This Week's Challenge

Well, I don't know about the Two Fish nation, but I loved doing my Nifty 50 challenge(here). It went well, though I am reminded that not ALL my shots were with my 50mm  f1.8 Prime lens. Shame on me, but there were some great opportunities to shoot with a few different lens to capture some good shots. Namely, an amazing 85mm Prime L series professional lens at the Meet and Shoot(here) as well as this night skyline shot of Atlanta, GA. By the way, no that's not a body of water, that's my impromptu tripod--my car roof. I really like the reflection that ended up being captured.

Well, on to this week's challenge. Even though I could go with another lens challenge, I'm thinking of switching it up slightly. The Nifty 50 brought about some great portraits and I got some great opportunities to do portraits, I think it's time to practice more of my portrait composition. Now portrait composition might seem easy; for me, this will be a great challenge. I liked some of my landscaped portraits of the Meet and Shoot models, but I need to also see about using my lenses and my keen photographer's eye to compose a shot that can convey a message with a portrait. As well, I'll need to shoot 1,000 pictures of this to meet my challenge.



A few more details about last week's Nifty 50 Challenge. I ended up with just under 600 pictures total. A far cry from 1,000 but I forgive myself for 2 reasons. First, I found and joined a great group of people-- Atlanta's Photographers (here). These guys are amazing. As well, they are a huge networking source for me. Secondly, this was my first 1.000 picture challenge. It was tough, but it does not mean I wanna give up. I want to push myself to get 1,000 pictures. I did cheat a tad using 2 different lens, but 98% of the 600 something pictures were with the 50mm. Let's hope this week's challenge isn't too difficult!

Thanks for reading,
  Two Fish

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