That’s Not What I Expected
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Take a close up picture of something as see if people can guess what it is. Try doing the skin or outside of something that would make it hard for someone to guess!
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That’s Not What I Expected
The prompt
The photo:
The prompt says you should guess what it is, so write in the comments what you think it is and then come back. There’s a photo of what this is in full further down but just ignore it. Scroll fast. You did it? You’re back? Good.…
Please Tell Me What This Is!
What Is This?
For Visual Assignments 1882 “That’s Not What I Expected”, I not only took a close-up photo but then cropped it more closely to take away a lot of clues for you. But there are clues and I think, still too many. Regardless, this is my favorite theme …
Can You Make a Xylophone Out of This?
“Take a close up picture of something as see if people can guess what it is. Try doing the skin or outside of something that would make it hard for someone to guess!”
ds106 Assignments: That’s Not What I Expected
Can you guess it?
It was King.
He’s my little …
Something Unexpected
This evening I found myself wandering around looking at everything I passed by wondering how each object might look super close up. I was trying to find just the right object (or animal, but my dog’s a bit squirmy) to take a very close-up photo which could trick an audience. …
That’s Not What I Expected
This prompt involved taking a picture of an item from a strange angle or just really stinking close, to see if people can guess what it is. This is my final Visual Assignment of the week and I am not going to lie, I’m at work (don’t tell my boss) …
Can You Guess What It is- 80’s addition (That’s Not What I Expected- 3 stars)
Can you guess what it is? Leave me a comment guessing what it is and I’ll let you know if you’re correct. Think 80’s! For this I had an extremely hard time focusing my camera and actually found it more beneficial to use Snapchat and do it from there. …
What am I?
For this week’s first assignment, I decided to do something that I thought seemed like fun. Maybe it’s too easy or too hard, but I thought it would be worth a shot.
This assignment is called “That’s Not What I Expected,” where the purpose is to take a …
Guess! That! Object!!!
Directions – ” Take a close up picture of something as see if people can guess what it is. Try doing the skin or outside of something that would make it hard for someone to guess!
Behind the Story: Due to this week’s theme I was able to use my …
That’s Not What I Expected
Try to guess what this extreme close up is depicting. I will be nice and offer some clues!
What am I? I am small and square like. I can fit into the palm of your hand. You can turn me back and forth. Up and down. Left and right. Clockwise …
What Is That?
For my other visual assignment I did That’s Not What I Expected ,3 Stars.
I took this picture in my kitchen. This object was on counter which I think is pretty. I took this picture from my iPhone and I zoomed in. It was hard to focus on the object. …
What is this close up?
I originally chose this assignment because of my childhood. While we were in the car, my brother and I would come up with crazy games to kill time. For one example, my brother and I would zoom in on pictures and try to stump each other on what the pictures …
Can you guess what this is?
This is the original assignment link. This assignment asked me to take a picture of something close up to see if you can guess what it is. This object is an outdoor object! This assignment was fun and creative because I love to play these guessing games. This assignment was …
I wonder what it is?
This is a picture I took in my room. I have a stand up fan that thought looked cool up close and would be hard to guess what it was.
?? The World may never know
Can anyone guess what this is actually a picture of? I’ll give you a hint… it’s found in kitchens, but not all kitchens. I found this assignment very fun. It did not take long at all, all you have to do is take any object and take an up close photo!
iSpy
Growing up, I loved ISpy books. They were big books filled with page after page of close up photos of random objects laying on a surface. Each page had a riddle with items to find in the photograph. It sounds easy but sometimes the close up photos made a simple …
That’s Not What I Expected
For this visual assignment we were asked to take a close up image of an object so it would be hard to guess what the image is really of!
Can you take a guess at what you’re looking at?
Close up of the mystery object!
…it’s a close up of …
A Close-Up
For my second Visual Assignment, I picked the Close-Up Photo. Here is my mysterious close-up picture. Can you guess what it is? Comment if you got an idea!
It took me some time to figure out what to take a photo of, because there are so many choices! Once …
VisualAssignments1882
Visual assignment 1882
(Potato Chip) pic.twitter.com/Yob0mF35vM
— Michael Brown (@Michael48861254) February 8, 2019
It was fun to look around and try to find something that may fool someone when the picture is taken close up. I think someone may thing this is a persons skin, thats why i chose this …
That was not expected
Here is a picture of something that is easily known, unless it is a closeup picture.
Up close and personal
can y’all tell what this is?! #ds106 #visualassignments #visualassignments1882 pic.twitter.com/CyAoe9XTQh
— Ashley Edwards (@ashedwardz) September 7, 2017
This one is kinda tricky. I wanted to find something challenging but also an object that had significance to me. I was sitting at my desk in my apartment and noticed something had …
Visual Perspective & Close Up Images
Can you guess what this is? #ds106 #VisualAssignments1882 #closeup pic.twitter.com/Nxh8bneb8u
— Kasey Mayer (@KaseyMayer) September 7, 2017
WARNING: ANSWER TO QUESTION IS BELOW!
