Our Picture This! assignment this month was “At the Flea Market.” The amazing diversity of material found at flea markets and antique malls is grist for a photographer’s mill. Not only are there odd and unusual items aplenty—from castoffs to treasures unknown—there’s also the element of the yet-undiscovered art directors, the dealers and vendors who arrange these items in sometimes random, sometimes ironically intentional ways. When photographers talk about capturing “found art” they needn’t go farther than their local flea market to find all they need.

Oil Lamp Burners

Old Tractor Wheels

Folders & Twin Lens

Red Wrenches

Hands Up

Blue Fence

Oil Cans

Pencils

Surreal Trio

Collage

Rooster On A Shelf

Monster-In-A-Box

Apparel At The Brooklyn Flea Market

Sunday Comics

Unique Skates

Picture This! – Our Next Assignment
Deep Depth Of Field
Our next Picture This! assignment is “deep depth of field,” photographs where you use every trick of the depth of field book to get sharpness from close to far in your image. You get max depth of field by working with short focal length settings and minimum apertures and working at a fair distance from the camera. But we’d like another “take”—making sure the foreground subject is as close to the camera as possible, given the minimum focusing distance on the lens and the deepest depth of field you can get with your settings.

Please Read This
It is important that you read and follow these guidelines. We need to follow this procedure because of the large volume of images we receive. If you have any questions, please e-mail us at: editorial@shutterbug.com.

1) Images sent to us cannot be returned. You retain complete copyright over the images, but do grant us permission to print your image(s) in the magazine and on our website, www.shutterbug.com.

2) Because images are not returned please send a quality print or duplicate transparency. We will not accept or view images on CD, ZIP, or any other electronic media.

3) Images will be selected on the basis of content and technical quality. Please mark your outer envelope with the topic of the month (for example, “Wide View”).

4) Enclose a short caption with the image stating camera, lens, film and exposure, plus location. If you are submitting an image with a recognizable person we must have a model release or signed permission from that person to reproduce their image in the magazine and on the website.

5) Please submit no more than three photos for consideration (4x6 up to 81/2x11).

Send your image and information to:
Picture This! Shutterbug Magazine,
1415 Chaffee Dr., Suite #10, Titusville, FL 32780.
Deadline for submission: July 15, 2012.
Images will appear in our October 2012 issue.
Our next topic: Panoramics
Deadline: August 15, 2012
Publication Date: November, 2012

Please note: We receive hundreds of submissions for Picture This! each month and want to be sure we properly identify each image we publish. Please be sure to attach your name and image information to the back of each submission.

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