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Weekly Photo Challenge – Mirrors

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Mirror mirror on the wall… or, in my case, in a train station! Where will you find a mirror and how will you make a creative photo with it! I have a couple of ideas in mind and will be out and about making my photo to submit in the Facebook group, during the week! Meanwhile, here are a couple from yesteryear!

Find a mirror in a train station and make a self portrait.

Here are 19 more creative mirror self-portraits if you’d like to try!

A couple more great examples for you, below.

Photo by Caroline Veronez on Unsplash

Photo by Marc-Olivier Jodoin on Unsplash

Don’t forget, you can go back and try ALL of our CHALLENGES over HERE!

You can upload your photograph here (comments down below) or over in our Facebook Group.

Share them on Instagram or Twitter and use the hashtag #dPSMirror so we can see them!

Great! Where do I upload my photos?

Simply upload your shot into the comments 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.

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February 14, 2021
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February 12, 2021
Weekly Photo Challenge – Flowers

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BEFORE you all rush to your archives to share that photo you’re thinking of, the ‘challenge’ part of our weekly challenges is that you get out and make a new photo for each challenge, and while we know that can be difficult, we would love to see you challenge yourselves and make a new, better than you’ve EVER done, image for the weekly challenges, rather than just grabbing one from the archives – if you can!

Need Inspo? Click Here or Here or Here

This week our theme is ‘Flowers‘ and while it has been done before, we want to see it done again, better than ever! From your garden, someone else’s garden, in the street, in the hills… What can you do with a simple flower? Work on your depth-of-field, eliminating distraction, or maybe make it part of a bigger scene, hidden beauty kind-of-thing.

Make sure you use the hashtag #dPSFlowers if you post your challenge entry on social media!

Not Always Alive – #dPSFlowers

Don’t forget, you can go back and try ALL of our CHALLENGES over HERE!

Fields of Gold #dPSFlowers

Great! Where do I upload my photos?

Simply upload your shot into the comments 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.

Share in the dPS Facebook Group

You can also share your images in the dPS Facebook group as the challenge is posted there each week as well.

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February 6, 2021
Weekly Photo Challenge – Trees

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Where would we be without them! I left the weekly challenge topic to my 11yo today, his first choice was “Piranhas” I’m thankful he got the idea from my facial expression that his first topic choice wouldn’t fly… ‘Trees’ he said, thoughtfully.

Tag your photograph #dPSTrees if you share it on social media.

Still trees, silhouetted trees, reflected trees, trees with lots of movement and a slow shutter… As ever, your options are endless and this is where your creativity must rear up and show itself! A tree is an easy thing to photograph, there it is, sitting there keeping you alive, click, job done right? No no no… take some time and show us something we haven’t seen before, detail, angles, the life of a tree.

Missed a challenge? Catch up here!

The two trees above couldn’t be any more different, the first one on Coombe Hill, in London, this one just above in Tilba Tilba, Australia, an old Oak and an old Gum… Moody was what I was going for there! Below’s tree, in London again, for a spot of reflection. Well, don’t just stand there, make like a tree and leaf…. (yes, I know, that was terrible)

Great! Where do I upload my photos?

Simply upload your shot into the comments 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.

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January 30, 2021
Weekly Photo Challenge – Orange

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“Orange, oh, that’s easy!” I hear you say, well, let’s see how easy it is and how creative you can get with such a simple theme!

You can see all of our challenges right here, go back and try your hand at ones you’ve missed.

Need some ‘Orange’ inspiration? Have a look here or here! Or use the ‘search’ function at the top of our website.

Tag your photograph #dPSOrange if you share it on social media.

As ever, take a look below to check out how to upload your image under this blog post, or visit us on our Facebook group, or post your image on socials, @digitalps and use the hashtag #dPSOrange – Sounds good!

Great! Where do I upload my photos?

Simply upload your shot into the comments 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.

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January 23, 2021
Weekly Photo Challenge – Water

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There are so many ways to photograph ‘water’ be it running, still, lakes, oceans, rivers… The list is likely to be endless and all-encompassing. #dPSWater

Tag your photograph #dPSWater if you share it on social media.

Slowing your shutter down and capturing the life in water, above with 1/10th of a second – unexpected and out on a shelf of rock with no filters, I had to stop my lens wayyyy down (f22) to get the slow shutter speed – just remember though, really high F numbers show you just how dirty your sensor is! (Clean it!)

Don’t know how to slow that shutter down? Click Here, try it, them come post your water photograph for this week’s challenge! Details on how to submit at the base of this post.

