This week's photo challenge is a motion etude -- Photograph Motion. Freezing motion – making a moving subject stand still - is one thing modern cameras do well. We can freeze the motion of anything from raindrops to race cars to birds in flight. Sports are perfect subjects for freezing motion.
Category: Photography Instruction
Weekly Photo Challenge: Eyes
This week's photo challenge is a focus etude -- Photograph Eyes. One exercise in the Focus section of my book 32 Photo Etudes is to focus on eyes. Whether you like to photograph people or animals, capturing the eyes are key. Our eyes go directly to any eyes in a photo, so it's important to practice getting a sharp focus where it counts.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Interesting Light
This week's photo challenge is a lighting etude. Photograph Interesting Light. Sometimes photographers look for a subject first – what we’re going to photograph - and forget to look for the light. Light is the medium of photographers – it is what we use to create photographs. Being able to see and use light is fundamental to photography....
Weekly Photo Challenge: Repeating Patterns
This week's photo challenge is a compositional etude. Photograph Repeating Patterns I worked on this compositional technique a lot when I first started trying to improve my photography skills. My eye will see repeating patterns, but only if the are really obvious. Once I started looking for repeating patterns, though they seem to be everywhere!