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Weekly Photography Challenge Outside the Box Creativity

21 Jun

This time around the weekly photography challenge is a little bit different than our usual topics. This one is pretty wide opened because I want you to get out there and get crazy creative!

By Holger Ejleby

If that is you – get out of there and try something different! Outside the box creativity is this week’s challenge.

Earlier today I shared some images I found for you to stir up some ideas – take a look at those if you haven’t already done so.

Need ideas? Try these articles to get you started:

  • 6 Ways to Enhance Your Creativity
  • Kick Your Creativity Up A Notch
  • 5 Cheap and Easy Ways to Re-inspire Your Photographic Creativity
  • 7 Photography Projects to Jumpstart your Creativity
  • Get Your Creative Juices Flowing with Different Focal Lengths

Need more inspiration? Here are a few outside the box ideas and images:

By Alexey Kljatov

By Bernat Casero

By Spreng Ben

By Toby Keller

By sharyn morrow

By Matthias Weinberger

By Alice Popkorn

By Tim Hamilton

By Tc Morgan

So it could be a new shooting technique, post-processing magic, or a subject you’ve been meaning to try. Whatever it is that gets you thinking a bit, and results in a different finished product – do it!

Show use your Creative Images

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Weekly Photography Challenge – Black and White

14 Jun

Earlier today I professed my love of black and white photography and shared a collection of some powerful B&W images and some articles on tips for making your own B&W images.

So now it’s your turn to show us your images. The weekly photography challenge this time around is black and white.

A few images to inspire you

By Marco Calabrese

By Yasin Hassan – ????? ???

By Chris JL

By { pranav }

By Simon & His Camera

By gato-gato-gato

By gato-gato-gato

By Greg McMullin

By i k o

By i k o

Need help converting to Black and White?

  • How to Convert Photos to Black and White in Lightroom
  • 3 Tips for Better Black and White Conversion using Lightroom
  • Converting Images to Black and White Properly
  • Tips for Shooting and Processing Better Black and White Photographs
  • An Adjustable Black and White Conversion in Photoshop Elements
  • How to Create a Black and White High Contrast Sky from a Colour Image

Show use your Black and White images

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Weekly Photography Challenge – Lens Flare

07 Jun

Earlier I shared a set of images using lens flare as an element of the photograph. In most cases you want to avoid the sun hitting the lens, but sometimes it can be used to your benefit to create an image with warmth and depth.

So now is your chance.

The weekly challenge this week is lens flare!

Need some help? Here are a few articles to give you some lens flare tips:

  • How to use Lens Flare to Your Advantage
  • 5 Tips for Achieving Artistic Lens Flare: How To
  • Using Sun Flares and Starbursts to Create Stunning Images

Here are a few more lens flare images to get you started:

By Sean Molin

By Brian Wolfe

By Frank Wuestefeld

By Seth Rader

By János Csongor Kerekes

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Weekly Challenge Silhouette Photography

31 May

Earlier today I shared some stunning silhouette photography to give you some ideas. If you’ve never done any of this type of photography here’s your chance because it’s also the weekly photography challenge.

To give you some ideas on how to create a great silhouette here are some articles and tips:

  • Create Powerful Silhouettes by Telling a Story
  • 5 Tips For Photographing Silhouettes
  • How to Photograph Silhouettes in 8 Easy Steps

Here are a few images to help you get started

By Hani Amir

By Rama V

By Jens Schott Knudsen

By Easa Shamih

By Bill Gracey

By eNriKeFot?

By Joey Yee

By Geraint Rowland

By Kevin Dooley

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Weekly Challenge – Starry Night Photography

24 May

This week we had some Beginners Tips for Night Sky and Star Photography by one of our newest dPS writers, Phillip VanNostrand. Earlier today I shared a collection of Dreamy Star Photography.

By Dennis Behm

So, now it ‘s your turn. Get out into the night and photograph some stars for this week’s challenge:

Starry Night Photography

Here are a few more starry night photos to get you motivated, inspired and ready to go shoot.

By Bill Shupp

By Kris Williams

By slworking2

By Tom Bricker

By David Kingham

By Brian Hawkins

Need more help with some tips and tutorials? Try these:

  • Lake Tekapo Under the Stars
  • The Night Sky In Landscape Photography
  • Tips for Photographing Star Trails
  • Photography Under the Stars

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Weekly Photography Challenge – Food Photography

17 May

By il-young ko

Earlier today I shared a collection of food photography to make you hungry and hopefully get you inspired. Now it’s your turn! This week’s photography challenge is of course:

Food Photography!

Here are a few more to get you drooling and thinking. There’s a lot to good food photography but if I had to give you one tip to get started it would be this – keep it simple and clean. Keep the background uncluttered and your props plain. Let the food be the star.

By Anne

By Cat

By liz west

By Nick Nguyen

By Christopher Chan

By chotda

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Weekly Photography Challenge – Abstract Photography

10 May

Earlier I shared some inspiring abstract photos to help get you motivated and give you some ideas for this week’s photography challenge:

Abstract Photography

By Dagny Mol

Definition of abstract in relation to art

1ab·stract  adjective \ab-?strakt, ?ab-?\

  • expressing ideas and emotions by using elements such as colors and lines without attempting to create a realistic picture
  • A trend in painting and sculpture in the twentieth century. Abstract art seeks to break away from traditional representation of physical objects. It explores the relationships of forms and colors, whereas more traditional art represents the world in recognizable images.

