“ Foundation ”
This week ’s picture was consider from a walkway underneath an arced , causeway bridge on the Indian River Lagoon . Even though the bridgework is mostly over piddle , I did n’t seek to let in any in the picture because I think the form of the concrete support was the most important matter and it did n’t want any context beyond that .
Fujifilm s100fs — f7.1 — 1/160″ — ISO 100 — 103 millimetre
– Mike Case
I ’ve shoot a few of these cookoffs at the santa cruz beach boardwalk before and had contrive on doing so again this weekend although I really do n’t wish doing it because it ’s just waaaaay too crowded for my taste ( dependable for businesses in the city though ) . anyway , I think I might be capable to combine this challenge with the cookoff . I figured I might be capable to find a used cupful sit down on the earth and take an artsy - fartsy injection of it . but although I looked for quite a while , either people were n’t giving them up or everyone was doing a nice job not littering . so I decided I ’d assay to convey some of the hum as well as my location . had to stop the camera down and really slow the pic values to get the ask movement blur as well as wait for the medallion to be see but still have enough feet in the picture to seem busy .
camera : nikon D7000
exposure : 1/80 sec
aperture : f/7.1
focal length : 26 mm
iso speeding : 160
– Bob Zimway
For this photo , after a couple of days thinking how to undertake it without making an empty architectural guessing , the mind of progress and foundation garment became the center subject . Reminiscing over graffiti graphics all over concrete in our New earth , and how concrete is primal , wanted to bring it back to the source of humans expressions . stone paintings contrasts over concrete in a way that could be not so obvious . Both foundational and both still present through street art . Shooting this photo was a originative challenge that prove very entertaining . Not being an artist , paint this with watercolors in the balcony ’s flooring was a rum undertaking to say the least .
f10
ISO 100
1/80
Canon 7D
Lens EF28 - 105 millimeter f/3.5 - 4.5 USM
Focal Length 48 millimeter
– Joel Fraga
This is a picture of an quondam wall - mounted concrete piss fountain outside which has been in neglect for many years . I go in close and used a comparatively with child aperture to create a shallow depth of battlefield . Minor adjustments were done in Lightroom 4 to moderate the contrast and lighten the exposure for a high - primal , soft , monochromic look .
Camera : Nikon D7000
Lens : AF - S Micro NIKKOR 40 mm 1:2.8 G DX
Exposure : 1/20s , f 4 , ISO 100
Focal Length : 40 millimeter ( 60 mm equivalent )
Flash : Not send away
-Mark Clem
“ The Concrete Canyon ”
I was walk outdoors , thinking about this challenge on gizmodo , when I came upon an interesting fissure on the concrete pavement I was walking on . When I look closer at it , it looked almost like a miniature canyon . So , I took some shaft with my tv camera , and went back within and did some work in photoshop to make the quip reckon as if It was actually a canyon in a desert setting .
canyon t4i , 18 - 55 millimeter lens of the eye , iso 200 , f5.6
– Sam Kramer
When the contest was announced , i was forthwith remind of “ Concrete Sentinels ” of a local parking garage … friend have complained that once one ascertain the theanthropism of the eyes / nozzle that they ca n’t see the form concrete as anything but silent watchers .
canyon EOS 5D Mark III
50MM
f3.2
1/50
– Daniel Jones
During a stroll through townspeople ( Basel , Switzerland ) last Friday I remembered the Concrete Gizmodo Shooting Challenge and decided to have a go . Passing by this concrete school ( ! ) construction I thought its forbidding façade kind of reflected the icy wintertime climate that fence in me . Left the tree at the far ending on purpose , to provide some lifespan in the pictorial matter . Glad my frozen fingers managed to conjure the shutter button …
Canon EOS 60D + Canon EF - S 18 - 55 mm f/3.5 - 5.6
55 mm
f/5.6
1/100
100 ISO
– Beat Mueller
It happen to be a middling cheery and warm good afternoon so that alone was brainchild enough to get out of doors and do some try out with the recently arrived DX extension tubing . The contest theme was aptly timed as in the fall I had a concrete terrace impudently pullulate in my backyard . The photo is of one of the control cuts in the slab . The cut are still “ crisp ” when regard at a standing distance . The slab at this peak was mostly dry but the control cut was still expel moisture which is supply to the darkness to wanton gradient from the deletion and outwards .
