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Weekly Photography Challenge – Dance

Earlier I shared a bunch of elegant images of the world of dance.

Dance is an art form just like photography. It take discipline and endurance to be a dancer. Can you relate as a photographer? Each is a passion, something which needs practice to perfect. Dance is picturesque and often is partnered with photography as the are symbiotic – they work well together.

By Michael Dunn

Weekly photography challenge – dance

Now it’s your turn. Do you know a dancer? Can you approach the local dance school to offer to take some photos for them? Maybe even something less formal like your own children dancing just for the fun of it?

Here are a few ideas:

By Garry Wilmore

By stefanos papachristou

By Tiziano L. U. Caviglia

By Paul Cox

By Felix Padrosa Photography

By Chris JL

By Dixie Lawrence

By john curley

Share your dance images here:

Simply upload your shot into the comment 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 favourite photo sharing site and leave the link to them. Show me your best images in this week’s challenge. Sometimes it takes a while for an image to appear so be patient and try not to post the same image twice.

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January 24, 2015
Weekly Photography Challenge – Music
This week the theme of the image collection was music – view the 35 magical musically inclined images here.

By Phil Hilfiker

Carrying forward, naturally your challenge this week will be involving music as well. That could look a few different ways depending on your own situation, what you have access to, and what’s in your area, including:
- photos of musical instruments (check with stores, they may be willing to lend you one to photograph or find a friend who has one)
- photos of people actually playing an instrument
- a rock concert
- a marching band or parade
- music CD, DVDs or old-time LPs
- a singer
- street musicians
What other ideas can you come up with for music?

Weekly photography challenge – music

Here are a few ideas to get you started:

By martinak15

By Caroline

By francesco ?2015?

By Adrien Sifre

By tanakawho

By Michael Kötter

By Fabrizio Lonzini

By Jorge Américo

By Georgie Pauwels

By JH Images.co.uk

Share your music images here:

Simply upload your shot into the comment 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 favourite photo sharing site and leave the link to them. Show me your best images in this week’s challenge. Sometimes it takes a while for an image to appear so be patient and try not to post the same image twice.

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January 17, 2015
Weekly Photography Challenge – Spare Time

Earlier we featured 36 images of people engaged in recreational activities, things they do in their spare time.

By josh hunter

Weekly photography challenge – spare time

This week for your photography challenge I urge you to think about what ELSE you do in your spare time. Do you read, cook, go bowling, ride a motorcycle, play sports, draw, or walk your dog? How do you spend your free time? What sorts of recreational activities do you participate in?

Next go photograph some of these things. You could do a self-portrait or other people doing the things you enjoy doing as well. Such as:

By Elena Bobrovitzkaya

By David Yu

By Dan Bergstrom

By Luke Addison

By Andreas Hans J. Bauer

By Jonathan Haeber

Share your spare time images here:

Simply upload your shot into the comment 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 favourite photo sharing site and leave the link to them. Show me your best images in this week’s challenge. Sometimes it takes a while for an image to appear so be patient and try not to post the same image twice.

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January 10, 2015
Weekly Photography Challenge – New
Earlier I shared some images of different ways you might have rung in the New Year. As is it now 2015 and we’re embarking on a new year, we will stay with that theme for this week’s photography challenge.

Weekly Photography Challenge – New

Your challenge is to convey the idea of new. That could look a number of different ways including:
- A newborn baby
- New objects like a shiny new car
- A fresh new snowfall
- New goals for 2015
- New ideas
- And many more others I haven’t even thought of . . .
So how will you convey an idea or concept? It might be literal or more subtle. Show me how you tell the story of NEW.

By Kenneth Spencer

By Brent Danley

By Michael Tapp

By Trey Ratcliff

By Tracy Byrnes

By Paul L

By iirraa

By jacinta lluch valero

Share your “new” images here:

Simply upload your shot into the comment 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 favourite photo sharing site and leave the link to them. Show me your best images in this week’s challenge. Sometimes it takes a while for an image to appear so be patient and try not to post the same image twice.

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January 3, 2015
Weekly Photography Challenge – Festive Food
Well it’s that time of the year again. We spend days cooking and preparing for the big feast, then we stuff ourselves and retire to the sofa. Yup it’s holiday time.

By Grant Frederiksen

Whichever religion or faith you practice, and wherever you live – there is likely some sort of festivities going on this month. I’m spending the holidays in Nicaragua so it will be very different that back home in Canada with my family. I’m sure we’ll have a big meal but it may not be the traditional turkey with all the trimmings – it could look like grilled meat of some kind with rice and beans.

View this set of mouthwatering holiday food photos on dPS.

Your job this go around for the weekly photography challenge is to photograph your festive food.

We have lots of great articles here on dPS to help you out with food photography tips including:
- 10 Tips to Improve Your Food Photography
- Using Focus Creatively with Food Photography
- 5 Tips to Seriously Improve Your Food Photography Techniques
- 8 Steps to Create Mouth Watering Food Photography
- 11 Quick Food Photography Tips to Make Mouth Watering Images
Need more examples?

By FLORENTIN Marius

By Randy OHC

By FLORENTIN Marius

By Guilherme Kardel

By orangejon

$Sabina\?????? Panayotova\??????????$

By Sabina\?????? Panayotova\??????????

Share your festive food images here:

Simply upload your shot into the comment 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 favourite photo sharing site and leave the link to them. Show me your best images in this week’s challenge. Sometimes it takes a while for an image to appear so be patient and try not to post the same image twice.

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December 20, 2014
Weekly Photography Challenge – Graffiti Street Art
In an earlier post I shared a set of some images of street art, also often referred to as graffiti.