Basically what that means if you’ve never done any abstract photography is shoot your subject in a way that it is either somewhat or totally unrecognizable. Concentrate on shapes, colors, and form and less on the thing in the photo. Shooting for abstract is a great exercise to help you train your eye to see “photographically” and get more creative.

So if you tend towards technically perfect images, it’s time to get outside your comfort zone and do something different. Make ones that are out of focus blobs of bokeh, under or overexposed, shadows, reflections, zoomed images, focused on patterns, macro photography or close-ups, and other crazy ideas. The whole idea here it to play around and see what you get. The key phrase for this challenge is:

What if I . . . ?

Need some more ideas? Here are a few images to get you started.

By Riccardo Cuppini

By @Doug88888

By Kevin Dooley

By @Doug88888

By @Doug88888

By Hector Lazo

By Tony Hall

By Geraint Rowland

By Claudio.Ar

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Weekly Photography Challenge – Cityscapes

03 May

Earlier today I shared a set of images of cityscapes. That’s designed to inspire you, make you say “wow” and want to get out there and photograph your city.

This week I’d like to challenge you to photograph close to home. If you live in a city, you’re all set! If you’re in the country or smaller town, you just need to get more creative or take a short drive.

You’ll notice that many of the cityscape images in the collection are shot at night. That’s when the city and the lights really come to life and dance for the camera. Find the best location and angle to photograph your cityscape. Try looking up at the buildings, or getting up high on a rooftop or balcony and looking down. Change up your perspective to create something different and striking.

Maybe try some black and white photography or even some HDR of the city skyline. Go capture the same scene at different times of day including: sunset, the blue hour (twilight), and after dark. Shoot wide and get the whole vista, and try some closer up and focus in on details. Here are a few images to give you more ideas:

By joiseyshowaa

By Chris Smith

By Christopher

By Pedro Szekely

By Justin Brown

By jesuscm

By Paolo Margari

By Pedro Szekely

By Justin Brown

By ZeroOne

By Nathan Congleton

By Shawn Hoke

By David Yu

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Weekly Photography Challenge – Pet Photography

26 Apr

By Jamie Grant

Last couple of weeks have been all about nature and the outdoors. Another part of nature is the animal kingdom. So this week’s photography challenge is to get out and photograph some pets. If you don’t have any borrow your friend’s or neighbours.

Photographing animals presents a unique set of challenges. You have a moving, possibly unwilling subject to deal with – as well as potentially tricky exposure to try and get detail in fur or feathers. Just the right light is essential, as is a delicate hand at working with your furry (or feathered, or scaled) friends.

Let’s see how creative you can get. Here’s a few ideas to get you started:

By Corrado Alisonno

By Sonny Annesley

By Sergiu Bacioiu

By Viola’s visions ????

By Sergiu Bacioiu

By Rafael Acorsi

By Paulo Brandao

By Tambako The Jaguar

By Charlie Stinchcomb

By Adam Foster

Share your pet photos!

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Need help? How about some articles on pet photography like these:

  • Top 10 Pet Photography Tips and Techniques
  • How to get the “Money Shot” in Pet Photography
  • 5 Adorable Pet Photos [and How to Make your Shots even Cuter]

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Weekly Photography Challenge Waterfalls

19 Apr

Earlier today I shared a collection of waterfall photographs to get your weekend going, and earlier this week we launched our latest dPS eBook  – Loving Landscapes A guide to landscape photography workflow and post-production. So in keep with the theme of landscape and nature photography the weekly photography challenge will be waterfalls.

By paul bica

Even if you live in the city you can probably find some manmade waterfalls or fountains nearby. Think outside the box. Is there a park with a stream? Perhaps a babbling brook? Do some digging and find some running water and go photograph it. It need not be a full on waterfall, use a fountain if you have to. The principals are the same.

The main concern when photographing a waterfall is how to capture the moving water. You basically have two approaches to choose from: freeze it, or blur it. Freezing the water will give a motionless effect, with water droplets suspended in mid air. Blurring it can have a dreamy, foggy look and a totally different feeling. Neither is right or wrong, they just produce different results. So choose one and see what happens, or better yet, do a variety. You may be surprised with the results and which ones you prefer.

Here are a few examples to give you ideas:

By Kerry Sanders

By Joe Parks

By Centurion

By zev

By blmiers2

By Peter Roome

By thomas brown

By Alex Shamis

Share your waterfall images!

Simply upload your shot into the comment field (look for the little camera icon in the Disqus comments section as pictured below) 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.

Need help? How about some articles on nature and waterfall photography like these:

  • 4 Tips for Shooting Drop Dead Gorgeous Waterfalls
  • 3 Tips for Creating Dramatic Images using Motion
  • Picking A Waterfall Shutter Speed For The Best Look
  • Waterfall Digital Photography

Check ou the newest dPS ebook – Loving Landscapes A guide to landscape photography workflow and post-production – a brand new dPS ebook by the authors of Living Landscapes

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