Week 18’s challenge is Blur The Boundaries. This challenge is about getting super close to your subject such as flowers so they partially obscurre the lens and create blurry blobs. Play with your focus and see what happens in a familiar location.
Here are the images I took for this Challenge:
For week 19 i have chosen another challenge from Be A Super Awesome Photographer by Henry Carroll. Week 19’s challenge is to Get Closer. This challenge is about taking close up pictures of ordinary things and seeing if you can make them look stange and unfamiliar. Using objects and subjects you can find in your own house and garden and experimenting with Black and White.
If you enjoyed this weeks challenge join in with next weeks Get Closer challenge and tweet or Instagram to @lucyandthelens and don’t forget to #getcloser.
This weeks challenge from Be a Super Awesome Photographer was Play Detective. This one is about taking portraits of the things people leave behind after they have left a room. You can do this by observing things that people have left on the street or by observing the things people in your household leave lying around when they leave a room. Or even getting people to guess who you are based on the objects you leave around yourself.
The challenge for week 18 will also be from Be A Super Awesome Photographer by Henry Carroll. Week 18’s challenge is Blur The Boundaries. This challenge is about getting super close to your subject such as flowers so they partially obscurre the lens and create blurry blobs. Play with your focus and see what happens in a familiar location.
If you enjoyed this weeks challenge join in with next weeks Blur The Boundaries challenge and tweet or Instagram to @lucyandthelens and don’t forget to #blurtheboundaries.
This week for week 16 I did another challenge from Be A Super Awesome Photographer by Henry Carroll which is Hard Light. This challenge is about photographing strong shadows that fall on subjects in hard light using only the windows in my house in strong sunlight as my light source.
This week I decided to use my phone for the challenge and here are the results:
For week 17 I have decided to do another challenge from Be A Super Awesome Photographer by Henry Carroll called Play Detective. This one a about taking portraits of the things people leave behind after they have left a room. You can do this by observing things that people have left on the street or my observing the things people in your household leave lying around when they leave a room. Or even getting people to guess who you are based on the objects you leave around yourself.
If you enjoyed this weeks challenge join in with next weeks Play Detective challenge and tweet or Instagram to @lucyandthelens and don’t forget to #playdetective.
It’s Friday and It’s time for this week’s photo challenge. For this week in week 15 I did another challenge from Be A Super Awesome Photographer by Henry Carroll. Week 15’s challenge is Be Gross. This means photographing things that you would normally find in the rubbish or picking up rocks or rotted wood in the garden and photographing the things that lie beneath.
I photographed things in bins mostly and a little bit of the under rocks in the garden. Here are the photos:
For week 16 I am doing another challenge from Be A Super Awesome Photographer by Henry Carroll which is Hard Light. This challenge is about photographing strong shadows that fall on subjects in hard light using only the windows in my house in strong sunlight as my light source.
If you enjoyed this weeks challenge join in with next weeks Hard Light challenge and tweet or Instagram to @lucyandthelens and don’t forget to #hardlight.
Hi it’s that time of the week again. For Week 14 I did a challenge from Photocrafty: 75 Creative Camera Projects For You And Your Digital SLR by Sue Venables. This weeks challenge was Photo Message which is to write photo messages on a whiteboard and share them with people which I did for 7 days over on my Instagram @lucyandthelens and I am going to share them on here along with a few responses.
I decided to do this challenge for this week because I hoped to bring some positivity into the lockdown. I started and ended the week with the same message to say Stay Home, Stay Safe, Protect Your NHS as I wanted the message to be reiterated and people to bear it in mind.
Here are the messages for the week:
Day One and Seven
Day Two
Day Three
Day Four
Day Five
Day 6
Just a few responses to the questions too. For Day 3 creative I had experimenting with radial gradients, documenting the barren cityscapes and dancing in the park. For Day 5 teaching the best response of the week was I’m building a dark room, think I’ll get top marks for homeschooling my kids science.
For next week for week 15 I am going to be doing another challenge from Be A Super Awesome Photographer by Henry Carroll. Week 15’s challenge is Be Gross. This means photographing things that you would normally find in the rubbish or picking up rocks or rotted wood in the garden and photographing the things that lie beneath.
If you enjoyed this weeks challenge join in with next weeks Be Gross challenge and tweet or Instagram to @lucyandthelens and don’t forget to #begross.
It’s Friday and You know what that means it’s photo challenge day.
Last week I set my week 13 challenge which was another challenge from be a Super Awesome Photographer called Make A Scene. For this challenge I used toys and other objects as props to create a scene. Henry says to use a lamp to create dramatic lighting and experiment with backgrounds to make the scenes more theatrical.
This week I took out a selection of Sylvanian Familiies And A 50mm Lens and some other objects to create my scenes.
Here are this week’s results:
Lets Go On An adventure
Lets Go On An adventure
Lets Go On An adventure
Lets Go On An adventure
Stay Healthy Kids
Stay Healthy Kids
Lets Plant Kids
Lets Plant Kids
Lets Plant Kids
Lets Plant Kids
I Want To Ride A Unicorn
I Want To Ride A Unicorn
What Do We Read Next
Workout Time
Workout Time
Workout Time
Lets Play Chess
Read To Me
I Believe I Can Fly
I Believe I Can Fly
For next week in Week 14 I am going to be doing a challenge from Photocrafty: 75 Creative Camera Projects For You And Your Digital SLR by Sue Venables. Week 14’s challenge is Photo Message which is to write photo messages on a whiteboard and share them with people which I will be doing for 7 days over on my Instagram @lucyandthelens and I will share them on here and maybe some of the ressponses to them next Friday.
