Photography Callenge! The 52 Weeks Photo Challenge!

If you think the 365 Day Photo challenge is just too much for you to do in your busy life style. Try the 52 Weeks Photo Challenge. Instead of trying to take one photo every day for 365 days try this challenge to try to take one quality photo every week for a whole year.

 I recommend trying to pick a day that you can shoot that works for every week. This will keep you on a schedule so you know you can get a photoshoot in. A backup day in that week to shoot is also a great idea. You have seven days in a week to shoot. You can shoot any day of the week but having a schedule and keeping yourself on a schedule is a great for disciplining yourself.

The 52 Week Challenge gives you six day to set up a photoshoot. This should give you plenty of time to come up with a concept. The gear needed from lighting to location and so on. You may be able to shoot a series of photo in that one day using the idea or theme you came up with.  

Lessons from Your Big Screen TV!

What can a photographer learn from TV shows, movies, and commercial? As a photographer you can learn a lot. If you already see things like a photographer. You will see composition,focal point, and inspiration. Even someone who is just getting into photography can see how to a scene is framed. Just because it a moving image instead of a still image check out each scene. Whats in the background,whats in focus, what is the main subject or subjects in the frame. How many different angels of view in a scene.

Here is an example: I am watching a TV show. A police car is moving down the road. The car is the main subject in the frame because it in focus and every thing else is slightly out of focus. But I know the car is going down the road in a country area probably a farming area because of the fences. Now the next scene the car pulls into the driveway of a farm house but all you see of the car is the front fender. The farm house is in focus and so is the fender of the police car. The main subject is the farm house the next subject is the police car. Thats how videographers tells a story and that how photographers can tell stories with there photographs.

Placement,focus, and dominant subject in a photograph can tell a story. The background or the foreground in a photograph will help give you a location to help convey the story of your photograph.

Watching movies for me gives me so many inspirational ideas and concepts to try to photograph and take one scene that if its was a photography. You would know the story I wanted to tell or the movie concept. So when someone viewed my photograph they would remember the movie or at least the character.

So what can you learn from your big screen TV? Don’t forget to enjoy watching your big screen TV first then see what you can learn with it also…

Books,movies,TV shows,video games, and other photographers photographs can give you concepts and ideas for your own photographs.

Check out my free PDF book for more tips and ideas. 

The Blindfold Test!

The blindfold test is if someone put a blindfold on you ( No, this is not fifty shades of grey ) could you operate your camera? Could you turn it on, know where all the buttons are and could you change the settings without looking at your camera? If I said that your camera is in shutter priority and I want you to put it in aperture priority. Do you know which way to turn the dial? Your camera is in aperture priority at f2.8. I ask you to change the aperture to 4.0 still blindfolded! Do you know where the dial is? Do you know which way to move the dial? Do you know how many stops that is? Some of these tasks is very hard to do blindfolded but if you could, think how fast you could be without looking at your camera and always looking at the action. Your reaction time would be so fast. No one would doubt you know your camera. Sometimes you cannot tell the subject that I missed the shot so we need to redo so I can get the shot. Think sports or the Olympics. Sometimes there are no retakes. If you missed it, you missed it. 

Get Close Game!

This is for any photographer from someone who is starting out to a photographer who has been photographing for many years. I know you have heard If you don’t like the photograph you took get closer. That is alway a great idea. This game is to see how strong is a subject is from many different views. Start as far away as you can. Then get a little closer. After moving in closer get as close to your subject that allows your lens to focus. This could just be a texture of the subject because you are so close. You may end up with a few killer photographs. The composition of the closes image or somewhere close to the furtherest one away. They both may be very strong images. This will help you see what is the best distance for a particular subject.

Depending on the type of lens you use will greatly change the look of your subject. Try out different types of lenses you have. From wide to fisheye and don’t forget telephoto lenses. See what looks interesting using a fisheye lens using the close up game. You may be very surprised how using a wide lens close up will make your image look.

Photo Challenge: 365 Day Project!

Photo Challenge: 365 Day Project!

365 Day Project!

Have you heard about the 365 Day Project? Its a challenge to shoot one photo every day for a whole year. You should start shooting simple shots and as you grow by keep improving your skill. By the end of your 365 days you should be able to shoot more complicated images that you could not do when you started. This challenge may be to demanding for you because of your lifestyle. I still say give it a try. In just fifteen minutes you can shoot quite amount of quality images not quantity. By day 366 you will have learned so much and you will be a better photographer. If you want to get started check out this web site. http//365project.org 

I will be posting more photo challenges in the future but if you want more now check out my free PDF Book: pictureeyecandy@gmail.com Photography Tips & Ideas I will leave you with the link below.

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