Tag: night photography

The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Shadows.

On By dalecooper57In arts, editing and effects, photography14 Comments

Hi there, welcome to your Monday pick-me-up, The Cosmic Photo Challenge, here to usher in a new week of photographic creativity to take your mind off the daily grind.

This week we’re concentrating on a lack of light, more specifically; Shadows.

After the blisteringly hot weather we’ve been having, I didn’t think I’d have any problems capturing some nice, stark silhouettes over the weekend, but the skies remained stubbornly overcast and I thought I was going to have to resort to archive pictures.

But it occurred to me that photos taken at night are chock full of shadows, in fact they’re mostly shadows, so I took a few of those in the garden.

Then, on Sunday afternoon, the sun made a brief appearance for about ten minutes, reflecting off windscreens of cars parked outside the window. This created an overlapping collage of shadows, made from the net curtains, a window hanging and a spider plant, all cast on my living room wall. After a spot of fiddling with contrast and brightness, I had some wonderfully arty images.

These are all single exposures, the ones at night were just a bit longer.  ;~}

I even appear as a reflection in the picture frame

What shadowy activities did you get up to since we last got together? Go on, you can tell us…

*****

To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post.
Tag your posts with #CosPhoChal.

Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, or whatever other post production techniques you fancy are permitted, (in fact, they’re actively encouraged!) so get creative and turn your photos into artworks for the Cosmic Photo Challenge

The Cosmic Photo Challenge: As night falls.

On By dalecooper57In editing and effects, photography12 Comments

This week’s mission on The Cosmic Photo Challenge, assuming you’ve chosen to accept it, was to provide images for the prompt; As night falls.

{I will admit up front that at least one of the long exposures below was taken in the dark before dawn, not as night *fell* per se, but the spirit of the theme still holds…that’s my thinking, anyway}

Did you accomplish your mission? Right, time for your debriefing, let’s see those photos…

*****

To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post.

Tag your posts with  #CosPhoChal.

Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, or whatever other post production techniques you fancy are permitted, (in fact, they’re actively encouraged!) so get creative and turn your photos into artworks for the Cosmic Photo Challenge.

The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Three shots from one spot.

On By dalecooper57In editing and effects, photography15 Comments

This week on The Cosmic Photo Challenge I asked you to take all your pictures from one place, with the prompt; Three shots from one spot.

I took mine from the back garden last night, resulting in a couple of long exposures and some strangely manipulated artwork.

What fabulous trio of photographic treasures do you have to show us?

*****

To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post.

Tag your posts with  #CosPhoChal.

Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, or whatever other post production techniques you fancy are permitted, (in fact, they’re actively encouraged!) so get creative and turn your photos into artworks for the Cosmic Photo Challenge.