If you live an urban area or any city, than likely you have some of this type of art nearby. Graffiti artists range from ones who just seems to do vandalism, to other who are highly talented and skilled artists.

Your job in this week’s photograph challenge is to seek out some street art in your area and photograph it in a manner fitting for the artwork. That could mean some grungy post-processing, a funky filter over the lens, or whatever creative idea you can come up with.

Let’s see a few more examples of graffiti street art:

By Rob Schofield

By Pedro Ribeiro Simões

By Brent Pearson

By Charlón

By Jason Taellious

Share your graffiti street are images here:

Simply upload your shot into the comment 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 favourite photo sharing site and leave the link to them. Show me your best images in this week’s challenge. Sometimes it takes a while for an image to appear so be patient and try not to post the same image twice.

Need some help getting started? Try these dPS articles:
- How to add a Grunge Effect to your Portraits using Lightroom (works on any kind of image also)
- 4 Steps to Photoshop Artistry Using Fine Art Grunge Techniques
- An Introduction to Urban Exploration
- Urban Exploration Photography – Urbex
- Focus on Scott Frederick – Urban Explorer
By Professor Bop

By Brent Pearson

By mamasuco ……un peu absent

By Keoni Cabral

By badjonni

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December 13, 2014
Weekly Photography Challenge What Winter Means to You
Earlier I shared a set of frosty images to get you in the wintery mood.

Now it’s the time for the weekly photography challenge, so it’s your turn to get out and shoot winter. Since winter means different things and looks different depending on where in the world you live – this challenge is about winter and what it means to you.

If you’re in the northern hemisphere that might mean:
- Snow
- Ice
- Frost
- Fog
- Winter sports
- Frozen things
- Cold
Here are some examples:

By @Doug88888

By Sharon Mollerus

By Mathias Erhart

By Samuel John

By Alexey Kljatov

By dorena-wm

By dorena-wm

If you are in the southern hemisphere or close to the equator (as I am currently writing this from warm and sunny Nicaragua where I’m living and working for two months) that might mean the beach, sand and sun.

Share your winter images here:

Simply upload your shot into the comment 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 favourite photo sharing site and leave the link to them. Show me your best images in this week’s challenge.

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December 6, 2014
Photography Challenge – Chill Out with Cool Tones
Today I rounded up 37 great examples of images in cool tones. The tone or color of your image can create or shift the mood and meaning if your image and is a very powerful compositional tool when used well.

This week your goal is to practice creating cool tones in your photography.

Photography challenge – cool tones

Here are a few examples of images with cool tones.

By Kelsi Barr

By Chris Smith

By Brandon Watts

You can create a color tint in your image a few different ways:
- By shooting at blue hour
- Adjusting your white balance
- Changing the color in post-processing
- Using a colored filter on your lens
It’s your turn to get shooting, show me your blue or cool images.

Share your cool tone images here:

Simply upload your shot into the comment 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 favourite photo sharing site and leave the link to them. Show me your best images in this week’s challenge.

Here are some more examples:

By Barbara Willi

By Matthew Paulson

By Edward Townend

By zacharmstrong

By aphotoshooter

By Leland Francisco

By Giorgos~

By Ateens Chen

By Dave Campbell

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November 29, 2014
Weekly Photography Challenge Bird’s Eye View
Earlier I shared a collection of photos shot from above using a bird’s eye view. In the photography challenge last week you were assigned to photograph from a worm’s eye view or low down. This week you will be looking down, using the bird’s eye view to create your images.

Bird’s eye view

Bird’s are usually flying overhead or sitting up high on a wire looking down on us. So try something to get that kind of perspective in your image this week. Get up high and look down. That could mean:
- Climb to a roof or the top of a hill and look down
- Stand on a chair to photograph something on the floor
- Just simply being aware of what is below your eye level and shoot that
- If you really want to go for it take a hot air balloon, fly a quadcopter or GoPro, or even take a gondola ride
You get the idea right? Get up – and look down!

Share your bird’s eye view images here:

Simply upload your shot into the comment 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 favourite photo sharing site and leave the link to them. Show me your best images in this week’s challenge.

Here are some more images to give you ideas:

By Farrukh

By cnemil

By William Cho

By svenwerk

By Peggy2012CREATIVELENZ

By mgstanton

By Adam Baker

By Thomas Hawk

By Faisal Akram

By Jason Mrachina

By John Chandler

By Ed Suominen

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November 22, 2014
Weekly Photography Challenge Worm’s Eye View

This week I rounded up a bunch of images taken low to the ground, otherwise known as worm’s eye view. It’s not a common view that people see, so images you create shot from this angle have a unique look and pique interest with viewers. Your job is to take on this low down task and shoot from the ground level. Here are some examples for you:

By Stephan Rebernik

By Stephan Rebernik

By Stephan Rebernik

By Tim Hamilton

By Dr. Motte

By AJ Mangoba

There’s no special equipment needed to do this, or magical subject matter. Even the most ordinary objects can be made to look interesting when photographed from the worm’s eye view. So it’s your turn.

Weekly photography challenge – worm’s eye view

So get down on your hands and knees, don’t be afraid to get dirty, and get as low to the ground as you can (and still be able to get up again). You might find things down there you haven’t noticed before, perhaps even in your own home or back yard. Like macro photography that makes you look for tiny subjects, getting down on the ground has a similar benefit and you start to see things you’d otherwise miss. Give it a try.

Share your worm’s eye view images here:

Simply upload your shot into the comment 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 favourite photo sharing site and leave the link to them. Show me your best images in this week’s challenge.

Here are some more images to give you ideas:

By weegeebored

By Christophe / saturnino Iaïchouchen

By Ken Owen

By André Hofmeister

By kennysarmy

By Gabrijel Gavranovi?

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November 15, 2014