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.
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Feathered Friends
Weekly Photo Challenge: Something that Doesn’t Belong
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..
Weekly Photo Challenge: Bright Colors
Weekly Photo Challenge: Motion
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: Comfortable and Cozy
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.
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!