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"Replace Fear of the Unknown with Curiosity..."
As the year crawls into the final quarter - lots of challenges and daily photo tasks and so on begin to conclude. I have personally been challenging myself with the 365 Photography challenge - a photo a day for a whole year. It has been tricky to say the least, especially as I set myself a high standard of capturing more than one Photo a day - but also rewarding. Setting yourself a challenge, whether it's following the 52 week photography challenges that are out there, or doing a themed challenge such as 365 breakfasts - is a great way of expanding on your portfolio. Whilst it sometimes means that you struggle to find anything interesting to photograph or share, on the days that you do, you're one step closer to building another aspect of your portfolio.
Next week in Photography Troubleshooting - we will be looking at Money Matters and so

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"Have no fear of perfection - You'll never reach it! "
~Salvador Dali"
Have you studied Photography? I'm intrigued to know whether or not a qualification in Photography has made you a better, or indeed a worse photographer. Or has there been no change? This week, The Photography Blog asks whether or not a Photography Degree is worth the paper it's written on. Graduation in any field these days doesn't mean that you'll immediately get a job in your desired area. Not these days. So is it worth embarking on study related to photography when in the end, you could get to the same place without the paper stating what you are capable of? Photography is one of a small number of job areas where what you've done speaks higher volumes than whether or not you're

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"Creativity, like human life itself - begins in Darkness "
-Julia Cameron."
I read a very interesting article this week debating Photography Vs Literature and which one of the two tells us more. Of course there is always the element that a picture could be accompanied by words but neither aspect is enough to tell a whole story. But as the article says, Photography has become a universal constant in the world today and is accessible to nearly everybody. Yet many still believe that only pure narration can truly tell a story. What are your thoughts? As Photographers we can choose to limit what we tell or show with a photograph, we can even mislead. Can we convey more with words? Or more with an image? You could describe a person with words but never truly give an accurate picture of who they are visually without a photograph...

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"“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.”
- Erich Fromm
Weather Photography has always fascinated me - the weather in general does anyway, but capturing those changes, shifts in atmosphere and so on have always had me in awe. However when browsing the latest news within popular photography early this week I was stunned by an image that NASA had captured of hurricane Isaac as it lurked over the USA. I've been in a hurricane before, but it never felt as organised or precise as this image shows. This shows a smooth beautiful cloud formation. When below it's likely wreaking havoc and destroying lives. It's difficult to match the two together and contemplate them as the same thing. It's also incredible how we've advanced in terms of technology. This shot of Hurricane Isaac was captured at the end of a month in which images have been transferred from Mars. We, as a human rac

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"Skill in photography is acquired by practice and not by purchase"
- Percy W. Harris
The other week, a piece of my writing was selected for a Daily Literature Deviation. If you're curious you can see the article here. I was humbled by that, but my reason for mentioning it in Photography Bi-weekly is that *0hgravity then highlighted a website to me that I found absolutely fascinating. It's soul purpose is to highlight Endangered Languages through Photography. 3170 lens are capturing the people who hold the key to the worlds most secret languages. Once again something like this highlights the complete and utter importance of Photography and reminds us of how far we've come, and how much we can do from mobile ph

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"Does Equipment Matter?"
One of the more recent articles on the topic of photography explores how an instagram photograph taken during Hurricane Sandy has been selected to be used on the cover of Time Magazine. Perhaps quite fittingly, the title accompanying the image on the front page is Lessons from the storm. Whilst many have learned a lot from Hurricane Sandy and many more are working on rebuilding their lives, one of the biggest lessons for photographers and the world of media could well be that iphone Photographers can be photo-journalists too. We've covered the topic of equipment, capabilities and qualifications many a time before now in Photography Weekly - but what are your thoughts on this article?
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“Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources”
- Albert Einstein
I don't know about you, but Light Painting has to be really unique and awesome in order to impress me. So when I stumbled across the work of Darren Pearson aka Darren Twin - I was astounded at the creativity and simple methods used to create his conceptual photographic pieces. Darren creates LED pictures of Skeletons Skateboarding, dancing and living - exploring what the Mail Online has termed as the bare bones of our daily lives. And it really is precisely that. Darren takes the ordinary, the mundane and the normal of everyday life and lights it up by night by painting bones. Check it out for yourself. That prompted me to go searching for some of my favourite light painted pieces here

