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Weekly Photography Challenge – Iconic

10 Oct

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This week we want to see something iconic, that can be a landmark or place or just something that you think people will immediately recognise, like… A certain brand of toothpaste, for example, photographed in an interesting way (Bonus points if you try that!) or the London Eye! (This was a photo I made of the Eye in 2007… on a 6mp camera… those days were fun!) It just has to be instantly recognisable to the viewer. Do your best and have fun! #dPSIconic – Think outside the box!

If you don’t have an iconic building handy, think smaller like ‘Lego’ for example, most people know what Lego is! (Or have stepped on it in the dead of night while checking on the sleeping kids!) The goal is to photograph something instantly recognisable and try to do it in an interesting way!

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Weekly Photography Challenge – Looking Up

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Weekly Photography Challenge – Minimalism

03 Oct

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From a recent dPS article by one of our authors, Simon Bond, we’re going to revisit ‘Photographic Minimalism’ (Don’t worry, it’s easy and fun!)

What is minimalism?

Minimalism, as the name suggests, is about keeping things simple. It means avoiding clutter, which in photography equates to removing unwanted elements from your photos.

You do want a main subject, though; this is needed for the minimalist parts of your photos to have something to contrast with. Make sure you tag your photo #dPSMinimalism wherever you choose to share it!

photographic minimalism fisherman example — Shooting upward toward the fisherman helped produce a minimalist photo.

Or maybe a ship on the horizon? Whatever your photograph might be, do your best to show us that photographic minimalism! (Bit confused, check out this article)

Weekly Photography Challenge - Minimalism

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Weekly Photography Challenge – Kitchen objects

26 Sep

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This week it’s simple! We’d love to see you take some regular, everyday object that’s in your kitchen and photograph it! The challenge is to photograph it in a way that adds interest. That might be through perspective (shooting along a bench as I have done with my orange, below) or using a lamp, torch, led light, flash to add some extra atmosphere to your morning coffee.

Use the #dPSKitchenThings hashtag wherever you post!

Here’s that orange! (It wasn’t actually that tasty, it was off the small orange tree, potted, out the back of my house)

Weekly Photography Challenge – Kitchen objects — Sony a7 Mk3 with a 55mm f/1.8 lens at 1.8 for 1/60th ISO 100

Trying to use a knife to add a leading line of sorts, to bring your viewer’s eye into your subject.

Here’s a neat article on food portraits if your object is food! clickety click

Photographing the espresso below, I used the Sony app to trigger my camera remotely and had a little Aputure MW LED light just out of frame to light up the subject but keep the rest of the scene a little darker.

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Weekly Photography Challenge – Details

19 Sep

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This week we want you to focus on ‘details’

Last week we went with self-portraits and there were many of you that submitted really great images, thanks! This week, we want to see ‘detail’ and that could be a detail of yourself if you wanted to continue the theme “here’s my eyeball” seems to be a thing

I’ve decided to photograph the end of a fallen tree at the local park, the cracks, the rings and the ants! #dPSDetail

fallen tree, wood rings, ants, detail, dps

There’s detail in everything, while not necessarily being a macro photograph, though you can if you want, the detail is a selection of the larger image. An example might be that the photograph above is a detail shot of the scene below. Detail photographs are used in a story to help tell that story. Tag your photos #dPSDetail and we look forward to seeing what you come up with!

From last week’s photographs, this was a stand-out from Belgium based photographer, Katrien Stuyck, thanks and congratulations, Katrien!

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Weekly Photography Challenge – Self Portrait

12 Sep

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It’s been a long time since we pushed a ‘Self Portrait’ challenge in your general direction! These can be very confronting for many reasons, how we see ourselves, confidence, or something as simple as the lack of a tripod (You can put your tripod on a bench, or the floor, or in a tree!) but it’d be great to get as many of us to try this out as possible – it’s not about anything other than learning to photograph people, and who is your most readily available subject? YOU.

One of our resources on self portraiture

I’m one of those crazy (or not?) people that have participated in a 365, got the t-shirt, made a small book, it was fun! But it really goes a long way to showing you a lot about portrait photography, lighting (I used a desk lamp for the longest time!) and how your gear works… But we don’t want to see 365 of these, just one.

A self-portrait doesn’t need to JUST be of you, you can disguise yourself behind a coffee machine, or across a workbench. But set your scene and think about your lighting, and see what you come up with! Here are a couple of helpful resources on portraits for you to have a look at, grab a cup of tea and your camera and get started!
Self Portrait Tips & Examples and A Mirror Self-Portrait challenge from a few years back!

A little shout out to ‘Moncat‘ who submitted this photograph to last week’s ‘Spring’ challenge!

Weekly Photography Challenge – Self Portrait

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Weekly Photography Challenge – Spring

05 Sep

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Well, here in Australia where dPS is based, it’s SPRING and I can tell you, we’ve been looking forward to it! Share your ‘Spring’ photographs in the comments, or via social media (details below) make sure you tag your photos #dPSSpring

If it isn’t Spring where you are, we challenge you to interpret the weekly challenge theme in any way you see fit, as long as there’s a ‘Spring’ connection!