For another assignment I chose to go with Visual Assignment 1882. For this assignment, we are supposed to take a close up picture of something and …
That’s Not What I Expected
This post is designed to be a close up picture of something and you have to guess what it is! Let me know down below what your guess is.
That’s Not What I Expected
In this assignment, we were supposed to take a picture of something up close and see if people could guess what it was. It was fun looking around my apartment for a photo to take for this! This one might be a little easy to guess, but it was more …
Too Close For Comfort
Take a close up picture of something as see if people can guess what it is. Try doing the skin or outside of something that would make it hard for someone to guess!
The That’s Not What I Expected visual assignment (3 stars) grabbed my attention because of the cover …
ATTENTION ALL AGENTS: What is it?
This mission was assigned to me by the FBI. They want me to analyze what this picture is to help them solve an even bigger puzzle!! Leave your guesses below so I can inform headquarters as soon as possible. Please, help me crack this code.…
That’s not what I expected
This was based on the assignment found here (https://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/thats-not-what-i-expected/). I thought this would be interesting given how different certain things would look so close up rather than through the perspective we as humans are used to seeing. Here is my object.
If you could not guess what it …
“Who am I?”
I decided to pick the assignment ‘ That’s not what I expected” for the first required visual task. The assignment was to take a close up a picture and have people guess what it is. The assignment was rated 3 stars which was accurate. This assignment seemed easy at first …
Agent Smith – Close up
Fellow spy’s…I need your….help. I was send the location of the next base I need to…infiltrate, but it is too close up to make out what it is! Whoever took this picture should be…f…fired! Can you guess what this is? Agent Smith, signing off.
I Spy
I took this picture for the “That’s Not What I Expected” assignment. The goal of this assignment is to take a macro photograph and to get someone to guess what it is. The picture can be of anything so there is a lot of room for creativity. I really liked …
What is That?
This is my response to the That’s Not What I Expected assignment. I had to take a close up shot of an object in a way that it is difficult to guess what that object is. Can you guess what this is? The hardest part of this assignment was getting …
Week 3 pt. 1: Up Close and Personal
For this assignment (entitled That’s Not What I Expected), I was tasked with taking a close-up picture of an object, while leaving that object a mystery.
Link to Assignment: https://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/thats-not-what-i-expected/
Stars: 4
Process: The photo was taken with an iPhone SE. No image editing was done.
Guess the Thing Part 1
For this assignment I had to take a close-up picture of something and have people guess what it is. Can you guess what this is?
Media Assignment #2
This was a visual assignment the required to take a close up of something and making it unrecognizable. This actually took quite a bit of effort because I didn’t want to just take a close up of whatever and be done with it. So I took pictures of items that …
Do You See What I See?
Do you see the hope that comes with being small next to the ocean? Do you think of the world beneath the surface or the sheer power the waves can bring as they crash against the shore? Perhaps, I was drawn to taking this picture because I am currently feeling …
Do you see what I see?
This is my first Visual Assignment! For this assignment participants were asked to take a close up picture of something and see if anyone could guess what it is.
I chose this assignment for a couple reasons. One, I’m new to all of this. The syllabus for this class …
Any Guesses?
Take a close up picture of something as see if people can guess what it is. Try doing the skin or outside of something that would make it hard for someone to guess!
This is my first Visual Assignment and I’m happy with how it turned out. I spent …
Guess What?
So for this assignment, I decided to take a close up picture of something Marlene would keep in the saloon. It’s something that almost everyone coming in would use. I took the picture on a surface similar to one you would find in a saloon and tried to darken …
Dubya
I chose to do the assignment ‘that’s not what i expected.’ It tells us to take a close up picture of something and see if people can guess what it is.
https://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/thats-not-what-i-expected/
My picture above is not just of the letter W. The canvas on which W rests is the …
That’s not what I expected! Visual assignment
I was searching through the visual assignment bank trying to find an assignment with a value of three stars. I came across this assignment. I found this one interesting because it is a game within an assignment. These assignments have been stretching my creativity and this one continued to …
Guess What’s in the Picture
Try to guess what this is.
P.S. it is in a house and fairly expensive material.…
That’s Not What I Expected
This is my first ever visual assignment I am doing! Can you guess what this is? Hint: It’s not just simply Captain America! I chose this assignment because I love taking pictures, especially close ups. Now since it isn’t warm or nice and snowy out I had to settle on …
That’s Not What I Expected
I created my own assignment for this category. I chose to do a visual assignment where you had to take a picture of something close up and have other classmates guess on the object in the picture is. For this picture, I took it of something that could be used …
That’s Not What I Expected
The prompt
The photo:
The prompt says you should guess what it is, so write in the comments what you think it is and then come back. There’s a photo of what this is in full further down but just ignore it. Scroll fast. You did it? You’re back? Good.…
Please Tell Me What This Is!
