way more megapixels), an alternative would be to crop out a section that contains less than 500,000 pixels - without resizing the photo first. This is important, because resizing the photo before cropping would utilize the full badassery of your fancy camera's sensor. While there are numerous ways of doing that, one of the easiest that works in pretty much all editing software is to create a new blank image at a low resolution, and then paste in the larger photo, dragging the photo around until you have the small resolution window on what you want. Feel free to add noise, wash out colors, destroy contrast, or do anything else with post-processing.
For reference:
640x480 is 0.3 MP
800x600 is 0.48 MP
What do we think? I've been thinking about this for awhile, and was reminded by a story of a guy doing portraits with a 0.3 MP cam. Attached are some of my favorite cell phone pics, mostly close-ups. When it comes to getting a candid photo of a cat, cell phone camera FTW.
19: Introspection
20: Elastic
21: Knapsack
22: Arsenal
23: Zipper
8/25: different/unusual light source