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...

Portrait photography with shadows

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.

Submit your image

Use the form below to submit your image for inclusion in the gallery
To view the entry form login or non-members sign-up here to join Visual Education.

Week 5 - Members' Gallery

Aby Hamouda Alessandra Centanni Alfie Jones Photography Aquilino Paparo Ashish Audaniya Fotography Ashish Audaniya Fotography Barry Rufus Bogdan Sima Damian Lamartine Dan Chesny David Morgan David Morgan Diane Ross Douglas Dutton Duane Paul Williams Filianna Karamanli Germaine Thurgood Giovanni Giovo Roveran Graham Robb Ian Knight Jason Crane John Thompson Jorge Reynal Karen Hoinke Lidija Hauck Mark Rowe Michelle Collins Mikael Johansson Paul Smith Petr Skalka Quentin Arrault Richard Randle Rits Razz Ross Taylor Scott David Burk Slavek Sekanina Stéphane Paris Stéphanie Renon Steve Molnar Stuart Opie Ulieta Krischak Vatroslav Suvala Suki Fpv West Maze Andy Greenwell Karin Werren Wayne Densley Adam Colvin Arthur Hegarty Deitra L Jackson Eddy's Photo Art Graziano Bongiovanni Mido Barsoum Paulo Pinto Rob Toscano Rob Toscano Victor Pollak Eddy's Photo Art Heinz Peterherr Japi Valadez Jonathan Mark Hedrick Ken Breivik Photography Lee Hayes Nicolas de Caritat Petros Spyrou Roman Chilikin Aidan Hughes Alice Msc Brian Gross Dirk Valcke Doug Howell o Perez Photography Krisztián Kiszner Massimiliano Ferrari Maxine Rawlinson Michael Fallon Patrick Buddy Ryan Paulo Álvares Stefan Mercoli Suzy Courtnage Vera Change Vera Change Vladimir Plavac Wayne Densley Wolfgang Gangl Prabhjit Sandhu Pablo Arbelaez Marili Papadopoulou Leeanne Mason Joseph Michael McGahan Joel Martins Joe Blecker Ibrahim Taha Gregory Kollauf Gabriel Santaella Elle Kellar Daniel Honegger Dan Pearce Chris Joubert Aurore Serviat Arash Ranjbar Ahmed Zaghloul Adriano Leon Abdulsalam Musa Dan Hone Elena Hofmeister Guillermo Antonio Ivan Boden Juli Fair Martin Villanueva Mogens Hermansen Sanna Lange Mercedes D Gonzalez

Comments

    1. Ben H (VE Team)

      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

  1. 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

    1. Ben H (VE Team)

      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

    1. Ben H (VE Team)

      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

  2. 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

    1. amberKTE

      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 🙂

    1. Ben H (VE Team)

      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

    1. DavidMorgan

      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.

  3. 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

  4. DavidMorgan

    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.

  5. DavidMorgan

    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.

    1. 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.

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