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"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”
-William Shakespeare
Basking in the glory of finally getting recognised for your hard efforts and photographic skill is pretty awesome and at the start of this week I took the opportunity to enjoy *Fuzzypiggy's after he got published in a UK Photography Magazine. It's really nice when something like that happens and the knowledge that across the country - and because of deviantART and other networks - across the world, people are looking at your work. And if you're me, smiling! I once stumbled across *lauren-rabbit's work in Black and White Photography Magazine and was truly proud that somebody I had found here on deviantART was here in my mag! So have you been published? Has your work received any recognition that makes you proud? What are your tips to getting out there and having your work showcased?

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"Let your words be few - and your exposures many"
-Unknown
Earlier this week I was stalking a photography forum (because it's where all the cool kids are) and I noticed somebody claiming to be a fairly professional photographer angling for information on the best mega-pixels D-SLR camera they could get in order to stabilise their images. Well anybody who knows even a tiny inkling about Photography will very quickly jump on that as most of us know full well that no matter how many megapixels you've got, they aren't worth a thing without a steady hand or more importantly a good sturdy tripod. I never was a firm believer in a tripod and even now, I rarely use it. However I use any number of things to stabilise myself when shooting whether that involves lying in a bed of flowers, resting against a wall or indeed using the nearest person (which I don't recommend - people sway!) However it's not difficult to get

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"One Signature is worth a thousand implied tones..."
-Charles Swan -
Copyright Expert
In the news this week there has been a spotlight on Karren Brady, a photographer who has won a copyright ruling. The news article itself is interesting but the cautions that it turfs up for the future and current generations of photographers are slightly more concerning. The general feeling that has started to develop is that if you have assistance with setting up a shot, making a scene, posing a model and making up a person for example, those people may well have rights to your work. This is also being debated with regards to post-production and if you get somebody else to edit your work. What are your thoughts on this? And when attributing this to the deviantART community, what

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"Which of my photographs is my favorite?
The one I'm going to take tomorrow." ~ Imogen Cunningham
I'm loving jars this month. I'm not sure why, other than the fact that I saw some set up at a craft fair that I had a table at, and I just fell in love with them. A couple of large jars with some fairy lights nestled in them - the effect was immense. It was so simple too! Sadly the people weren't actually selling the lights, but once I'd made a little profit on my sales, I went over clutching my ten pound note and picked out a few. So I was delighted to see that on Flipboard today, there was an article exploring 19 great photos of jars. If you're stuck for inspiration, grab a jam jar (take the jam out first maybe) and start shooting. Shoot things through them, around them, in them - get creative! Jars are awesome.

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"Is Photography Art?
This week the Guardian asks Is Photography Art? Now this is an interesting question and I already know my stance on it, Photography, to me - IS art. It can't not be art. It's creation, creativity, capturing, preserving - but it's Art. I'd be interested to see who agrees with this and who would say no to the Guardian's question - and why. So let's get thinking about it and debate it in the comments on this article...One commenter on the Guardian Article said the following..."Photography is definitely not art. In my opinion it's something way more beautiful and profound."
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A photograph is memory in the raw. - Carrie Latet

I recently spent some time (okay maybe hours!) exploring a photographic exhibition on the Isle of Wight - England. I had known that the exhibition existed for some years, but had never really ventured over there. It was held in the home and studio of a celebrated Victorian Photography - Julia Margaret Cameron. However it did include a nice variety of works - photographs from Dorothy Bohm who put together the book A world observed and a collection of shots taken at the famed 1970s Isle of Wight Pop Festival. It included images of Jimi Hendrix who performed at the festival just three weeks before his death. The images collated and exhibited were fascinating. But what really struck me was how far we had come in terms of camera equipment.

