Weekly Challenge 98: Sweep

This time I challenge you to follow something or someone with your camera and make it come out sharp while the background appears completely moved. 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 98: Sweep

I have already commented many times that the weekly challenges are for you to learn, so that you put into practice the advice that we give you on the blog. That is why this week I propose this challenge. The sweep or panning consists of following your center of interest with the camera while you shoot to make it come out sharp while the background is very moved. The effects can be spectacular and the technique, although it requires a bit of practice, is not difficult at all. With these practical tips to get started in the “motion sweeps” you can achieve impressive photographs.

Well, with these tips and a little patience, because if you haven’t tried it yet, I have to confess that it’s most likely that you won’t get it right the first time. And I’m not telling you this to discourage you, quite the opposite! If it were super easy, it wouldn’t have so much merit, right? You, as a photography lover, will surely accept the challenge, because what you want is to learn and overcome the photographic obstacles that come your way, achieve increasingly attractive and different images and surprise both others and yourself. /a. What yes? Well, if I’m right, which I know I am, you may already be thinking about where you’re going to look for your moving “object” to “catch” it with your camera, and don’t forget aspects such as the law of gaze, color (or black and white) or perspective, for example, to achieve a more attractive image and sneak into the highlights of the week 😉

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

Happy photography.

Update

It’s incredible, when I think, “well, this challenge will hardly have participation, with how difficult the subject is…”, well “wham in the mouth”. Forgive the colloquial expression, but lately I hear it a lot and it defines exactly what I think, because you have shown me that I was wrong and that you really like challenges, and that makes me tremendously happy! Here is a small sample of the great sweeps you have sent:

The contribution that I want to highlight this week is the one made “from NYC” by Focus and Photo. It seems to me a fantastic sweep in terms of execution but also the composition and the impression it produces have delighted me. It has generated a great sensation of speed and the empty asphalt under the taxi generates a negative space that enhances the sensation of vertigo. What’s more, I don’t know if the sensation of dizziness is a product of what the image projects or of the flu that I have at the moment 😉 Jokes aside, it’s a good idea to leave more space in front of the taxi to let it move, the look can continue the trajectory that we intuit. And the fact that three taxis appear, just three (well, three yellow spots because the one on the right, although they look like two, are read as one), I don’t know if it’s a coincidence or it’s with the intention of breaking the monotony and boredom generated by the peers. It creates tension that combines very well with speed and I love the chromatic harmony and how the yellow stands out among the rest of the gray and blue tones. Congratulations Focus and Photo for this great sweep! And once again, thank you all for participating and for putting so much enthusiasm into your learning.