If you want to learn photography, progress over time and improve your skills, you need to expose yourself to uncomfortable photography experiences, do not look for easy photography, look for difficult situations, techniques and subjects, something uncomfortable, something that makes you think. until you find the solution. These are the weekly challenges that I call here on the photographer’s blog. Is this week’s challenge a fast-paced challenge? It has its difficulty, but once you do it, do you have it forever?
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?
- This week.
- Things are going fast.
- I want you to close your eyes.
- Think about the concept of “speed” and represent it.
- Obviously.
- Giving the feeling of speed requires photographing something “fast”.
- An action that happens fast.
- It’s a real challenge.
- How to avoid it?Is the photo blurry?or worse.
- Underexposed! (If you’re not sure.
- Check out my article on photographing speed).
I can think of endless ideas: racing, cycling, a simple wheel in motion, an illuminated speedometer, the rapid passage of a train in contrast to a subject waiting on the platform, a live car spinning at full speed . . . Any idea that conveys a sensation of fast and rapid movement really would be helpful in exercising the brain muscle in search of the proper manual setting to capture a clear and correct shot.
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?Speed challenge?followed by a title of your choice.
For those who are not from Facebook, I have enabled the participation of new social networks.
The weekly update to Challenge 17. This time, the problem was twofold: on the one hand, the technical part was not entirely simple, because to capture something “fast” you had to select a fast shutter speed, which affected a possible photo underexposure. On the other hand, it wasn’t just about photographing something quickly, but the photo had to convey something, tell a story or convey an emotion.
I really liked the creative way many of you embroidered the theme: some, to give a sense of speed, used a scenario exactly the other way around, using particularly long shooting speeds. With this you have photos that are the maximum expression of the speed of words.
I also liked the perspective game (photo by Ekaitz Arbigano) or some Photoshop settings that some of you have used to convey this idea of vertigo and high speed.
As always, and although all your photos are beautiful (and it is not done), I like to highlight a photo for its special merit. In this case, the photo cannot be other than that of Javier Pérez with Barbie. The photo is full of success: the composition is unbeatable, with a very accurate rule of thirds. I also observe that he managed to apply the gaze rule, consisting of leaving a very reasonable space on the side of the frame where the subject’s gaze is located.
The photo conveys, of course, a feeling of high speed and joy, above all.
!! Congratulations!! I like it.