Welcome to the 38th edition of the Weekly Challenge.
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 by 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 38: LOOKS
In the next few days we leave an old year, and enter a new one, a year full of "challenges" (and never better said), resolutions ahead, objectives, perhaps fears or fears. Do you look to the future with uncertainty? Or is your look rather defiant and challenging? Looks sometimes count much more than words.
This week we will portray «looks». Any kind of look is welcome, the only requirement is that it tell something, that it communicate: fear, passion, joy, falling in love, sadness, tiredness, anger or any kind of emotion.
Not to be confused with portraits. Not to be confused with pretty eyes. Yes, it is difficult to photograph a gaze without eyes ? or for it not to be considered a portrait, but I want the main objective of your photography to be the "gaze" and what it conveys.
As usual, to participate in this week's challenge upload your photo to the Facebook wall of the Photographer's Blog: In the description of the photo, please mention the keyword “Reto Miradas” 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 title and be sure to mention “Glance Challenge” in it.
- Twitter: uploading the photo directly to Twitter with the hashtag #RetoMiradasBDF
Thanks for participating.
UPDATE
The 38th weekly challenge has left us looks for all tastes: childish, friendly, surprised (by some gift from Santa Claus?) of love and complicity. Many of you have opted for black and white, a very safe bet as long as it is a human factor as the main subject.
Here I leave you with a small selection of the works that you have uploaded:
There are no winning photos of the challenge. It is not a contest, but a simple excuse to dust off the camera and get involved in taking photos. In the updates that I make at the end of each challenge, I try to bring a representative selection as a sample, and taking advantage of it, I try to publicly recognize the merit of a photograph that I personally liked (personally and subjectively) among all the participants. This does not make it the best, nor the opposite. Please, if you can't find your photograph among the selection, that doesn't mean anything.
That said, I think that "Family Reunion" by Rubén and Silvia is a photograph worthy of applause and admiration. To my taste, it is perfectly composed: I notice a kind of "gradient" that starts lightly on the right of the frame and darkens as we move to the left, ending in a completely dark black. The light from the window embraces the character's face and is projected onto his skin. The character's look, sincere and contagious, tells hundreds of little stories that come to mind while you see her smile. The law of the gaze, a basic and essential concept in photographic composition, is shown in this photo at its best.
Tremendous photo. Congratulations to the 2 authors. The more I look at the photo, the more I adore it.
