Instagram fans and lifelong Polaroids are lucky, today’s challenge is not a specific topic or technique, it’s capturing a square image. The rest, do you have a great chance to prove its benefits?
Every week I will propose a new challenge, it is a topic that you will have to capture in a 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. from portraits to macro photography, landscapes, black and white photography, or babies. Topics will be offered on Fridays, so you have the whole weekend to work. You will have one week to upload your photo (one photo per participant), until Thursday of the following week. On Thursday I will update the article with the photo that captivated me the most and on Friday I will propose a new theme so that you have the whole weekend to capture your images, etc.
- This week I am not going to give you a specific topic.
- Or practice a specific technique.
- But use the square format.
- If you are one of those who take photos with your phone.
- You will most likely have this option when shooting.
- To photograph with an SLR or similar.
- You will have to do it thinking of a square frame and then cut it in an editor.
- But it is very important that before shooting.
- You are already thinking about how your square photo looks.
- What do you want? I am going to skip it.
- Because if you try to cut an image that you have composed in the standard format later.
- It is very likely that you will be disappointed.
- The composition is quite different.
With square formatting you can also apply the rule of thirds or look, some differences are, for example, that here an object in the center can have much more power than in a standard format and that the symmetries also work very well (yes, try not to be boring). If you want inspiration take a look at Instagram, it’s a paradise for square images. And show what you know about photography, don’t just put an image in a square; Q You can go much further!
As usual, to participate in this week’s challenge, take your photo to the Facebook wall of the photographer’s blog: in the photo description, please mention the keyword?Square Format Challenge? Followed by a title of your choice.
For those who are not from Facebook, I have enabled the participation of new social networks.
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And here are the squares full of stories we selected this week in short, I hope you like them as much as I do!
This week I want to highlight the photograph of Jesús Llinas, “Concert GR”. Taking a great concert photograph in the middle of the audience is not as easy as it seems and yet he did. You have in front of you a fantastic black and white, very well worked and that also goes very well with the scene. It highlights the texture of the smoke and favors the play of lights and shadows on the stage. On the other hand, the composition is impeccable, as if it had placed the musicians in the strategic place. He used the law of the horizon very well and with the naked eye you can not see, but if you look closely there are two overlapping triangles (one up, the foreground heads to the singer’s head as the top; another inverted, formed by the lights of the second row and the smoke and whose top falls under his feet). This overlay forms a diamond that frames the center of interest, the singer, who is also framed by smoke and lights. In my opinion, this composition stands out precisely for being a square format. Congratulations Jesus, great job!