Photography Challenge - Week 5
29 January - 4 February
Are you looking for some photography ideas to test your skills and get your creativity flowing? We’ve got 52 weeks of photography challenges to help inspire you. You can view the full list of challenges here.
This week's challenge is...
Shadows
All images consist of light and shadows, but with the focus often being placed on the former, we often tend to forget about the importance of shadows. Shadows play an important part in images; they create contrast, reveal form and texture and allow us to convey mood and emotion. This week, challenge yourself to see photography in a different light and see what you can create for the theme of ‘Shadows’. This is your chance to get creative. You can use this challenge to really explore form, shape, texture and mood, whether you’re photographing people, products or even landscapes.
If you’re looking for ideas or inspiration, you’ll find numerous classes throughout the site that show you how to use light and shadow, including our ‘The emotion of light’ and ‘A guide to lighting emotion’ live shows. Below are a few other classes that you may find useful too.
Guidelines
- Please rename your image file using your first and last name (e.g. Karl Taylor.jpg).
- Only images uploaded using the form below will appear in the gallery.
- Please upload no more than one image.
- Uploaded images should be 3000px on the longest side.
- Images can be posted in our members' Facebook group, but will not appear in the gallery unless also uploaded via the form.
Comments
I don’t see my entry in this gallery.
Hi Udell Photographics, we received your entry for our ‘Shadows’ competition, which is separate from this Weekly Challenge. We don’t display competition entries in a gallery like this one, but we will be announcing the prizewinners soon and displaying them in a blog post. Thanks for entering our competition!—Ben
Hi Team,
I was wondering the same thing the others in the comments, I don’t see my picture submitted either. I don’t mind if it’s not shown but I hope you have received it anyway to participate.
Thank you,
Kind Regards
Tom
Hi Tom, we received your entry for our ‘Shadows’ competition, which is separate from this Weekly Challenge. We don’t display competition entries in a gallery like this one, but we will be announcing the prizewinners soon and displaying them in a blog post. Thanks for entering our competition!—Ben
Hello, I did not see the one I submitted though the site. Did I miss something ?
Best
Hi lhags, we received your entry for our ‘Shadows’ competition, which is separate from this Weekly Challenge. We don’t display competition entries in a gallery like this one, but we will be announcing the prizewinners soon and displaying them in a blog post. Thanks for entering our competition!—Ben
Hi Karl, Wondering if all the photos for the weekly challenge of Shadows have been posted ,as I do not see my entry. Also have you done the judging for the competition of Shadows on January 31st as I also entered that competition. Looking forward to both.
Thank you Karl, Greg Kollauf
Hi Greg, Thanks for getting in touch. I have placed all of the entries on the site this morning. Please let us know if you still can’t see your entry in the gallery and I will get this sorted for you.
We are in the process of choosing a winner for this competition which will be announced soon 🙂
Are all images submitted shown on this page? I submitted mine some time ago and don’t see it.
Hi briandalthorp, we received your entry for our ‘Shadows’ competition, which is separate from this Weekly Challenge. We don’t display competition entries in a gallery like this one, but we will be announcing the prizewinners soon and displaying them in a blog post. Thanks for entering our competition!—Ben
Hello everyone. No live review on tuesday 28th april ? Sorry if i missed something.
Karl mentioned last week that there isn’t the time to critique every week. I think he is busy with other things this week (live show on website design). Hopefully challenge critiques back soon.
ok. I couldn’t attend the review last week : thank you for information. bye ! !
Hi Karl & Team,
Am I right in saying you won’t be doing a live show for this weeks ‘shadows’ challenge?
Just a suggestion and I’m sure you’re all over this already but perhaps a way to vote and comment on members images right here on the site could be a good way of keeping these challenges going, also driving traffic away from FB onto this site.
Just an idea and I’m sure you’re already way ahead of the game anyway! Keep safe and well.
Thanks
Mark
Announcement on Live Show on 28th April.
Hi there. Thanks for your reply. I know there are workarounds, but its just a bit clunky compared to the FB group where the photo and comments are all in one place straight away. This really shows up if there are a lot of submissions, and a lot of comments. Thanks again, and good luck with the development.
For the KTE team. Unless I’m missing something, you cannot link comments here to a specific image in the gallery, so I guess that’s why everyone does that in the FB group.
Hi David, yes you are correct the comments are a general board. You can of course roll your mouse over the image to identify the photographer and then mention any image specifically or by describing it. We are working to improve the members challenge areas and introduce members galleries as soon as we can.