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18 03, 2024

Challenge 12: Food

By |2024-03-18T10:38:57-08:00March 18th, 2024|Categories: Art of Photography|Tags: |0 Comments

Welcome to week 12 of the 2024 SlickPic 52-week Photo Challenge! Thanks for being on the journey, and being committed to improving your skills. This week’s Challenge is: Food Food photography composition focuses on artfully arranging food to create visually appealing images, emphasizing key principles like focal points, balance with negative space, and applying compositional rules [...]

11 03, 2024

Challenge 11: Bokeh

By |2024-03-11T07:18:43-08:00March 11th, 2024|Categories: Art of Photography|Tags: |0 Comments

Welcome to week 11 of the 2024 SlickPic 52-week Photo Challenge! Thanks for being on the journey, and being committed to improving your skills. This week’s Challenge is: Bokeh Bokeh in photography is the aesthetic quality of the blur in out-of-focus areas of an image, creating a soft, visually pleasing effect that highlights the main subject. [...]

4 03, 2024

Challenge 10: Low Light/Night

By |2024-03-04T10:46:42-08:00March 4th, 2024|Categories: Art of Photography|Tags: |0 Comments

Welcome to week 10 of the 2024 SlickPic 52-week Photo Challenge! Thanks for being on the journey, and being committed to improving your skills. This week’s Challenge is: Low Light/Night Low Light or Night Photography focuses on capturing images in environments with minimal lighting, often creating atmospheric and dramatic scenes. This genre requires careful consideration of [...]

26 02, 2024

Challenge 9: Reflections

By |2024-02-26T07:22:07-08:00February 26th, 2024|Categories: Art of Photography|Tags: |0 Comments

Welcome to week 9 of the 2024 SlickPic 52-week Photo Challenge!  Thanks for being on the journey, and being committed to improving your skills. This week’s Challenge is: Reflections Reflections in photography involve using reflective surfaces, such as water, mirrors, or glass, to create visually captivating and often symmetrical compositions. This technique can add depth, intrigue, [...]

18 02, 2024

Challenge 8: High Key

By |2024-02-16T10:57:42-08:00February 18th, 2024|Categories: Art of Photography|Tags: |0 Comments

Welcome to week 8 of the 2024 SlickPic 52-week Photo Challenge!  Thanks for being on the journey, and being committed to improving your skills. This week’s Challenge is: High Key High-key photography is a style that features predominantly bright and light elements, often characterized by a nearly or completely white background and minimal shadows. This approach [...]

11 02, 2024

Challenge 7: Diagonals

By |2024-02-09T11:59:53-08:00February 11th, 2024|Categories: Art of Photography|Tags: |0 Comments

Welcome to week 7 of the 2024 SlickPic 52-week Photo Challenge! This week’s Challenge is: Diagonals Diagonals in photography are a crucial compositional element, characterized by slanted lines that traverse an image. They introduce dynamism and a sense of movement, leading the viewer's eye through the photograph. Diagonals can enhance the depth and add visual interest, [...]

4 02, 2024

Challenge 6: One Color

By |2024-02-04T04:10:52-08:00February 4th, 2024|Categories: Art of Photography|Tags: |0 Comments

  Welcome to week 6 of the 2024 SlickPic 52-week Photo Challenge! By now, we’re sure that your skills and creativity are improving by leaps and bounds! This week’s Challenge is: One Color The "one color" theme in photography involves using a dominant hue to create a visually cohesive and impactful composition. This approach can include [...]

28 01, 2024

Challenge 5: Still Life

By |2024-01-26T09:50:59-08:00January 28th, 2024|Categories: Art of Photography|Tags: |0 Comments

Welcome to week 5 of the 2024 SlickPic 52-week Photo Challenge! We’re glad you’re here and committed to improving your skills. This week’s Challenge is: Still Life Still-life photography is all about creating compositions with inanimate objects. You’re in control of lighting, composition, and the subject matter. Try playing with the arrangement of objects, the play [...]

21 01, 2024

Challenge 4: Leading Lines

By |2024-01-23T12:43:24-08:00January 21st, 2024|Categories: Art of Photography|Tags: |0 Comments

Can you believe it’s already the 4th week of our 52-week photo challenge? Congratulations on making a commitment to improve your skills and inspire others with your photos! This week we’ll be diving into the genre of Leading Lines, which hopefully will broaden your awareness of the world around you. Leading Lines are lines that have [...]

