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Weekly Photography Challenge – Signs

You only have to walk down the street to be bombarded with signs, advertising, street markers, building and business names and more. See some here: Sign of the Times – 27 Significant Images of Signage

By Natasha Wheatland

By Natasha Wheatland

Weekly Photography Challenge – Signs

So it’s time to take a walk and see what signs you can find. Maybe do some street photography!

Remember all the principals of good photography still apply: good lighting, good composition, a center of interest, sharpness, etc.

By elisa greco

By Meena Kadri

By ACME

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May 21, 2016
Two Photographers Go Head to Head in the Small Studio Challenge

I found these videos on the Adorama TV channel and thought this is a great idea to learn how photographers work.

Wallace vs Hoey : Small Studio Challenge

In these two videos Mark Wallace and Gavin Hoey go head to head in a small studio challenge to see what they can do with the same gear, in the same small space, with the same model – in 20 minutes or less. Let’s see what they each come up with.

Mark goes first:

Then it’s Gavin’s turn:

Which final image do you prefer? What did you learn by watching how they each approach the subject and make decisions? What would you have done?

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May 16, 2016
Weekly Photography Challenge – Spiral Staircases

Fibonacci sequence, the golden mean, the golden ratio – a series of numbers recognized and named after an Italian mathematician. If you look around it’s everywhere, in nature and man-made things.

By Mark Strozier

By Roger Jones

In this week’s challenge we’re going to concentrate on the latter, specifically spiral staircases.

Weekly Photography Challenge – Spiral Staircases

As you go about your daily life be on the lookout for spiral staircases. Got an appointment – take the stairs instead of the elevator and see what you can find. Look in historic buildings, museums, churches, on fire escapes, industrial buildings, and architecturally interesting structures.

By Cleber Mori

By Mack444

By Cornelli2010

Read: Divine Composition With Fibonacci’s Ratio (The Rule of Thirds on Steroids)

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By Vincent Ferron

By sean_hickin

If you can’t find one – build your own!

By Katie Walker

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May 14, 2016
Weekly Photography Challenge – Reflections
First have a look at these: 24 Reflective Mirror Images to Make You Look Twice, then think about how you’re going to tackle this week’s challenge:

By Javier Díaz Barrera

Weekly Photography Challenge – Reflections

Reflections can be made by anything that is smooth and glasslike: water, glass, windows, a puddle, plastic, etc. Look for unlikely sources and different camera angles, make your own puddles – get creative. Wander around your area and look for things that reflect.

But – remember to still keep in mind all the things that make a good photo:
- Good composition
- Good light
- A clear subject
By Gary Ullah

By Eduard Díaz i Puig

By Tanyanat Pichitwong

By Roman Boed

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By Wolfgang Staudt

By danna § curious tangles

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May 6, 2016
Weekly Photography Challenge – Urban Decay

If you live in a city now is your chance to get out and hunt for some run down, dilapidated, crumbling buildings that say urban decay to you.

By Thomas Hawk

Weekly Photography Challenge – Urban Decay

You can handle this challenge and subject however you wish to approach it. Shoot or convert to black and white, try some HDR, how about doing some light painting at night? The choice is yours. Go find a good subject, take a friend along too, and shoot away!

NOTE: As always though – please put your safety and taking the proper precautions to ensure you aren’t trespassing on private property or endangering yourself or anyone else in the process of getting your photos. Safety and getting proper permissions come first!

By Pelle Sten

By Louis du Mont

By Babak Fakhamzadeh

By Toby Bradbury

By Neal Wellons

By David Barnas

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By Julian Lennon

By Freaktography

By David Barnas

By darkday

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April 30, 2016
Weekly Photography Challenge – People Photography
In my career as a photographer I’ve covered many genres from studio product photography, editorial, industrial, food photography, weddings, portraits, fine art, and travel – but through all of that, I’m primarily a people photographer. I like to photograph people.

Shoe repair man in Nicaragua – By Darlene Hildebrandt

Model at sunset – By Darlene Hildebrandt

Cuban beauties – By Darlene Hildebrandt

Whether it’s in a studio environment doing a posed portrait, a candid doing street photography, a shop owner or vendor in a foreign country – people are always interesting and challenging to photograph.

