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Weekly Photography Challenge – Lightweight

Each week we try and come up with something interesting and different for the weekly photography challenge here on dPS. The images I shared earlier of: 25 Floaty Images of Lightweight Objects might give you a hint! If you haven’t already seen them, take a look.

By U.S. Army

Weekly Photography Challenge – Lightweight

You could take the term literally, like the image above of lightweight boxers, or figuratively – the choice is yours. Get creative. What things around your own home could be considered lightweight? Something soft and fluffy like a kitten, a tissue, or a feather – or perhaps something even lighter like puffy clouds on a nice day, or marshmallows.

By John Watson

By Patrik Nygren

By Kate Ter Haar

By William Clifford

By Fatima

By Chris Chabot

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(Seriously, how cute are these little guys?!)

By Tim Ebbs

By Belal Khan

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January 16, 2016
Weekly Photography Challenge – Panoramic Photos
Panoramic or ultra wide views of scenes are popular and work well for many different subjects.

By David Yu

By David Yu

Weekly Photography Challenge – Panoramic Photos

If you have never done a panoramic photo now it your chance to try it. The simplest way to create one is to just crop a regular image into one that is really long and narrow. Make sure the subject fits the format and you aren’t cutting off anything important to the composition.

The other, more complex way to make a pano is to shoot a series of images and stitch them together, usually using Photoshop. We have a few articles here on dPS on how to do that if you need some tips:
- How to do Landscape Panoramic Photography
- How to Shoot Panoramic Photos
- Getting Started in Panoramic Photography (beginner)
- Step By Step How to Make Panoramic HDR Images (advanced)
- HDR Vertorama Photography – How to Create Mind-bending Images (advanced)
- Step by Step Using Merge to Panorama in Lightroom (beginner)
By Guy Lejeune

By David Kingham

By Stavros Markopoulos

By Jeff Wallace

By vonderauvisuals

By inefekt69

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By Howard Ignatius

By Chuck Coker

By Don Whitaker

By Linus W

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January 9, 2016
Weekly Photography Challenge – Holiday Lights
By Tracy Sigler

Photography of lights at night can be fun. There are many things you do and techniques to enhance photos of lights:
- Shoot at an aperture of f/11 or smaller to make star points on the light sources
- Use long exposures to shoot light trails
- Use a zoom technique to create a unique effect
- Or just shoot them straight up at night
Weekly Photography Challenge – Holiday Lights

Your job this week is to photograph some lights. If there are no decorations near where you live try some car trails, or street lights. Just try some shooting in the dark, or a new technique you haven’t tried before.

By Mike Schaffner

By Chris

By powershotpix

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By DAVID MELCHOR DIAZ

By Counse

By Olivier Noirhomme

By Jeff Krause

By Johan Hansson

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December 19, 2015
Weekly Photography Challenge – Snow White

Check out these images of snow I rounded up earlier today.

By Thomas Hawk

Weekly Photography Challenge – Snow White

This week your challenge is to go photograph something snow white – so what that means is that if you do not live in a place where it snows you can still shoot based on the theme white. Try doing a white subject on a white background, something high-key.

By Howard Ignatius

By Howard Ignatius

By Sheree Zielke

By Thomas Hawk

By rene de paula jr

By Will Montague

By Ben Raynal

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By Francisco Gonzalez

By Randi Hausken

By Jérémy Lelièvre

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December 12, 2015
Weekly Photography Challenge – Kids
Kids! Gotta love them. I don’t have any myself but I enjoy being around them, and taking in their energy and freedom they exhibit. They say what’s on their mind and aren’t afraid of what other people think when they dance, sing, do art, etc. We adults can learn a lot from them.

By Jessica Lucia

Weekly Photography Challenge – Kids

So how can we capture the essence of what being a kid is all about in our photographs? These recent dPS articles may help you:
- 5 Tips for Photographing Your Own Children Stress-Free
- Tried and Tested Tips for Photographing Kids
- 4 Tips for Connecting and Photographing Kids More Naturally
- 10 Tips for Taking Stunning Winter Portraits of Your Kids
Now go photograph some kids. Your own, or borrow the neighbor’s kids.

Note: be very conscious of photographing kids in a public place, especially if you are male. It could be seen as creepy and you could get in big trouble. Make sure you have a parent’s approval first if you do so.

