52-Week Photo Challenge: Week 48

Hello, my fellow creative photographers!

Welcome to another week in my 52-Week Photo Challenge!

This week's challenge is: SEVEN

Take a look around you for things to represent SEVEN, a street sign, address numbers, or maybe a group of seven items...?

Here's mine:

Click to embiggen!I'll admit that I spent more than just one week trying to get a photo for this challenge. It was not easy! I had resigned myself to finding a nice sign or interesting number or something similar, but when I saw the seagulls lining up along the roof yesterday, I thought they would be perfect! If only there were 7 of them!

It took a while for them to rearrange themselves enough times before there were 7 all lined up along the peak, but I am so glad I waited patiently and ignore the weird looks from passers-by. ^_^

Don't forget that I'm still looking for your suggestions for challenge topics!

52-Week Photo Challenge: Week 47

Hello, my fellow creative photographers!

Welcome to another week in my 52-Week Photo Challenge!

Before we get to this week's challenge, I'd like to solicit your help with some upcoming topics! I've got ideas but I'm kind of blasé about them and I thought YOUR ideas might be better than mine... Leave a comment here or facebook or wherever you're comfortable, and let me know your ideas for photo challenges!

But hurry! There's only a few more weeks left! ^o^

On to this week's challenge! It's PURPLE

Find some purple around you - flowers, fruits, whatever you find - and capture it in a creative way.

Here's mine:

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Lately I've been having fun playing around with all the preset options that my tablet's photo apps have installed, and these purple echinacea flowers were just so pretty. The bees were a bonus!

How about you? What's purple can you find? And don't forget to leave some challenge suggestions!

52-Week Photo Challenge: Week 46

Hello, my fellow creative photographers!

Welcome to another week in my 52-Week Photo Challenge!

This week's challenge is: BLACK

Like with our other color challenges, look for something black and find a creative way to photograph or edit it.

I often find that when I try to capture someone wearing black, using the auto settings, that my camera over-exposes when I attempt to focus on the dark and the rest of the image is blown out. To compensate for this, I focus on the face or another lighter area, press the shutter button part way, then re-frame my image.

In case what I just wrote looked like Greek to you, check out these links for some more info & advice:

• Camera Exposure: Getting it right
• Exposure Compensation: Manual Shooting Without Being In Manual
• Fine Tune Your Exposures With Spot Metering
• Why Your Camera’s Meter gets Exposure Wrong

Here's mine:

Click to embiggen!Lia wanted to do some Gothic Lolita photos, and she had planned the umbrella, so it really didn't matter that it just happened to be raining when she was ready! This was my favorite of the shoot. Click through to flickr to see a few other shots & edits and even some outtakes!

52-Week Photo Challenge: Week 45

Hello, my fellow creative photographers!

Welcome to another week in my 52-Week Photo Challenge!

This week's challenge is: WATER

The earth is covered with about 75% water. Without it we can not survive. Too much causes phenomenal damage. But in just the right amounts, it is a joy. From rain showers to mud puddles, sprinklers to swimming pools, rivers to lakes to the ocean, find some water around you and capture it in a creative way!

Here's mine:

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Onondaga Lake in Central NY. The view here is from Onondaga Lake Park in Liverpool, not far from Syracuse. The wind was non-stop and it eventually rained, but at this moment, the sun peeked through the clouds and set the white caps to sparkling.

What water can you find? Share it with me!