Weekly Photography Challenge – People

We’ve got lots of articles to help you as you go about photographing people this week in fact it’s our feature topic right now. You can see all the ones we’ve done so far this week below, and watch for more people photography articles over the next few days:
- How to Take Low Key Head-shots
- How to Do a One Light Portrait Setup and Use it as Your Back-up Plan
- Travel People Photography – Tips and Pitfalls
- 8 Tips for Photographing Men
- 24 Diverse Images That Showcase People Photography
Nicaraguan school kids – By Darlene Hildebrandt

Wedding fun – By Darlene Hildebrandt

Cuban dancers – By Darlene Hildebrandt

You can also check out our ebooks on people and portrait photography:
- Fast Flash for Portrait Perfection
- Portraits: Lighting the Shot
- Portraits: Making the Shot
- Portraits: Striking the Pose
- Kids Photography
So if you are not inclined to photograph people and this challenges makes you a bit nervous – maybe now is the time to get out of your comfort zone and just do it. I promise they won’t bite!

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You can see some of mine here on this page – now it’s your turn to share, and show me your people photos.

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April 23, 2016
Weekly Photography Challenge – City Skyline
Whether you live in a big metropolis or a small town, your urban center will have a skyline of some kind. The outline of the buildings that make up the main part of town make up the skyline.

By barnyz

By Rennett Stowe

Weekly Photography Challenge – City Skyline

You can see 25 more example of city skyline photos here.

If you browse online for skyline photos you may notice a common thread among the images – many of them are shot at dusk, or at night. That’s because cities look great just as daylight is fading away and the lights of the city illuminate. It’s the magic of blue hour.

You get to decide how you want to tackle this week’s challenge and shoot your city’s skyline. Maybe go out a few different times during the day and see how the light changes.

By trevorklatko

By Fèlix González

By sdh_zh

If it’s a city near a body of water, try and capture a reflection of the lights at night. Or make your own reflection by finding a large rain puddle and a low camera angle.

If you live in a city that’s been photographed a million times like NYC or San Francisco, try something different like:
- Shoot with a fish-eye lens
- Convert to black and white
- Shoot straight up and get just building tops
- Put something in front to frame the city with
By Louis Raphael

By David Yu

By Maciek Lulko

By Geoff Llerena

By rytc

By ehpien

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By Michael Matti

By Harshil Shah

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April 16, 2016
Weekly Photography Challenge – Panning
If you want to see action and motion, check out these 30 moving panning images.

Panning is the technique of moving your camera to match the direction and speed of an object that is moving in front of you, while shooting at a slow shutter speed. The result will blur the background, and make the subject relatively sharp. The trick is to get your speed and timing just right – it takes a bit of practice so now is a good time to do just that!

By Andreas Nilsen

Weekly Photography Challenge – panning

If you need some help perfecting your technique check out these dPS articles:
- Showing Speed: Using Panning When Shooting Action
- Mastering Panning – Photographing Moving Subjects
- The Art Of Panning
- Intentional Blur- How to Create it and Why it’s Awesome
- How to Create Better Photos by Adding a Sense of Motion
- Using Slower Shutter Speeds to Show Motion in Your Images
By Chaval Brasil

By Eric Heupel

By alcidesota@yahoo.com-OFF-For Several Months

By Shinichi Higashi

By brian

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April 9, 2016
Weekly Photography Challenge – The Light of Dawn

This set of images of dawn shared earlier are great examples of using the magic light of dawn to take stunning images.

By Susanne Nilsson

Weekly Photography Challenge – the light of dawn

Your challenge this week is to get up early , get out of your comfy bed, and photograph with the first light of the day, dawn. Sunrise photography can be tricky as you’re usually heading out in the dark. So you may need to plan ahead and scout some locations and shots the night or day before.

Get there early so you can capture the first light – it’s magical. Landscapes are the obvious choice for this challenge, but there are so many other subjects you can work with – so think outside the box a little. What about some macro photography? A blade of grass with morning dew, for example. Go urban and hit the city streets to see how the light plays off the buildings and early risers heading to work. There are a ton of possibilities.

By Pierre Metivier

By Andreas

By Joe

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By Jeff Wallace

By 57Andrew

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April 2, 2016
Weekly Photography Challenge – The Humble Vegetable
Earlier we looked at some artsy images of everyday objects – vegetables.

By Williamo!

Weekly Photography Challenge – the humble vegetable

This week we want you to go find some produce and photograph it! Think outside the box:
- Try black and white
- Shoot macro
- Go for an abstract
- Backlight it
- Light paint it
By samandel.com

By Flavio~

By Lynn Friedman

By Amelia Crook

By woodleywonderworks

By Tristan Bowersox

By Gillie Rhodes

By Tim Geers

By jar []

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By David Reber

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March 26, 2016