This was donated to the Margaret Cameron Trust by Graham Ovenden and was subsequent

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Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
~Scott Adams
I was fascinated this week by an article about the Photographer who survived a year only on Penguin Steaks. When I read further I was enlightened about an exhibition to the Antarctic that I had never before heard of. In 1914, Sir Shakleton along with 27 men, 69 dogs and a cat sailed from Buenos Aires to Antarctica. They wanted to be the first to cross the Antarctic Continent on foot. However their boat became trapped and they lived on the ship for 10 months. Some of the photographs captured of those moments are wonderful - timeless creations of moments when all you really have to keep yourself occupied with, is thinking and existing. To cut a long exhibition short, they spend almost two years (some of them) existing on penguins and biscuits. But the whole time they were there, Frank Hurley, a Photog

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“Everyone talks about the weather, but no one does anything about it.”

― Mark Twain

The sky is so often underestimated in terms of Photography that I felt compelled to give it a bit of love and talk about it in this weeks article. I've been following UK Storm Chasers on facebook who have been documenting the arrival of the 'demon child of Nadine' as it has been deemed. Hurricane Nadine is still out there in the Atlantic Ocean spinning around and preparing to send the UK another demon child (which is really just a tropical storm to us) and with it comes a plethora of opportunities to snap some stunning skies and horizons. But do we appreciate the sky enough? I don't think we do. When was the last time you stopped shooting at eye level and looked up? Often, there's nothing there - but often too, there's something worth capturing. The general rule when capturing landscapes is to tilt your camera downwards and put emphasis on the foreground. So therefore the sky occupies very little of the final product. However trying something different warrants a bit of creativity but should hopefully land you with something completely different...

I wanted to capture the beginnings of the storm last week, but the view from my window was full of builders, skips, lorries and cars on eye level as it was the middle of the day and the road outside was busy. The clouds on their own didn't work well - but putting in that slither of trees in the background just finished it off nicely. Why not give it a go and focus on the sky instead of on a level next time you shoot?

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The 3rd Issue of Celebrating Diversity is out - and what a diverse collection we have! Check it out for inspiring works across many galleries here on deviantart. We've also rounded up our Daily Deviation roundups for September to make it easier for you to navigate to where you want to go. Check out the Full List.

Contests

The beginning of a new month sees a lot of monthly contests launching again with new themes and challenges. There has been a lot happening in the general photography world lately and so I've got a mini roundup here to help you out so you can see what you do and don't want to enter!

Capture Your Pumpkin! hosted in the #Still-Life-Stills group this contest is still life photography based. But do not fear - if you've never ventured into the Still Life World it doesn't matter! You can quite easily pick up your camera and get creative on this one. Plus there's a category for best carving too....so why not get creative with the carving knife (and your pumpkin!)

Abstract Colours Contest has launched over at #Abstract-and-Surreal and challenges you to capture colour in abstract!

Recipe Challenge: Pesto be sure to check over at #Still-Life-Stills for the recipe for this months challenge and the winners from last month. October will be encouraging to create something with Pesto! Don't know what that is? Check out the group for more info!

Orange Still Life Contest is open at #Still-Life-Stills and is for your Orange themed still life photography. Head to the group to enter!

Seasonal Portraiture Contest is open and is being hosted by #communityrelations along with #PeopleAndPortraits. Check it out as it challenges you to capture people in seasonal environments and creative ways! There is a fantastic prize list too.

News & Events from Chats

We had our second photography games night this week and it went down really well! Lots of people came along and took part in the obscure photo challenge which involved taking a photo there and then and making it as obscure as possible for the guessing game afterwards. Lots of prizes were given out and we're planning our next event which will be in November - check out the Chat events Calendar and follow #communityrelations for constant updates!

Spotlight Deviant

This week ^Astralseed bought a photographer to my attention. *1pen shows us exactly how she has improved over a period of time with regards to photography with a fantastic deviation that illustrates the chance and development in skills quite clearly.

