Lucy And The Lens

Tag: #Balance

  • 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:

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

     

  • 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.

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    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.

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    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.