Maybe combine elements of water and sky to give your image extra levels of interest.

Great! Where do I upload my photos?

Simply upload your shot into the comments 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.

Join and post in our Facebook Group

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January 16, 2021
Weekly Photo Challenge – Serenity

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Welcome to the first weekly photo challenge for 2021! We’re starting out fairly calmly with the theme of ‘Serenity’ How will you convey ‘Serenity’ through a photograph?

Tag your photograph #dPSSerenity if you share it on social media.

Naturally, i’m thinking of Bonnie Doon which likely will mean nothing to anyone outside of Australia, but I guess serenity can be many things to many people, to me it’s generally sharing something ‘peaceful’ through a photograph, here are a couple of examples (and yes, we encourage great drone photography too)

The serenity in a scene, a single leaf on a tree, a still lake, a calm person, an empty beach at sunrise… SO many options for you to consider and then photograph. Make it your goal to go out and make a new photograph, make it a challenge.

Tag your photograph #dPSSerenity if you share it on social media.

Clearly I find my personal serenity at the ocean!

Great! Where do I upload my photos?

Simply upload your shot into the comments 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.

Share in the dPS Facebook Group

You can also share your images in the dPS Facebook group as the challenge is posted there each week as well.

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January 11, 2021
Weekly Photo Challenge – 2021 Goals
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Last week we all shared our ‘Best of 2020’ and this week, for something completely different, we want you to reflect on 2020 and your photography (try to forget everything else for a minute!) and think about what you’d like to do with your photography in 2021, and, rather than share an image, just let us know what you’d like 2021 to look like for your photography?
- Maybe you want a new camera?
- Maybe it’s time for that new lens you’ve been thinking about?
- Perhaps you’re thinking it’s time to ‘go pro‘
- Maybe you’re going to put the camera away for a while?
- Could it be time to try a different genre?
I’ll start! I’ve been photographing food for a little while now, and this year I’m going to focus on portraiture and learning all I can about portrait lighting and photography!

If you’ve already started heading towards your goal, feel free to include a photograph of the journey! We’ll be back to our regular weekly challenge next week.

As ever, comment in the comment’s section below, include a photo as per above, but mostly just tell us what you hope to achieve with your 2021 photography.

Happy New Year everyone, from all of us here at dPS.

–Simon

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January 2, 2021
Weekly Photo Challenge – Best of 2020

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Seems a bit odd to be sharing a post entitled ‘best of 2020’ but amidst all of the chaos, I’m sure there were moments that you fondly captured, or a photograph you made at some stage in 2020 that made you smile? This week, leading into the New Year, we invite you to share YOUR favourite photograph that YOU photographed in 2020.

Tag your images on social #dPSBestPhotosOf2020

Searching for critters

This year, for me, I made very few images for regular clients (hotel/food images) and mostly just photographed the boys on their adventures, when we were able to leave the house etc. Special moments for me, maybe not even the best photograph or appealing to others, but special to me and that what makes it my ‘best of 2020’

Your photograph will be special to you – don’t worry about what others think! – if you’ve not shared a photograph in our challenge before, now’s your chance!

As ever, we’d love you to share your photograph in the comments on this post, or you can share them on social media and tag us, find the details and instructions below.

Great! Where do I upload my photos?

Simply upload your shot into the comments 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.

Share in the dPS Facebook Group

You can also share your images in the dPS Facebook group as the challenge is posted there each week as well.

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December 27, 2020
Weekly Photo Challenge – Christmas

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While we don’t all celebrate all of the celebrations, it’s Christmas time this coming week, so we’d like to see how you celebrate or don’t celebrate it.

Tag your photos on social media and @ us! #dPSChristmas

Christmas can mean many different things to different people, and photographs can tell all of those different stories. We would love to see how you tell your Christmas story through photographs.

If you have some downtime over Christmas, make sure you revisit our weekly challenge from this year and try out the ones you missed, and remember, there’s a couple of days left on our Christmas ‘under $ 10’ sale if you’re interested!

‘This Tree is Just for Christmas’

A statement on discarded Christmas trees or a lone mince pie, what will your story of Christmas be?

Get your hands off my pie!

As ever, we’d love you to share your photograph in the comments on this post, or you can share them on social media and tag us, find the details and instructions below.

Great! Where do I upload my photos?

Simply upload your shot into the comments 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.

Share in the dPS Facebook Group

You can also share your images in the dPS Facebook group as the challenge is posted there each week as well.

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December 19, 2020