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Weekly Photography Challenge – Wide Opened

This week’s challenge is all about using a large aperture, shooting wide opened. You can see some examples of this technique using shallow depth of field here.

Aperture is one side of the exposure triangle and understanding it, and truly mastering it is so important to taking your photography to the next level. This is your chance to practice.

By Evan Leeson

Even if you do not have a lens that has f/1.4 or even f/2.8 you can still achieve a shallow depth of field. It also has to do with distance to subject, and focal length. So throw on a long lens and use the largest aperture you’ve got and just go do your best.

Here are a few examples using wide open apertures:

By premier-photo.com

By Mark Strozier

By Janet Ramsden

By Alex

By Susana Fernandez

Share your wide opened 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.

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February 21, 2015
Weekly Photography Challenge – Panning
By Paolo Margari

Earlier I shared some images created using the panning technique.

I love the dramatic feeling of motion that happens when everything comes together and it works. Panning isn’t easy to perfect though, it takes a little bit of practice. If you want some tips on how to do it, try these articles:
- 3 Tips for Creating Dramatic Images using Motion
- Using Slower Shutter Speeds to Show Motion in Your Images
- Showing Speed: Using Panning When Shooting Action
- Creative Reasons to use Intentional Camera Movement
As you might have guessed already – now it’s your turn!

Weekly challenge – panning

Here are a couple more examples, then it’s over to you.

By Takashi Hososhima

By Angelo Domini

By Jamie McCaffrey

By zoutedrop

By Takashi Hososhima

Keep in mind you can do panning on anything that’s moving. Cars, kids, animals, carnival rides, playground rides, bikes, trikes, etc. – get creative with it.

Share your panning 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.

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February 14, 2015
Weekly Photography Challenge – A Need for Speed
In this set of speed busting images you can see the effect that using a fast shutter speed can have on your images. If you want to photograph a moving subject and freeze them in mid-action, that is what is required.

By TexasEagle

Weekly Photography Challenge – A Need for Speed

This week your challenge is to find something moving – fast! It could be traffic on a busy street, or something involving sports of some kind. Just get out there and work on using a fast shutter speed to freeze the subject at the peak of action.

You can try the following settings to help you get sharp images:
- Continuous focus mode, will continually focus on the moving target as long as you have the button pressed part way down.
- Zone focus or having some or all of your focus points active. That allows the camera to pick where to focus.
- Back button focus – this is how the sports shooters I know do work.
- High speed or continuous drive – so you take a few shots in succession when you press and hold the shutter button.
- Shutter priority set to a fast setting. You will usually need at least 1/500th or faster to freeze anything moving quickly. NOTE: if you do use shutter priority keep an eye on your exposure. If the aperture is flashing at you in the viewfinder it means your shutter speed is TOO fast and the aperture cannot open wide enough to make a good exposure. In that case you may have to increase your ISO – but just keep an eye on it. OR use aperture priority set to your widest aperture which in turn will automatically give you the fastest shutter speed possible in that light. If it’s not fast enough – bump that ISO!
Here are a few examples to get you started:

By Danny Perez Photography

By Contact-Centres-Highland

By BANAMINE

By Mark Robinson

By Ib Aarmo

By USAG- Humphreys

By Pepe´ Cam Photography

Share your fast images here:

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February 7, 2015
Weekly Photography Challenge – Long Exposures

In this collection of long exposure photographs you can see some great examples of how you can use this technique to produce stunning images.

By Stewart Ayrey

I teach a night photography class and many times I’ve seen a whole new world of exciting things open up for my students when they learn about long exposures. Of course you can use this technique in the daytime as well, but it is often associated with night photography. On a weekend workshop I lead we go out and photograph the sunset and I MAKE them use tripods, amid much grumbling. Then after the sun goes down they start to pack up and head back to our hotel. I tell them to keep shooting. Many times I’ve been told “I didn’t know you could take photos in such dim light”. Then we get out the flashlights and do some light painting and the magic begins.

To see some of the top articles on night photography on dPS in 2014, head over here.

Weekly photography challenge – long exposures

Have you tried any long exposure photography before? If not, now is the time. You will need a good, sturdy tripod and ideally a remote trigger to fire the camera (reducing camera shake). Here are a few long exposure images to give you some ideas on what you can do:

By Mike

By Kostas Kokkinos

By José Miguel

By Duane Schoon

By Howard Ignatius

By Bill Devlin

By Abi Booth

By Trey Ratcliff

By William Cho

By José Miguel

By jason

By Dave Wilson

By Nicholas Chai

Note: please take note if you are going to attempt doing fire spinning with steel wool, please make sure you read about safety and do so at your own risk. IT IS dangerous and can result in fire or injury if precautions are not taken.

Okay it’s your turn – go! Show us what you can come up with. Get creative.

Share your long exposure 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.

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January 30, 2015
Weekly Photography Challenge – Dance

Earlier I shared a bunch of elegant images of the world of dance.

Dance is an art form just like photography. It take discipline and endurance to be a dancer. Can you relate as a photographer? Each is a passion, something which needs practice to perfect. Dance is picturesque and often is partnered with photography as the are symbiotic – they work well together.

By Michael Dunn

Weekly photography challenge – dance

Now it’s your turn. Do you know a dancer? Can you approach the local dance school to offer to take some photos for them? Maybe even something less formal like your own children dancing just for the fun of it?

