This one was really difficult for me. It’s hard to know what expression and posture to ask people for, so I decided to publish a picture of Sheepie, my travel companion from New Zealand. I am so bad at have a lot of potential in portrait photography 😉
Other candidates (includes my mother, a lovely bike found on the street, Sheepie and my work mate):
Link to the gallery challenge.
Previous challenges:
Topic of the week: Shoot whatever inspires you. Make red the focus of the image. Don’t be afraid to be creative.
I’ve had this red playground in mind for a while since I bike past it every day. When I saw this week’s challenge, I hoped they wouldn’t remove the red lights, and they didn’t 😉 Also added a few other candidates for the challenge, all related to red and winter, as it decided to show up.
And the other candidates are:
I really had a hard time choosing only one photo from the last ones.
This may not seem traditional, but I’ve been riding through those landscapes on my bike for years. I had originally planned to bike to Little Switzerland, but work was hectic, and the weather had been chaotic. This was the only evening it wasn’t raining or windy, and I didn’t wear adequate clothes to step into the tracks (covered with a layer of mud and another layer of water on top).
I chose this photo not because I had no real choice, but because after fiddling with bracketing and HDR processing, it captured my state of mind when I finally saw the stars after several days of fog, wind, and rain.
The colour could have been a candidate for week 3 challenge, but I have something else in mind 😉 My camera aperture was locked at f/1.4 because the aperture ring was blocked, and I didn’t dare fix it in the darkness and humidity.
Other shots for the challenge:
The description was:
Start things off right with a “selfie”! Explore the self-timer setting on your camera
Oh no! I hate shooting myself; that’s why I always stay behind the camera, but let me try anyway… Add to that the humid grass and the damp air. I used my remote shutter to shoot the pictures. My original plan was to lie on the grass and shoot myself in different positions, but from the second I was set in position, I did feel the humidity going through my clothes. As soon as I got in front of the lens, I couldn’t keep a natural smile, and it got worse over the shots.
Since I love the outdoors, I thought going somewhere green and wearing something green would be appropriate. I tried different poses, holding still or being active; then I didn’t qualify jumping as a portrait photo, but it was a good exercise.
Selected photo:
My favourite photo:
But I did not qualify it as a portrait.
All candidates:
New year, new challenge. This time it won’t be a cycling goal, but a photography challenge. Thanks to Mona who helped me discover the dogwood 52 week photography challenge, so I’m in!
Happy New year everyone, and sorry this place has been left in a mess for a long time 😉