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Weekly Photography Challenge – Wide Opened

21 Feb

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.

Evan Leeson

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:

Premier-photo.com

By premier-photo.com

Mark Strozier

By Mark Strozier

Janet Ramsden

By Janet Ramsden

Alex

By Alex

Susana Fernandez

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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Weekly Photography Challenge – Panning

14 Feb
Paolo Margari

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.

Takashi Hososhima

By Takashi Hososhima

Angelo Domini

By Angelo Domini

Jamie McCaffrey

By Jamie McCaffrey

Zoutedrop

By zoutedrop

Takashi Hososhima

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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Weekly Photography Challenge – A Need for Speed

07 Feb

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.

TexasEagle

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:

Danny Perez Photography

By Danny Perez Photography

Contact-Centres-Highland

By Contact-Centres-Highland

BANAMINE

By BANAMINE

Mark Robinson

By Mark Robinson

Ib Aarmo

By Ib Aarmo

USAG- Humphreys

By USAG- Humphreys

Pepe´ Cam Photography

By Pepe´ Cam Photography

Share your fast 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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Weekly Photography Challenge – Long Exposures

30 Jan

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

Stewart Ayrey

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:

Mike

By Mike

Kostas Kokkinos

By Kostas Kokkinos

José Miguel

By José Miguel

Duane Schoon

By Duane Schoon

Howard Ignatius

By Howard Ignatius

Bill Devlin

By Bill Devlin

Abi Booth

By Abi Booth

Trey Ratcliff

By Trey Ratcliff

William Cho

By William Cho

José Miguel

By José Miguel

Jason

By jason

Dave Wilson

By Dave Wilson

Nicholas Chai

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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Weekly Photography Challenge – Dance

24 Jan

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.

Michael Dunn

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:

Garry Wilmore

By Garry Wilmore

Stefanos Papachristou

By stefanos papachristou

Tiziano L. U. Caviglia

By Tiziano L. U. Caviglia

Paul Cox

By Paul Cox

Felix Padrosa Photography

By Felix Padrosa Photography

Chris JL

By Chris JL

Dixie Lawrence

By Dixie Lawrence

John Curley

By john curley

Share your dance 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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Weekly Photography Challenge – Music

17 Jan

This week the theme of the image collection was music – view the 35 magical musically inclined images here.

Phil Hilfiker

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:

Martinak15

By martinak15

Caroline

By Caroline

Francesco ?2015?

By francesco ?2015?

Adrien Sifre

By Adrien Sifre

Tanakawho

By tanakawho

Michael Kötter

By Michael Kötter

Fabrizio Lonzini

By Fabrizio Lonzini

Jorge Américo

By Jorge Américo

Georgie Pauwels

By Georgie Pauwels

JH Images.co.uk

By JH Images.co.uk

Share your music 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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Weekly Photography Challenge – Spare Time

10 Jan

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

Josh Hunter

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:

Elena Bobrovitzkaya

By Elena Bobrovitzkaya

David Yu

By David Yu

Dan Bergstrom

By Dan Bergstrom

Luke Addison

By Luke Addison

Andreas Hans J. Bauer

By Andreas Hans J. Bauer

Jonathan Haeber

By Jonathan Haeber

Share your spare time 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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Weekly Photography Challenge – New

03 Jan

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.

Kenneth Spencer

By Kenneth Spencer

Brent Danley

By Brent Danley

Michael Tapp

By Michael Tapp

Trey Ratcliff

By Trey Ratcliff

Tracy Byrnes

By Tracy Byrnes

Paul L

By Paul L

Iirraa

By iirraa

Jacinta Lluch Valero

By jacinta lluch valero

Share your “new” 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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Weekly Photography Challenge – Festive Food

20 Dec

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.

Grant Frederiksen

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?

FLORENTIN Marius

By FLORENTIN Marius

Randy OHC

By Randy OHC

FLORENTIN Marius

By FLORENTIN Marius

Guilherme Kardel

By Guilherme Kardel

Orangejon

By orangejon

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

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

Share your festive food 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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Weekly Photography Challenge – Graffiti Street Art

13 Dec

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:

Rob Schofield

By Rob Schofield

Pedro Ribeiro Simões

By Pedro Ribeiro Simões

Brent Pearson

By Brent Pearson

Charlón

By Charlón

Jason Taellious

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
Professor Bop

By Professor Bop

Brent Pearson

By Brent Pearson

Mamasuco ......un Peu Absent

By mamasuco ……un peu absent

Keoni Cabral

By Keoni Cabral

Badjonni

By badjonni

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