Digital Photography Tips – DIY Lighting: Photography Challenge

December 8, 2011

Lit by Pc – Image by Martin Gommel

This week’s photography challenge is a small diverse – we’re not telling you what to photograph, but we’re demanding you to light your shot with some kind of lighting gear that is not created for photographic lighting.

Your challenge is to take and share an image that does use some type of artificial lighting – but it can’t be a flash, studio light etc.

We want to see what you can do with a lamp, or a torch, or an LED, or a candle, or the light from an iPad, the light from your refrigerator, the light from a TV…. you get the picture?

The moment you’ve taken your ‘DIY Lighting’ Photos – select your best one-2, upload them to your favourite photo sharing internet site and either share a hyperlink to them or – embed them in the comments employing the our new tool to do so.

If you tag your photographs on Flickr, Instagram, Twitter or other web sites with Tagging tag them as #DPSDIYLIGHT to help other people discover them. Linking back to this page may possibly also assist others know what you’re carrying out so that they can share in the enjoyable.

Note: although we really don’t mind you posting prior photos that you have taken that match this topic – the genuine point of these ‘challenges’ is to inspire you to go out and take NEW photographs. So possibly instead of just trawling via your old photos to discover one that fits – grab that camera and go use it as well!

Lit by Candles – Image by Sam Roberts

Lit by an iPad – Image by MeckiMac

Also – don’t forget to check out out some of the fantastic shots posted in last weeks Just before and After challenge where there had been some great shots submitted.

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