We are already in the ninth of our weekly challenges (here are the previous challenges). This week’s challenge: silhouettes.
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 will have a week to upload your photo (one photo per participant), until Friday of the following week, on Saturday I will update the article with the photo that most captivated me and propose a new theme, and so on?
- Silhouettes triumph in photography because they “suggest” the image.
- Convey the idea or story in a subtle way.
- Make us think for a fraction of a second.
- They do not allow us to see the subject.
- But simply suggest its shape.
- Size and contours.
- Letting our brain guess who or what this silhouette occupies.
- Everything happens in milliseconds.
- We don’t realize the process.
- We just know that we love this silhouette photo?.
Today’s challenge is silhouettes, a technique that can be combined with any photographic theme you want to work on. If you’ve never taken these kinds of photos, I’d like you to participate in the Challenge, will you see how easy it is?(be sure to read this article/step-by-step tutorial, before getting to work). You can take any photo you want, take portraits of people, pets or even shoot a burger. The subject or object itself is free to choose, the only premise to respect is that it is a photo of silhouettes. Remember, the challenge is not to produce a beautiful photo, but to practice technique and learn.
To participate, you must upload the photo to Facebook: In the description of the photo, please mention the keyword? Silhouette challenge? followed by a title of your choice.
For those who are not from Facebook, I have enabled the participation of new social networks.
You’re going to ruin the postcard business. Who still wants to buy postcards with the photographic works that you uploaded this week to the Facebook wall (Flickr and Twitter too)? I was fascinated by the wealth of creativity you put into it, you got jobs that did not envy a good business postcard by any rule. In fact, I would suggest that more than one of you take a serious look at selling them through a stock photo page because they are amazing.
As always, CONGRATULATIONS to all. Here is a small selection as a sample of the talents we have here on the blog:
I especially admire people who make a difference. This is what the author of this photo, Estrella de la Maza, did. Starting from a central theme, that of Silhouettes, he participated with a photo whose main object is another, a ring, but always with a secondary background theme that is the silhouette of the subject. The photo is PERFECTLY composed, with the rule of thirds applied to both the walking subject and the ring. In addition, the photo tells a story, perhaps brief, a kind of micro-story, but a story at the end of the day. This does not leave you indifferent. You look at it and think of something. Cold.