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

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

Interview with Self Portrait and 365 Photographer – Anna Gay

I first came across the photography of Anna Gay on her Flickr Account when doing some research for a post on self portraiture and the 365 project. I don’t remember which image first grabbed me but do remember surfing through the work in her 365 day challenge archives and being impressed by the quality of her photography, the dedication it must take to take self portraits every day for a year (twice) and being interested to learn more about her ..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

3 Things to Know about Working in Adobe Bridge

Do you open photos direct into Photoshop or do you use Adobe Bridge? If you don’t use Bridge, there are some good reasons for changing your habits.

You may not realize it but some of how Camera Raw behaves depends on whether you open an image from Bridge or from Photoshop. Here’s how:

Freeze Photoshop or not?

Open a Raw image in Photoshop and it opens, of course, in Camera Raw. But look at the screen – Photoshop is open but ..read more

This Week in the Digital Photography School Forums (25-31 Jul ‘10)

Weekly Assignment

This week, we had another kitchen assignment and we wanted to know What’s in your Refrigerator? Sometimes it was scary, sometimes it was funny, but there were a lot of good shots this week. And if there’s one thing that always has the ability to make me smile when tallying up the assignments, it’s that we often get at least one new forum member in the top 3. But this week, all 3 of our winners had less than ..read more

YELLOW: Weekly Photography Challenge

Image by MonkeyMagic1975

This week your photography challenge is to take an share a photo on the theme of YELLOW.

We’ve done these color themes before (Red, Blue and Green) and they’ve always been very popular and a lot of fun – so lets do it again.

I’m expecting lots of pictures of lemons, cheese, butter…. (maybe it’s time I took a break for lunch), sunny days, rubber ducks and sunflowers

Once you’ve taken your “YELLOW” image, upload it to your favourite photo sharing ..read more

STAT! Weekly Photography Challenge

Your challenge this weekend is to take and share a photo on the theme of STAT!

OK – this is a bizarre topic and the reason it was selected is odd too but it originated from this thread on our Facebook page and me using the word ‘STAT!’ in my call for themes for the week.

The context I used ’stat’ in was that I needed a theme idea FAST! It’s a term often used in medical settings that apparently comes from ..read more

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