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Photo Challenge Friday Week 7: Numbers

My challenge for this week was Numbers.

My initial idea was to go out and photograph doors and use the numbers on the doors as a metaphor by stating that life presents plenty of opportunities and all you need to do is pick a number and go through that door. But I was working a lot so I actually took inspiration from the card and decided that my cocktail jigger would work in a different way. My idea is that life is measured in numbers and it doesn’t matter how far you fill the jigger as long as you have a number of things to keep you content so this one is titled ‘the measure of contentment’

Then it came time to choose my challenge for week eight and card picking time is my favourite part as i never know what the next challenge brings but the result of each challenge is based on how much free time I have in that week and this week I needed a bit of quick thinking to complete the challenge.
So My week 8 challenge is to shoot textures and patterns. We see textures and patterns in everything but we don’t always deem them as something we generally photograph.

September 23, 2016
Photo Challenge Friday: Week 4,5 and 6

So I know it’s a day late and I apologise for that but today i’m doing a special triple post because I’ve been on holiday so I’ve combined my posts for week 4, 5 and 6.

So each week I set my self two challenges because I was on holiday so this meant I had plenty of time to shoot. For week 4 I chose 1.The Resting Point where I had to find and shoot a subject that embodies peace and serenity. I chose a circular wall where you can view boats because to me this represents peace and serenity because at this place you are stood alone in thought admiring the view.

2. Photographing a Photo where I had to take a photo of a photo but I had to change this challenge because my Polaroid camera is broken so I had no other way of doing this. So my new challenge for week 4 was 2. Freezing Time so I took a photo at an event called Corre Foc where people run down the street with fireworks and it looks like a person is running through one.

On Week 5 one of my challenges was 1.Vignette but I didn’t actually shoot a vignette I took a photo an added the vignette in later via photoshop express. 2. I had to shoot a subject from both a long and a short focal length so I chose swimming pool.

Week 6 was my favourite week because I got to shoot two of the things I love shooting. 1. Silhouette and for me the perfect backdrop was the Corre Foc event because there is also a firework in my shot. However 2.Glow is ultimately my favourite thing to shoot other than people and that is a sunset, I even sometimes Google the sunset times.

Next week on Week 7 I will only have time for one challenge so I have chosen 1. Numbers game where I have to shoot photographs of numbers.

So if you enjoyed this weeks post why not have a go at one of my challenges for the upcoming weeks and tweet or Instagram your results to the #lucyandthelens and don’t forget to #the name of the challenge.

September 17, 2016
Photo Challenge Friday: Week Three: Balance

So its week three of photo challenge Friday and my challenge for this week was balance. I was planning on taking this shot on a photo walk yesterday but the weather changed my plans so instead I had an idea to incorporate my love of reading into my image.

I decided I could create a photo that reinvents the game of Jenga using my books so I picked up a pile of my to be read books and placed them in a Jenga style composition where I could see the spines. Here is the Result:

As you may know from reading my previous photo challenge Friday blogs every week I pick new challenge cards for the next week. However due to my plans for the next few weeks I have picked my challenges for week four, five and six and I have doubled up all three challenges so I will be doing two challenges each week.

My Challenges for week four will be 1. The Resting Point where I have to find and shoot a subject that embodies peace and serenity and 2. Photographing a Photo where I have to take a photo of a photo.

The following week on Week Five I will be 1. Creating a Vignette where you have to use a shape to centrally frame an image and my other challenge for that week is titled 2. Focal Length and Background so I have to shoot the same picture at two different focal lengths.

Finally on week six I will be taking a shot titled 1. Glow where the aim is to shoot a glowing subject and the other task is 2. Silhouette, which is the type of image that works best at sunset.

So if you enjoyed this weeks post why not have a go at one of my challenges for the upcoming weeks and tweet or Instagram your results to the #lucyandthelens and don’t forget to # the name of the challenge.

August 26, 2016
Photo Challenge Friday :Week 2: Coming and Going /Don't Belong Together

So It’s Friday and if you read last weeks post you know what that means. It’s week two of Photo Challenge Friday and last week I set myself a double challenge using the photo challenge cards that my best friend gave me.

Last week after shuffling the deck I made the choice of 1. Coming and going where I had to photograph something as it leaves or enters the frame and 2.Don’t Belong Together where I had to shoot any two things that don’t normally come together in everyday life or have nothing to do with each other.

My first challenge coming and going wasn’t as difficult for me as people or things coming and going is something we see in day today life so my picture is simple it’s a picture of a boat called the dazzle which was designed as a commemoration for the first world war. According to the Mersey ferries website the idea was to baffle the eye in order to make the ships difficult for enemies to target.

Don’t belong together was a much harder challenge and even today looking back at my images I took on a street photography walk I wasn’t sure if id managed to take anything to complete the challenge. In spotting this shot I’d previously overlooked I thought wait a minute this challenge doesn’t have to mean finding something thats the opposite of something else. So I decided my photo of strangers on the steps is a collection of subjects that don’t belong together.

Next Weeks Challenge is entitled Balance which might not be extremely simply to do but the idea is simple, what I need to do in the upcoming week is photograph something that is Balanced.

So if you enjoyed this post why not have a go at next weeks Balance challenge and Tweet or Instagram your results to #lucyandthelens and don’t forget to #Balance.

August 19, 2016
Photo Challenge Friday – Excluded and Alone
So a little while ago I decided that I was going to start a new regular segment on my blog called Photo Challenge Friday. Photo Challenge Friday is an idea where every Friday I will be setting myself a new photography challenge which I have a week to complete.

The idea was born a few months after my best friend bought me a set of photo challenge cards for my birthday when I decided to look at the cards again and I thought I can do something with these.

So last week I started this off by shuffling, the pack of challenge cards, and picking a card. The card I picked was titled Excluded and Alone. The aim of this was to photograph a picture of a group of subjects or objects and exclude something or someone from the group.

Having not really ventured anywhere that gave me the opportunity to do this I looked for groups of things I had in the house and chose lemons as my subject. Here are the results:

On weeks where I have at least two photography excursions planned I will double up the challenges, so today I have picked two new ones:
1. Coming and Going
My task is to shoot a subject as it leaves or enters the frame.

2. Don’t Belong Together

My task is to shoot two things that don’t normally come together in everyday life or have nothing to do with each other so opposites attract.

I’m excited to try out these two new challenges and if any photographers reading this want to give it a go. All you need to do is tweet your results to the #lucyandthelens on Twitter or Instagram and don’t forget to # the name of the challenge you’re testing out.
August 12, 2016