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Weekly Photography Challenge – Urban Decay

If you live in a city now is your chance to get out and hunt for some run down, dilapidated, crumbling buildings that say urban decay to you.

By Thomas Hawk

Weekly Photography Challenge – Urban Decay

You can handle this challenge and subject however you wish to approach it. Shoot or convert to black and white, try some HDR, how about doing some light painting at night? The choice is yours. Go find a good subject, take a friend along too, and shoot away!

NOTE: As always though – please put your safety and taking the proper precautions to ensure you aren’t trespassing on private property or endangering yourself or anyone else in the process of getting your photos. Safety and getting proper permissions come first!

By Pelle Sten

By Louis du Mont

By Babak Fakhamzadeh

By Toby Bradbury

By Neal Wellons

By David Barnas

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By Julian Lennon

By Freaktography

By David Barnas

By darkday

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April 30, 2016
Weekly Photography Challenge – People Photography
In my career as a photographer I’ve covered many genres from studio product photography, editorial, industrial, food photography, weddings, portraits, fine art, and travel – but through all of that, I’m primarily a people photographer. I like to photograph people.

Shoe repair man in Nicaragua – By Darlene Hildebrandt

Model at sunset – By Darlene Hildebrandt

Cuban beauties – By Darlene Hildebrandt

Whether it’s in a studio environment doing a posed portrait, a candid doing street photography, a shop owner or vendor in a foreign country – people are always interesting and challenging to photograph.

Weekly Photography Challenge – People

We’ve got lots of articles to help you as you go about photographing people this week in fact it’s our feature topic right now. You can see all the ones we’ve done so far this week below, and watch for more people photography articles over the next few days:
- How to Take Low Key Head-shots
- How to Do a One Light Portrait Setup and Use it as Your Back-up Plan
- Travel People Photography – Tips and Pitfalls
- 8 Tips for Photographing Men
- 24 Diverse Images That Showcase People Photography
Nicaraguan school kids – By Darlene Hildebrandt

Wedding fun – By Darlene Hildebrandt

Cuban dancers – By Darlene Hildebrandt

You can also check out our ebooks on people and portrait photography:
- Fast Flash for Portrait Perfection
- Portraits: Lighting the Shot
- Portraits: Making the Shot
- Portraits: Striking the Pose
- Kids Photography
So if you are not inclined to photograph people and this challenges makes you a bit nervous – maybe now is the time to get out of your comfort zone and just do it. I promise they won’t bite!

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You can see some of mine here on this page – now it’s your turn to share, and show me your people photos.

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April 23, 2016
Weekly Photography Challenge – City Skyline
Whether you live in a big metropolis or a small town, your urban center will have a skyline of some kind. The outline of the buildings that make up the main part of town make up the skyline.

By barnyz

By Rennett Stowe

Weekly Photography Challenge – City Skyline

You can see 25 more example of city skyline photos here.

If you browse online for skyline photos you may notice a common thread among the images – many of them are shot at dusk, or at night. That’s because cities look great just as daylight is fading away and the lights of the city illuminate. It’s the magic of blue hour.

You get to decide how you want to tackle this week’s challenge and shoot your city’s skyline. Maybe go out a few different times during the day and see how the light changes.

By trevorklatko

By Fèlix González

By sdh_zh

If it’s a city near a body of water, try and capture a reflection of the lights at night. Or make your own reflection by finding a large rain puddle and a low camera angle.

If you live in a city that’s been photographed a million times like NYC or San Francisco, try something different like:
- Shoot with a fish-eye lens
- Convert to black and white
- Shoot straight up and get just building tops
- Put something in front to frame the city with
By Louis Raphael

By David Yu

By Maciek Lulko

By Geoff Llerena

By rytc

By ehpien

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By Michael Matti

By Harshil Shah

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April 16, 2016
Weekly Photography Challenge – Panning
If you want to see action and motion, check out these 30 moving panning images.

Panning is the technique of moving your camera to match the direction and speed of an object that is moving in front of you, while shooting at a slow shutter speed. The result will blur the background, and make the subject relatively sharp. The trick is to get your speed and timing just right – it takes a bit of practice so now is a good time to do just that!

By Andreas Nilsen

Weekly Photography Challenge – panning

If you need some help perfecting your technique check out these dPS articles:
- Showing Speed: Using Panning When Shooting Action
- Mastering Panning – Photographing Moving Subjects
- The Art Of Panning
- Intentional Blur- How to Create it and Why it’s Awesome
- How to Create Better Photos by Adding a Sense of Motion
- Using Slower Shutter Speeds to Show Motion in Your Images
By Chaval Brasil

By Eric Heupel

By alcidesota@yahoo.com-OFF-For Several Months

By Shinichi Higashi

By brian

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April 9, 2016
Weekly Photography Challenge – The Light of Dawn

This set of images of dawn shared earlier are great examples of using the magic light of dawn to take stunning images.

