Cool Photos & Photographers Articles

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.

Visual metaphors in photography is used to convey visual representations of something, or to associate similarities. It can also be used to convey abstract emotions, or other visual stories.

The “Visual Metaphors” photo contest had varied images and the participants had come up with their own interpretation of the theme. Images submitted to the contest included varied genre like, still life, nature, landscape and abstract where some natural scenes were very beautifully captured as a visual metaphor, while others came up with stories they set to capture a visual metaphor.