Here are a few ideas:

By Garry Wilmore

By stefanos papachristou

By Tiziano L. U. Caviglia

By Paul Cox

By Felix Padrosa Photography

By Chris JL

By Dixie Lawrence

By john curley

Share your dance images here:

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January 24, 2015
Weekly Photography Challenge – Music
This week the theme of the image collection was music – view the 35 magical musically inclined images here.

By Phil Hilfiker

Carrying forward, naturally your challenge this week will be involving music as well. That could look a few different ways depending on your own situation, what you have access to, and what’s in your area, including:
- photos of musical instruments (check with stores, they may be willing to lend you one to photograph or find a friend who has one)
- photos of people actually playing an instrument
- a rock concert
- a marching band or parade
- music CD, DVDs or old-time LPs
- a singer
- street musicians
What other ideas can you come up with for music?

Weekly photography challenge – music

Here are a few ideas to get you started:

By martinak15

By Caroline

By francesco ?2015?

By Adrien Sifre

By tanakawho

By Michael Kötter

By Fabrizio Lonzini

By Jorge Américo

By Georgie Pauwels

By JH Images.co.uk

Share your music images here:

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January 17, 2015
Weekly Photography Challenge – Spare Time

Earlier we featured 36 images of people engaged in recreational activities, things they do in their spare time.

By josh hunter

Weekly photography challenge – spare time

This week for your photography challenge I urge you to think about what ELSE you do in your spare time. Do you read, cook, go bowling, ride a motorcycle, play sports, draw, or walk your dog? How do you spend your free time? What sorts of recreational activities do you participate in?

Next go photograph some of these things. You could do a self-portrait or other people doing the things you enjoy doing as well. Such as:

By Elena Bobrovitzkaya

By David Yu

By Dan Bergstrom

By Luke Addison

By Andreas Hans J. Bauer

By Jonathan Haeber

Share your spare time images here:

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January 10, 2015
Weekly Photography Challenge – New
Earlier I shared some images of different ways you might have rung in the New Year. As is it now 2015 and we’re embarking on a new year, we will stay with that theme for this week’s photography challenge.

Weekly Photography Challenge – New

Your challenge is to convey the idea of new. That could look a number of different ways including:
- A newborn baby
- New objects like a shiny new car
- A fresh new snowfall
- New goals for 2015
- New ideas
- And many more others I haven’t even thought of . . .
So how will you convey an idea or concept? It might be literal or more subtle. Show me how you tell the story of NEW.

By Kenneth Spencer

By Brent Danley

By Michael Tapp

By Trey Ratcliff

By Tracy Byrnes

By Paul L

By iirraa

By jacinta lluch valero

Share your “new” images here:

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January 3, 2015
Weekly Photography Challenge – Festive Food
Well it’s that time of the year again. We spend days cooking and preparing for the big feast, then we stuff ourselves and retire to the sofa. Yup it’s holiday time.

By Grant Frederiksen

Whichever religion or faith you practice, and wherever you live – there is likely some sort of festivities going on this month. I’m spending the holidays in Nicaragua so it will be very different that back home in Canada with my family. I’m sure we’ll have a big meal but it may not be the traditional turkey with all the trimmings – it could look like grilled meat of some kind with rice and beans.

View this set of mouthwatering holiday food photos on dPS.

Your job this go around for the weekly photography challenge is to photograph your festive food.

We have lots of great articles here on dPS to help you out with food photography tips including:
- 10 Tips to Improve Your Food Photography
- Using Focus Creatively with Food Photography
- 5 Tips to Seriously Improve Your Food Photography Techniques
- 8 Steps to Create Mouth Watering Food Photography
- 11 Quick Food Photography Tips to Make Mouth Watering Images
Need more examples?

By FLORENTIN Marius

By Randy OHC

By FLORENTIN Marius

By Guilherme Kardel

By orangejon

$Sabina\?????? Panayotova\??????????$

By Sabina\?????? Panayotova\??????????

Share your festive food images here:

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December 20, 2014
Weekly Photography Challenge – Graffiti Street Art
In an earlier post I shared a set of some images of street art, also often referred to as graffiti.

If you live an urban area or any city, than likely you have some of this type of art nearby. Graffiti artists range from ones who just seems to do vandalism, to other who are highly talented and skilled artists.

Your job in this week’s photograph challenge is to seek out some street art in your area and photograph it in a manner fitting for the artwork. That could mean some grungy post-processing, a funky filter over the lens, or whatever creative idea you can come up with.

Let’s see a few more examples of graffiti street art:

By Rob Schofield

By Pedro Ribeiro Simões

By Brent Pearson

By Charlón

By Jason Taellious

Share your graffiti street are 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.

Need some help getting started? Try these dPS articles:
- How to add a Grunge Effect to your Portraits using Lightroom (works on any kind of image also)
- 4 Steps to Photoshop Artistry Using Fine Art Grunge Techniques
- An Introduction to Urban Exploration
- Urban Exploration Photography – Urbex
- Focus on Scott Frederick – Urban Explorer
By Professor Bop

By Brent Pearson

By mamasuco ……un peu absent

By Keoni Cabral

By badjonni

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December 13, 2014