What Is This?
For Visual Assignments 1882 “That’s Not What I Expected”, I not only took a close-up photo but then cropped it more closely to take away a lot of clues for you. But there are clues and I think, still too many. Regardless, this is my favorite theme …
Can You Make a Xylophone Out of This?
“Take a close up picture of something as see if people can guess what it is. Try doing the skin or outside of something that would make it hard for someone to guess!”
ds106 Assignments: That’s Not What I Expected
Can you guess it?
It was King.
He’s my little …
Something Unexpected
This evening I found myself wandering around looking at everything I passed by wondering how each object might look super close up. I was trying to find just the right object (or animal, but my dog’s a bit squirmy) to take a very close-up photo which could trick an audience. …
That’s Not What I Expected
This prompt involved taking a picture of an item from a strange angle or just really stinking close, to see if people can guess what it is. This is my final Visual Assignment of the week and I am not going to lie, I’m at work (don’t tell my boss) …
Can You Guess What It is- 80’s addition (That’s Not What I Expected- 3 stars)
Can you guess what it is? Leave me a comment guessing what it is and I’ll let you know if you’re correct. Think 80’s! For this I had an extremely hard time focusing my camera and actually found it more beneficial to use Snapchat and do it from there. …
What am I?
For this week’s first assignment, I decided to do something that I thought seemed like fun. Maybe it’s too easy or too hard, but I thought it would be worth a shot.
This assignment is called “That’s Not What I Expected,” where the purpose is to take a …
Guess! That! Object!!!
Directions – ” Take a close up picture of something as see if people can guess what it is. Try doing the skin or outside of something that would make it hard for someone to guess!
Behind the Story: Due to this week’s theme I was able to use my …
That’s Not What I Expected
Try to guess what this extreme close up is depicting. I will be nice and offer some clues!
What am I? I am small and square like. I can fit into the palm of your hand. You can turn me back and forth. Up and down. Left and right. Clockwise …
What Is That?
For my other visual assignment I did That’s Not What I Expected ,3 Stars.
I took this picture in my kitchen. This object was on counter which I think is pretty. I took this picture from my iPhone and I zoomed in. It was hard to focus on the object. …
What is this close up?
I originally chose this assignment because of my childhood. While we were in the car, my brother and I would come up with crazy games to kill time. For one example, my brother and I would zoom in on pictures and try to stump each other on what the pictures …
Can you guess what this is?
This is the original assignment link. This assignment asked me to take a picture of something close up to see if you can guess what it is. This object is an outdoor object! This assignment was fun and creative because I love to play these guessing games. This assignment was …
I wonder what it is?
This is a picture I took in my room. I have a stand up fan that thought looked cool up close and would be hard to guess what it was.
?? The World may never know
Can anyone guess what this is actually a picture of? I’ll give you a hint… it’s found in kitchens, but not all kitchens. I found this assignment very fun. It did not take long at all, all you have to do is take any object and take an up close photo!
iSpy
Growing up, I loved ISpy books. They were big books filled with page after page of close up photos of random objects laying on a surface. Each page had a riddle with items to find in the photograph. It sounds easy but sometimes the close up photos made a simple …
That’s Not What I Expected
For this visual assignment we were asked to take a close up image of an object so it would be hard to guess what the image is really of!
Can you take a guess at what you’re looking at?
Close up of the mystery object!
…it’s a close up of …
A Close-Up
For my second Visual Assignment, I picked the Close-Up Photo. Here is my mysterious close-up picture. Can you guess what it is? Comment if you got an idea!
It took me some time to figure out what to take a photo of, because there are so many choices! Once …
VisualAssignments1882
Visual assignment 1882
(Potato Chip) pic.twitter.com/Yob0mF35vM
— Michael Brown (@Michael48861254) February 8, 2019
It was fun to look around and try to find something that may fool someone when the picture is taken close up. I think someone may thing this is a persons skin, thats why i chose this …
That was not expected
Here is a picture of something that is easily known, unless it is a closeup picture.
Up close and personal
can y’all tell what this is?! #ds106 #visualassignments #visualassignments1882 pic.twitter.com/CyAoe9XTQh
— Ashley Edwards (@ashedwardz) September 7, 2017
This one is kinda tricky. I wanted to find something challenging but also an object that had significance to me. I was sitting at my desk in my apartment and noticed something had …
Visual Perspective & Close Up Images
Can you guess what this is? #ds106 #VisualAssignments1882 #closeup pic.twitter.com/Nxh8bneb8u
— Kasey Mayer (@KaseyMayer) September 7, 2017
WARNING: ANSWER TO QUESTION IS BELOW!
