Rebel Challeng #56: Culture and Ethnicity

Every family has to come from somewhere. In this week's challenge, I want you to capture a piece of culture or tradition from the roots of your family. It'll be interesting to see what you all have to share.

Submissions may start today March 20th and ends Sunday, March 27thth, at 11:59pm EST unless a mod changes it.
You can check the time here: java based clock.
Voting will commence on Monday, March 28th and will run until Friday April 1st, unless, again, a mod changes this.

Everybody is entitled to vote!

Submissions will be open to anyone with a Digital Rebel Camera (Rebel/300d, XT/350d, XTi/400d, XS/1000d, XSi/450d, T1i/500d, T2i/550d)

Rules:
*Must be shot with Canon Rebel
*Must be shot during this time frame, March 20th - March 27th, 2011
*Must provide Exif data
*Only one pic per person
*Submissions must be posted in this thread by March 27th at 11:59pm EST (unless a mod changes it)
*Voting will begin on the March 28th 2011 and go until April 1st 2011 and is open to anyone on the forum.
*Winner will choose topic for the following week

For any discussions please use the main thread here:
https://photography-on-the.net/forum/...d.php​?t=671127
*Please do not discuss/comment photos until after the submission deadline

Cool! I'll try hard to get one in this week.

didn't realize we had this going here. I'll try something

Great challenge. Wish I'd had my camera with me this week at ConExpo/ConAgg in Las Vegas. One booth had Irish lassies dancing and another had men in lederhosen. My mother is Irish - my father German. I could have scored a double. I'll still try to get something in.

Here in Louisiana our main culture is FOOD!

the food items shown are produced either in my town or fairly closeby. The book Cane River takes place just a little up the road from me.

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Granny... What is specific to our family is the "piece of cloth" on her head.

man I had a hard time with this one, total brain fart. Photomom's food shot is neat - that idea never crossed my mind. Gotta love Tony chackers, although no one carries it where I live now...

About the best plan I had was to take a shot of the family portraits lined up on my mom's wall. She's got some that date back to the late 1800's that show the family holdings in "the old country."

Big Apple - love the shot. kinda what I was looking for. IMO (and not meant to be any negative commentary on your shot) a B&W or sepia conversion would look great.

In the end I'm voting for Big Apple since the "grandparents/elders was the image the challenge conjured up in my mind.

my vote is for Big Apple as well - I want to hear the story of the fabric!

anotherweb - no Tony Chachere??? Aw no. The plant is less than five miles from my house. When you pass there you can smell the spices. Oh, in case you don't know the pronunciation - it's Sash-uh-ree.

I had wanted to do something about my ancestors being kicked out of France and coming here, but wasn't able to do that.

Grandparents came from "Mother Russia". The fabric was woven by my great-great-grandmother and it was given to the female descendants at their marriage. It survived the revolution. The floral model represents a very important flower for the people in the village where my grandparents came from. No clue on what`s its name. In Romanian (i am romanian) we call it "batic" it`s similar with the indonesian "batik" but somehow different. That is the story of the wonder-granny and her "piece of cloth"

Too much business travel this week - couldn't get one in.

My vote for Big Apple - even before the great story.

thanks everyone

my vote is for photomom2one. I love tabasco mmmm

Oh, I think I need to be straight this time. And forgive me for beeing more critiqal than usual. But I must say that there is only one picture here that is having an image quality that I can vote on. And that is photomoms picture. A small adjustment of the white balance, so that the white part on the boxes would have been clear white would have made it perfect. To mark the white and black point in the histogram would have improved it to.

Big Apples picture is totaly off with the white balance, and very soft. I would recomend you to work more on getting the picture sharp. f/7.5 at 1/250 should have given a sharper picture than this. Mybe think through how you are standing, holding the camera etc will help you.. A sharp picture here, should have brought up details in the skin, and structures in the Iris, and could have made an excelent portrait.

To get the white balance right, take all shots in RAW, and use DPP, choose pick white balance... and then use the little tool there and mark in the eye or on the white part on the corner. That would have done magic on youre picture.

Edmyloo... If you would have given more contrast, and put the black point on the picture, it would have given the picture more pop. Black and white ask for contrast, lines and structure. This picture just ask for more PP... .