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2018 Photography Challenge Week 30 – The Five Elements

July 28, 2018 By: Nanette

Week 30 of the Photography Challenge is one I have never seen before – The Five Elements (earth, wood, fire, water, metal). Wow, I am not even sure where to start on this one. But I will at least give it a shot. Wish me luck.

I couldn’t get all five elements in but I was out and about and we stopped to eat pizza and it gave me the perfect opportunity to take a photo which included at least a couple of the five elements – fire and metal.

five elements challenge

We’ve been before and as I was going through some photos I found one I had posted on Instagram some time ago. In that shot, I included three elements – fire, metal and wood.

five elements photography challenge

Summer is almost over and life is starting to pick up again so I’m really going to have to work harder at getting all these challenges in on time.

Now it’s time to start thinking about the next challenge – Week 31 – Guess what it is. This should be fun. See you soon with the next challenge.

2018 Photography Challenge – Weeks 28 and 29

July 18, 2018 By: Nanette

Week 28 Photography Challenge – Golden Hour

Week 28 of the 2018 photography challenge was just that, a challenge. Why? Well, let’s think about this for a second shall we? For one thing, I have teenagers. And two, its summer! That combination alone pretty much tells me there is no way I’m going to get one of my teenagers much less both of them up early to capture them in the morning’s golden hour.

All that meant was that there was not going to be any willing human subject in this week’s challenge. So I had to go find a willing subject ok, one who wouldn’t at the very least still be asleep. But that didn’t happen. Even the cats wouldn’t cooperate so I have no choice but to skip this one for now. I will get it done though eventually. Someone has to wake up early someday, don’t they?

(No golden hour photo here) – yes, I’m sad. I was really hoping to knock this one out of the park.

Week 29 High Contrast

Initially, I was thinking about black and white photography for this challenge. Darkest darks and brightest whites but then I realized, it isn’t just about darkest darks and brightest whites, I could use color as well. So this was my attempt. The color contrast vs. the bright white background.

2018 week 29 high contrast photo challenge

To say I’m a bit discouraged at the moment with these two what I see as failed challenges is an understatement. But I’m trying to remind myself that these challenges are for learning, they are for pushing me to work hard on what I want from my photography. They are my opportunity for learning so, I’m going to keep working on them on my own and hopefully, I’ll get to where I would like for them to be.

But for now, I’ve got to pick myself up, dust myself off and move forward on to the next photography challenge and hope I do better.

 

Photography Challenge Week 26: Use a Mirror

July 1, 2018 By: Nanette

I did it! I finally caught up on the 52 week photography challenge I started very late. I’m up to week 26 which had me stumped ’cause it was “use a mirror”.  And wow did this challenge stump me. I couldn’t for the life of me figure out how to make this work.

No matter how hard I tried, it was bad shot after bad shot. This was out of focus or that was out of focus or they just looked silly. Don’t believe me, just take a look. I warn you though, these are straight out of the camera. They weren’t worth editing.

mirror photo challenge

I just couldn’t figure this one out. I kept tinkering and tinkering, changing subjects and camera settings, googling and youtubing? YouTubing? Is that a word? Well, you know what I mean. It just wasn’t working for me. But that’s ok, I can’t expect to do well on every challenge, that’s the whole point of challenging yourself. It’s how we grow.

mirror use in photography

And yes if I want to master this type of photography then it will require me to keep practicing, keep pushing myself until I get it figured out.

photography challenge use a mirror

But until I get really good at using a mirror in my photography attempts, these will have to do.

use a mirror photography challenge

Onward to the next challenge. Ok, I admit, secretly I’m hoping it is easier. We shall see. But before I go, I want to know, have you ever tried using a mirror in your photographs? Was it easy for you? Got any tips you want to share? Obviously, I could use a little help.

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