2015...another year to capture in photographs. I am excited about beginning a new year, and I hope you are too. If one of your resolutions is to learn your camera, and/or to take better photos, then you have come to the right spot. This year our challenges will be two-fold, like they were when we first started. One month will be a creative assignment, the next month a technical.
The photo challenges are designed to help you grow in your camera skills, basic composition, and make you more comfortable, and familiar with your camera. It is not a contest. It is for your growth, and the pleasure of looking at your photos. Your participation, and perspective will inspire others, encourage creativity, all the while sharpening your photographic skills and eye. In order to learn, and get better, you must practice. What better way, or place than with our photo club. It would thrill my heart if we had 100% participation. (maybe you all could do this as a birthday present to me...in June). Please make it one of your goals for 2015 to participate fully in the photo challenges.
Basic outline of 2015 photo challenges. (Please know these maybe subject to change due to workshops, and activities around Roswell)
January- creative: sunrise or sunset...beginning/ending
February-technical: Filling the frame
March-creative: Spring is in the air
April-technical: Frame a picture
May-creative: Doors
June-technical: Depth of field (aperture priority)
July-creative: iphoneography
Aug-technical: shutter priority
Sept-creative: try to copy a photo you have seen online/in a magazine, or other media
Oct-technical-low light
Nov-creative-photograph your favorite subject
Dec-technical or creative: show your best photo for the year. Archived or current
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This month it will be a technical assignment. We will be concentrating on "filling the frame." While the setting is important in a photograph, sometimes our artistic intention is to draw full attention to our subject. Filling the frame edge to edge by moving closer, zooming, or cropping the image in post-processing eliminates background distractions, and forces the viewer to examine the subject in close detail.
(Note: all photos by Rob McKelvy unless otherwise noted)
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| Photograph by Rebecca Cull...from iheartfaces website |
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| taken with and edited with an iPhone |
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| One for the wall photography (iheartfaces website). I love the pinks here. |
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| Balloons photographed by our own Oscar |
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| bird -photographed by Cliff |
Filling the frame is often used in macro photography to isolate important details...
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| photo by Cliff |
1. No archival photos. The photos must be between the January and February meetings.
2. Any medium is accepted: print (matted, framed, unframed), jump drive, or CD
3. No more than 2 photos for the challenge
4. Please be prepared to explain how you took the shot, any post-processing, editing you did, and know basic info ISO, aperture, shutter speed.
Grab your camera, fill that frame, and click away. I cannot wait to see what you photograph!