For another assignment I chose to go with Visual Assignment 1882. For this assignment, we are supposed to take a close up picture of something and …
That’s Not What I Expected
This post is designed to be a close up picture of something and you have to guess what it is! Let me know down below what your guess is.
That’s Not What I Expected
In this assignment, we were supposed to take a picture of something up close and see if people could guess what it was. It was fun looking around my apartment for a photo to take for this! This one might be a little easy to guess, but it was more …
Too Close For Comfort
Take a close up picture of something as see if people can guess what it is. Try doing the skin or outside of something that would make it hard for someone to guess!
The That’s Not What I Expected visual assignment (3 stars) grabbed my attention because of the cover …
ATTENTION ALL AGENTS: What is it?
This mission was assigned to me by the FBI. They want me to analyze what this picture is to help them solve an even bigger puzzle!! Leave your guesses below so I can inform headquarters as soon as possible. Please, help me crack this code.…
That’s not what I expected
This was based on the assignment found here (https://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/thats-not-what-i-expected/). I thought this would be interesting given how different certain things would look so close up rather than through the perspective we as humans are used to seeing. Here is my object.
If you could not guess what it …
“Who am I?”
I decided to pick the assignment ‘ That’s not what I expected” for the first required visual task. The assignment was to take a close up a picture and have people guess what it is. The assignment was rated 3 stars which was accurate. This assignment seemed easy at first …
Agent Smith – Close up
Fellow spy’s…I need your….help. I was send the location of the next base I need to…infiltrate, but it is too close up to make out what it is! Whoever took this picture should be…f…fired! Can you guess what this is? Agent Smith, signing off.
I Spy
I took this picture for the “That’s Not What I Expected” assignment. The goal of this assignment is to take a macro photograph and to get someone to guess what it is. The picture can be of anything so there is a lot of room for creativity. I really liked …
What is That?
This is my response to the That’s Not What I Expected assignment. I had to take a close up shot of an object in a way that it is difficult to guess what that object is. Can you guess what this is? The hardest part of this assignment was getting …
Week 3 pt. 1: Up Close and Personal
For this assignment (entitled That’s Not What I Expected), I was tasked with taking a close-up picture of an object, while leaving that object a mystery.
Link to Assignment: https://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/thats-not-what-i-expected/
Stars: 4
Process: The photo was taken with an iPhone SE. No image editing was done.
Guess the Thing Part 1
For this assignment I had to take a close-up picture of something and have people guess what it is. Can you guess what this is?
Media Assignment #2
This was a visual assignment the required to take a close up of something and making it unrecognizable. This actually took quite a bit of effort because I didn’t want to just take a close up of whatever and be done with it. So I took pictures of items that …
Do You See What I See?
Do you see the hope that comes with being small next to the ocean? Do you think of the world beneath the surface or the sheer power the waves can bring as they crash against the shore? Perhaps, I was drawn to taking this picture because I am currently feeling …
Do you see what I see?
This is my first Visual Assignment! For this assignment participants were asked to take a close up picture of something and see if anyone could guess what it is.
I chose this assignment for a couple reasons. One, I’m new to all of this. The syllabus for this class …
Any Guesses?
Take a close up picture of something as see if people can guess what it is. Try doing the skin or outside of something that would make it hard for someone to guess!
This is my first Visual Assignment and I’m happy with how it turned out. I spent …
Guess What?
So for this assignment, I decided to take a close up picture of something Marlene would keep in the saloon. It’s something that almost everyone coming in would use. I took the picture on a surface similar to one you would find in a saloon and tried to darken …
Dubya
I chose to do the assignment ‘that’s not what i expected.’ It tells us to take a close up picture of something and see if people can guess what it is.
https://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/thats-not-what-i-expected/
My picture above is not just of the letter W. The canvas on which W rests is the …
That’s not what I expected! Visual assignment
I was searching through the visual assignment bank trying to find an assignment with a value of three stars. I came across this assignment. I found this one interesting because it is a game within an assignment. These assignments have been stretching my creativity and this one continued to …
Guess What’s in the Picture
Try to guess what this is.
P.S. it is in a house and fairly expensive material.…
That’s Not What I Expected
This is my first ever visual assignment I am doing! Can you guess what this is? Hint: It’s not just simply Captain America! I chose this assignment because I love taking pictures, especially close ups. Now since it isn’t warm or nice and snowy out I had to settle on …
That’s Not What I Expected
I created my own assignment for this category. I chose to do a visual assignment where you had to take a picture of something close up and have other classmates guess on the object in the picture is. For this picture, I took it of something that could be used …
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I created my own assignment for this category. I chose to do a visual assignment where you had to take a picture of something close up and have other classmates guess on the object in the picture is. For this picture, I took it of something that could be used …