{"id":1637,"date":"2010-10-12T22:03:29","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T13:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2010-10-12\/1637"},"modified":"2010-10-12T22:03:29","modified_gmt":"2010-10-12T13:03:29","slug":"kids-flower-arranging-exhibition-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2010-10-12\/1637","title":{"rendered":"Kids Flower Arranging Exhibition, Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
\nNOTE<\/b>: Images with an icon next to them have been artificially shrunk to better fit your screen; click the icon to restore them, in place, to their regular size.\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>800 sec, f<\/span>\/2.5, ISO 1600 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nExceedingly Pink Flower Arrangement<\/span>\nmade creamy by the Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5<\/a>'s legendary bokeh<\/a>\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>320 sec, f<\/span>\/2.5, ISO 200 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nKids' Flower-Arranging Exhibition<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n

I paid a visit again this year to an ikebana<\/i><\/a> (flower\narranging) exhibition that some friends' kids took part in, the same annual\nexhibition that I posted<\/span> about three years ago in “Preschooler Ikebana<\/a>”\nand “Ikebana, Part II<\/a>”.\nArthur Brigham, whose kids Monet and May went to preschool with Anthony,\ntold me about it, so I made<\/span> sure to snap some pictures of their\narrangements. (Arthur and Monet and May featured prominently in\nsome camping-trip posts<\/a> a few<\/span> years ago.)<\/p>\n\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Nikkor 50mm f\/1.4 @ 50 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>500 sec, f<\/span>\/2.5, ISO 200 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nMonet's<\/span>\n( second grader )\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>400 sec, f<\/span>\/4, ISO 800 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nA Bit<\/span> of Detail on Monet's<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n

The moment I got there I felt a rush<\/span> of photographic inadequacy wash\nover me. Even though I couldn't<\/span> control the lighting or backgrounds, I could<\/span> control the camera position, the lens focal length, the aperture,\nexposure, and focus distance, all of which combined to make for an infinite\nnumber of ways to investigate any one arrangement. When a professional<\/span> like\nformer-Yahoo-colleague Dan\nSroka<\/a> spends weeks investigating a single<\/span> dried-up leaf, I didn't<\/span> hold\nmuch hope I'd be able to really capture the essence of any of these\narrangements in the hour or so that I had<\/span> before the event closed.<\/p>\n\n\n

And make no mistake, even though these were simple arrangements made by\nyoung children, they had a lot<\/span> of character that could be brought out with\nthe right photograph, or trampled under foot by a gauche<\/span> one. (The\n“bit of detail” shot above is neither... it's just a shot<\/span> of a\ndisembodied<\/span> flower, though hopefully a pretty<\/i> shot of a disembodied<\/span>\nflower.)<\/p>\n\n

The first obvious shot to get is one that records the overall view of a\npiece,<\/span> straight-up emotionless documentation, to provide the same kind of\ncontext one gets when they first glance at a piece<\/span> while walking up.<\/p>\n\n

Here's the straight-up documentation shot for five-year-old May's arrangement:<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>400 sec, f<\/span>\/5.6, ISO 720 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nMay's<\/span>\n( five years old )\n<\/div>\n\n

... and here are a few alternate views...<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>400 sec, f<\/span>\/2.5, ISO 200 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nHighlight on the Green and White<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>400 sec, f<\/span>\/5.6, ISO 1250 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nHighlight The Ring of White Flowers<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>400 sec, f<\/span>\/2.5, ISO 400 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nEmphasis on Color Combinations<\/span>\nor something like that\n<\/div>\n\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Nikkor 24mm f\/1.4 @ 24 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>1250 sec, f<\/span>\/1.4, ISO 200 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nSort of Distracting<\/span>\nbut becomes sort of interesting when viewed full size<\/a>\n<\/div>\n\n

I don't think I really captured anything with these, other than some\npretty pictures. I felt I<\/span> had a bit<\/span> better luck with Rio-chan's...<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>800 sec, f<\/span>\/4, ISO 1250 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nRio's<\/span>\n( second grader )\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>800 sec, f<\/span>\/2.5, ISO 720 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n( far focus )<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>800 sec, f<\/span>\/2.5, ISO 800 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n( near focus )<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>400 sec, f<\/span>\/2.5, ISO 6400 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nRio Flower Closeup<\/span>\n( this kind of shot would be a lot<\/i> easier with a tripod!<\/span> )<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n

I quickly realized that I was beyond my element, so for the most part I\nkept<\/span> to the low-hanging-fruit of “detail” shots. Flowers are pretty, so\nit's hard to go wrong.<\/p>\n\n

Like Monet and May and Rio, most of the kids in this “junior” group are\nor were classmates with Anthony, including Hinano and her sister Marina,\nwhose mom is the leader of the group (with Marina having appeared in the post three years ago as the two-year-old in a kimono<\/span><\/a> with her mom).<\/p>\n\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Nikkor 24mm f\/1.4 @ 24 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>1250 sec, f<\/span>\/1.4, ISO 200 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nHinano's<\/span>\n( second grader )\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Nikkor 24mm f\/1.4 @ 24 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>1250 sec, f<\/span>\/1.4, ISO 200 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nMarina's<\/span>\n( five years old )\n<\/div>\n\n

This post's ultra-pink lead shot is from Marina's arrangement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Akiko's<\/a> strongly reflected the Jakarta-influence theme of the event,\nsporting Japanese and Indonesian flags... <\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Nikkor 24mm f\/1.4 @ 24 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>400 sec, f<\/span>\/3.5, ISO 640 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nAkiko's<\/span>\n( second grader )\n<\/div>\n\n

Akiko used a pair of the blackest flowers I've ever seen, two very-deeply\npurple “Chocolate\nCosmos<\/a>”...<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>200 sec, f<\/span>\/2.5, ISO 6400 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n“Chocolate Cosmos”<\/span>\nfloral black holes highly overexposed to bring out at least some<\/i> detail\n<\/div>\n\n

They remind me a bit of the surprise in Queen Anne's Lace<\/a> that I wrote<\/span> about this summer,\nexcept that they're much bigger, and much darker.<\/p>\n\n

Riko-chan's had some very interesting flowers...<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>800 sec, f<\/span>\/4, ISO 1250 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nRiko's<\/span>\n( second grader )\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>800 sec, f<\/span>\/5.6, ISO 4000 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nTop-Down View<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>500 sec, f<\/span>\/5.6, ISO 6400 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nFuzzy Orange Pod Thing<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>800 sec, f<\/span>\/4, ISO 4000 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nSpirally Orangish Flower Thing<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Here are a couple<\/span> of others... (I'm uncertain how to read the names... maybe Risako and Nanako, but I'm not sure...)<\/p>\n\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>400 sec, f<\/span>\/5.6, ISO 720 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>400 sec, f<\/span>\/5.6, ISO 6400 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nOne More Flower Detail<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>400 sec, f<\/span>\/2.5, ISO 200 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nOne More Wide-ish View<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

This was just one table of “junior” arrangements, but there were many tables of adult arrangements,\na few<\/span> of which we'll see in a later<\/span> post.<\/p>\n\n

Continued here...<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I paid a visit again this year to an ikebana (flower arranging) exhibition that some friends' kids took part in, the same annual exhibition that I posted about three years ago in \"Preschooler Ikebana\" and \"Ikebana, Part II\". Arthur Brigham, whose kids Monet and May went to preschool with Anthony, told me about it, so I made sure to snap some pictures of their arrangements. (Arthur and Monet and May featured prominently in some camping-trip posts a few years ago.)<\/p>

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