Look, every time I challenge differently, you find a new excuse: that if I don’t have anyone to ask me for the portrait, that if I don’t have Christmas lights to make Bokeh, only if I don’t have that, that if I don’t have it anymore. It’s over? This time, if you have a pen, paper and a camera (any, it doesn’t matter if it’s not SLR), you can participate today. Are you ready for the challenge? Keep reading.
Every week I will propose a new challenge, it is a topic that you will have to capture in photo and upload it to the Facebook page of the blog by putting in the description the keyword that I will indicate for each topic. Topics range from portraits to macrophotography, landscapes, black and white photography, or babies. The themes will be offered on Saturday, so you have the whole weekend to work. You will have a week to upload your photo (one photo per participant), until Friday of the following week, on Saturday I will update the article with the photo that most captivated me and propose a new theme, and so on?
- Word photography is one of the most powerful ways I can think of to have an emotional effect on people.
- Written and photographed words have enormous power over the recipient.
- And don’t tell me “that’s why I’m going to write you a word.
- And give it directly “because it’s not the same.
- It is done more by photographing a written note than with the note written directly.
- Photographing written words is an absolute photograph.
- And therefore obeys all known photographic rules of composition.
- Exhibition.
- Etc.
- In the end it’s a kind of “portrait” of the word.
- You can play with depth of field.
- Focus attention on a specific part of the sentence or word.
- Blur a part of a word and thus create curiosity in the viewer.
- Leave some blurry lights at the bottom of the frame thus marking a beautiful bokeh effect.
- Or.
- Why not.
- Add characters or objects that can add some chicha to the story you want to tell.
Think of a story, an emotion, a feeling, something you want to tell. Write it on a sheet of paper, a napkin, a cloth. Express it in one or more words. Photograph it. Or you may want to scratch it a bit before photographing it to convey a sense of insecurity. And with a few drops of water on the ink, wouldn’t they look like tears . . . ? Or maybe you want to put petals near him and thus convey affection. Perhaps the message you want to transcribe in the palm of your hand, or it is already written on the front of a truck and you just need to represent it.
Word photography opens up a world of possibilities when it comes to creating a story, as you can see, this week is a very fun challenge and helps us to always approach our photos with a story in mind Do you join the challenge?
To participate, take your photo to the Facebook wall of the photographer’s blog: In the photo description, please mention the keyword?Word Challenge? Followed by the title of your choice.
For those who are not from Facebook, I have enabled the participation of new social networks.
Welcome to the Challenge. Impress me!
I guess photography is kind of poetry. Instead of producing words, you’re producing photos. But the goal is the same: to portray a situation, to influence, to convince, to move, to impress, to move. The combination of word photography that occurred to me as a challenge for this week was, as expected, explosive. Throughout this week, has the blog wall been filled with messages of love, pain, joy and even sociopolitical dismay?Here are some examples.
I loved the photography of Concepción. Without departing from the main premise of the challenge, the words, he achieved an exquisite portrait / word combination. I guess the photo was processed and edited a bit using Photoshop or some other digital editing program which resulted in a wonderful piece of art. The idea is very original and has been put into practice in a very ingenious way. Looking at the photo makes you feel like you’re spying on the character a bit, like you can really make out the letters from his handwriting a bit without understanding exactly what he’s writing. A game of mystery and curiosity that deserves congratulations.