Some stunning photos from last week, here’s one from the blog comments by Rhonda Martin (See more of Rhonda’s here) beautiful work, Rhonda!

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Weekly Photography Challenge – Shallow Depth of Field

29 Aug

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Our dPS Weekly Challenge this week is ‘Shallow Depth of Field’ #dPSShallowDOF

After our challenge last week, ‘Mistakes‘ it reminded me of when I first purchased my EF 50mm f/1.4 lens and pretty much had it at f/1.4 or ‘wide open’ the whole time! The shallow depth of field (Where you have your subject nice and sharp, and everything else out of focus, the quality of the ‘out of focus’ area sometimes referred to as ‘Bokeh‘) look was something I loved at the start, and as I learned to use it more effectively, became another ‘tool’ in my photography toolbox.

Shallow depth of field lets you isolate a subject or highlight an area in your frame, my first example below, highlighting the lens details on my new Sony 12-24mm, you see everything else nice and blurry – This was shot with another Sony lens, the FE 35mm f/1.4 (Maybe my favourite ever) it’s great for shallow depth of field!

You might not have a lens with a wide aperture (f/1.4 / 1.8 / 2 / 2.8, etc) but you can use whatever you have to go for the most shallow depth of field that you can.

Check out Kevin’s article here for some good tips on ‘depth of field’

Weekly Photography Challenge – Shallow Depth of Field — A Sony photographs a Sony ‘Wide open’

We look forward to seeing what you come up with this week!

Congratulations to all of you that Tweeted, Instagrammed, Facebooked or posted a photo in the comments below our blog post! There were some great ‘mistakes’ in there! Well done to Elena, on this photo! Doesn’t look like a mistake to us! Congratulations on your recent awards, too! It’s great to see members of our dPS community progress in their photography!

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Weekly Photography Challenge – Mistakes

22 Aug

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A bit of a departure this week! We want to see your mistakes, we all make them, we learn from them (or we don’t, I mean… who knew my kids were that fast on scooters!)

Love them or hate them, mistakes are a part of learning. I could have used a different focus mode here, I could have been more prepared for when master 6 came towards me and I missed him with my focus point, but I wasn’t ready and I missed the shot and there was no way he was going back to do it again! Moving on.

9 Solutions for common camera mistakes beginners make
Photo Mistakes! Learning from a Photo Autopsy
7 Mistakes beginner photographers make the camera can’t be blamed for

Dig through your photos and find something that you remember as a mistake, here’s another of mine from a few years ago now, I was in Cuba, somewhere I likely won’t get to go back to, and I’d recently purchased a 50mm f/1.4 and was still in that “Whoa! Everything looks amazing at 1.4!” …I misfocused when I built up the courage to ask this chap if I could make an image, I got the tip of his nose nice and sharp, but missed his eyes… It made me slow down a little and make sure I had the focus point in the right place. As long as we learn from our mistakes, they can be a valuable tool!

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Simply upload your shot into the comments 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. We’re interested to see how you revisit the images that you’ve taken before now in this re-edit challenge!

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Weekly Photography Challenge – Looking Up

15 Aug

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This week we’re going to go with ‘Looking up’ and yes, you could spin that more than one way! Things are looking up, or looking up, as in pointing straight up (or near enough) with your camera! What will you choose and how will you portray your choice?

Or maybe ‘looking up’ along a city street (I nearly said ‘busy city street’ but we certainly have less of those right now!) Maybe ‘looking up’ could be your positive frame of mind on the current state of the world, etc? How will you depict that?

If you’re in isolation at home, maybe this article will help to give you some ideas, work on a theme of ‘looking up in or around your house’ We’ll share some as we go, through the week, in the Facebook group and on our Instagram

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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. We’re interested to see how you revisit the images that you’ve taken before now in this re-edit challenge!

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You can also share your images in the dPS Facebook group as the challenge is posted there each week as well.

If you tag your photos on Flickr, Instagram, Twitter or other sites – tag them as #DPSLookingUp to help others find them. Linking back to this page might also help others know what you’re doing so that they can share in the fun.

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Weekly Photography Challenge – Darkness

08 Aug

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This week we’re focussing (see what I did there) on the dark areas in a photograph. Shadows, but intentional shadows. Using shadows and darkness to focus in on your subject – The three examples below are all photographed in the daylight or generally light scenes, In two cases I positioned myself so there was enough shadow around the subject that the only light was used to highlight the subject. The third is a self-portrait while I was shaving, I liked the way the shadow fell, creating some interest in the image. Happy to dig into the details of each image if you’d like, leave a comment and we can work through them

Shadow, darkness, lack of light is imperative in photography, it defines edges and shapes images, so get your camera out, look at things around you with a critical eye and find some interesting shadows or better still, create some!

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Weekly Photography Challenge – Iconic

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Weekly Photography Challenge – Minimalism

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Weekly Photography Challenge – Kitchen objects

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Weekly Photography Challenge – Details

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Weekly Photography Challenge – Self Portrait

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Weekly Photography Challenge – Spring

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Weekly Photography Challenge – Shallow Depth of Field

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Weekly Photography Challenge – Mistakes

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Weekly Photography Challenge – Looking Up

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