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dPS Weekly Photo Challenge: My Street

16 Oct

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Thanks to Marjorie over in our Facebook Group, this week we’re having a go at photographing our street “On the street where I live” So earlier, I grabbed my camera and headed to the top of my street and this was the first thing that caught my eye… (Someone that lives around here has done similar on many signs..)

Use the hashtag #dPSInMyStreet if you share your photograph on social media

Photo of a stop sign that says stop having kids
“Stop Having Kids”

What you choose to photograph in your street is entirely up to you, but it does have to be “on the street where you live” It can be a single image as mine is, or you can make it a triptych perhaps? (Simon, what’s a Triptych!?)

Remember: The aim of our weekly challenge is to get you to pick up your camera and make a new photograph, rather than dig through your archives for a photo you took in 1993 (unless you can’t, and then you can share a photo from 1993, but I’d really rather you went and took a new one)

Now we’re not necessarily looking for ‘Street Photography‘ though that can be what you shoot if you like, but just some element, or set of elements from your street.

Side note! Don’t forget the 5 Day Deal is happening right now, if that’s your thing! But meanwhile, go and take your photograph, share it in the comments below this post, share it on Twitter, share it on Instagram, or even pop across and share it in our private Facebook group.

Last thing before you go! If you want to suggest a topic for a weekly challenge, make sure you leave a comment on THIS POST or leave it with your photo in the comments under this post! Thanks

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Just Add Light

09 Oct

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I have been thinking about light a lot recently, adding light to images by using lots of different sources, flash, led panels, torches, bedside lamps etc, but I have to level with you, while I love experimenting with light, I’m not a master of ‘all of the settings’ and I mess up often – and that’s ok, we learn.

We thought it might be a fun idea to do another “more than one image” challenge to see what adding light, however you like, can lift an image.

Share your photo on social media and tag them #dPSWeeklyChallenge and #dPSJustAddLight

So today when I went with my 11yo and my camerabag to an often empty walking path nearby to take a couple of photographs of him hitting his Jigsaw Jump, the goal being to light him and get a dramatic photo in the spot I’d chosen, shaded by trees, almost like a tunnel of darker trees… All was well until I realised I’d forgotten my glasses and couldn’t find all the settings I needed on these new flashes, anyway! Onward!

The idea is that you have a photograph you take, and then you take it again but add a lightsource of some kind to change the image for better or for worse, and when you share them, you share the images together. You can use any lightsource, I’ve used a flash in the photo below.

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Seb fighting against gravity

And in this photo of my grinder I used a torch and a small Aputure LED panel with a piece of red paper as my background.

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Grinds You Down

You can either join two images into one image, or you can post two separately, whatever you would prefer! You can post in the comments below, or over in our private Facebook group.

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Backyard Photography Challenge

02 Oct

The post Backyard Photography Challenge appeared first on Digital Photography School. It was authored by Darren Rowse.

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It’s been super fun going through our old challenges from over ten years ago! While you can now share your challenge photo in our Facebook Group, or below in the comments, the idea is the same! Last week it was ten things within ten meters, this week we want you to head into your backyard, or… as Darren said below, whatever the closest thing to a backyard is that you have! Balcony? Window? Make it work, get creative, have fun! (No, don’t sneak into someone else’s backyard! haha)

Tag your photos on social with #dPSBackyardChallenge

Yesterday we posted an article about Backyard photography – today I’d like to issue a challenge – get into your backyard and see what shots you can come up with – and then share your best shot or two with us in comments below.

I know some of you don’t technically have ‘backyards’ – but feel free to photograph whatever is the closest thing to a yard for you (a balcony for instance) – be creative. You don’t just have to take a picture of your yard – focus in on something (or someone) in it. I’m expecting to see macro work, wildlife, pets, portraits and much much more!

Once you’ve gotten out there and taken some shots – pick your favorite one or two, upload them to our favorite photosharing site (like Flickr) and share a link to your shots in the comments section below.

Please only link to pictures you’ve taken for this challenge and not previous ones – that way we’re seeing your most recent work.

Also – we’d love it if you’d link to this post from your photosharing page to let your friends know what you’re doing – that’ll spread news of our little challenge and make it all the more fun!

I can’t see what everyone comes up with!

Image by ohmann alianne

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Take the 10 Meter Photography Challenge Now

25 Sep

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Update: Chase is still doing his thing and we’re still doing ours! We thought it might be FUN to make this week’s challenge a re-do of this one from a good while ago – because it’s fun, and we all need fun right now!

Below for details! Tag them #dPSYourTen if you post on social

We can’t wait to see what you come up with!

  • The dPS Team.

