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Weekly Photography Challenge What Winter Means to You

06 Dec

Earlier I shared a set of frosty images to get you in the wintery mood.

Now it’s the time for the weekly photography challenge, so it’s your turn to get out and shoot winter. Since winter means different things and looks different depending on where in the world you live – this challenge is about winter and what it means to you.

If you’re in the northern hemisphere that might mean:

Snow
Ice
Frost
Fog
Winter sports
Frozen things
Cold

Here are some examples:

By @Doug88888

By Sharon Mollerus

By Mathias Erhart

By Samuel John

By Alexey Kljatov

By dorena-wm

If you are in the southern hemisphere or close to the equator (as I am currently writing this from warm and sunny Nicaragua where I’m living and working for two months) that might mean the beach, sand and sun.

Share your winter 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.

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Weekly Photography Challenge Bird’s Eye View

22 Nov

Earlier I shared a collection of photos shot from above using a bird’s eye view. In the photography challenge last week you were assigned to photograph from a worm’s eye view or low down. This week you will be looking down, using the bird’s eye view to create your images.

Bird’s eye view

Bird’s are usually flying overhead or sitting up high on a wire looking down on us. So try something to get that kind of perspective in your image this week. Get up high and look down. That could mean:

Climb to a roof or the top of a hill and look down
Stand on a chair to photograph something on the floor
Just simply being aware of what is below your eye level and shoot that
If you really want to go for it take a hot air balloon, fly a quadcopter or GoPro, or even take a gondola ride

You get the idea right? Get up – and look down!

Share your bird’s eye view images here:

Here are some more images to give you ideas:

By Farrukh

By cnemil

By William Cho

By svenwerk

By Peggy2012CREATIVELENZ

By mgstanton

By Adam Baker

By Thomas Hawk

By Faisal Akram

By Jason Mrachina

By John Chandler

By Ed Suominen

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Weekly Photography Challenge Worm’s Eye View

15 Nov

This week I rounded up a bunch of images taken low to the ground, otherwise known as worm’s eye view. It’s not a common view that people see, so images you create shot from this angle have a unique look and pique interest with viewers. Your job is to take on this low down task and shoot from the ground level. Here are some examples for you:

By Stephan Rebernik

By Tim Hamilton

By Dr. Motte

By AJ Mangoba

There’s no special equipment needed to do this, or magical subject matter. Even the most ordinary objects can be made to look interesting when photographed from the worm’s eye view. So it’s your turn.

Weekly photography challenge – worm’s eye view

So get down on your hands and knees, don’t be afraid to get dirty, and get as low to the ground as you can (and still be able to get up again). You might find things down there you haven’t noticed before, perhaps even in your own home or back yard. Like macro photography that makes you look for tiny subjects, getting down on the ground has a similar benefit and you start to see things you’d otherwise miss. Give it a try.

Share your worm’s eye view images here:

Here are some more images to give you ideas:

By weegeebored

By Christophe / saturnino Iaïchouchen

By Ken Owen

By André Hofmeister

By kennysarmy

By Gabrijel Gavranovi?

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Weekly Photography Challenge Generations

08 Nov

By Georgie Pauwels

In this earlier collection of images I found some fantastic photos that represent generations. In this challenge your job will be to capture the idea of generations. You could take that literally and use your own family, or friends, or step out of the box a little and try something a little different.

Animals
An old and new vehicle side by side
An antique record player and an MP3 player
Old TV and new plasma screen
Bicycles
Crumpled old weather paper and smooth, new paper

Getting some ideas?

Here are a few images to get you started.

By Hartwig HKD

By Andrea Costa

By Robert S. Donovan

By Nathan O’Nions

By Fouquier ?

By Florian Meinhardt

By Hamed Saber

By Simon & His Camera

By Ian Sane

Share your images of generations

Simply upload your shot into the comment field (look for the little camera icon in the Disqus comments section as pictured below) 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.

Here are some more images to give you ideas:

By xflickrx

By westkeasman69

By Shena Tschofen

By Khánh Hmoong

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Weekly Photography Challenge – Brown

01 Nov

Brown is an unassuming and subtle color. For examples see the set of brown tone images I shared earlier.

When I say the word “color” I’m guessing that brown isn’t likely the first one that comes to your mind. But there is so much of this color all around us in the world, in nature. Many animals are brown. Many people have brown hair. It’s a natural and comfortable color, it feels warm.

So your challenge this week is to photograph the color brown. This could be a brown item, or maybe even a black and white image that you make into a sepia tone. Here are a few ideas for you how to incorporate this tone into your images:

By Oliver Hammond

By Julie Falk

By Johnson Cameraface

By andy li

By Rjabinnik and Rounien

By David Jenkins

By Lotte Grønkjær

By Algiers Photography

By eirasi

By Erica Annie

Now it’s your turn to go take some images of brown things, or tone them brown in post-processing.

Share your images of brown

Here are some more brown images to give you ideas:

By pieter musterd

By Jan Fidler

By Eric Vondy

By The Wandering Angel

By Jairo

Okay, what you got?

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Weekly Photography Challenge – Spooky Images for Halloween

25 Oct

If you want to see some scary images head over to my earlier collection of spooky images here.

