Photography Challenge - Week 6

Photo Challenges

Welcome to week 6 of our challenges - mine being worm eye view and Daz’s being photograph a tree at sunset - which he was thrilled about (sarcasm!). We also threw a bit of a spanner in the works, adding a wildcard that we can play if we don’t enjoy the challenge we have. Daz has opted to take his straight away which will be posted here next week. he will be doing this up until the next theme finishes as he took it on in addition to his assigned theme.

My challenge - Worms Eye View

For worms eye view the objective was simple, get lowwwwww. I didn’t want to have to think too much, so went for a low shot of the underside of Daz’s shoe. A bit dark perhaps, but I imagine if there’s one thing worms see a lot of, it’s the underside of shoes right before they get squashed!

The Wrong Side of the Shoe

Other than this shot, I wanted to get some looking up slightly at Smeaton’s Tower. They don’t 100% fit the brief, but the size of the structures still give a sense of scale.

Smeaton’s Tower

What did I enjoy?

I already had the idea for my shots, after mentioning the shoe shot to Daz when he was doing this theme. I opted for black and white to give it a nice bit of contrast of light and dark.

Lessons to learn

There weren’t any lessons to learn really. I pushed the ISO a bit, but with modern cameras it does not really make as much difference as it used to.

Darren’s Challenge

Darren’s challenge was photograph a tree at sunset - and from the offset the weather forecast showed it was going to be tough!

Warm Tones - The warm tones of this shot help give a sunset feel, and perfectly silhouetted the tree.

Multi-shot

Sunrays

Growth

Framed

Cloudy Sunset

Sunset Reflection

In Daz’s words:

Oh, how this theme came at the wrong time for me!

From the get go I knew this theme could be a problem. The weather mostly played a part in this, as the outlook for the week was overcast with occasional showers. I had to think long and hard on how I could manage to get photos for this theme in a week!

I chose to get creative and look at the theme differently to how it actually would normally be done. On the occasional day or two the clouds broke enough for me to get some photos and in truth they didn't look too bad.

This is the point in doing these photography themes weekly, it's design was to test the skill and creativeness of a photographer and 100% it lived up to it here!

Lessons to learn

I would be lying if I said I enjoyed this weeks theme, because I didn't! But that being said it was down to the unfortunate weather conditions that really played its part.

The best advice I can give is try to plan ahead (and keep an eye on the weather conditions) - however that shouldn't stop you from thinking or attempting something creative and outside the box.

Next week…

We have our themes for next week - and shall be revealing them when we post our next set of photos. Keep an eye out, and we can’t wait to see what the next week will bring.