There are photos in which the sky changes from a simple accessory decoration to the place of the main character. Heaven is the subject of our challenge for this week.
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. The themes will be offered on Saturday, so you have the whole weekend to work. You’ll have one week to upload your photo (one photo per participant), until Friday of the following week. Friday or Saturday I will update the article with the photo that most captivated me and propose a new theme, and so on?
- Without a doubt.
- The sky is one of the elements that weighs the most in an outdoor photograph.
- Whether intentionally or not.
- Each time we take the sky out of a photo.
- It will influence the final idea.
- Tone.
- Message or emotion that we are trying to convey.
- In your photos outdoors.
- The sky can be a great ally.
- Reinforcing the idea you want to convey.
- Since it can be a dangerous enemy and load the frame with an unwanted feeling that is very different from the one you were trying to convey.
- If you want to master outdoor photography.
- The sky is an element that you cannot leave unattended in this type of composition.
The challenge this week is to make the sky the main protagonist of the photo. Let your imagination fly: if it is a cloudy day you can experiment a bit with HDR, if the sky is full of sporadic clouds here and there, you may want to incorporate a polarizing filter to improve the contrast of the sky with the clouds. And how about a “black and white photograph of the sky”? Yes Yes. You dare?
Any photograph where the sky is the main subject, even in the context of a landscape, will qualify for this week’s challenge.
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 “Heaven Challenge” followed by a title of your choice.
For those who are not from Facebook, I have enabled the participation of new social networks.
Thank you for your participation
As is tradition, today is the update of the article with “paradisiacal portraits” in which the readers of the blog have participated throughout this week. The blog’s editorial team chose 13 photographs that seemed to represent the different ways a photographer can immortalize a sky: a starry sky, an HDR sky, a reflected sky, and even the Northern Lights?
It becomes really difficult to choose a prominent photograph. The reason is that no photograph is truly a “winner” over the others. If the grace of the weekly challenges is to participate, practice and improve. Get inspired by the work of other book lovers. But if I had to stick with a photo of the sky from this week, I would choose “From Peru” by John Llatas. I don’t like sepia very much, I lean more towards pure black and white, but I have to acknowledge the merit of photography in terms of composition: a certain balance has been achieved between the two most predominant areas of the photo, white. sky in the upper left corner and dark earth / mountain in the lower right corner.
No picture is perfect. The sun area looks a little burnt, but that doesn’t take anything away from the beautiful photo obtained by the author.
At first glance, it seems that the subject, the young man with open arms, concentrates all the prominence of the photo, nothing further from the truth: the subject comes down to a subtle silhouette, and his open arms, only signals and recreates the greatness of the immense sky.
A magnificent photo without a doubt.