This is the week of all the spooks and goblins so I though it would be fitting to see some scary images too. What do you consider spooky or creepy? It might be a big hairy spider, or maybe a ghostly double image, or perhaps some deep shadows in a hidden alleyway. Whatever it is, it’s your turn to photograph it and show me something that will make me have the chills.

Let’s see some examples:

By Delta

By Hartwig HKD

By Kevin Dooley

By Alice Popkorn

By Jesse Draper

By liz west

You get the idea. Now it’s your turn.

Weekly Photography Challenge – Spooky Images

Try and think about this one not so literally. I’ve done some photo competition judging and something similar was the theme for one category. I saw a lot of images trying too hard to be scary. Think subtle. We don’t need to see blood and guts to be scared. Less is more. A simple, dark, moody image of a creepy looking alley or lane-way could be all that’s needed. How about doing some double exposures at night using flash to create some ghosts, or just long exposures on a busy street to catch all the moving people at night. If you have some ideas share them here, then go shoot it and share the images too.

Share your spooky photos

Here are a few more images to scare you!

By Yamabxl

By jayRaz

By Howard Ignatius

By Tommy Clark

By Jorge Mexicano

By slworking2

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Weekly Photography Challenge – Shadows

11 Oct

Early I shared an assortment of shadowy images. I love playing with light and photographing shadows is a great way to help you learn to see light, and direction of light. Here are a few more examples:

By mgstanton

By Life Pilgrim

By Daniela Hartmann

This week’s photography challenge is all about the shadows. So head out and look for some light that creates interesting shadows. For a shadow image to work well you need a couple of things:

A hard light course like direct sun. You cannot find good shadows on an overcast or cloudy day.
Light that skims the surface like the late evening or dusk kind. Look for the long shadows at the end of the day (or first thing in the morning) they will add more drama to your images.
An interesting and well defined subject. For a shadow to be interesting the viewer needs to be able to identify and connect with the object producing the shadow, even if the object isn’t in the photo itself. Some things that work particularly well are trees, bicycles, people, a fence, etc.

Let’s see a few more examples that are well done:

By Michael

By Angelo Domini

By Harris Hui

By Broo_am (Andy B)

By Seema Krishnakumar

By Grozz

By Camil Tulcan

By Mark Anderson

By David Rodriguez Martin

By hapal

By Magdalena Roeseler

You can see by the images above that even tiny things like a seed can produce a great shadow. Find some ordinary household objects, put them in the sun, and see what the light does to the shadow. Try rotating it or moving around it.

Another idea is to do a self portrait using your own shadow. See how creative you can get with that. Throw your shadow on a wall, do a crazy pose, or get your camera in the shadow too. Mix it up, let’s see what you got! Humor is good too!

By Dustin Diaz

By gian?merz

By Claudio Cicali

By Volodymyr Pavlyuk

By BMiz

By Sherwood411

Share your images of shadows

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Weekly Challenge of Bird Photography

04 Oct

Earlier I shared an amazing bunch of photos of birds. Here’s a couple more for you:

By Susan

By Farrukh

Weekly photography challenge – bird photography

Now it’s your turn to go photograph some of our fine feathered friends, the birds. Keep in mind you don’t need to go farther than your own backyard to find birds, or the nearest park. If flying ones are too fast, how about a chicken? Visit a local farm to photograph some barnyard fowl.

Need some help with bird photography tips?

Bird Photography Tips – How to Make Your Bird Photographs Stand Out
Bird Photography Tips for Beginners
Guide to Attracting Critters to Your Garden for Backyard Wildlife Photography
Tips for Photographing Birds in Flight

A few more bird images to get you started:

By nigel

By Howard Ignatius

By Doug Brown

By davejdoe

Share your bird photography

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Weekly Photography Challenge – Starry Nights

27 Sep

Earlier today I shared a collection of starry night photos.

Photograph Fossilized UFO by Sakhr Abdullah on 500px

Fossilized UFO by Sakhr Abdullah on 500px

We have some good articles on shooting the stars and night photography here on dPS including;

How to Photograph the Stars
Photography Under the Stars
Down and Dirty Guide to Milky Way Photography
Tips for Photographing Star Trails

As you may have guessed you’re going to need these tips because it’s your turn to go out and shoot in this week’s challenge:

Starry nights

Mt Bromo Under The Stars by Elia Locardi on 500px

Photograph Startrails Matterhorn by Stanley Chen Xi on 500px

Startrails Matterhorn by Stanley Chen Xi on 500px

Stars 1 – Las Vegas Photographer – Ati Nagy by Ati Nagy on 500px

Photograph Eternal Loneliness by Stergos Skulukas on 500px

Eternal Loneliness by Stergos Skulukas on 500px

So grab your camera and tripod and get shooting!

Share your starry night images

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Weekly Challenge – Sports Photography

20 Sep

Earlier today I shared a collection of sports images. Now as usual it’s time for the challenge. I throw down the gauntlet and urge you to accept it and play along (pun intended).

Sports photography is a tricky subject. Fast moving subjects, quickly changing lighting conditions, and restrictions on where you are allowed to stand. All these things can be overcome and conquered – with practice!

Now is the perfect time to get out and do just that. Try out your high speed shooting mode, or borrow a lens. Find a local sporting event and get out and take some action photography shots. Here are some examples to get you started: