Have you ever photographed your feet? Don’t you find them attractive enough to make them the main subject of a photograph? Welcome to a special and fun edition of the weekly 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 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 22: Feet
For this week’s challenge I have come up with a fun idea: photograph feet. The idea is to get as many entries as possible and put them all together in a fun compilation video that we’ll post on the blog.
To participate: stand up, place the camera facing the ground, about waist height, and shoot a horizontal photo as close to your personality as possible 🙂 It doesn’t have to be a normal photo. Be creative and use all your photographic talents: you can do it in black and white, in color, in HDR, post-process it or leave it natural. With shoes, with your favorite flip flops or completely barefoot. The important thing is that you leave your personal mark on the video that I will edit at the end of the challenge.
I don’t care if you shoot it with a SLR or a compact. I took the attached photo as an example with a mobile phone (one day I was trying to remember the parking space where I left my car) and it would be perfectly worth it to participate. What is important is shooting from the waist. Oh, and another thing: take the photo horizontally please. So I can easily include it in the video. Vertical photos cannot be guaranteed to be included.
As usual, to participate in this week’s challenge upload your photo to the Facebook wall of the Photographer’s Blog: In the description of the photo please mention the keyword “Foot 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 “Foot Challenge” in the same.
- Twitter: uploading the photo directly to Twitter with the hashtag #ChallengePiesBDF
Thanks for participating.
Editor’s note: On August 21, 2013 I published some notes about this challenge. Take a look at them here.
Update
We finally have a video 🙂 It took a while but the first collaborative challenge of the Photographer’s Blog already has a video. 1 minute and 44 seconds that immortalize the feet of blog readers, with the personal story that each pair of feet express.
Before you see it:
- The photos of all the participants do not appear in the video. The photos that have not adhered to the requirements that I asked for at the beginning (that it be a horizontal photo, etc.) have been very complicated to process. To assemble the video I have started from about 2,000 photos, each of a different resolution and size. Some horizontal, some vertical, some large, some small, and some very small because they came from cutouts of a larger photo. I have saved a few, but many have been impossible to integrate. If you don’t see your photo in the video I hope you understand. Anyway at the end of the video I mention the readers who participate in the blog challenges. Take the hint please 😉
- With the permission of the 359 readers whose feet make up this work, we dedicate the video to the more than 300,000 readers who are nourished by the contents of this blog, who enjoy photography, and who see themselves capable of changing the world from behind the viewfinder.
- Turn up the volume before hitting play.