– Canon 20D
– Deal Extreme Extension Tubes 21 mm + 31 millimeter
– Canon 70 - 200 F4 lambert
– Photo guide on 2013_02_23 ~4pm
– f4
– 1/25 sec . ( this is still a hand-held barb , but was made possible by resting on the crystalline lens hood since the photograph was take almost upright )
– 75 mm Focal Length ( wing tubes make this irrelevant since the rapid growth is more of a focus creature )
– 200 ISO
– Jason Garr
This was take in my neighbourhood just after midnight . I do n’t unremarkably go out late at night looking for photos but I just received my new 10 - 20 mm genus Lens and could n’t expect to use it . ( It goes to 10 mm which is expert than 11 in camera talk ) This is the an alley area between a few apartment building . Since this was an offhanded trip I left without my tripod . I used higher ISO and held my breath literally .
canyon T3i
ISO3200
Sigma 10mm-20 mm
f/3.5
1/10 sec
– Spencer Hughes
Daytime Nap .
This shot was taken at a Buddhist necropolis in a town outside Kyoto , Japan . This sleeping Buddha , a large ( 20 foot wide ) concrete statue at the burial ground ’s entrance , puts visitors at ease as its tranquility poise out the somberness of death . I particularly like how the cloud on the left resemble a pillow . No color correction was done at all , but photoshop was used a bit to remove a duo of tree offset that encroach on the clear sky . Panasonic GH1 , Lumix G Vario 14 - 45 mm , @18 mm , f/8 , ISO 100 , 1/500s .
– James Rogers
I was deliver back from an issue at Thamel , Kathmandu . Noticed this fracture on the wall at ‘ Narayanhiti Palace ’ ( palace of last Rex of Nepal ) . This concrete has seen everything , the kings , the revolution , change and now convert museum . Much to the press and environment and jolly to the fallen authorities the concrete attempt to hold whatever it could and now look redevelopment … A rampart with history and narration .
Camera : canyon EOS 60D
Lens Model : EF - S18 - 135 mm f/3.5 - 5.6 IS
Exposure Time : 1 / 400
FNumber : 5.6
ISO Speed military rank : 200
– Ankur Sharma
I had the theme of scud some greenery with this weeks shoot challenge but the weather condition was not assist .
T4i rebel and the STM Lens
degree Fahrenheit 9.5
1/30 sec
at 135 mm
– Hiral Patel
Not too far from my household is a development that has been bare for years . I headed there to take pictures of the foundations of the houses . This shot is of a bolt left sticking out of a wall , undoubtedly signify for some purpose to which it will never be put .
29 mm
f/7.1
1/40 sec
ISO 200
– Rob Huber
Out on a Sunday afternoon running errands … my husband and I were pondering what would make a just concrete blastoff – I captured his apparition in one quadrant of a piece of textured sidewalk .
Canon 60D , Tamron 18 - 270 mm lense , ISO 800 , f/4.5
– Cheryl MacLean
This is the first shooting challenge I submit anything : partly because this one does not require any fancy equipment or science and partly because I had already an estimation . So I took my little succinct camera to a base on balls around the block , taste to ascertain my spot . In the challenge ’s verbal description , it was written concrete is a ” substance that ’s harder than rock . ” Yes , that ’s true , but we also jazz – and very well – that nature ’s world power can not be completely controlled by men . It was not hard to bump a plant like this one : super fragile , growing fantastic , strain the sun through a chap in the concrete pavement . Nature does n’t care . Picture taken with my compact Samsung WB700 , ISO 80 and 1/4 s shutter , with a vignetting event applied directly in the television camera , and no further computer manipulation . Excuse the possibly spoilt english , it ’s not my aboriginal language and I ’m falling asleep as I write .
– Emilio Cantu
This is the underside of a bridge circuit near my dwelling . I took twenty or so shots over half an hour looking for the right angle . There were some mossy pics , some with the creek below , but something about this one just screamed CONCRETE for me , so I run short with it .
Sony SLT - A65V
Tamron 17 - 50 mm
f 32
3 bracketed exposures
– Julian De Puma
Hairline Crack
My drive looks smooth to the raw eye with the exclusion of a small hairline crack in one corner . I want to get a closer look . I used the lights from my lighter box shot challenge to alight up the conniption . I found that the zoom lense would not stay in one spot long enough to snap a picture , so I had to go to the prime genus Lens . I had the tripod set up with two pegleg short and one let extended long to allow the photographic camera to get closer to the scene than the standard tripod setup would allow . I still could n’t keep the camera still enough for a long exposure , so I opted to use a mellow ISO .
