I would like to use my 9+ years experience as a professional photographer to help my fellow Steemians win SBD while teaching you how to look at light differently through the lens of the camera.
One of the key components of creating amazing, professional-quality photographs is knowing how to use your camera to capture the light.
To capture good light, sometimes you must chase it.
I want to teach you how to look at light differently and use it to your advantage as a budding photographer.
Each week will focus on a different theme in the study of light and participation in this challenge will make you a stronger photographer and artist!
The themes for each week are as follows:
Week 1: Golden Hour & Rim Light
(I will be announcing the Week 1 winning submissions soon!)
Week 2: Window Light (Scroll down for the lesson!)
Week 3: Reflections
Week 4: Pocket of Light
Here are the rules to Jazzyfish's Chase the Light Challenge:
Rule #1:
Resteem my theme announcement post each week! (For week 2, resteem this post you are reading right now!) That means there is no limit to how much SBD you could possibly win! I'm splitting all of the SBD rewards from those posts with the weekly winners.
After the weeks theme announcement post pays out, I will split the rewards between each of the winners as follows:
1st Place: 50% of the SBD payout of weekly theme announcement post
2nd Place: 20% of the SBD payout of weekly theme announcement post
3rd Place: 10% of the SBD payout of weekly theme announcement post
Rule #2:
Read each lesson included in the weeks theme announcement post, then go out with your camera and practice what you learned in that lesson.
Rule #3:
Submit your photo to win SBD by creating your own Steemit post with the #chasethelight tag. (BONUS: Comment on this post with a link to your submission post so I can resteem it for you!)
Any photo that does not meet that week's theme will be disqualified, so please read the week's lesson about the theme carefully.
The photo you submit to the Chase the Light Challenge MUST BE YOUR OWN PHOTO. We (@winstonwolfe and myself) will be researching the finalists before payout to make sure the photo is legitimate.
Rule #4:
You may enter as many photos as you wish as long as they fit the week's theme, but only one entry per post, please.
Practice, practice, practice!
Post, post, post!!
The better you are at capturing the week's theme and the more SBD the #chasethelight weekly theme announcement post earns, the more likely you are to win that SBD!
Why window light?
One of my favorite reasons to master window light is because it can be used just about anywhere and in any kind of weather, no fancy equipment needed.
To get the most out of your lesson in window lighting, I suggest practicing a few different approaches:
1. Use window light as a side light. (Make sure you do away with all other light sources in the room to prevent a clash in color temperatures. Daylight is very cool on the scale, so an indoor light will make your shadows orange. Orange shadows are very unattractive! )
2. Use window light as a back light. Put your subject directly between yourself and the window. This is a great way to capture a silhouette, too!
3. Use window light as a "flat" light. This time, put yourself between your subject and the window, with your subject facing you straight on. As long as you are using midday, ambient window light, the light cast onto your subject will be flat and even across the photo.
I can always count on window light, no matter the weather...
...A grey cloudy day can give you the softest ambiance and deepest shadows...
(Pictured above: Steemit users @tltran and @quantumanomaly)
..A beautiful, sunny day will backlight a photo to give it a bit of a contrast snap, some drama, if you will...
and a skrim or simple sheer white curtains can be used to control the intensity of the light your are working with, like so:
Image credit: SLR Lounge)
(The portraits above were created by me on my Canon 6D, using only window light. You can see more of mine and @winstonwolfe's work over the course of our careers as professional photographers by visiting our WEBSITE)
During this week's #chasethelight challenge, Only photos of subjects lit by window light will be considered for the SBD prizes. Stay tuned for the winning submissions from last week's theme - Golden Hour & Rim Light!! Coming soon!!
Now, It's your turn!
Go! Chase the light!
An interesting competition. I am an amateur photographer, I began to be engaged in photography from that year and it will be interesting for me to listen to your advice.
Thank you, @lena1!
I plan to add more themes and repeat popular themes after week 4, so hopefully this will be a great place for amateur photographers to learn and grow! Photography skill is like a muscle - it has to be exercised to stay strong!
I hope you will consider joining the #chasethelight challenge, and I am here to help you if you have questions about the lesson. :)
Thank you for the invitation. I will try and grow.
Great new theme! And i was chasing the light Sunday night (finally got the sunset time), have not gotten a chance to look the result yet, and not sure is something cool came out, but i was HAVING A BLAST :) Thank you! .... and yes, it is me prock, just got excited to respond and it is me in Zen anyways, wanting to support artists and artists supported with the channel :)
oh ... and also I was not clear when the deadline is for the weekly submissions. Not critical and I had full blast chasing the light anyways, but just good to capture in mind when the date or day of a week comes to submit :) cheers!
I'm happy you went out and gave it a try, and I'm delighted you had fun with it! Golden hour truly is one of my favorite lighting situations in which to photograph.
The Golden Hour theme will repeat in three weeks, so hang on to what you did last night so you can compare it to what you capture in the future when you try again. It's fun to see yourself grow and watch your own style morph.
You're absolutely right- I need to make the deadline more clear. It's really only implied.
The deadline for each week's theme submission is when the theme announcement post pays out.
Thanks for pointing that out!
I hope you are able to submit for Week 2!
That's awesome! I was also trying to make a portrait to one passion fruit flower, on our new tree. Funnily the sun went to shade of a fence at exact location were flower was LOL and it could be only one day for that flower to bloom. But I spotted the other one which may make it happen :) Thank you for the inspiration and read lesson number two and stared in loops to your great works on it!
Upvoted and resteemed and ready for my next lesson! I am having so much fun with these, thank you @jazzysish! :D