Today on Twitter (follow DPS here) I was looking at some of the most recent Tweets from a few photographers and came across this one from @chasejarvis:

“There are at least 10 great pictures within 10 meters of you right now.”

He then linked to one he took on his iPhone to prove the point.

OK – so this seemed like a challenge that I thought might be worth sharing here on DPS.

Your challenge is to grab your nearest camera (could be the one on your phone) and to take up to 10 shots with it within 10 meters of where you are right now.

Once you’ve done that – upload it to your favorite photo-sharing site and share a link to it in comments below.

Update: Here are some of the first submissions to our 10 Meter challenge:

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Images by Chris Parker (sunset) – Out of Kontrol (light) – Jenyu (Dog) – RedLeader (couch) – Foxor (leaf) – randy adamcyk (guitar) – Jamie (Flower)

I’m looking forward to seeing everyone elses images. Please consider passing on news about this challenge to friends and your network.

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Weekly Photography Challenge – Blurry Background

18 Sep

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Welcome to this week’s photography challenge! The aim is to get you to try photographing new things every week, to maybe try photographing things you’ve not tried before, or to get you thinking in a different way to maybe create a different image if you have photographed the theme before.

Be inspired by the photos that others post, try recreate them for yourselves. You can contribute a photograph directly into the comments of this post (Scroll all the way down for the comments section) or you can share them in our Facebook group.

This week’s Theme is Blurry Background what will you do for your photograph?

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Via: How to achieve Background Blur or Bokeh [click]

You can call it Bokeh or Blurry Background (Though Bokeh is the aesthetic quality of the blur produced in out-of-focus parts of an image.) but this week we want to see your background blur!

Unsure what we mean? Here are some great examples…

  • How to Achieve Background Blur or Bokeh
  • Four Ways to Generate Stunning Bokeh in Your Images
  • Tips for shooting out of focus city scapes

Remember to tag us in your photos if you post them on social media!

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Closer you get, more chance of background blur you have – Yoda* (*not really) [click]

Good luck with your photograph and most of all have fun!

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dPS Weekly Photography Challenge Rain

04 Sep

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Rain! There’s a lot of it around right now (Depending on where you are obviously) so let’s see your take on this week’s photography challenge theme ‘Rain’ I chose to photograph the raindrops that had run down my window all afternoon, with a macro lens.

#dPSRAIN is the hashtag for this week’s challenge if you’re posting on social media (make sure you follow us!)

Rain Drops from the Melbourne Rain
Raindrops not so crystal clear | Friday’s rain in Melbourne, Australia

If you live somewhere that it’s not raining, and there’s no rain forecast, you can bend the rules and do ‘water’ in general. (Hey, a garden hose and some creativity and you’re making your own rain!) when photographing rain (or water) remember that it looks good with light shining through it, or maybe as a reflective pool, perhaps even glistening on some skin, the options aren’t endless, but with a little creativity, there are a lot of them!

Kids Riding in the rain
Kids being kids in the rain | Kew Traffic School

You can opt to capture a detail (top and below) or a whole scene (above) for this theme, really whatever takes your fancy.

dPS Weekly Photography Challenge Rain

Make sure you tag us on social if that’s where you choose to post your entry for the weekly challenge.

As ever, some help with sharing your photo into the comments section below (don’t click on this photo to upload your photo, scroll down to the Disqus section, log in, THEN click on the little camera icon in the comments)

Weekly Photography Challenge – How To Submit Your Photo

Simply upload your shot into the comments field (look for the little camera icon in the Disqus comments section) and they’ll get embedded for us all to see. Or, if you’d prefer, upload them to your favorite photo-sharing site and leave the link to them.

Dance in the rain.

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dPS Weekly Photography Challenge Go Wide!

28 Aug

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Your photography challenge this week is to take the widest lens you have (hey, if that’s a 50mm, so be it!) and make a photograph with it! Many things can work well with a wider lens, landscapes, cityscapes.. Really I guess you can photograph anything with a wide lens, some things just look better really wide.

Use the Hashtag #dPSGoWide and #dPSPhotoChallenge if you post to social media

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This is 14mm on a Canon EOS 5D Mk3 at LVMS!

Some great examples of ‘Wide Angles’ here to give you inspiration for your photograph!

  • 15 Expansive Wide Angle Photographs
  • 17 Amazing Wide Angle Images
  • Wide, Wider, Widest!
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This is 16mm on a Canon EOS 5D Mk2 in Williamstown

Make sure you tag us on social if that’s where you choose to post your entry for the weekly challenge.

