Challenge 10 - Long Exposure
OCTOBER
This month’s challenge is to utilise your shutter speed to create an image that has smoothed out movement from a longer shutter speed. It could be a 30” landscape or a 1/20th second panning shot, I just want to see the mastery of longer exposures!
My submission is a capture of Francesco Bagnaia at Phillip Island, using a slow shutter speed to freeze the frame. I have utilised the crowd and officials to fill the foreground and frame the shot. There is a bit of competition in the shot for colour but I like it this way.
This wasn't an easy shot to capture but I attended the event with this very shot in mind for this Challenge. Unfortunately, as is always the case, things did not go as planned.
The weather was quite poor and I had to wait long into the afternoon, which not only allowed a bit more light to hit the sensor but I also had more spectators to deal with but it is certainly one that I am happy with and I am pleased with how it unfolded.
Challenge 5 - Stop, Crop and Chop it!
MAY
This month’s challenge is to look at the world in a more isolated way. Rather than taking photos with the whole subject visible, I want you to think about the reason you are photographing that particular subject in the first place and then use your zoom (or feet) to crop out parts of the subject that don’t add to your story.
This doesn’t mean you can’t retain some of the background, I just don’t want to see the entire subject, I want look at your image and immediately know what I’m supposed to be taking in from it.
My submission is a capture of a Little pied-Cormorant which I have captured previously. Over a period of time I have noticed that the same bird returned to the very same location, each and every morning. Approximately 12 months previously I captured an almost identical image of the behaviour.
When this Challenge come up it was the first thing that come to mind and I returned over a number of day and waited patiently for my subject to return and perform the same behaviour of drying and stretching.
Images Pending
APRIL
Basic instructions for the challenge: Long Lens
1. Find a scene that you absolutely love (can be ANY genre)
2. Use a wide angle (or wider angle lens, not specific) to shoot the scene3. Change to a longer zoom lens (or just zoom your current lens in) and stand back further in your scene so that the subject matter is the same in the foreground and reshoot the image
4. Touch them up in Lightroom to polish your final products and submit them on the link above using the export sessions below
My submission is pending.
Challenge 3 2024 - Transition an image from colour to Black & White
MARCH
WHAT IS THIS MONTHS CHALLENGE? TRANSITION
Find a favourite colour image or go out and take one!
Why this challenge? I personally feel like seeing your work in a different light can really open up creative possibilities. Stripping the colour back makes you really focus on light, shape and textures and can transform your images in ways you might not realise :-)
I have chosen an image I captured during an NRL game in Melbourne where I believe that the Transition to Black and White presents a much more 'Powerful' images.
Challenge 2 2024 - Environmental Portrait
FEBRUARY
Components to factor in for this Challenge: The key techniques for this challenge are to ensure that the environment you’re photographing the person in really reflects that persons story. Think about objects that might be placed with them, backgrounds behind them and objects in the foreground as well.
I have chosen to capture Marcus LaDelle in his main environment and utilsed the reflection in his Sunglasses to offer further context to what that environment is.
Challenge 1 2024 - Capture an images that reflects how you seen Summer when you were young
JANUARY
1. Make sure your idea is realistic (if it involves flying to another state then pivot)
2. Don’t let the settings or technical part overwhelm you. A solid idea in auto will always beat technical perfection of a poorly formed idea.
3. There is no ‘wrong’ in photography, it’s art
4. If you can’t find the creative spark, open an old photo album and draw inspiration from a the past. Deconstruct it by writing down the lighting direction, the height it was taken, the type of lens you think was used etc. Learning to copy a photo is a powerful step to creating your own original.
4. If you can’t find the creative spark, open an old photo album and draw inspiration from a the past. Deconstruct it by writing down the lighting direction, the height it was taken, the type of lens you think was used etc. Learning to copy a photo is a powerful step to creating your own original.
My summer youth was spent at Altona Beach, jumping off the pier with my friends, over and over again. Piercing hot sun and everything, so, so hot and bright. Although the pier has now changed the desire to jump off the pier into the cooling water does not appear to have reduced.