This week’s challenge is a real challenge, huh. You’ll have to take dozens and dozens of pictures to find a decent one. It takes patience and motivation. Now, by taking a good photo, you will feel extremely satisfied and gain a lot, a lot of confidence in your photographic skills, I promise. I think this is one of the most rewarding challenges I’ve faced so far.
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?
- We have all admired the typical photographs in which a drop of water is seen falling into space.
- Or splashing after a forced landing in a pool of water.
- These are typical photos.
- But we’ve always seen something out of our reach.
- Something only professional photographers with expensive photographic equipment achieve.
Lie. Anyone with an SLR camera (no matter how rudimentary) and a little patience can take beautiful photos of water droplets worthy of the most prestigious photography magazines. Certainly, this type of photography does require a little time, for example having the morning or afternoon off or at least spending a few hours experimenting. But as I said at the beginning, this is an exercise whose results are immensely rewarding, as well as being an exercise from which you learn a lot in the technical part.
If you do not know how to make these types of photographs, read this step-by-step tutorial that I dedicated a long time ago to explaining this technique to you. If you follow the steps in the tutorial to the letter, you will succeed. Oh, and as many blog readers will try at the same time, try to find something original and make your photo stand out. For example, you can experiment with other liquids (milk, for example), or add colored light to your composition, or introduce fun accessories like a doll by looking at the drop. . . I do not know. Give it to the imagination.
To participate, upload your photo to the Facebook wall of the photographer’s blog: In the photo description, please mention the keyword “Drops Challenge” and follow a title of your choice.
For those who are not from Facebook, I have enabled the participation of new social networks.
I’m lucky.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Nothing you read on the photographer’s blog will help you unless you put it into practice.
This week we had a very cool challenge, I was afraid that everyone would end up with similar photos but I could not be more wrong, all the photos were very original in ideas, compositions, frames, colors and even in liquids: water, milk, Nesquik and paint? Thanks to everyone who practiced this exercise. Now we have well controlled the rhythm of the shot and the timing of the shot.
As usual, here is a selection of some of the participating photos
I loved this very successful shot of L Ellie, where it combines the exercise of the water drop with a nice bokeh effect that gives more importance to the drops if possible. Congratulations.