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Best photo for this location
By Swetha Kumar
Walker Photos
Below are all walker photos that have been uploaded and entered in the 2011 Photo Walk photo contest.
Connie Ragusa
Joseph OBrien
Swetha Kumar
Sweta Nayak
Sandeep Pai
Rodger Israel
Albert Hunt
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Meet Time: 10:00am - 12:00pm
Photo Walk Description
We will repeat the walk that I led two years ago, starting at the American Tobacco Campus, walking to DPAC, the bull sculpture, downtown Marriott, Carolina Theatre, past Brightleaf Square and Duke East, and ending up at Whole Foods for lunch and a recap. One important tip is that the AT Campus is private and “professional” photography is not permitted. I will alert the guards that we will be there as “amateurs” (please, no selling of images you make on the campus). They are vigilant about monopods and tripods, as these mean “professional” to them, so please don’t use any of these *pods on campus.
I own a photography business, Vibrant Memories Photography, and specialize in baby, family, and event photography. I teach photography and photo editing at most of the area arts schools, including the Carrboro Arts Center, ArtSpace, Duke Continuing Studies, UNC Hospital, and occasionally Photoshop at the Art Institute at the AT campus. I love the photo walk!
Hi! Just wondered about this walk since it isn’t a loop do people park at the Tobacco Campus and then walk back from Whole Foods! Trying to plan my day! Thanks, Lyn
I look forward to meeting all of you on Saturday! We have a large group so it will be important to make sure that our group stays together. I’ll have a couple of checkpoints so that you can wander off on your own if you wish but periodically regroup.
I have a new hard deadline of having to be back at my car by noon (and there is a small chance I may have my toddler with me – if so, I will probably just bring my point-and-shoot and not DSLR), so I’m going to modify the walk as below.
What should you bring?
* As of Sunday night, almost a week before the walk, the forecast calls for a great day – sunny with a high of 68 degF. Of course, things can change, so be prepared for the weather.
* Bring camera equipment that you are comfortable with. (I do teach photography so can probably help you with questions that you may have, but we won’t have time to do a detailed tutorial.)
* For the kinds of street photography we are likely to do, flash is probably not required, but bring flash if you think that you may try some portraits of a colleague on the walk or close-in shots where illuminating your foreground and/or separating it from the background is important.
* You could bring a tripod or monopod if you wish, but beware of the restriction at the American Tobacco campus. I don’t think that either would be important for our walk, but if you want to do self-portraiture, macro shots, or use very slow exposures, feel free to bring a monopod or tripod.
* Most or all of you will bring a digital single-lens reflex (DSLR) camera, but composition and subject selection trumps camera quality. You can take excellent pictures with a point and shoot so don’t hesitate to bring a “pNs”, whether that’s your only camera or in addition to a DSLR, perhaps. (If my daughter comes, most of you will probably have “better” cameras than I will bring!)
See you on Saturday morning!
Dilip
REVISED PLAN
10a Meet just inside the American Tobacco Campus entry sign; you should see the parking garage on one side and Mellow Mushroom on the other side.
After an orientation, we will begin heading through the campus toward the contemporary Durham Performing Arts Center (DPAC) building.
Visit DPAC to your right.
Continue on Blackwell St; it become Corcoran St – keep on going.
10:45a Regroup at CCB Plaza (just past W Parrish St and opposite Blue Coffee Cafe) in front of bronze bull statue to your left.
Continue on Corcoran past Chapel Hill Street – the road is now called Foster Street
Once you pass the entrance to the Marriott on your left and the Durham Armory on your right, bear L through the water areas of the Carolina Theatre, veering diagonally toward Morgan St
Continue on Morgan St and turn L on Morris St just ahead
Pass the Durham Arts Council on your L
11:10 Regroup in front of Durham Arts Council
At the light ahead, cross W Chapel Hill Street and make a gentle left onto W Main Street, passing Toast on your right once on Main
Turn right on Corcoran and continue on to Blackwell
Stay on the left side of Blackwell Street, passing the Durham Bulls baseball park and coming to Jackie Robinson Drive with Mellow Mushroom to your right – turn right and you’ll be back to the starting point
11:30a Regroup at starting point
11:45a Optional lunch wherever participants want – good choices may include the Cuban restaurant in the American Tobacco Campus, the new Italian one that just opened there (?), or Mellow Mushroom. Because of my new time constraint, I won’t be able to join in, alas.
