Assignment #10 : Autoportraits

While you are taking pictures about "Architecture of Shadows", have a look at our last assignment !
We decided for our birthday to concentrate on autoportraits,
We thought after one year of existence it would be interesting to give faces to people that are usually behind the camera.
Since the last assignment "Three of a kind", we also decided to continue with the form of triptych.

As usual, you are invited to have a look and leave your votes and comments.
All the best,
Framingframes team :
ben & jakub & grego

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Assignment #9 "Three of a kind"

Hi, there!
The 2010 we begin with a twist on our usual assignment idea.
This time the only requirement for us was to create a triptych / mini series of photos.
Each of us created a set of 3 photos related to each other in some way and intended to be appreciated together.
So, this time we ask you not to focus one particular photo, but look at the whole set of 3 of them, and pick the set you prefer.
Thanks guys !
"… everything is covered and unified by this one dominant colour. The sound is muted and almost gone and there is this overall feeling of stillness and calm. The traces of foot steps and car tracks remain in the snow telling the story of what have happened. The world is reduced to a monochrome photograph and receives a whole new kind of poetry and meaning to it."

" Nowadays I hear talking about space in terms of warm hole and folding space, yet in everyday life we still have to open a door to get to a different space.
Open doors are for you to go in or stay out but there is always something intriguing behind a closed one "

"nights, rains, headlights..."
"I often like blurry pictures, don't know really why, but maybe it produces something mysterious and reveals -in a way- a different perception of reality.
This last weeks, I took a lot of pictures from cars, trains, buses by rainy nights.
It's in fact bad conditions for photography, but I like the surprises it gives, helping me to discover different settings for the camera and the eye.
and surprise, sometimes it's not blurry…"
Have a look at the pictures and let us know what you think.
All the best. FramingFrames Team.

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Assignment #8- 1/100s (one hundredth of a second)

In this assignment we focused on the technical aspect, rather then on the narrative one. One hundred of a second is the setting of the shutter speed on the camera, that we chose to take all the pictures with for this assignment. But in it's technicality there is also a narrative. On hundred of a second is tiny fraction of time. Those little fractions build seconds, minutes, hours…years of our life.
The camera let's us grab this impossible to perceive moments and immortalize them for years. Perhaps in that tiny fraction we witnessed something that happened only then and will not happen again for years, perhaps in this tiny fraction we realize the beauty of something that was in front of our eyes for years.
jakub
" time, time, time... an old song from tom waits, and the base of photography.
a hundred of a second, it's nothing, just a little nothing stolen by chance, just the time to glance at somebody"
grégo
Have a look. As usual all your comments and votes are greatly appreciated.
All the best.
Framing Frames team.

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Assignment #7- Faces in Different Places

Hello,
Here is the result of our latest assignment: "Faces in Different Places"
The task of this one was very simple - to take portraits of people around us.
So have a look at the outcome, cast you vote , leave your opinion.
Peace, love and all the best.
Framing Frames team.

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Asingment #6 - Instant Consumption

Hello everyone !
Hope you are having a great summer.
After a short break, we are back with the results of our latest assignment.

Assignment #6 is about "Instant Consumption"
With our FramingFrames team, we were few weeks ago in the mountains - Austrian Alps to be precise - far from the civilization, where time passes kind of slower. Where simple daily tasks still require much more time and effort. Where the human being is still symbiotically connected to the nature. Where the physical presence of life and death seem to be a bit more obvious to experience. And where pretty much nothing is instant.
Few days later we were sitting in the air conditioned car, flying down the german highway at 180 km/h, surrounded by hundreds of other cars. It was a different world. The world in which you can cover distance in minutes instead of days. Where completing tasks require no more than a touch of a button. Where hunger and thirst can be satisfied instantly and without effort at the nearest Burger King. Where the ABS, ESP, EBD and AIR BAG gives you the comfort to rip through space at high speed without fearing the consequences.
As the landscapes of tarmac, concrete and lights were rapidly changing, the onboard computer was feeding all the important informations... the INSTANT CONSUMPTION was: 6.5L / 100KM.

As usual we kindly invite you to visit our blog.
Leave you comments, which we always look forward to read. Take a look at our works and vote for you favorite picture.

Kisses and hugs,
J

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Assingment #5 - I saw that You saw, that I saw You.

