Wits End Photography
Weekly Photo Challenge: Gatherings This week I had the opportunity to do a bit of photo journalism. I'm not a photo journalist, but I need some of the same skills when I'm traveling and photographing people and events. Photographing local events helps keep me in practice. This week, the challenge is to go out and Photograph Gatherings.
I've just come in from the cold. It's winter here and I live near the Mississippi River - prime time and place to photograph Bald Eagles. This week, the challenge is to go out and...Photograph our Feathered Friends
This week is one of those odd-ball challenges: Photograph Something that Doesn't Belong I think I’m tapping back into my childhood and remembering a bit from the children’s show Sesame Street where they show a series of objects and challenges the children to find the thing that doesn’t belong. I can even hear the song in my head "One of this things doesn't belong..
We're still in the throws of winter here in the American mid-west. Lots of gray, cold days for us! The weather's getting me down so I'm looking for a bit of a pick-me-up this week. Let's make the colors the story of the photo. This week.... Photograph Bright Colors
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.
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.
It's been cold - really cold - this week. We get these polar vortexes (vortexi?) every once in a while and I usually just hibernate in a warm cocoon until they're over. I know not everyone is in the throws of winter, but we all like to think warm and comfortable thoughts. This week's challenge is to photograph something comfortable and cozy.
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....
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!
It’s winter where I am and we’ve had quite a few cloudy sky days. It’s gotten me thinking of all the photographs I can make under cloudy skies. This week's challenge is to: Photograph Under Cloudy Skies
It’s a new year and we’re all making resolutions - one or two we might even keep. Let's have a new challenge for this new year. Photograph Something New The first thing that comes to mind is photographing in a new style or genre....
This week's challenge is to: Photograph Sequences. Sequences set up a story with a beginning, middle and end. This challenge is perfect for showing how to do something - everything from cooking a recipe to creating a piece of art to changing a diaper (I dare you! 🙂
