The theme for this week is Technical: Ten Shots
Righto. This week is a challenge wrapped in the broader challenge.
What you are doing here is picking an object and taking at least 10 shots of it varying each shot as much as possible.
Things you can vary include the lighting position and intensity, the distance and angle to the object, the focal length, b&w/colour/duotone/etc. Anything really.
Note that it needs to be an inanimate object. No people or pets this week.
You’re aiming to make your object interesting to the rest of us. (This will come in handy in future challenges). 1st thing to do is pick your object and do a bit of research on how best to photograph it. eg If it shiny, search how to photo shiny objects. 2nd thing to do is keep taking photos of it. Lots of photos, adjusting as you go.
Soooo, what do you need to send to me this week?
- In one email you must send me your favourite shot and your description. Make sure I know it’s your fave.
- If you would like, you can also send me a second email with a maximum of five other shots you took so we can see a bit more of your work. I think you should do this as well. (Yes, I know you are taking ten shots, and if you really want to send all ten you can. Five just sounds more manageable. I’m currently in a good mood and will potentially be dealing with over 150 photos so this will be my challenge within this weeks challenge within the overall challenge).
Feel free to use filters or tweak in post as much as you like. Make your object pop.
Send your challenge to photos@iyt.org.au. Remember to include a description which covers the subject and/or the process.
SUBMISSIONS
JESS
Tyres at the park piled up. I really wanted to get a shot of them from above – to look a bit like a flower, but alas, I didn’t have a ladder or tripod handy.
I played around with the colour – I don’t mind the darker one as the muddy puddle in one of the tyres was annoying me 🙂
Favourite: This is my first attempt at playing around in snapseed. I like that it no longer looks like a pile of tyres – more like a glowy flower.

KOSTAS
I found it hard to choose between two objects – the sun (during sunset) and the ceiling fan in our resort room in Khao Lak, Thailand. The fan won as it seemed to be more challenging and the sunset was too damn distracting.

ANDREW
It took me a while to think of an object, but I went for an apple (actually I had to substitute an apple in as the original got damaged) as wanted to do something interesting with a simple object. I took quite a few photos (50+), playing with the settings on the Nikon D3100.
For my favourite shot (for which I loved the colours that came out), I sprayed droplets of water to add effect and for this shot I went manual focus and aperture and took the apple out to the garden in bright sun.
The other photos I played with different locations for the apple. I tried dropping the apple in to water with a quick shutter speed to capture the splash, but couldn’t get one with a great apple shot. Then late in the night I took the camera outside with my new tripod(first one ever) and in near pitch black and a long exposure I took quite a few shots playing with shutter speed, ISO and then with the light from my iPhone quick “threw” in some light….the resulting photo (also submitted) was very almost my favourite as I had never tried this process before…but narrowly missed out because the apple colour wasn’t what I wanted and didn’t help that the apple was a bit bruised…but gave me some ideas for night time shooting.
Really enjoyed the challenge this week, and I had a bit more time to dedicate to it. I do need to investigate some photo editing software (that isn’t too expensive) to try and get more out of some shots.

JOSIE
Two things I adore, the colour red ( Red like love, passion, adventure) and sexy shoes
This is my favourite chair at home

LINDA
This week as we are in Broadbeach I thought I would select an object that we see on our regular beach walks. A life saving flag just says it all. So throughout the week I took hundreds of shots of them. Varied the angle, time of day, wind effect and shade. This pic is my favourite. Bit of breeze, great shadow and a gorgeous sky with a white cloud in the background.

BRETT
This gorgeous piece is my favourite guitar that I don’t play as much as I should. I moved it around our studio for different lighting angles and for a couple of shots used a red and a blue spotlight to highlight parts of the guitar body. I chose this shot as my fave as the curves of the guitar bend the reflection of the patterns from the rug below. Tweaked a few in Lightroom as well

TANIA

RUTH

ELIZA

HILARY

TESSA

DAYNA
My Brompton folding bike is (again) my subject of choice because I photograph it a LOT; I’m always searching for new ways to present the same subject so fellow enthusiasts don’t get bored with my pics.
I could have chosen a novel item, but figured that since I’d be stopping to photograph my bike anyway…

AMANDA
For this week’s challenge my mind went crazy as I had so many objects to choose from. I decided to choose an ordinary object that we see every day and pretty much ignore into an abstract piece that might spark conversation at your next dinner party.

SAMARA
This was a big task this week! I thought I’d try some tougher photos, so the shoot took a couple of hours! The photo I liked most was actually the easiest to take. It was the over exposed gloves holding coffee. I’ve put the falling cup as my fav though, just because of the number of takes that it required trying to get the timing right, as well as the focus. It’s a bit grainy because I needed to bump up the ISO in order to have a really high shutter speed. I really do want a better camera. My next fav would be the steam. That took so long! It was so hard to actually capture. I had to really play around with the lighting.

KIM

ANTHONY
Bench in St Kilda Botanical Gardens

JO
Flower in St Kilda Botanic Gardens. Low light and wind which proved a challenge. This was taken with 40-150mm lense on Olympus Penlite EPL5. Had planned a small aperture shot to gain a small depth of field and focus on my flower. In the end this shot is F5.6!! I have cropped this slightly but nothing else

SHAWN
This is our backyard cubby. I took several shots in different modes from the same distance with the same zoom. I also did some post editing with other shots, but I think this original shot with no filter and no post editing remains my favorite.

JENNI

NEIL
Replica mace, Old Parliament House, Canberra

CORY
This is SooC, well…phone actually.

MEG
My laptop goes everywhere with me – even on holidays. Today it was my muse for this photo shoot

SARMA
My ‘subject’ is my old teddy, Michael, who I’ve had since I was two. A very co-operative model!
I still don’t have a good understanding of my DSLR so I just took shots on every setting, hoping at least one would turn out ok. My goal is to actually know what I’m doing by he end of the challenge.
My favourite shot is a bit ordinary, but I love the lighting and that I managed to blur the background and it shows him as he really is.