Here it is - another assignment completed.

I saw that You saw, that I saw You - is our small photographic discourse on the subject of watching and being watched. Realization of being observed or lack of it.

As usual we are looking forward to you comments and votes.

Best regards from our dream team. - j

"I am looking at the people on the streets and try to catch their eyes... I think maybe this is the gaze that will make my picture. This is the one, but is not!

I look again and again and again, I see different shadows, different angles, different picture every second of my life. Then I look again... I look around, I look, I look... I take a shot, I look again and I'm happy that some of my short seconds, are forever in my camera.
These are my seconds, sometimes 1/125 of a second." - Ben

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Assignment #4 - Blinding Lights

Hello there,
Hopping between the cities, hardly have time to post our latest assignment, but here it is - Blinding Lights.
Have a look, vote for your favorite, leave your comments.
Best Regards,

... standing there in the middle of the night, among the industrial landscape of the oil refinery, felt already kind of spooky. Suddenly, just as I pressed the shutter release button on the camera I heard barking behind my back, I grabbed the tripod with the camera on it and started running towards the car.
As I sat safely inside it I heard the shutter closing - click. I looked at the screen to see what I had captured. Blur of lines and shapes created by the lights represented the last 20 seconds - standing in front of the subject, then running towards the car, finally sitting in.
It's not an interesting picture and I decided not to post it, but it sure makes me lough every time I look at it... - jakub

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Assingment #3 - Pain

Hi there.
Again , thank you so so much for all your votes, comments, thoughts and interpretations. Every time before publishing our assignment we have sort of an idea among us, which pictures will be the clear "winners", then we publish them and you come and leave your comments and you turn our world up side down, in many cases completely contradicting our expectations - it's great learning experience, and we are very grateful for it. .

This assignment's subject was - Pain.
...and let me tell you ...it had created a lot of pain - but mostly in our worried heads. For last two weeks we were experiencing creative pain, trying to find the way to approach this subject without falling into trap of becoming overly pathetic, cliche, kitsch or too literal. After all I think that perhaps the most accurate image of pain, would have been if we would photograph ourselves being tormented and struggling with this latest assignment.
"...Soon enough I realized that is difficult to find pain in our society. Although many people are confronted with it ,visible pain is hard to find. I realized that we are very protected and safe from physical pain. You have to dig deeper and spend more time trying to catch the sort of pain our society lives through...
The theme was harder that I thought..."- Beniamin
Anyway we did our best to come up images of pain, so follow the link at the bottom of this post to visit the photo gallery and see the outcome of our latest creative endeavor.
We greatly appreciate you comments and votes.
As before you have two options:

Quick - if you don't have much time, or don't feel like leaving a written comment, just vote for you favorite picture in the poll just here to the right. And you are done.

Regular - if you have a bit of time and want to share your opinion with us about your favorite photo or photos, quickly vote for your favourite picture in the poll on the right and then leave a written comment below, as usual.

Best Regards
j

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Assignment #2 - Waiting

First things first,
Thank you so much for all of your comments and choices that you have left on our blog. We really appreciate it . It's great to hear your opinions and learn about the way you see things - it gives us such a great motivation and pushes to think and work harder.
As you see, we just completed our assignment #2.
"Waiting" was the subject of this one. Not as simple as we thought it will be, but I guess that's the point.
We also thought to modify slightly the process of leaving comments for your convenience.
There are two ways to express your opinions now, Quick or Regular.

Quick - if you don't have much time, or don't feel like leaving a written comment, just vote for you favorite picture in the poll just here to the right. And you are done.

Regular - if you have a bit of time and want to share your opinion with us about your favorite photo or about the other ones.
Quickly vote for your favourite picture in the poll on the right and then leave a written comment below, as usual.
Thank you so much again.

...and now we kindly invite you to visit the gallery below and let us know what you think about our latest works.
Best Regards,

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Assigment #1 - the Beginning

The task of this first assignment was to create pictures that would represent or be inspired by the notion of "beginning" in any sense of that word.
We had 2 week to accomplish this task. Each of us have chosen 3 of his best works and they are posted here.
We kindly invite you to have a look at them by clicking on the link below. Choose you favorite picture and let us know about it by leaving a comment.
Thanks a lot and we hope you will enjoy the outcome.

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