• Week 12

  March 19 - 25, 2017

  Artistic:

  Orange

  Your inspiration this week is orange. Either the color orange or an actual orange. Or both.

  This was a fun challenge. In the end I had several different orange-themed images to choose from but this was my favourite.  

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• Week 11

  March 12 - 18, 2017

  Technical:

  Spilt Tone

  Split Tone is an editing technique where the shadows are toned one color, and the highlights a second color. Split toning is often used with color grading in the media to give a scene a desired look and feel.

  Did not love this challenge. Getting the right balance of the different colour and saturation levels of the shadows and highlights was tricky. Definitely a good skill to master and I will have to spend another time playing around with these effects.  

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• Week 9

  February 26 - March 4, 2017

  Artistic:

  Still Life

  Your inspiration this week is Still Life. A couple of pieces of fruit on a table won't impress in the advanced challenge though... so be really creative.

  The images for the previous weeks have seemed a bit dull, so this week I went for a lot of colour. This image was built around a small, brightly coloured dragon toy which I surrounded with leaves, flowers and fruit from the garden. 

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• Week 8

  February 19 - 25, 2017

  Technical:

  One Shot

  Imagine that it is the last frame on a roll of film and you have to nail it. For this challenge only take one shot. No deleting, no second shot. The honour system is in play.

  With the popularity of digital cameras, we are used to taking multiple shot of a particular image, perhaps with only slight variations in angle or exposure. Taking one shot felt odd. Here I stopped at Southlands, a nature reserve along the South Shore. This is the first and only shot I took of this view that leads from the entrance.   

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• Week 7

  February 12 - 18, 2017

  Story:

  Forgotten

  Abandoned was a very popular week in the original challenge. For the advanced challenge tell the story of something forgotten.

  The empty shells of boats - often damaged and then abandoned after severe storms or hurricanes - can be found bobbing in various bays or stranded on rocks and beaches around the island having long been forgotten by their previous owners. 

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• Week 6

  February 5 - 11, 2017

  Artistic:

  Candy

  A throwback to one of the favourite weeks of the original challenge. Your artistic inspiration this week is candy. Since this is the advanced challenge... you can't actually use candy in the scene.

  When the inspiration is candy, your first instinct is to create a scene using the sweet stuff. After considering photographing signs or packaging, I settled on trying to capture the candy-coloured buildings of Bermuda. 

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