My Camera and I: Weekly Photography Challenge

Image by GiselaGiardino

Your challenge this weekend is to take and share a photo of you with your camera.

Yep – it’s self portrait time – but we want to not only see you (or part of you – you can have some anonymity if you prefer) but also your prize and joy – your camera (whatever it might be).

To take it you might need to set yourself up in front of a mirror (although I’m sure those of you with two ..read more

Your Favorite Subject: Weekend Photography Challenge

Image by Éole

This week your photographic challenge is to photograph your ‘favorite subject’ and share the image with us.

Most photographers that I talk to have a subject that they just keep coming back to – whether it be a person, a landscape location, pet or some other kind of subject matter (I have one friend who just loves to photograph shoes and another who likes taking photos of himself jumping on beds…. yep…. beds).

So this weekend you’re invited to go ..read more

IMPERFECTION: Weekly Photography Challenge

This week your photographic challenge is to take and share a photo with the them of ‘Imperfection’.

I is for…. (Image by Abe and Linna Novy)

Feel free to interpret the topic in any way that you wish! Perhaps the photo itself with be imperfect, perhaps it’s a picture of something that isn’t quite perfect (or that is far form it) or perhaps you have some other take on it (I’ve made so many mistakes today that I’m considering a self portrait).

Once ..read more

How to Be a Curious Photographer

Photo by -bwr-

A few months ago I wrote a post on how curiosity is a characteristic of great photographers.

I was rereading this post earlier this week and began to ask myself a few questions:

How do some people end up more curious than others? Is Curiosity a personality trait or can it be learned? How can I be more curious?

As I pondered these questions I thought of the images that I see each day on Flickr’s interestingness pages (the shots in this post ..read more

Motion Blur: Weekly Photography Challenge

Image by Norma Desmond

As a followup to our post this week on Motion Blur – I thought it might be a good this week for our challenge to be on that topic. As a result – your challenge is to take a picture that has motion blur in it.

You might like to tackle one of the 13 places we suggested where you can catch Motion blur or try a project of your own (pretty much anything that moves could create ..read more

What is Your Post Production Workflow?

One of the questions I get asked a lot by readers is for a suggested workflow for the post processing of images in Photoshop/Lightroom/Aperture (insert your favourite post production software here).

I thought it might make an interesting discussion to invite readers to describe their own workflow for processing images.

For some I suspect it’ll be pretty haphazard and quite different every time, others still will do very little post production while others will have a system that they follow with every ..read more

Lightroom – Filters or Smart Collections?

A Guest Post by Nick Rains

Once you have added more and more images to your Lightroom catalogue it becomes less easy to find a particular image from the many thousands you have imported. Fortunately, being a digital asset manager Lightroom includes some powerful tools for searching.

You could start with the Library > Find menu item which works pretty well but is limited to searching from metadata fields in all your images. It’s powerful enough to include options for ‘contains’, ..read more

FOOD: Weekly Photography Challenge

Your challenge this week is to take a photograph (and share it) on the theme of Food. It should be something we can all do on some level as we all do eat so most days there should be some opportunity to capture that activity!

If you’re looking for some inspiration check out some of our archives on how to do food photography:

Food Photography – an Introduction Getting Started in Food Photography 10 Tips for Mouth Watering Food Photography A Basic Food Photography Kit

Once ..read more

Rebellion: Three Successfully Broken Rules of Photographic Composition

Yesterday, I posted the four rules of composition I can’t live without. Rules are made to be broken, right?

Right. But you can’t break these rules until you can master them. So now that we’ve had a few days to contemplate these rules (or perhaps you’re already a photographer who harnesses the powers of composition with ease) I’d like to pose a few thoughts on the breaking of these rules. The only one I’m going to leave out is the ..read more

Close to Home: Weekly Photography Challenge

This week your challenge is to take and share an image on the theme of ‘close to home’.

This bounces off our post earlier today – 5 Photo Ideas for Shooting Close to Home – but you could also interpret it any way that you want and do something a little more abstract on the theme of Home.

Once you’ve taken your “Close to Home” image, upload it to your favourite photo sharing site and either share a link to it below ..read more

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