Weekly Challenge 38: Looks

Welcome to the 38th 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 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 38: Looks

In the next few days we leave an old year, and enter a new one, a year full of “challenges” (and never better said), resolutions ahead, objectives, perhaps fears or fears. Do you look to the future with uncertainty? Or is your look rather defiant and challenging? Looks sometimes count much more than words.

This week we will portray «looks». Any type of look is welcome, the only requirement is that it tells something, that it communicates: fear, passion, joy, infatuation, sadness, tiredness, anger or any type of emotion.

Not to be confused with portraits. Not to be confused with pretty eyes. Yes, it is difficult to photograph a gaze without eyes 😉 or that is not considered a portrait, but I want the main objective of your photography to be the “gaze” and what it conveys.

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 “Glances 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 “Glances Challenge” in the same.
• Twitter: uploading the photo directly to Twitter with the hashtag #RetoMiradasBDF

Thanks for participating.

Update

The weekly challenge 38 has left us looks for all tastes: childish, friendly, surprised (for a gift from Santa Claus?) of love and complicity. Many of you have opted for black and white, a very safe bet as long as it is a human factor as the main subject.

Here I leave you with a small selection of the works that you have uploaded:

There are no winning photos of the challenge. It is not a contest, but a simple excuse to dust off the camera and get involved in taking photos. In the updates that I make at the end of each challenge I try to bring a representative selection as a sample, and taking advantage of it, I try to publicly acknowledge the merit of a photograph that I personally liked (personally and subjectively) among all the participants. This does not make it the best, nor the opposite. Please, if you can’t find your photograph among the selection, that doesn’t mean anything.

That said, I think Rubén and Silvia’s “Family Reunion” is a photograph worthy of applause and admiration. To my liking, it is perfectly composed: I notice a kind of “gradient” that starts light on the right of the frame and gets darker as we move to the left, ending in a totally dark black. The light from the window embraces the character’s face and is projected onto his skin. The look of the character, sincere and that spreads peace, tells hundreds of little stories that come to your imagination while you see her smile. The law of the gaze, a basic and essential concept in photographic composition, is shown in this photo at its best.

Tremendous photo. Congratulations to the 2 authors. The more I look at the photo, the more I adore it.