Weekly Challenge 12: Drops

This week’s challenge is a real challenge huh. You’ll have to shoot dozens and dozens of photos until you find a decent one. It requires patience and motivation. Now, as soon as you take a single cool photo you will feel enormously satisfied and you will gain a lot of confidence in your abilities as a photographer. I promise you. I think it is one of the most rewarding challenges that have occurred to me so far.

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 the whole weekend to work on them. You will have one week to upload your photograph (one photo per participant), until Friday of the following week. On 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 12: Drops

We have all admired the typical photographs in which a drop of water can be seen falling into the void, or splashing after an accelerated landing in a puddle of water. They are typical photos but we have always seen them as something beyond our reach, something that only professional photographers equipped with expensive photographic equipment can achieve.

Lie. Anyone with a SLR camera (no matter how rudimentary it may be) and a little patience can achieve beautiful photos of drops of water worthy of the most prestigious of photography magazines. True, this type of photography requires a bit of time, for example having the morning or afternoon free or at least dedicating a whole couple of hours to experimenting. But as I said at the beginning, it is an exercise whose results are immensely gratifying, as well as being an exercise from which you learn a lot regarding the technical part.

If you don’t know how to take this type of photography, read this tutorial, step by step, that I dedicated a long time ago to explaining this technique. If you follow the steps described in the tutorial to the letter, you will be right. Oh, and as many blog readers will be trying at once, try to come up with something original and make your photography stand out. For example, you can experiment with other liquids (milk for example), or add some colored light to your composition, or introduce fun accessories like a doll watching the drop… I don’t know. Give to the imagination.

To participate upload your photo to the Facebook wall of the Photographer’s Blog: In the description of the photo please mention the keyword “Drops Challenge” followed by a title of your choice.

Alternative Means to Participate

For those of you who are not 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 “Drops Challenge” in the same.
• Twitter: uploading the photo directly to Twitter with the hashtag #ChallengeGotasBDF

Luck.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Nothing you read on the Photographer’s Blog is useful to you unless you put it into practice. yourself 😛

Update

This week we had a very fresh challenge. I was afraid that you would all end up with similar photos but I couldn’t be more wrong, all the photos have been very original in ideas, compositions, framing, colors, and even in liquids: water, milk, Nesquik, and paint 🙂 Thanks to everyone who You have practiced this exercise. From now on we already have the rate of fire and the timing of the shot well mastered.

As usual, here is a selection of some of the participating photos:

I loved this very successful shot by L Ellie, where he combines the exercise of the drop of water with a beautiful Bokeh effect that gives the drops more prominence if possible. Congratulations.