By motiqua

By Paolo Marconi

By Rafal Zych

By Susana Fernandez

By Toni Verdú Carbó

By Rakesh JV

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By Fergus Macdonald

By Tony Alter

By clappstar

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December 5, 2015
Weekly Photography Challenge – Circles

Do you see circles everywhere?

The world itself is a circle, they naturally occur in nature, and man-made objects are full of them.

By Andreas Jalsøe

Weekly Photography Challenge – Circles

Your assignment for the weekly challenge is to actively look for them and photograph circles. When you train your focus, attention and eye on one thing you will see more of them than ever before.

Take a photo walk and see how many circles you can photograph!

By Chechi Peinado

By the idealist

By Darren Hester

By Stanley Zimny (Thank You for 15 Million views)

By Andrés Nieto Porras

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November 28, 2015
Weekly Photography Challenge – Wind
Earlier I shared a set of images that represent wind here.

By Garry Knight

It is one of those tricky concepts or subjects to photograph because it’s sort of invisible. So what can you do to capture an image of it? How about these ideas:
- Sailing or sailboats
- Kites
- Trees, flowers or grass blowing in the wind
- Flags
- Clouds moving quickly across the sky
- Windmills or turbines
- A person’s hair blowing off or across their face
- Weathervanes
Weekly Photography Challenge – Wind

Your challenge this week is to go and photograph something that shows the viewer it is windy. Use your imagination and get creative with it.

By Mikko Kaaresmaa

By Beverley Goodwin

By John Sonderman

By Shahadat Hossain

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November 21, 2015
Weekly Photography Challenge – Composition Craziness
This week on dPS we’re featuring a series of articles about composition. Many different elements and ways to compose images for more impact. Check out the ones we’ve done so far:
- Using Framing for More Effective Compositions
- 7 Tips to Improve Your Skyline Photos
You can see how a few other photographers have used some compositional craziness to make dynamic images.

By Andi Campbell-Jones

Weekly Photography Challenge – Composition

This week your challenge is to pick an element of composition and make some stunning images. Here are a few ideas for you:
Lines

Form/shape

Texture

Contrast

Foreground/background

Angle of view

Rhythm

Framing

Light

Balance

Color

Direction of motion

Simplify

Perspective

Monochromatic
By noe**

By dalioPhoto

By Stavros Markopoulos

By Brett Kiger

By JFXie

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November 14, 2015

Weekly Photography Challenge – Water

Water, water everywhere. Take a look at some images other photographers have done that involve water as the main subject.

By David Yu

By Janet Ramsden

By Susanne Nilsson

Weekly Photography Challenge – Water

If you haven’t participated in the weekly themed challenge before, using the excuse, “I don’t live near that” – you can’t use that reason this time. You can literally find some water anywhere you live. Turn on the tap, find a river or stream, or even a fountain in the middle of your city will work. But do take on this challenge and go photography some water. Here are some ideas:

Ocean
Lake
Pond
Swimming pool
Puddle
Tap water
Dew on a flower or spider web

A glass of water
Running water like a river or stream
A waterfall
Even ice is water
A fountain
A splash
Water drops in mid-air

Get creative!

By Darlene Hildebrandt

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November 7, 2015

Weekly Photography Challenge – Light Trails
This week since it is the week of goblins and ghouls and spooky things, let’s do some photography in the dark! You can check out these image of light trails to get some ideas.

By Vida Dimovska

Weekly Photography Challenge – Light trails

Light trails is about long exposures in the dark, capturing something that is illuminated and moving. The result is a trail of light through your image, without seeing the original subject.

By nicolas michaud

That could be cars moving along a darkened city street, sparklers, a flashlight, or anything that lights up. You could even get creative and try moving the camera to create light trails from a stationary object.

Here are some articles to help you out:
- How to do Long Exposure Photography and Light Trails at Night
- 5 Advanced Tips for Light Trail Photography
- Photographing Light Trails
- How to Make Unique Portraits Using Light Painting
- 13 Great Subjects for Urban Night Photography
- A Fun Light Painting Project – Parabolas
By Caffeinatrix

By Darlene Hildebrandt (I made this image by rotating my tripod side to side during the exposure)

By William Greene

By i am dabe

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October 31, 2015