After 15 challenges (check them out here), today we go for 16. If I call it a challenge this time, it’s because it really is. Let’s play with something dangerous, which is the photographer’s main enemy: darkness. Do you dare, keep reading?
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 Saturday, so you have the entire weekend to work. You will have one week to upload your photo (one photo per participant), until Friday of the following week. Saturday I will update the article with the photo that captivated me the most and I will propose a new topic, and so on?
- If it’s hard.
- It can’t be easy.
- Can it?The purpose of these challenges is to get us out of our “comfort zone”.
- The kind of photos we have always taken.
- And approach a more difficult photographic technique or theme.
- This is the only real way to learn.
- You don’t learn by taking photography classes or reading tutorials with a lot of theory on a blog.
- You learn by putting everything into practice.
Today I want to invite you to experience the darkness. This feared enemy of all photographers. Let’s challenge it. I want you to ditch the generous light sources and try to take a “decent” photo in low light. It can be the light of the moon, a candle or an external light that reaches the subject in very small amounts. The important thing is that it is a very low light scene, and that you can capture a decent photo.
You will get a dark photo, sometimes it will lengthen the shutter time, but soon you will notice that the photo is blurry. You have to play with the ISO, but cautiously so as not to fill the photo with ISO noise. You must place the camera on a tripod or stable surface. Either way, it’s going to be a really fun game. This is a starting point for fighting the dark.
If you overcome the challenge, few photos will resist you more
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?Defiance of darkness, followed by a title of your choice.
For those who are not from Facebook, I have enabled the participation of new social networks.
To photograph in the dark you have to have a nose, darkness is the photographer’s main enemy. And if a photo in low light is already difficult (you risk getting a blurry, blurry, isolating photo full of ISO noise, or just too dark), adding the creativity it puts into it is worth applauding.
I loved “Depositing Smoke” by Kevin Padilla. Not only does it defy unfavorable low-light conditions by producing a magnificent, perfectly lit work, it also goes further by playing with composition and inducing a certain “illusion” in the photo. Notice how easy it was to direct the smoke down – flipping the photo.
Simple but beautiful.