Patti hosts this weeks challenge and asks us to use compositional tips to improve our images. The tips and full challenge details are outlined in her original challenge post which you can find here.
We’ve just returned from a holiday where my camera has been really busy. Having returned on Friday I shot a wedding yesterday so there’s no way I’ll get out this week to shoot new images for the challenge. What I can do is use some of the images from yesterday, and last week, to fit some of the tips in Patti’s post.
The old port lighthouse with three small tenders moored up nearby. If the boats had been more interesting I’d have walked around and made them the main subject, rather than the lighthouse.
Tina has set this weeks challenge – The rule of three.The rule of threes depicts images which contain three subjects. This is a lesser-known photographic concept but perhaps one worthy of further exploration.
I have to say this was a new rule for me. I can’t say I’ve ever deliberately taken a picture with this rule in mind, up until today that is. I could say that I’ve tried to shoot still life subjects, like food, in a triangle around the frame. That very loosely follows the same concept but the objects in those triangles can be very different things and not obviously three distinct items.
We’re currently on holiday in Rethymno, Crete, Greece. So without access to my portfolio at home I went out for a walk this morning and tried to find groups three to photograph for the challenge. Like last weeks Lens Artist tasking, it was another interesting photographic exercise. I’ve ended up with a few images I’m pleased with that I wouldn’t normally have shot. It’s one reason I love Lens Artists, I’m thinking differently and shooting images I wouldn’t shoot – last week and today are two great examples.
I’m typing on an iPad, which is painful, so without further ado here are my challenge images, all shot in Rethymno today…
Colourful rustic chairs outside a local restaurant.Terracotta plant pots on some colourful stepsThree small windows in a building located in the towns old fortress.A colourful window display. By now I was starting to realise I was just photographing other people’s ideas for groups of three 😎I got a bit more creative with this intersection of three roofs.I did create this group of three and tried to tell a little story with them. They’re take away coffee cups from a local cafe we’ve been visiting. I’ve loads more to collect 😃
Thank you to Tina for hosting and setting another challenging challenge. It’s proper ‘SCHORCHIO’ here so I’m getting back on the sun bed now. I’ll leave you with a lovely sunset shot from last night.
Our trusty, old, metal watering can. Shot with a vintage Canon FD 55mm f1.2. I shot the rose at f1.2 to give that really shallow depth of field. I always wanted a lens for portraits with a really shallow depth of field. This lens is perfect for that and it’s very sharp as well.
Egidio sets this weeks challenge. his original challenge post is here. To quote from Egidio’s post, these are the rules for the ‘Stuck in a Place’ challenge:
My ‘RED’ Image for this weeks challenge. Brizzle is slang for Bristol and this sign was displayed in a city centre pub, in Bristol.
This week Ritva has set the Lens-Artist Challenge with this brief – For this week’s Lens- Artists challenge , you are to select one color (excluding black and white). Share a maximum of 6 photos where your chosen color is the prominent hue, or alternatively, you may share one photo featuring each of the following captivating colors in their various shades: red, blue, green, purple, orange, and yellow.
Here are my images featuring the colours selected by Ritva.
BLUE – Another Bristol image. the former Spectrum building in the centre of town.GREEN – Unripe olives on a Greek market stall.PURPLE – A colourful dragon fruit on a stall in Borough Market, London.ORANGE – I have quite a collection of these close up images of rustic doors. I make A3 prints of them and use them as faux table tops for some of my food photography.YELLOW – A colourful Caribbean house wall
Thank you to Ritva for setting and hosting a great challenge. I love a colour pic and I’m looking forward to scrolling though this weeks responses.
This image is similar to the scene in the film ‘Gladiator’ where Russell Crowe returns to his small holding. It’s not Russell Crowe in this image, it’s my wife, Linda, and there’s no bad news at the end of this track. However both and Russell were doing the same thing, reaching out to feel the texture of the wheat.
Anne has set this weeks Lens Artist Challenge. Anne has asked us to show images where texture plays an integral part. Here original challenge post can be found here: Lens Artist Challenge #397: Texture
Mow Cop Castle, Stoke-on-Trent. A folly we visited whilst we waited for our Air BnB to be prepared.
We’re just back from a week in the Peak District. An upland area in the midlands UK, not quite ‘the north’ but very close. We based ourselves near Leek in the south west corner of the district and stayed in an Air BnB property that was a converted dairy in a rural location.
The old deck. The original decking is on the left of this pic with more decking added a few years later. You can see the line down the centre where the old met the new, I hated that. The decking planks had long since lost their rustic look and I stained them grey to make them look a bit more presentable. Everywhere you see a plant pot in this image I found rot on the top planks and sub frame joists!Continue reading →
This is a view across to San Gimignano, Tuscany Italy from our accommodation. I’ve used the vineyard adjoining our property for some foreground interest. The middle ground is the view across the valley, filled with olive groves and more vineyards. The focal point is the background, wonderful San Gimignano.Continue reading →
Tina hosts this weeks Lens-Artist Challenge and asks us to post images taken using a phone camera. Her original challenge post can be found here – Lens-Artists Challenge #391 – Phone Photography
Steve Hyde 