Weekly Challenge 126: To the Table!

We have challenged you to photograph food and kitchens, today it was time to photograph the table and its surroundings, an apparently easy challenge, only apparently easy. Do you accept the challenge?

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 126: To the Table!

Eating time is an important moment for our body and also representative of our lifestyle. With a single snapshot you can guess if a person leads a healthy lifestyle, if he likes traditional food or if he is more of food from other worlds, if he usually eats in company or alone. An image of a family meal can also be very graphic and quite tempting to be able to capture its essence through a single snapshot. That’s why this week I challenge you to photograph a moment at lunchtime (or after dinner).

You can focus on the food or the guests, yes, do not forget at any time that it is about achieving a good photograph, telling a story, obtaining a beautiful, interesting image. The dish in front of you may be very tasty, but if it’s not visually interesting, don’t show it to us, better dedicate yourself to savoring it… 😉 Take care of the composition, the colors, play with depth of field or perspective, that’s up to you . In any case, bring out the best in you (photographically speaking 😉 ).

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 to the table!” 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 to the table!” in the same.
• Twitter: uploading the photo directly to Twitter with the hashtag #ChallengeALaMesaBdF

Happy photography.

Update

It’s time to eat… literally 😉 so today I don’t mess around too much because you made me hungry!

Among the photos of this week I prefer the one of Jesús Pena, «Thoughts». It is a well composed photograph, with a good focus and a very well worked black and white. Apart from these technical aspects that make the photograph correct and beautiful, this scene tells much more. As I said in the announcement, how one sits at the table says a lot about the person and his or her history, and Jesus has been able to capture that essence. In this case, he has managed to tell a story and convey an emotion. Not all people sit down to eat or have a coffee surrounded by joy, there is not always a delicacy ahead to enjoy. In this case, our protagonist is the very image of loneliness. Not even the fact that there are more cups on the table gives the feeling that he is accompanied, on the contrary… it further accentuates the feeling of loneliness even when surrounded by people. Our protagonist observes how, around him, the life (of the others) passes. Good image, Jesus, congratulations!