Photography Challenge - Week 7

Photo Challenges

Welcome to week 7 of our challenges - mine being reflecting on nature and Daz’s being alternative postcard. Daz also opted to take his wildcard, which was save the environment.

My challenge - Reflecting on Nature

This week’s challenge was reflecting on nature, and has not been something that I have been focused on at all. I have had some photoshoots during this past week, so these challenges have had to take a back seat.

Reflections

I wanted to get a shot with a reflection of wildlife to really fit the brief, but the only one to fit this was from day 1 of the challenge. As I say, after that the challenges had to take a back seat.

What did I enjoy?

I enjoyed getting out and doing to photoshoots for people - and not thinking about the challenges. They are still something I am interested in taking part in, however sometimes other things take priority.

Lessons to learn

Make the most of every opportunity when you get chance.

Darren’s Challenge

Darren’s challenge was alternative postcard and save the environment.

Rough road

Eerie Street

Draining city life

Annabels

Top of the tower

Green

Powered by Nature

Young Tree

In Daz’s words:

Where to begin! Another very difficult theme for the week, which at the halfway stage of the 14 themes was to be expected. At first it took me a good while to actually get the motivation to even want to tackle this theme, but as I've learnt in the 6 years I've been doing photography, days like these can and definitely do happen!.

The challenges I had on top of this continued… mostly how to actually go about what I wanted in my head to look like on camera. In the end I started looking at the idea of places or buildings that perhaps you wouldn't really see on a postcard, whether it was from a much closer angle or a completely different perspective. Eventually on the very last day of my theme I came up with another idea - looking for the name of my city in an area you wouldn't really expect on your normal ‘Welcome to Plymouth’ sign.

Most importantly despite the challenges and even motivation certain days, I did get what I was looking at for the theme.

What did Daz enjoy?

I was feeling a little low the last few days hence the lack of motivation with this theme. After getting a few shots it did get a little easier but as always the whole point in these themes and photography in general is to have fun with it, which is the most important thing.

There isn't really anything difficult regarding this theme as it's all how you decide to incorporate it and there are ideas you can certainly play.

Lessons to learn

There isn't really anything difficult regarding this theme as it's all how you decide to incorporate it and there are ideas you can certainly play.

On the wildcard… save the environment

As myself and Phil arrived at the halfway stage of our 14 week theme assignment, the idea was made about mixing it up a little..so a wildcard/bonus theme was introduced.

Now we could either choose to play the wildcard if there was a theme remaining we had that week we didn't want to tackle and in it's place the wildcard would come into play… or it could become a bonus theme. This would be if you didn't want to replace a theme and just wanted it as a bonus theme on top. I decided I would use it as a bonus theme along with my theme for week 7. I was tasked with the theme save the environment, which wasn't as easy as the title suggested.

As I mentioned regarding my Week 7 theme Alternative postcard..my BIGGEST problem was motivation, but I gave it a go. I felt I could have done more regarding this theme and perhaps I chose to tackle it at the wrong time - but most importantly I got a few photos that I felt matched the theme title.

This theme could actually be a fun one to do as a stand alone one. Whether it's solo, grouped or even getting the family involved in! It's got many ways you can tackle it, so definitely don't be afraid to get creative with it.

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.