In previous challenges we have played with the light , with the perspectives , with the frames . We have even had challenges dedicated to black and white . How can it be that we haven't worked on the colors? Welcome to a new 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 45: COLORFUL
This week the protagonist of the weekly challenge are the colors. The importance of color in terms of composition is tremendous. A photo full of color is a photo that says a lot without a doubt, the question is whether it will say a lot, or too much. Yes, with the theme of color it is very easy to go too far. A photo that is too saturated, with too bright colors, can lose all its charm. Other compositions, on the other hand, present colors as the main protagonist of the photo.
In any case, a photo full of color is a photo that requires a lot of planning, don't shoot just because, imagine the final photo and try to experience the sequence of emotions and sensations that the viewer will go through when observing the snapshot. Like a good film director, try to control that process, play with the colors and compose them in a way that takes the viewer where you want to take them.
The only "special" requirement this week is that the photo have more than one color. Ideally, a photo full of colors. Likewise, and as always, try to make the photo interesting, that it conveys something, that it provokes. Speak.
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 “Colorful 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 title and be sure to mention “Color Challenge” in it.
Twitter: uploading the photo directly to Twitter with the hashtag #RetoColoridoBDF
Remember that there will be no winner as there is no prize or contest. The challenge is an excuse to practice and observe the practices of others. It is a way of channeling theory that, without real practice, remains useless. If you participate in the challenge, I'm happy ?
Do you accept the challenge?
UPDATE
For yet another week, the readers of the Photographer's Blog have left true works of art posted on our Facebook wall, on Flickr and on Twitter. Thank you all for having participated, and for filling the blog with color. As usual, here is a sample of the works that have participated.
Adela Muñoz Muñoz - Lonely PoppyGivenchy AmarigeStar of the Mace - Love in equality
Garazi Unzueta Garcia - Drunken TreeJaime Arellano V - XcaretJose Antonio Galvez Corral
Josep M. EscuraLuisa Diez LupenaMetaforart - Colors in the water
Paola Milena AlmadaXime Cesaratto Errea - Coloring
It's time to reveal my favorite photo. This week I will do something that I never thought I would get to do. Here you have my favorite photo of the week:
Photo selected for the "Colorful" challenge
Photo selected for the “Colorful” challenge
Isn't it amazing that I don't have a photo selected? It's a bit paradoxical and weird that once I launch a supposedly "colorful" challenge, I end up uploading a final "black" photo, but, that's how I feel when I see how many readers rush to participate in the weekly challenges by uploading "fake" photos, photos that are not their own, photos copied from the Internet. I don't understand it, I can't accept it. It is assumed that if you read the Photographer's Blog it is because you enjoy taking photos, it is because you want to improve your technique, it is because you want to learn theory, and "practice" that theory. That is the only purpose of the weekly challenge, to encourage you to practice. "Stealing" a photo from a website and participating with it in the weekly challenge, as if it were your own, does a lot of damage to this blog and its vast community of readers.
Believe me, all my energy goes down when I come across photos like this in the weekly challenge. Sometimes I think that the weekly challenge can be a waste of time. Just as I enjoy when I see great photographic work coming out of a humble Canon 1100D or an old Nikon D3000 of one of my readers, my world literally falls apart when I come across photos that are blatantly (and demonstrably) stolen.
If you're that clever and clever reader who entered this week with a stolen photo, downloaded from the Internet, then congratulations! There you go, the selected photo of the week is your photo. Enjoy.
Thanks to all of you who make this blog and the effort behind its contents and the weekly challenge worthwhile.