15 01, 2024

Challenge 3: Silhouettes

By |2024-01-19T14:24:49-08:00January 15th, 2024|Categories: Art of Photography|Tags: |0 Comments

Welcome to week 3 of our 52-week photo challenge, this week about the fascinating genre of Silhouettes. Fun to capture, and sometimes haunting, silhouettes are typically a dark shape and outline of a person or object against a lighter background. Here’s a nice article from Digital Photography School on How to Photograph Silhouettes to give you [...]

8 01, 2024

Challenge 2: Intentional Camera Movement (ICM)

By |2024-01-23T12:43:31-08:00January 8th, 2024|Categories: Art of Photography|Tags: |0 Comments

Welcome to week 2 of our 52-week photo challenge! Thanks for being on the journey, and being committed to improving your skills. This week, we’re going to explore the amazing world of Intentional Camera Movement (ICM). It’s a cool and clever technique where - in many cases - you intentionally move your camera during capture so [...]

3 01, 2024

Why Should I Commit to a 52-Week Challenge?

By |2024-01-23T12:43:56-08:00January 3rd, 2024|Categories: Art of Photography, How-to Tips|Tags: |0 Comments

Check out this blog post on all the benefits of participating in consistent photo exercises like this challenge. Why should you commit to a 52-week photo challenge? Great question, and we’re glad you asked! Committing to and participating in a weekly challenge of any kind can be a little daunting at first, but soon becomes a [...]

29 12, 2023

SlickPic Academy: A 52-Week Challenge to Uplevel Your Skills

By |2024-03-18T10:40:41-08:00December 29th, 2023|Categories: Art of Photography, Inspiration, Photo Sharing|Tags: |0 Comments

Happy New Year everyone and welcome to 2024! Here at SlickPic, we’ve been thinking a lot about how SlickPic Academy (“SPA”) can be of the most value to photographers around the world. We started the Academy about 4 months ago and have been introducing you to world-class photographers and educators willing to share their hard-won experiences [...]

20 03, 2023

Art 4 Why Take Photos?

By |2023-04-12T10:42:50-08:00March 20th, 2023|Categories: Art of Photography, How-to Tips|0 Comments

Why Take Photos I thought about whether or not I wanted to title this article “Why Take Photos” or “Who Do You Take Photos.” Either way, the answer might change based on how long you’ve been taking pictures.  In the beginning of my journey as a photographer, I think I would have answered differently than I [...]

20 11, 2022

ICM – Getting Started

By |2022-11-21T10:35:33-08:00November 20th, 2022|Categories: Art of Photography|0 Comments

Expectations in ICM are very different from traditional photography. The advice – the teaching - is also different. Those of us sharing how to approach ICM to do it differently than traditional photography instructors or group leaders. The process is so very different. I remember being at photography sites like a waterfall in Yosemite, the Mormon [...]

28 10, 2022

Action Figure Photography

By |2022-11-21T11:29:38-08:00October 28th, 2022|Categories: Art of Photography|0 Comments

I belong to a local photography club. Every month we have a photo competition with an assigned subject. During the winter months, one of the assigned subjects was action figures. This subject is great for indoor photo opportunities, but I don’t really own any toys, and the fact I don’t own them might also show my [...]

23 09, 2022

Bird Photography

By |2022-11-21T10:34:25-08:00September 23rd, 2022|Categories: Art of Photography|0 Comments

Bird Photography If you like nature and you are looking for a bit of a photographic challenge, you might want to consider photographing birds.  Maybe you are already into bird photography, but you are quite getting the types of shots you are hoping for.  Here, I will take some time to share some tips and tricks [...]

8 02, 2022

Using Lines and Shapes to Compose for ICM Photography

By |2022-02-08T08:55:13-08:00February 8th, 2022|Categories: Art of Photography|Comments Off on Using Lines and Shapes to Compose for ICM Photography

When we shoot blur, we are taking away that element most people rely on when looking at photography – sharpness.  One of my favorite ways to compose ICM shots is using lines and shapes as guides for my movement. They also provide elements of clarity or sharpness that make the image much more relatable than an [...]

13 12, 2021

Critique – A Path To Creating Exceptional Photography

By |2021-12-13T10:39:03-08:00December 13th, 2021|Categories: Art of Photography|0 Comments

Critique - A Path To Creating Exceptional Photography I was given a helping hand at the beginning of my photographic journey. I was taught the value of critique and more importantly, how to use it to advance my skills. It is my compass. My own journey would be less rich without it. And much less successful. [...]