We landed on challenge 100. With it I will test your ability to focus on what matters most in a photograph. The most critical element in a photograph. Will you know how to work it? What will it be...?
Do you accept "the mission"?
HOW DOES IT WORK? (REMINDER)
Every week I will propose a new challenge , it is a topic that you will have to capture in a photograph and upload it to the Facebook page of the blog, putting in the description the keyword that I will indicate for each topic. The themes will be varied, from portraits to Macro photography, going through landscapes, black and white photography, or babies. The topics will be proposed on Saturdays, so that you have the whole weekend to work on them. You will have one week to upload your photograph (one photo per participant), until Friday of the following week. On Friday or Saturday I will update the article with the photo that has captivated me the most and I will propose a new topic, and so…
WEEKLY CHALLENGE 100: FROM PHOTOGRAPHER TO ALIEN
Photography is undoubtedly, at least for me, the best form of expression ever and ever. Photography does not obey linguistic, aesthetic or cultural borders. Photography is above all communication . For a photograph to exist there must be two parties, photographer and spectator.
Do you realize that photography is probably the best communication vehicle man can have if one day we come across extraterrestrial beings? With a letter written in human language, some symbols, gestures, sounds or even dances we would not go very far. But a photograph would surely attract the alien's attention. He would convey a message to her. It will be a very basic, primitive message and everything you want, but it will arrive. No translation would be needed.
This is the power that your camera contains. It is not a simple tool for superficially aesthetic purposes. Photography is not a show for the show itself. Photography is above all communication. Messages.
We have already had 100 Weekly Challenges in which we have challenged your technique, inviting you to work on aspects such as light, contrast, photographic techniques and themes of all kinds. Today I challenge you to focus your skills on what matters most in a photograph: the story. The message. Impress us with a photograph with a very clear message, this time I invite you to focus on telling a story, producing a feeling. touch a fiber Convey an emotion.
If humanity were to make contact with some aliens, they were to do so by delivering a photograph, a single photograph, and they were to do it only once, and if the photographer to whom they entrust such an interstellar task (that of proposing the photograph) were you, what photograph would you submit?
The Weekly Challenge number 100 is a totally free theme and technique challenge. The only requirement is that you work on a great photograph. Choose what you consider most important to convey to the alien on duty. It doesn't have to be the photograph of something epic and grand. Or if. Let it be the photograph of what you want. The inhabitants of the Earth have unconditionally voted for you as a photographer and we will gladly accept the photograph that you propose. Feel free, but photograph what you see as important to convey. Don't just portray it, give it meaning and meaning.
Make the Alien feel something, open his eyes (how many he has), make his heart beat if he has one.
Finally, when uploading your photograph, give it a title related to this context.
As usual, to participate in this week's challenge upload your photo to the Facebook wallfrom the Photographer's Blog: In the description of the photo please mention the keyword “Alien Challenge” followed by a title of your choice.
ALTERNATIVE MEANS TO PARTICIPATE
For those of you who are not from Facebook, I have enabled new social networks to participate.
- Flickr: Accessing the Photographer's Blog Group Wall and uploading the photo directly. Give your photo a caption and be sure to mention “Alien Challenge” in it.
- Twitter: uploading the photo directly to Twitter with the hashtag #RetoExtraterresteBdF
Happy photography.
UPDATE
I am about to leave the earth. I have hundreds of images recorded on my retina. It is not easy to choose a final photograph, the one that will represent my tribe of humans on an unknown planet, populated by extraterrestrial creatures. This week's was, without a doubt, a very difficult challenge. Unlike other challenges, this time it was not about choosing the photograph with the best technique, with the best light or the best composition. It was about selecting the photograph that best and most communicated. An ambassador photograph. Messenger photography.
In this week's challenge, we have intentionally relegated the technical or material aspects of photography to give more prominence to the content, emotion and message.
How do you communicate something to an extraterrestrial being? To know if they have feelings. Who knows if they know what a peacock, a sheep, a hug, or the colorful rainbow that humans are used to is.
Believe me, you doubt a lot before deciding on the photograph that will probably determine the fate of planet earth. Raquel's photograph, which more than meets the technical requirements of a correct and attractive photograph, appears to me as possibly the best candidate to establish that first contact with friends out there. She draws a faithful portrait of the beauty of our planet's sky, and what is more important, infects the viewer with the feeling of love and fidelity between two beings who do not share a language. Two friends of different species.
Congratulations Raquel, and thanks to all of you who have participated in this 100th weekly challenge.
I am Mario Pérez from Blog del Fotografo, and until the next challenge, happy photography.