The flickr group for today’s walk is:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/durhamphotowalk2011/
What’s the flickr group for this walk going to be? Do we have a tag as well?
The flickr group for today’s walk is:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/durhamphotowalk2011/
Dilip, email me your flickr username and I’ll make you the admin.
–Joe
Thanks, Joe. My flickr id is dilipBarman.
You have to join the group and then I can promote you to admin.
Just the pics of us having fun today.
http://www.fosterhunt.com/photowalk
or
http://www.silverdogphotography.com/photowalk
the images in the second gallery can be downloaded
Cool, thanks Foster!
Thanks, Foster! You have some very nice images that capture the event nicely!
I just uploaded my photo from the walk. You all should be able to do it know. Go to the Durham Photo Walk. There now is a spot that says to upload your photo.
I still can’t upload… the upload box does not show up for me.
They had to fix my account but I got my upload to work now.
Thanks to all who participated! Sorry that I literally had to leave for the airport just an hour or so after the walk ended. I’m back and tomorrow will go through your submissions. I just did a first pass and love what I’ve seen – you guys have been a great group and have made some compelling images. Best wishes! –Dilip
Please remember to submit your favorite shot, if you want to enter the competition, by noon today! (I just sent a message to all walkers, as well, so this may be a duplicate comment.) –Dilip
It was so difficult to choose one image, but I just did. I love all of the images!
For Swetha Kumar’s “winning” (but all the images were winners in my book!) image, I love the strongly contrasting triangles. Even the bulbs nicely frame the water tower. Her treatment of dynamic range is well done and details aren’t lost.
Connie’s image also has nice geometries with interesting triangles. I like the impressionistic treatment of the American Tobacco Campus.
Joe’s image is a great framed establishment shot. I have several establishment shots I’ve taken of the Campus, but don’t have one nested like this, with an appealing diagonal to bring you into the image – I’ll have to try to get such a shot, too!
Swetha Nayak’s image is bold and surrealistic. The strong saturation works well and helps to suggest an industrial past; I wonder if it were a little off-center if the image might be even more powerful.
Sandeep’s grungy treatment (strong clarity) seems quite appropriate to the railroad tracks and the commercial cargo it must have been carrying for years. I wonder if the tracks were a bit more diagonalized if the strength of the image might be even more pronounced.
Rodger caught a nice artifact that I also just noticed when we were on the Walk. It’s a good establishment shot and helps remind us of the history of the area.
Albert (Foster) caught a lovely portrait of his friend. I love the strongly confident pose, the soft lighting (though I wonder if it would be even more effective if she were turned a little more toward the shadow to increase the lighting ratio on her face), and the beautiful framing provided by the branches.
Thanks to Joe for creating a flickr group. I wanted to share just a few comments about images there. I love Connie’s “Waterfall”. EXIF isn’t visible, but she clearly dragged the shutter to create a very nice water effect. The colors and diagonal composition make this very appealing. I also love Connie’s abstract “Reflections of Blue”.
Swetha Kumar’s “IMG_9686″ could be on a DPAC advertisement. I love the geometries, including the almost-meeting diagonals and contrast of the dark building in the center.
Joe’s “Warning” helps remind us that the Campus comes from an industrial background. I wonder how this shot would be if it were shot with a macro lens at an angle to add some conflict to the ready reading of the sign (and perhaps with a tight crop).
Thanks to all of you for participating. I hope that our paths will cross again soon. By the way, several of you asked – if you are interested in my classes (including ones in Lightroom workflow, basic digital photography, and advanced digital photography), most of them are offered through artscenterlive.org (look under “Photography” but also under “Digital Arts”). Best wishes!
–Dilip
Thanks for all the comments on the shots! Walk was fun, see you next year!