As ever, some help with sharing your photo into the comments section below (don’t click on this photo to upload your photo, scroll down to the Disqus section, log in, THEN click on the little camera icon in the comments)

Weekly Photography Challenge – How To Submit Your Photo

Simply upload your shot into the comments field (look for the little camera icon in the Disqus comments section) and they’ll get embedded for us all to see. Or, if you’d prefer, upload them to your favorite photo-sharing site and leave the link to them.

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dPS Weekly Photography Challenge : Books

21 Aug

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A source of learning and inspiration, books are a part of all (ok, most?) of our lives, some of them even have pages! (yes, that was a side-eyed shot at people who only use e-readers haha) I personally love a great photography book, but I digress… This week your challenge is to make an interesting photograph with a book! I’ve share a few examples below (They’re from Unsplash, this week with home-school here in Melbourne, I’ve had little time to pick up the camera, sadly!)

You can set a scene with a book, use it’s pages to guide your viewer into your photograph, it can be all about the book, as though the book is for sale and you have to make the photo of it that makes people want to buy it – you can come at your photograph from any angle (in every sense) and I really look forward to seeing your different perspectives this week!

Make sure you tag your photographs with #dPSBooks and #dPSWeeklyChallenge if you share them on Instagram, Twitter or Facebook, so that we can spot them and share them.

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Aaron Burden from Unsplash
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Jonas Jacobsson from Unsplash
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Alex Lvrs from Unsplash
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Ergita Sela from Unsplash

Four different styles for you to consider, many more options though – it could be a self portrait, a background to a ring (that you may have seen once or a million times in sets of wedding photos)

Make sure you tag us on social if that’s where you choose to post your entry for the weekly challenge.

As ever, some help with sharing your photo into the comments section below (don’t click on this photo to upload your photo, scroll down to the Disqus section, log in, THEN click on the little camera icon in the comments)

Weekly Photography Challenge – How To Submit Your Photo

Simply upload your shot into the comments field (look for the little camera icon in the Disqus comments section) and they’ll get embedded for us all to see. Or, if you’d prefer, upload them to your favorite photo-sharing site and leave the link to them.

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dPS Weekly Photography Challenge : Blue Hour

14 Aug

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Our weekly photography challenge this week is ‘Blue Hour’ if you’re unfamiliar with the term, here’s a great what & how from Nisha – 3 Practical Tips to Improve your Blue Hour Photography.

Make sure you catch up with all of our previous challenges – you can find them here.

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Photo – Nisha Ramroop

“Also known as twilight, Blue Hour refers to that time of the day just before or after the Golden Hour. Depending on your location, it may be shorter (or longer) than an hour but happens before sunrise or after sunset”

dPS Weekly Photography Challenge : Blue Hour
Photo – Nisha Ramroop

As ever, some help with sharing your photo into the comments section below (don’t click on this photo to upload your photo, scroll down to the Disqus section, log in, THEN click on the little camera icon in the comments)

Weekly Photography Challenge – How To Submit Your Photo

Simply upload your shot into the comments field (look for the little camera icon in the Disqus comments section) and they’ll get embedded for us all to see. Or, if you’d prefer, upload them to your favorite photo-sharing site and leave the link to them.

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dPS Weekly Photography Challenge : Steam

07 Aug

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Welcome back to another weekly challenge! We’re back into another week of lockdown here in Melbourne and it’s really not fun! We hope you are all doing OK out there.

We have a potentially more technical and challenging challenge for some, photographing steam can be tricky! You need to work on getting the steam (or smoke) and the light source (the sun, a flash, a torch, anything really) in the right place to highlight the steam for your camera.

Make a new photo for this challenge and share it in the comments below the post, or in our Facebook Group. Make sure if you share it on your social media, Facebook, Instagram or Twitter, that you tag us so we can see and use the hashtag #dPSWeeklyChallenge #dPSSteam

dPS Weekly Photography Challenge : Steam

It can be a tough subject, here’s a great how-to for you! “How to Light and Photograph Smoke and Steam in a Home Studio Setting”

“Have you ever tried to photograph smoke or steam? Perhaps you’re doing a portrait of a smoker or a steaming cup of coffee. Odds are that sooner or later you may face this challenge. Fortunately, the lighting technique is not as elusive as the subject”

dPS Weekly Photography Challenge : Steam
Photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash

You don’t want to sit around here all day waiting for me to finish rambling on, it’s time to get out there and make your photograph!

As ever, some help with sharing your photo in the comments below (don’t click on this photo to upload your photo, scroll down to the Disqus section, log in, THEN click on the little camera icon in the comments)

Weekly Photography Challenge – How To Submit Your Photo

Simply upload your shot into the comments field (look for the little camera icon in the Disqus comments section) and they’ll get embedded for us all to see. Or, if you’d prefer, upload them to your favorite photo-sharing site and leave the link to them.

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