By Susanne Nilsson

Weekly Photography Challenge – the light of dawn

Your challenge this week is to get up early , get out of your comfy bed, and photograph with the first light of the day, dawn. Sunrise photography can be tricky as you’re usually heading out in the dark. So you may need to plan ahead and scout some locations and shots the night or day before.

Get there early so you can capture the first light – it’s magical. Landscapes are the obvious choice for this challenge, but there are so many other subjects you can work with – so think outside the box a little. What about some macro photography? A blade of grass with morning dew, for example. Go urban and hit the city streets to see how the light plays off the buildings and early risers heading to work. There are a ton of possibilities.

By Pierre Metivier

By Andreas

By Joe

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By Jeff Wallace

By 57Andrew

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April 2, 2016
Weekly Photography Challenge – The Humble Vegetable
Earlier we looked at some artsy images of everyday objects – vegetables.

By Williamo!

Weekly Photography Challenge – the humble vegetable

This week we want you to go find some produce and photograph it! Think outside the box:
- Try black and white
- Shoot macro
- Go for an abstract
- Backlight it
- Light paint it
By samandel.com

By Flavio~

By Lynn Friedman

By Amelia Crook

By woodleywonderworks

By Tristan Bowersox

By Gillie Rhodes

By Tim Geers

By jar []

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By David Reber

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March 26, 2016
Weekly Photography Challenge – Special Effects
This week on dPS we are all about special effects. Check out the others that have already been published here:
- How to Photograph the Full Band of the Milky Way
- Fire Spinning with Steel Wool – A Special Effects Tutorial
- Special Effect – How to Create Multiple Flash Exposures in a Single Frame
- Stacking Light Trails for Night Photography Special Effects
- 26 Unique Special Effects Photos to Spark Your Creativity
Weekly Photography Challenge – Special Effects

As you can see from the list of articles above, there are many ways to make special effects, and have some fun with photography. We have more great ones coming your way this week, so keep reading!

This week try something different, a idea you’ve not tried before, or a post-processing technique. No idea is too crazy (just be safe!), and you never know what you get until you try – so this is a great time to experiment.

By joy_n_the_jungle

By Enzio Harpaintner

By Dara

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By SurFeRGiRL30

By Shannon Dizmang

By refeia

By Neil Howard

If you need more ideas watch this video from the Cooph team (Cooperative of Photography) on how to shoot the elements:

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March 19, 2016
Weekly Photography Challenge – Round and Round
Each week here on dPS we give you a new challenge, something to sink your teeth into and go out and photograph. Last week it was Modes of Transportation and I see many of you have participated in that one.

If you’re following along, this week we have a new one, and I shared some examples to wet your appetite already for shooting circles.

By Lotus Carroll

Weekly Photography Challenge – Round and Round

Circles come in many forms, both natural and man-made. Look for them everywhere. Also think outside the box and photograph partial circles, curves, orbs, balls, and spirals. If you need some tips, read for inspiration:
- How to Capture Beauty in Ugly and Mundane Subjects
- Composing with Curves
- How to Build an LED Light and Make an Orb
- Playing With Fire: Steel Wool Spinning in the Landscape
- How to Make a Little Planet Using Photoshop
By Kenneth Lu

By Frahman Photography

By ~ lzee ~

By Antti T. Nissinen

By R’lyeh Imaging

By jack.chih

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By Alex

By Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa/U.S. 6th Fleet

By Ian Muttoo

By Papieren Geluk

By lucapost

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March 12, 2016
Weekly Photography Challenge – Modes of Transportation
By Rishi Bandopadhay

We humans have many ways of getting ourselves from point A to point B, methods of transportation, or vehicles, such as:
- Planes
- Trains
- Car/automobiles
- Bus
- Bicycle
- Motorcycle
- Boat
- Scooter
- Sailboat
- Cruise ship
- Skateboard
- Rollerblades
- Etc. and the list can go on and on . . .
By Joan Campderrós-i-Canas

By sese_87

Weekly Photography Challenge – Modes of Transportation

That leaves it pretty wide opened for you this week. You could shoot traffic on a busy street, try some panning, freeze or stop the motion by choosing the appropriate shutter speed, take a bus or train and shoot from inside, just for a few ideas.

By Ben Salter

By Harald Kobler

By Bob Jagendorf

By joiseyshowaa

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March 5, 2016
Weekly Photography Challenge – Square
Shapes are everywhere, have a look around you. Do you see any squares like these images I shared previously?

By Uqbar is back

Weekly Photography Challenge – Square

There are many ways you could choose to approach this week’s challenge. You could take it literally and photograph:
- Things which are square shaped
- Images cropped into a square format
- Patterns that include squares
Or you could take it a bit more off-beat and go for:
- Squares as in city parks or plazas, and things that take place there
- A person or thing which is a bit odd as in the old hippy phrase “He’s a square”
- Something that happens directly, or shooting square on to the subject
By Philippa Willitts

By Tom Waterhouse

By Uwe Potthoff

By Eivind Barstad Waaler

By Gianmaria Zanotti

By Steve Bailey

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February 27, 2016