On March 9, 2013, the weekly challenge was born. 4 years later, the time has come to take a turn that, dear reader, will not leave you indifferent. Read carefully what I’m telling you next because there’s also a prize at stake.
The spirit of the weekly challenge had never been for anyone to win anything, like everything we do at BdF, the intention of the weekly challenge was to motivate, promote, suggest, provoke.
Stimulate.
Inspire.
Close your eyes and then open them with an “imaginary” photograph. If the ultimate goal of BdF was to teach you how to use your camera to take good photos, the weekly challenge was the culmination of that goal. All the literature that Caro, Alexa, Iaio or I has explained here in the articles, tutorials or eBooks that we have published in BdF should serve this ultimate goal: to offer a moment of intimacy and conversation between you, your camera and the world around you.
Your special world. Imagined by you and played by your camera
During 199 weekly challenges, we saw shocking photos flying words, on more than one occasion a photo of a BdF reader stunned me, perhaps because it would explain moments, thoughts or feelings shared between this anonymous reader and me, and that I may not have been able to explain in words. I believe that when a photograph is more eloquent than any combination of words you can compose, the end of photography is achieved as a powerful and almost supernatural means of communication.
On some occasion, I even saw “side effects” that the weekly challenge caused in some people reading the blog, effects that went beyond just taking a photo. Effects like that of an inpatient reader who joined the challenge with all his strength and enthusiasm, leaving me dazed and thoughtful.
Proposing the creation of a section called “Weekly Challenge” was one of the best decisions I made at BdF. Today, after 4 years of weekly challenges, I consider called the 200th challenge: the last of the weekly challenges ?.
The previous paragraph was truncated. Did you say that this challenge, number 200, is the end of weekly challenges?
If the goal of the weekly challenge was, dear reader, that you participate with your photo creations and actively contribute your grain of sand to the blog, from next week you will have even more visibility.
The weekly challenge doesn’t go away completely. It just evolves. This changes dynamics, spawning a new format that, bloody as I am, and as you can imagine, I won’t reveal to you until next week.
I’ll just say that the new format will give you a lot more inspiration and creativity to get photos that will leave you impressed Are you preparing to create a weekly photography addiction that I hope you never retire from?
To close this series of weekly challenges, we requested the 200th challenge on the “Personal Challenge” topic. Have you ever had a certain photograph resisted for a long time?A photographic idea you imagined or saw that you wanted to execute with your camera, did the idea require a little more effort than you originally thought?We all have a photograph in our credit that we are proud as photographers, for the difficulty of taking this photo.
Which of your photos was a personal challenge for you?
Obviously, if you are going to participate with this photo in the challenge, if this photo is already a reality, it is because you have already triumphed in this particular challenge of yours. Just for participating, CONGRATULATIONS.
Show me your picture?Personal challenge? And, perhaps, you will become the winner of a prize (more details below).
As is tradition in the weekly challenge, will you be able to upload your photo to the Facebook wall of the BoF: In the photo description, thank you for mentioning the keyword?Personal challenge? Followed by a title of your choice.
You can also upload the photo via Flickr, access the group mural on the photographer’s blog and upload the photo directly. Give your photo a title and be sure to mention “Personal Challenge” in it. If you want to participate via Twitter, you can download the photo directly with the hashtag #RetoPersonalBdF
Note on image use: BdF will never take the copyright to your photo. You remain the author and the owner and the right holder. However, by participating in the weekly challenge, you give me your permission to show your photo on the blog. to other readers if you finally choose as a finalist, always mentioning yourself as the author of the photo.
As I said before, the intention of the weekly challenge is not for anyone to win or lose, but it’s about encouraging you to “create. “That’s why we never wanted to award any prizes.
That said, as the highlight of this series of 200 challenges, I will choose a winning photograph, whose author will receive a scholarship for my Mastering SLR Photography course, in addition to the full library of books from the photographer’s blog, consisting of 7 titles: 365 photography tips, 100 photography exercises, Master portrait photography, How to capture splendid landscapes , Black and White Photography Guide, Composition and Lightbook.
The photograph will also be published on the blog next week with the mention of its author.
That is all for now. Good luck to all and see you next week with the results of? Personal challenge? (Thursday). On Friday I will announce the new format with a new call.
Good picture
Few weekly challenges took me as long to close a selection as this time. The quality of the photos presented made this selection my particular “personal challenge”. To say, the fact that this is the last of the weekly challenges has not helped much. You can’t imagine the responsibility of composing a selection like this for which it will be the last weekly challenge, when most of the photos uploaded were at least “excellent”.
That said, here’s my final selection. Believe me, not seeing your photo here means absolutely nothing, I was forced to leave dozens of photos because otherwise there would be too many photos, and here the idea is simply to show a small representative selection.
I had a hard time choosing a winning photograph. I hesitated among several: Grandpa’s photo is impressive, the couple’s silhouette is one of the most expressive, those of the stars in the Milky Way show a beautiful performance of the long pose, and then could it continue?. Objectively one of the photos from this week’s selection could be perfectly the winning photo. They all contain a beautiful story inside, expressed through a magnificent photographic representation.
However, one of the most reliable ways to know which photo I liked most is usually the time I spend looking at it; when I enjoy a photo, I watch it for a long time, seconds and seconds scrolling through the photo. I’m capable of being like this for minutes. This happened to me with the photo of Clara’s posters, titled “His fidelity is infinite. “I am not a big fan of pets to say the least, but I was completely estranged by the shape and content of this photograph as I rarely felt before looking at the image of a dog.
The first thing I noticed was the dog’s gaze, thanks to the successful selective approach that brings your gaze directly into his eyes, then I looked around the animal’s face, reviewing all its details, finally fixing my gaze on the rest. of his body and appreciating the softness of his fur. As for the composition, if you look closer, there is a marked oblique line that divides the frame, and goes from the dog’s head, passing all its back to the bottom of the frame. The time of day helped a lot, not only to get a proper exposure of the photo or to give it a nice warm tone, but also because of the aura that light provided around the silhouette of the animal.
Like I said, few pictures of animals made me stop so long to read the story. Clara and the “infinite loyalty” of the main animal delighted me and made her worthy of being named “winner” of this weekly challenge. Congratulations?
As promised in the appeal, Clara will receive a scholarship to access the master’s degree in reflex photography as well as the full library of books from the photographer’s blog, in addition, the Weekly Challenge is transformed into a new format that I will make known tomorrow in a Photography of Clara will have the honor of paving the way for this new format, I can not tell you more , but will you have any doubts tomorrow?
As always, good photography!