Author: Federico Alegria

This week, we keep on exploring the essence of movement — so you can expect some exquisite examples of swift imagery from our talented community. In case you are intrigued by this challenge but feeling not ready for sharing, you can still practice at your own pace. Freezing motion in photography is a huge challenge, and you should not feel less capable due to some odd or unexpected results.

Something to consider though, is picking the right subjects and predicting their upcoming movements. If you nail at this, you might start getting some impactful and memorable results. Also, focusing on moments of tension while presenting unusual or uncommon scenes can make your shots more interesting and complex.

Between the characteristics of particle and wave, light has fascinated our species for millennia; today, we’re all in for celebrating our most beloved phenomenon. Now, the bigger picture here is the “essence of movement”, our most recent set and the upcoming contest’s theme!
For this call on the essence of movement, Diane directed our attention towards the dance of light. From here on, you can expect a wild-ride into the various possibilities shutter speed enables; being it fast or slow. And as you should have imagined by now, toying with speed is more fun when using a neutral density aka ND.

Welcome to the weekly Light Stalking community wrap up!

Surprising the human mind is, pretty much anything is capable of triggering our imagination catapulting our thoughts to the unknown. Said that, this visual compendium serves as a proper way of saying good-bye to our surrealism and dreamscapes set. For this —the 740th editing of the weekly photographic challenge— Diane made the call for… Imaginary worlds!

For this week’s challenge, Diane invited us to bring some surreal portraits to the forum. As expected, things went above and beyond. Several of our talented members delighted us with some twisted imagery. Just a little warning before you scroll further, you might end up feeling inspired to share some bold surreal portraits as well. If so, click here and participate — it’s never late for doing so.

With every week, we’re presented with more intricate and fancier words. For the current instance, Diane invited us to reflect upon the meaning of the word “ethereal” — while accomplishing visual representations of such notions. Few guidelines were given in this call — making it even trickier, even for those rich in experience. Oh, but […]

Welcome to the weekly Light Stalking community wrap-up! A pool filled with the oneiric stuff from which imagery is made, that’s how I envision dreams nowadays. Practical, relaxing, and easy to picture in my mind. Almost surreal itself, as a pond waiting for a cliché shot to be made. Regularly seen as ominous and premonitory, […]