This week a double challenge, do you like challenges?I hope this is the best way to learn. Today I challenge you to create a portrait and also “stolen”.
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. On Fridays topics will be offered, so you have the whole weekend to work. You’ll 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 most captivated me and on Friday I propose a new theme so that you have all weekend to capture your images, etc.
- In our effort to make you learn and practice the advice we give you from the blog.
- This week I suggest you practice the stolen portrait.
- For this you can follow the advice that Alexa gave you in this article or mario’s in this one.
As I said at the beginning of the challenge, it is a double challenge, since the stolen portrait is something that usually costs by shame or fear that they can protest, however, it is a great exercise to practice observation, the rate of shooting and, above all, capture the essence of a person you do not know but who with a single gesture , a look or physical characteristic can help you tell us a lot about it. Are you up to the challenge? I know you won’t let me down.
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?Stolen Portrait Challenge? Followed by a title of your choice.
Those of you who are not from Facebook have the following social networks to participate in.
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Wow, how do you level up!Here’s a brief summary of the fantastic stolen portraits received. Thank you for your contribution.
Today I seriously hesitated between several images and in the end these two “Ladies of the curtain” convinced me. Among other reasons, because the smile does not disappear from my face. I find their expressions so funny when they are “caught”! These two gestures captured in a natural environment (the bars of the windows) seem formidable to me. The most reliable clue that this is not a stolen hostel? The treatment of black and white is very good and the composition is very interesting with the play made by the lines of the curtains, bars and windows; diagonal, horizontal and vertical; in black and white. It may seem disappointing that full faces are not visible, but I find that this gives the image a point. You see exactly what you have to see, you don’t need more, you can imagine the rest. The lady on the left seems to me to be the true center of interest although she is a little more veiled by the reflection of the glass, but the place where she is in the frame, the gesture of fear and a pearl necklace that ‘that cannot maintain dignity of its owner, give it absolute importance. So much the gaze is directed towards the lady on the right, so much it always turns to that frightened eye, which is used to “looking” at the peace of the neighbors through the curtains but who felt spied on for once? Congratulations Ignacio!