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Weekly Photography Challenge – Ocean Waves

There is something about the ocean that is mesmerizing. Check out these images to see some of the power of the sea.

By William Warby

Weekly Photography Challenge – Ocean Waves

This week it is your turn to go photograph the ocean. If you do not live near the sea find a body of water you can use as substitute and get creative. A large lake or reservoir could do the trick.

Use some different techniques such as varied exposure times. See this for more tips on photographing the waves. Play with your composition to create a unique result.

By Neville Nel

By Bill Devlin

By Aristocrats-hat

By Susanne Nilsson

Share your ocean 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.

By Kris Williams

By Steve Corey

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May 2, 2015
Weekly Photography Challenge – Architecture

Cities are full of great photography subjects, architecture is among the most popular. Doorways, windows, cityscapes, details or full wide sweeping vistas.

If you live in an urban area you have lots of built-in subjects just waiting for you to photograph them:

By Thomas Hawk

By perceptions I sichtweisen

Weekly Photography Challenge – Architecture

Your job this week is to get out and photograph buildings, man-made structures. Use whichever manner you choose either proper corrected lines, or twisted, curved, tilted and converging lines. Go for wide shots, or put on a long lens and shoot details – it’s totally your call.

By Thomas Hawk

By perceptions I sichtweisen

By Thomas Hawk

By Thomas Hawk

By Thomas Hawk

By perceptions I sichtweisen

By Jovan J

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April 25, 2015
Weekly Photography Challenge – Light Rays
Rays of light are that golden egg photographers dream about, lust after, desire with all their heart. Earlier I shared a set of images that display a great example of rays of light.

By Geert Orye

Weekly Photography Challenge – Rays of Light

So now it’s your turn to go out and replicate this type of photograph. You may think – that’s impossible how can I create that if it doesn’t already exist? Well there are some things you can do to help it along.
- Look for a foggy day or condition
- Go out to shoot in the early morning and look for mist that is laying low over the land with the sun coming through it
- Find a dusty old dirt road and drive up and down it a few times, then get out and start shooting
- Go to a historic site or museum and see if you can shoot inside some of the old musty buildings, look for light coming in the windows
- Sheer curtains or blinds over a window can help too
So get out and look for the light. Here are a few more examples:

By HuTDoG83

By caruba

By Deepak

By Alexander Kesselaar

By Billy Wilson

By chantrybee

By Lawrence OP

Share your rays of light images here:

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April 18, 2015
Weekly Photography Challenge – Monochrome

Have a look at these 25 monochrome images. Get some ideas of color you can use because that is your challenge for this week.

Weekly Photography Challenge – Monochrome

By André Mellagi

By Darlene Hildebrandt

Shooting in monochrome is an option on most cameras. If you also shoot in raw format you can still recover the color information in post-processing if you wish, but it will help you learn to see things in their simplest form – light and shape.

Here are a few more examples (even stuck a few of my own images in there):

By Darlene Hildebrandt

By Darlene Hildebrandt

By Nana B Agyei

By Rjabinnik and Rounien

By Cat Burton

By Cat Burton

By amira_a

By Jasper Nance

By Thomas Hawk

Share your monochrome images here:

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April 11, 2015
Weekly Photography Challenge – Complementary Colors

This week I thought we’d do another photography challenge based on color, but not just one color – complementary or opposite ones like the images shared earlier here.

By pichenettes

Complementary color appear opposite on the color wheel. Find them in the example above. Use them in the challenge this week.

Weekly Photography Challenge – Complementary Colors

Your job is to find and photograph things with complementary or opposite colors. Many pairs of them occur in the natural world if you just look around. If you can’t find any, make your own. Here are a few more examples:

By Shålaco

By Margaret Almon

By Andy Farnsworth

By Eileen McFall

By Distant Hill Gardens

By jeyp.

By Kate Ter Haar

By HIM LEE

By Bogdan Suditu

By Michael Wallace

By Surajram Kumaravel

Share your complementary images here:

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April 4, 2015
Weekly Photography Challenge – Shoot the Moon
By Luz Adriana Villa

The image above and these other 25 images of the moon might give you a hint as to your challenge this week.

