Stripes | Weekly Photography Challenge

This weekly photo challenge is deigned to complement our free online photography basics classes. Each week we will set a different theme and your homework is to go out and photograph a collection of images related to that theme.

You can start this challenge whenever you like and do the different themes in any order you see fit. Think of these challenges as a photography workout. Don’t just do them once and not revisit them. If you do start these challenges as you begin our online basics classes then in a few months why not revisit older challenges to see how much better a photographer you have become.

Also try to think outside the box as much as possible. Photography is as much about creative interpretation as it is about technical prowess.

If at any time you’d like a critique of your images then please feel free to email us.

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They can make you go faster, make you look fatter, thinner or hep you cross the street. They exist in nature and in many man-made designs and objects.

Stripes are everywhere but they usually have a purpose so try and find some unexpected uses and applications.

Sometime their purpose is aesthetic and sometimes it is functional, try and explore how stripes appear in a larger scene.

Stripes aren’t always consistent in size and in material they can emphasis or subtly describe the shapes they cover.

Stripes can also help to describe perspective and can be changed with a simple change of depth of field.

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Michael Shilling