Jenga!

peterattheboro · 5 Mar 2009 at 13:38

Thoughts?

A.N.Other · 5 Mar 2009 at 13:53

First two shots are quite nice, but the other two don't do anything for me.

Jenga's awesome, though

georges · 5 Mar 2009 at 14:02

Maybe try one of it toppling?

D.P. · 5 Mar 2009 at 14:05

Pictures of jenga. WoW.....

As above, I suggest trying to get an image of the the jenga tower falling over. with different exposure times you could get some interesting shots.

peterattheboro · 5 Mar 2009 at 14:12

I'm gonna try a toppling tower when I get an extra pair of hands... doing it on my own with a timer could be a PITA.

Stev · 5 Mar 2009 at 14:48

heh, id never think of using jenga as a subject! suppose thats where i fail photography, not seeing things right in front of my eyes

Bubo · 5 Mar 2009 at 15:48

D.P. said:
Pictures of jenga. WoW.....

D.P. in failure to be impressed by photograph which hasn't taken weeks of planning to capture the moment shocker!

I liked this game when they did it on Big Brother, was called Wonga I think.

peterattheboro · 5 Mar 2009 at 16:02

Every single photo D.P. takes must be mightily impressive. I've not seen one yet though.

Am still playing about but my lens has decided to give me Error 99 codes. What a ****!

Have tried another and it works fine, gone back to the Sigma and that's fine so far. Fingers crossed it was just a spec of dirty on the connection.

A.N.Other · 5 Mar 2009 at 16:30

peterattheboro said:
Every single photo D.P. takes must be mightily impressive. I've not seen one yet though.

Am still playing about but my lens has decided to give me Error 99 codes. What a ****!

Have tried another and it works fine, gone back to the Sigma and that's fine so far. Fingers crossed it was just a spec of dirty on the connection.

Clean the connections on both the camera and the lens with a graphite pencil

D.P. · 5 Mar 2009 at 17:00

Bubo said:
D.P. in failure to be impressed by photograph which hasn't taken weeks of planning to capture the moment shocker!

I liked this game when they did it on Big Brother, was called Wonga I think.

OP asked for feedback. Pictures of a static Jenga tower don't excite. that is perfectly valid feedback.I agreed with georges and suggested a more dynamic photograph of the tower falling. What else is expected in feedback??

Bubo · 5 Mar 2009 at 20:20

D.P. said:
OP asked for feedback. Pictures of a static Jenga tower don't excite. that is perfectly valid feedback.I agreed with georges and suggested a more dynamic photograph of the tower falling. What else is expected in feedback??

First thing they teach you in constructive criticism school is not to start your feedback with out and out sarcasm. Well, they do round here anyway.

Trick · 5 Mar 2009 at 22:11

Bath tub effect mate. Start with a positive, get them to tell you the points to note, re-itterate good points, ask them to list the points to note and then finish with a high. Basic instructional technique and works well for critiscism!

DampCat · 6 Mar 2009 at 14:00

I think what people might be missing is that it's not necessarily the subject that's important here. i think it's clear that if anything, the OP has managed to capture a good picture of a product... regardless of what it is. It's nicely coloured, nicely exposed with good contrasts and the lighting is good (in the first three. The last one could have benefitted from some more light).

These would be nice for a portfolio if the OP was lookign to move into product photography for a magazine or company that specialising in marketing.

Bubo · 6 Mar 2009 at 15:58

I've thought of an interesting jenga related shot you could do, why not frig the pile of jenga such that it looks like it has too many pieces missing at the base to support it, might have to glue the thing and have a hidden support, an impossible structure in other words, then have a hand in shot there to remove the final supporting piece. Your mind will be intrigued as to how the structure is remaining standing and what will happen once the final piece is removed. You will probably bugger up your jenga blocks to do this but that's the price you have to pay to get a D.P. worthy shot

edit: or you could photochop it rather than wrecking your prize jenga