I bring you a new theme for you to choose your camera and practice your favorite pastime: photography.
Our Photoretum aims to encourage you to practice photography, encourage you every week to spend time with your camera and unleash your creativity while practicing and learning.
- The concept of Fotoreto is very simple: every Friday I will propose a new video photo theme.
- Sometimes I will show you an example of a photo to inspire you.
- Other times I will only give you a clue or a tip that can be applied when making the Photoretum.
Each time, you will have 7 days to participate in the Photoretum of the week in question, until the following Thursday, download it to your favorite social network (Instagram, Facebook, Twitter or Flickr) once we have posted the call and not to mention the hashtag or tag corresponding to the Photoreto in question. This week will be Photoreto9.
Each week, we select a winning photo. The photo author will get his favorite book from our BdF eBook library.
When you participate in the Fotoretum, we understand that you allow the photographer’s blog to publish your photo, under no circumstances do you give us your copyright, the author of the photograph and who maintains the exclusivity of the copyright is you.
Many of us think that photography is the art of showing what others do not see, with this Photoretum we take it to the letter, because we offer macro photography, so you can capture what is not visible to the naked eye.
If you don’t have a macro lens, we remind you that you can use the reversal rings, a cost-effective option to wear any lens, simply fast fix the ring and place the lens face down.
Another option is to buy lenses for your smartphone that are usually very cheap and explore and experiment with macro are very interesting.
When you upload your photo to Instagram, Facebook, Twitter or Flickr with the hashtag Fotoreto9, we’ll review all the images you upload to all four platforms from this article.
I’m waiting for your picture
We already have the result of the fotoreto9 in which you showed an incredible level, you can see all the photos in the different galleries: Instagram, Flickr, Facebook and Twitter.
The winning photo is this huge grasshopper belonging to Beto Aguilera (@betoaguilerag):
I chose this super macro for essentially two reasons, the first is because of its level of execution which is flawless, in terms of color, focus, depth of field and lighting; and the second for that defiant look of the grasshopper.
From the first part I highlight the depth of field obtained since it attracts attention as a macro, surely used a focus bracketing, also the lighting that shows the detail, but at the same time does not cancel out the volume and allows us to see even the hairs of the legs and back of the grasshopper (they can be called otherwise , but our thing is photography, not biology, do I apologize?).
I will now move on to the less technical and less obvious aspect, and even if it is a well-executed macro it would not be enough to draw our attention, however, the perspective from which it was taken, for example, puts us head-on. to face an insect that challenges us, who seems to pose in an arm position in jugs, this position therefore of a person who evokes the challenge, and who seems to humanize the insect. I also like the diagonal composition that gives it dynamism and reinforces the tension of the challenge. Congratulations Beto, this is a fantastic photo!
Tomorrow new Fotoretum, this time within everyone’s reach, without excuses of goals or anything like that;). I’m waiting for your picture!