Camera : Canon 5D Mark III
Lens : Sigma 50 millimeter f/1.4
Extention Tube : 56 mm
Aperture : f / 16
Exposure : 1/320 secant
ISO:6400
– Robert Allen
So I shot a standardized crack to this in eminent schoolhouse when I was determine and grow 35 mm black and white photography for a project on “ lines ” and will never forget how excited the teacher was to see my finished ware . When I saw the Concrete Jungle topic my first thought was to go reshoot this now yr later on and see what I could come up with . I did n’t get there until sundown and could n’t find any light under the bridge so I had to overexpose and underexpose by two stops ( along with a normal exporsure ) to fill in the background and the concrete . envision since I was going to have to combine them I ’d go with a noisome edit that blew out the background and this was the outcome . Shot on a Canon XTI ( 400D ) with the kit 18 - 55 millimeter lense , ISO 400 @ f/5.6 over and under exposed by two stops , merged in Photoshop with a NIK plugin .
– Jack Kelly
Every day I take the air along this pavement and I notice it . Mostly I notice that a subdivision of it between my apartment door and my machine is passably sunken . It needs to be clay - jacklight and has been in the yesteryear . Yet it is there , subside into the earth , create the biggest damn puddle every time it rains or Baron Snow of Leicester and melts . I hate the pavement and wish the flat direction would take care of it . However , when this assignment came a long , I remembered how as a child I would put on my stomach on the hot concrete and look really close at it and see the boring slab as an enormous and elaborate terrain navigated by the tiniest of insect , peculiarly ant and those trivial red trefoil mites . If it were n’t February in Wisconsin , I would have looked for some of either . The concrete humanity is complex , and really beautiful when you look at it through tiny eyes . It ’s immense and chaotic . It is subject to decay like all things . However solid it is , common salt can countermine it and water can break it wide open simply because of physic . It is therefore dreadful that so much of the world ’s infrastructure is made of this stuff .
Canon Rebel t2i descent 18 - 55 millimetre lens with a Zeikos ZE - WA58B 58 mm 0.45X Super Wide Angle lens with Macro attachment
focal distance 46 millimetre
1/320s
ISO : 200
f/5.0
– Tom Schwarze
This is under the main road ( I-87 ) in business district San Jose . A very sad , moth-eaten place , but perfect for this challenge .
Canon T2i , 10 mm , f/4 , ISO 100
– Diego Jimenez
The best place for interesting concrete in my small townspeople of Maysville , KY is at Limestone Landing . The Landing is one of the original ports on the Ohio River , and was important for the settlement of Kentucky . This picture is of the concrete column for the loading dock at Limestone Landing . The railings have been removed , I assume in anticipation of spring flooding . What remains are several pillar in an system that cue me the statues of soldiers at the Korean War Memorial in Washington , D.C.
Camera : Canon EOS Rebel T3
Lens : EF - S 18 – 55
ultraviolet radiation Filter
F - stop : f/20
pic fourth dimension : 1/100 sec .
ISO swiftness : ISO-200
Focal duration : 55 ..
– Christopher Sears
Shot looking north from the top of Rare View bar at Lexington – one of the best views I ’ve found of the urban concrete hobo camp that is NYC . Managed hang the camera over the edge to get the shot without any foreground and without getting spotted by the faculty ! Converted to a high contract B&W in post , added food grain for a bit of grittiness and darkened corner to depict the focus into the center and the Empire State .
Nikon D300 , Rokinon 8 millimetre fisheye , 200 ISO , 1/320th , f8 , Hand hold .
– Tim Litchfield
Here is my last min debut for the concrete picture competition . This was take with my Sony A77 and the 16 - 50 millimeter genus Lens whizz all the out to 50mm , ISO 400 with the aperture at f5.6 and a 1/125th shutter speeding . I knew the second I saw that contest that I want to photograph the really nerveless concrete hold the spillway together at Lake Indigo ( http://goo.gl/maps/fEive ) in my neighborhood . This was pick out about as close-fitting as I could get , and then I enhanced the clarity , sharpness , vibrance and intensity , to get a shot that to me take care like a false color shot NASA would have take on of a plateau on Mars .
– Lee Burns
This is one is on the ceiling of my bedroom . It is a great trick … errr … style take in women into my bedroom . I just say “ Would you wish to expect at my ceiling and evidence me what you see . ” You would be surprised how many women do indeed get on my bed to see the rorschach on my ceiling .
I shot this with a : Nikon D3100 , F4.2 , ISO 800 , 1/6 sec , 18 - 55 millimetre lens , and a sealy posturepedic queen size bed .
– Jeffrey Hoyt
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