Night sky photography can be challenging and a lot of fun. Now’s the time to get out and try photographing the moon if you haven’t already.

We have several articles on the topic here on dPS if you need assistance:
- 20 Dos and Don’ts for Shooting the Moon
- Beyond Full Moon Photography
- Moon Photography: 6 Tips for Better Moon Photos
- Moon Photography Made Simple
By Sam Javanrouh

By @lbyper

By Christian Ronnel

By Dylan Toh

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March 28, 2015
Weekly Photography Challenge – Emotions
By Brett Davies

Image which show emotions or evoke them are powerful. But what kinds of emotions can be captured or portrayed in a photograph? How about these, just to get started:
- Anger
- Sadness
- Fear
- Love
- Loneliness
- Confusion
- Pride
- Jealousy
- Fatigue
- Dispair
What others can you think of?

By Illusive Photography

By [AndreasS]

Weekly photography challenge – emotions

Your challenge this week is to take a photo, or series of them, that pull at the emotions. It might be a person and their expression, or an inanimate object. Lighting, lens selection, and camera angle can all affect mood in an image, so choose carefully and purposefully to create emotional images.

This does not mean images of people pretending to cry or be angry – no real emotions. A baby’s giggling face when it’s tickled, the pleasure of a great meal or coffee, genuine real emotion. Include a person or not – it’s your choice.

By Jelly Dude

By Andi Campbell-Jones

By Luke Andrew Scowen

By Brett Davies

Share your emotional images here:

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March 21, 2015
Weekly Photography Challenge – Darkness and Light

Have a look at these example images using light and dark for dramatic effect.

In photography light is everything. But to have depth and drama you must also have dark and shadow. So it’s your turn to interpret that and see how you can use darkness and light in your images this week.

Weekly Photography Challenge – Darkness and Light

By photophilde

Look for contrast, drama and moody lighting. Harsh lighting might work in your favour here but isn’t mandatory. Think about shadows, look for subjects with unique shapes.

Here are a few more examples:

By ester-**

By seyed mostafa zamani

By Bill Gracey

By Ray Schamp

By Jesse Freeman

By Nicolas Alejandro

Share your dark and light images here:

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March 14, 2015
Weekly Photography Challenge – Spring

Ah spring! The smell of fresh flowers in the air, an early morning dew on the grass, and rain shower in the afternoon – some of the signs that spring might be here.

Bowen Chin

What images pop into your mind when you think of spring? Baby birds, leaves forming on the trees, the last puddles of snow melting, the bees coming to visit the new flowers?

Weekly Photography Challenge – spring

Whatever spring means to you it’s time to get out there and photography it. Your challenge this week is to get off the couch, get outside and see where new life is happening. If there is still snow where you live perhaps a visit to a local greenhouse will inspire you. Here are a few more spring images to get you thinking:

By nutmeg66

By Teresa Gibbison

By Emy ^^

By Linda Gail.

By Martin Thomas

By Evan Leeson

By Sander van der Wel

By Brad Smith

By storebukkebruse

By Putneypics

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March 7, 2015
Weekly Photography Challenge – Using a Small Aperture

Time to try out your aperture range. Last week you were encouraged to shoot wide opened using a large aperture.

Now you need to crank it the opposite direction and get some maximum depth of field in this weekly photography challenge of using a small aperture.

By Michael Chen

Weekly photography challenge

First let’s define small aperture. Usually when photographers talk about a large aperture it’s in the f/1.8 to f/4 range. Small apertures would include f/11 and smaller (f/16-f/32). What that means is the lens is letting in less light due to the smaller opening – and it also means more of the scene is in sharp focus, or deep depth of field.

You may need to use a tripod for this one as the small aperture consequently also means you’ll need to use a longer shutter speed. Keeping the ISO low will help you avoid noise as well and keep sharpness to the maximum.

Here are a few more examples:

By zman z28

By Michael Bohlander

By Vasile Hurghis

Lavender perspective by Peter Zelei on 500px

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February 28, 2015