Weekly Photography Challenge – Reading

This week’s photography challenge topic is READING!

You can practice your street photography skills, and capture shots like this. Photo: Don Fontijn

Go out and capture pictures of books, people reading on trains, planes, buses, in cafes etc.

Take photos of bookshelves, piles of books, newspapers or people reading on their mobile photos. There are so many options!

Do them as street photography, portraits, and still life. Do them color, or black and white. Use bokeh backgrounds or keep everything in focus! The decision is yours.

I look forward to seeing what you come up with!

You can use a shallow depth of field to get a nice bokeh background like this. Photo: Aaron Burden

You can shoot towards the sun to get partial or full silhouettes like this. Photo: Yuri Efremov

You can experiment with shutter speed to capture pictures through moving or stationary vehicles like this. Photo: Rathish Gandhi

Check out some of the articles below that give you tips on this week’s challenge.

Tips for Shooting READING

How to Create a Delicious Blurry Bokeh Background in 4 Easy Steps

An Easy Hack for Shooting into the Sun and Processing the Images

5 Secrets to Create a Perfect Silhouette Portrait Outdoors

The Ultimate Guide to Street Photography

Panning and Other Tips for Adding Motion to Your Street Photography

How to Create a Spectacular Background Using an El Bokeh Wall

Weekly Photography Challenge – READING

Simply upload your shot into the comment field (look for the little camera icon in the Disqus comments section) and they’ll get embedded for us all to see or if you’d prefer, upload them to your favorite photo-sharing site and leave the link to them. Show me your best images in this week’s challenge.

Share in the dPS Facebook Group

You can also share your images in the dPS Facebook group as the challenge is posted there each week as well.

If you tag your photos on Flickr, Instagram, Twitter or other sites – tag them as #DPSreading to help others find them. Linking back to this page might also help others know what you’re doing so that they can share in the fun.