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Weekly Photography Challenge – Circles

Do you see circles everywhere?

The world itself is a circle, they naturally occur in nature, and man-made objects are full of them.

By Andreas Jalsøe

Weekly Photography Challenge – Circles

Your assignment for the weekly challenge is to actively look for them and photograph circles. When you train your focus, attention and eye on one thing you will see more of them than ever before.

Take a photo walk and see how many circles you can photograph!

By Chechi Peinado

By the idealist

By Darren Hester

By Stanley Zimny (Thank You for 15 Million views)

By Andrés Nieto Porras

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November 28, 2015
Weekly Photography Challenge – Wind
Earlier I shared a set of images that represent wind here.

By Garry Knight

It is one of those tricky concepts or subjects to photograph because it’s sort of invisible. So what can you do to capture an image of it? How about these ideas:
- Sailing or sailboats
- Kites
- Trees, flowers or grass blowing in the wind
- Flags
- Clouds moving quickly across the sky
- Windmills or turbines
- A person’s hair blowing off or across their face
- Weathervanes
Weekly Photography Challenge – Wind

Your challenge this week is to go and photograph something that shows the viewer it is windy. Use your imagination and get creative with it.

By Mikko Kaaresmaa

By Beverley Goodwin

By John Sonderman

By Shahadat Hossain

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November 21, 2015
Weekly Photography Challenge – Composition Craziness
This week on dPS we’re featuring a series of articles about composition. Many different elements and ways to compose images for more impact. Check out the ones we’ve done so far:
- Using Framing for More Effective Compositions
- 7 Tips to Improve Your Skyline Photos
You can see how a few other photographers have used some compositional craziness to make dynamic images.

By Andi Campbell-Jones

Weekly Photography Challenge – Composition

This week your challenge is to pick an element of composition and make some stunning images. Here are a few ideas for you:
Lines

Form/shape

Texture

Contrast

Foreground/background

Angle of view

Rhythm

Framing

Light

Balance

Color

Direction of motion

Simplify

Perspective

Monochromatic
By noe**

By dalioPhoto

By Stavros Markopoulos

By Brett Kiger

By JFXie

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November 14, 2015

Weekly Photography Challenge – Water

Water, water everywhere. Take a look at some images other photographers have done that involve water as the main subject.

By David Yu

By Janet Ramsden

By Susanne Nilsson

Weekly Photography Challenge – Water

If you haven’t participated in the weekly themed challenge before, using the excuse, “I don’t live near that” – you can’t use that reason this time. You can literally find some water anywhere you live. Turn on the tap, find a river or stream, or even a fountain in the middle of your city will work. But do take on this challenge and go photography some water. Here are some ideas:

Ocean
Lake
Pond
Swimming pool
Puddle
Tap water
Dew on a flower or spider web

A glass of water
Running water like a river or stream
A waterfall
Even ice is water
A fountain
A splash
Water drops in mid-air

Get creative!

By Darlene Hildebrandt

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November 7, 2015

Weekly Photography Challenge – Light Trails
This week since it is the week of goblins and ghouls and spooky things, let’s do some photography in the dark! You can check out these image of light trails to get some ideas.

By Vida Dimovska

Weekly Photography Challenge – Light trails

Light trails is about long exposures in the dark, capturing something that is illuminated and moving. The result is a trail of light through your image, without seeing the original subject.

By nicolas michaud

That could be cars moving along a darkened city street, sparklers, a flashlight, or anything that lights up. You could even get creative and try moving the camera to create light trails from a stationary object.

Here are some articles to help you out:
- How to do Long Exposure Photography and Light Trails at Night
- 5 Advanced Tips for Light Trail Photography
- Photographing Light Trails
- How to Make Unique Portraits Using Light Painting
- 13 Great Subjects for Urban Night Photography
- A Fun Light Painting Project – Parabolas
By Caffeinatrix

By Darlene Hildebrandt (I made this image by rotating my tripod side to side during the exposure)

By William Greene

By i am dabe

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October 31, 2015
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