Weekly Challenge 107: Clouds

The Royal Academy of the Spanish Language says that a cloud is a mass of water vapor suspended in the atmosphere. But we don’t see it that way, do we? We see mountains of cotton, magical figures, patterned skies… This week I challenge you to capture the beauty and magic of the clouds in the landscape. You dare?

How does it work? (Reminder)

Every week I will propose a new challenge, it is a topic that you will have to capture in a photograph and upload it to the Facebook page of the blog, putting in the description the keyword that I will indicate for each topic. The themes will be varied, from portraits to Macro photography, through landscapes, black and white photography, or babies. The topics will be proposed on Saturdays, so that you have all the Weekend to work them. You will have one week to upload your photograph (one photo per participant), until Friday of the following week. On Friday or Saturday I will update the article with the photo that has captivated me the most and I will propose a new topic, and so on…

Weekly Challenge 107: Clouds

The clouds are accumulation of water, but for our eyes it is not exactly like that. We see, for example, heaps of cotton up there or huge masses of gray with which the sky expresses its anger. A landscape can be greatly changed by the presence of clouds. Even depending on the type of clouds that are at that time. Controlling this aspect can really help you improve your landscapes, especially black and white landscapes (and any other photo in which the sky is the protagonist or co-star).

My main advice is don’t just shoot at the clouds in the sky. Include some other element that provides stability to the image and that serves as a reference to see the size of the clouds. You can capture calm clouds in a deep blue sky, fiery clouds of a sunset or storm clouds, the important thing is that they (or she) are the protagonists. You can click here to find out how to get magnificent images of a cloudy sky.

As usual, to participate in this week’s challenge upload your photo to the Facebook wall from the Photographer’s Blog: In the description of the photo please mention the keyword “Challenge Clouds” followed by a title of your choice.

Alternative Means to Participate

For those who do not be from Facebook I have enabled new social networks to participate.

• Flickr: accessing the Group Mural of the Photographer’s Blog and uploading the photo directly. Give your photo a caption and be sure to mention “Challenge Clouds” in the same.
• Twitter: uploading the photo directly to Twitter with the hashtag #ChallengeCloudsBdF

Happy and fluffy photography.

Update

A sample of the magnificent work you have done one more week. Thank you!

I have to admit that I have had several temptations, but in the end I have opted for Martians! by Pako Cabrera Jimenez. Two clouds, only two groups of clouds in a practically clear sky that manage to capture the attention in an absolute way. Its shape, reminiscent of flying saucers, arouses great interest and the fact of choosing black and white to highlight them is a success. It is an image with just the right contrast, with all the shades of the gray scale, which, far from being pasty, presents a great composition and a panoramic format that comes in handy, since it allows including the entire mountainous grouping that it flies over the “celestial saucers” giving a greater dimension to the clouds and without detracting from their prominence. A good example that a landscape does not have to be in color, in photography there are also black and white landscapes and its author has just reminded us, thanks Pako!