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Weekly Photography Challenge – Spooky

Ooh scary – it’s halloween and time to get scared. See if these images give you a fright.

By Howard Ignatius

By Paul Gorbould

Weekly photography challenge – spooky

Your job this week to go shoot some scary stuff. Make us quiver in our boots, cry like babies, scream like a little girl.

Maybe you can find a creepy ghost town and do a shoot at night. Or get your kids to help you with some light painting and make some spooky patterns. Set up a jack-o-lantern, or do some funky make-up, get creative with it.

By Tommy Clark

By Howard Ignatius

By Tim Simpson

By Christi Nielsen

By Steve Corey

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October 24, 2015
Weekly Photography Challenge – Negative Space

Composition is one of the keys to creating a strong and effective image. One compositional element you can use is negative space. Basically simplification to the highest level, and making the subject isolated with lots of empty space around it. Here are a few examples.

I tell my students all the time – get closer, simplify!

By David

By eLKayPics / Lutz Koch

Weekly photography challenge – negative space

Often I see new photographers trying to cram too much stuff into their images, and they just end up being confusing, and ineffective. By simplifying and removing everything except the subject the viewer has no choice but to see it. Taking it a step farther and composing so as to have space around the subject, room for it to move or breathe, allows the image to take on a feeling.

Negative space can add a feeling of loneliness, solitude, quiet, peace, serenity, or even movement. What do these say:

By Fran Parra Carrión

By Pedro Fernandes

By john mcsporran

By FUMIGRAPHIK-Photographist

By Carlos Galeano

By Israel Gutiérrez

By Ivan Malkin

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October 17, 2015
Weekly Photography Challenge – Blue

By Darlene Hildebrandt

By Darlene Hildebrandt

Weekly photography challenge – blue

This week is your chance to find something blue and create a composition around it. Above are a couple of my own images for example. You can see more here and below.

Last week we did yellow – now it’s time to look for the opposite, complementary color and cool things down.

By Jose Casielles

By Raj Stevenson

By Martin Cathrae

By Thomas Hawk

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October 10, 2015
Weekly Photography Challenge – Yellow

Yellow is a fun color – have a look at these images using it in their compositions.

By stratman² (2 many pix!)

By Jamie McCaffrey

Weekly photography challenge – yellow

This week is your chance to find something yellow and create a composition around it.

By Nick Hobgood

By Richard Ricciardi

By Danny Plas

If you are like me and live in the northern hemisphere it shouldn’t be too hard to find some yellow in all the fall colors. The trick is to make an image using it that works, isn’t overpowered by the bold color and still grabs the viewer’s attention.

Using complementary colors to add contrast can help like these:

By Tim Samoff

By Hiroyuki Takeda

By KellarW

By Mirai Takahashi

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October 3, 2015
Weekly Photography Challenge – Red

Color is a great tool in the art of composition. Using strong colors like red can make for powerful images, when done well.

By don2g

By Sebastian Rieger

Weekly photography challenge – red

This week is your chance to find something red and create a composition around it.

By Peter Kaminski

By Gonzalo Iza

By HannaPritchett

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September 26, 2015
Weekly Photography Challenge – Hands

Hands can be just as expressive as the face sometimes, as these images show.

Weekly Photography Challenge – Hands

By Elisabetta Orlacchio

This week it’s your turn to photograph hands. Human or otherwise – it’s your choice. Find some expressive ones and use good lighting, and compositional techniques to create some great images.

By Bill Gracey

By lucio zandonati

By Johnson d

By Jessie Jacobson

By Giovanni

By romanlily

By Sharada Prasad CS

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September 19, 2015
Weekly Photography Challenge – Backlighting

Check out these examples of images that have backlighting. Take a good look and get some ideas. Now it’s your turn.

Weekly Photography Challenge – Backlighting

This week’s challenge is to look for the light, particularly how it is hitting your subject. Backlight occurs when the light is coming from behind your subject, aimed back towards the camera. It works really on transparent objects like leaves and flowers.

By The Guy With The Yellow Bike

By Bill Gracey

By Julie Kertesz

Look for things that allow the light to come through them, show their color. Or look for light that outlines the subject as in a rim light.

By Bill Gracey

By Adam Hilliker

By Dwight Sipler

By Tambako The Jaguar

By GollyGforce – Living My Worst Nightmare

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September 12, 2015
Weekly Photography Challenge – Landscape
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Landscape photography is one of the most popular genres of the art form. There are many amazing places and just as amazing images of them.

Someone New. by Rousz Custman on 500px

Weekly Photography Challenge – Landscape

Your job this week is to get out and shoot the landscape. Big or small, near or far, wide or close-up shot, b/w or color – just go do it. Here on dPS this is landscape week – so here are a few articles and tips to get you started. Watch for a new article (or two) on landscape photography daily for the next few days.
- 6 Tips for Better Low-Light Landscape Photography
- Landscape Photography and the Human Element
- 5 Ways a Telephoto Lens Can Improve Your Landscape Photography
- Landscape Photography from the Side of the Road
- 32 Majestic Landscape Photos to Inspire Your Wanderlust
in line by troy 16 on 500px

Divine light by Edin Dzeko on 500px

Balance of Nature by Eric Daryl Giganto on 500px

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September 5, 2015
Weekly Photography Challenge – Fish

Photographing seemingly unattractive objects like fish can be difficult – or maybe just a challenge.

By ePi.Longo

Weekly Photography Challenge – Fish

A hard photo subject can help you grow as a photographer, push you out of your comfort zone. So now’s a great time to practice. Find a fish (at the market, store, dead or alive – whatever you can come up with) and try photographing it to make a compelling image.

By J J

By Jason Mrachina

By Zoe

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By Matt

By Jacob Spinks

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August 29, 2015
Weekly Photography Challenge – Machines

Earlier today I rounded up a collection of images of powerful machines here. Unless you live in a remote village far from civilization – chances are that machines are part of daily life in your area.

One more cup of coffee by Yahav on 500px

It could be a coffee machine in your kitchen or favorite barista shop, or a tractor in a field. Maybe there are cranes at a construction site on your way to work.

Fordson Major – Overstrand by Simon Wrigglesworth on 500px

Weekly photography challenge – machines

Look around they’re everywhere, and it’s your job to find them and photography them this week.

Harley davidson by ??????? ??????? on 500px

Foggy Sunrise by Richard Gottardo on 500px

sewing machine by Ritam Paul Chowdhury on 500px

Retired sewing machine by JongYoung Kim on 500px

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August 22, 2015