If you enjoyed this weeks challenge why not have a go at next weeks Photo Message challenge and tweet or Instagram to @lucyandthelens and don’t forget to #photomessage.
t’s Friday and I’m back to show you how this weeks challenge went.
So Last week I set my week 12 challenge which is Use Colourful Language from Be A Super Awesome Photographer by Henry Carroll. This challenge Is about taking pictures using colour as the main element. Literally anthing that catches your eye because of is Colour. See what complimentary colours you can find in the confines of your own house and garden.
This week the challenge wasn’t the easiest task as I found in my Garden the colourful flowers and plants haven’t yet bloomed however I’m an avid reader so I had a lot of colourful books in my room. I also have quite a few ornamental objects and notebooks that are perfect for this challenge. This week like last week I also used a 50mm prime at an aperture between F1.8 and F3.5 and a shutter speed between 1/80 and 1/250.
Below are the results of this challenge:
Yellow Books
Red And Pink Books
Red And Pink Books
Blue Books
Tea
Tea
Shampoo And Conditioner
Peacock Notebook
Butterfly Notebook
London Bus
Kangaroo Coaster
Hats
Hats
Fruit
Always Hufflepuff
BearBee
Bearbee
Bearbee
For next week in Week 13 I am going to be doing another challenge from be a Super Awesome Photographer called Make A Scene. For this challenge you use toys and other figurines as props and create a scene. Henry says to use a lamp to create dramatic lighting and experiment with backgrounds to make the scenes more theatrical.
If you enjoyed this weeks challenge why not have a go at next weeks Make A Scene challenge and tweet or Instagram to @lucyandthelens and don’t forget to #makeascene.
It’s Friday and I’m back to show you how this weeks challenge went.
So Last week I set my week 11 challenge which is See Things Differently from Be A Super Awesome Photographer by Henry Carroll. This challenge is about taking ordinary things and seeing them in a new light. For Example, a vacuum could be a twisting python or pancakes could be planets or you could find the alphabet in your photographs. Just use your imagination and see what you come up with.
This week I really struggled with this challenge because I’m sure i was overthinking It. Then I started to relax a little and photograph objects In my house and garden and I noticed things I wouldn’t normally discover. This week I only used my 50mm Prime Lens and Apertures between F1.8 and F5.6. So here is how I saw things differently this week:
The Letter A
The Letter A
Cloud 9: Getting More Done In Isolation
Cupids Arrow
The Fan
Monkey In A Boat
The Chair With A Face
Patterns The Coffee Leaves Behind
Ladder Looks Like a Shelf or Rack
UFO Light
UFO Light
Lamp Becomes an ornament
For next week in Week 12 I am going to be doing another challenge from be a Super Awesome Photographer called Use Colourful Language. This challenge Is about taking pictures using colour as the main element. Literally anthing that catches your eye because of is Colour. See what complimentary colours you can find in the confines of your own house and garden.
If you enjoyed this weeks challenge why not have a go at next weeks Use Colourful Language challenge and tweet or Instagram to @lucyandthelens and don’t forget to #usecolourfullanguage.
Welcome back to my first new post for the Photo Challenge Friday Segment.
Today I’m bringing back Photo Challenge Friday where every Friday I will be setting myself a new photography challenge which I have a week to complete.
You may or may not remember that my week 9 challenge was to photograph Organic Shapes, however, I got rather busy and didn’t post the results and forgot about the segment. So here are my images from that challenge where I decided to photograph Pumpkins:
This week I decided to start up the challenges all over again after reading two books called Be A Super Awesome Photographer by Henry Carroll (Aimed at Kids but good for Adults too) and Photocrafty: 75 Creative Camera Projects For You And Your Digital SLR by Sue Venables.
Over the coming weeks, I am going to be doing challenges you can do with just a short walk to the park or staying at home due to The Coronavirus.
Week 10’s Challenge was to Pretend You’re a Dog. This is about taking images from a dog’s eye view so think low angle images and think about what a dog would do. What unusual angles would the dog shot from if the dog was a photographer. For this shoot, I decided to go to the park with only my 55-200 mm telephoto zoom lens because I wanted to be able to shoot from a distance so I didn’t trample on anything and stayed respectful of my surroundings. Most of the images here were shot at 200mm. Back in the house, I decided that dogs would jump on armchairs or lie on the floor so I photographed what would be seen if they did this with a 50mm Prime.
For week 11 I am going to be doing another challenge from be a Super Awesome Photographer called See Things Differently. This challenge is about taking ordinary things and seeing them in a new light. For Example, a vacuum could be a twisting python or pancakes could be planets or you could find the alphabet in your photographs. Just use your imagination and see what you come up with.
If you enjoyed this weeks challenge why not have a go at next weeks See Things Differently challenge and tweet or Instagram to @lucyandthelens and don’t forget to #seethingsdifferently.
This week I had to photograph Textures and Patterns and it took me back to a time when rather than ordering photo books off Photobox I used to order photos and buy patterned paper from Hobbycraft. So for this challenge I decided to take a picture of one of them because it brings me back to an old creative hobby of mine, making scrapbooks of my photos. I chose this idea because it showcases my early days of displaying my photographs.
My Week 9 Challenge is going to be to shoot Organic Shapes. This means shooting anything that is created by nature. I think I will have fun with this challenge because nature is full of endless possibilities.
So if you enjoyed this weeks post why not have a go at my challenge for the upcoming week and tweet or Instagram to #lucyandthelens and don’t forget to #organicshapes.