"It's an intimidating field, in fact, most photographers will tell you that aside from embedding with the military it's probably the most expensive and difficult field in photography there is. But the fact is with a lot of hard work and practice you can improve. Up there shows what can happen in a year(ish) all completely self-taught. That example spans 72 professional games and countless daysin between spent photographing high school teams, youth teams, college teams, junior teams, county teams, and mountains and zoos and my kitty cat."

Project Educate

Community week is over thanks to ^neurotype and `JamminJo for heading it up and making it all run smoothly as well as all the fabulous contributors that ran weeks this week! You're all awesome! Check out the gallery for a roundup of all things covered in case you missed anything out. If you want to get involved with the next Communnity week then note #projecteducate! Now it's Photo-manipulation MONTH - which means a month of awesome courtesy of ^SanguineVamp - get yourselves over there and get involved!

Art History

We're calling for all History Enthusiasts to get involved with the next few months of Art History! Read the article and head over to #ArtHistoryProject to send a note and get involved. Don't forget it's Digital Art Month currently which means lots of historical info about Digital Art is emerging - follow the group for more information!

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Photography Troubleshooting this week explores Autumn and getting the best out of those Autumnal shots if you're in a location where the trees drop their leaves and misty mornings creep in. Hopefully it will be useful and once again, if you've got a burning photography question let me know and the Photography team will do their best to answer it! We're also looking for Historians in the Photography world - know some history about Photography? Why not write an article for #ArtHistoryProject in January - note the group to take part! ^3wyl has put together a roundup of her September Daily Deviations and you can find my roundup here!

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Nom Nom is out again and features very delicious looking cheesecakes! Be warned - it's tasty and you might get VERY hungry looking at the images! As always if you have a foodie theme you'd like to see featured in Nom Nom just let me know. We announced yet another Still Life Photographer of the Week and our blue themed contest at #Still-Life-Stills ended at the end of September and there were some wonderful entries. However we had to pick winners - congratulations to *catchingfyre who landed first place with The First Snow..

Head over to #Still-Life-Stills and join in our Monthly Recipe challenge - also find out the winners from last month! This month we're making Pesto!

People & Portraits Photography

Community Volunteers ^Kaz-D | ^3wyl |

The People & Portraits Photography team decided that it was time we had a group dedicated to purely the People and Portrait Photography galleries! So #PeopleAndPortraits was launched and with it the Seasonal Portraiture Photography Contest. Head over to the group and join - check out our latest blog which features the very first People & Portraits Photographer of the Week and make yourself comfortable! We're also including the other galleries within People & Portraits that have specific Community Volunteers and we're very pleased to have the majority of those awesome people on board in the group!
Monochrome Eyes is one of our first blog series by =WickedMirage which looks to be fantastic!
Finally, the latest edition of People & Portraits Exposed is out showcasing some of the most popular portraiture photography in the past 48 hours.

Artistic Nude

Community Volunteer ^Nyx-Valentine

The feature theme this week is Sunshine! Check out the blog for some fantastic features and artwork - contains mature content.

Architecture Photography

Community Volunteer ^anmari

The Architecture Roundup for September is out giving an overview of the daily deviations that were featured throughout the month. Check it out for inspiration on what to suggest ^anmari this month!

Abstract & Surreal Photography

Community Volunteer `DpressedSoul

#Abstract-and-Surreal is really busy at the moment with our latest monthly contest announced and lots of fabulous blogs popping up here and there. Finding Beauty beauty is back and written by *RosleinRot and =WickedMirage has put together a fantastic Abstract Feature. The rather wonderful *KizukiTamura has put together Square Abstract and Surreal Features.
`DpressedSoul has rounded up the daily deviations in Abstract and Surreal for September so you can see what was featured last month and get ideas for suggestions this month! Check out Every Day Hurts for a wonderful abstract and surreal feature.

Conceptual Photography

Community Volunteer `DemonMathiel

The Conceptual Daily Deviation roundup for September is out! Take a peek for some fantastic conceptual works and inspiration on what to suggest to `DemonMathiel next!

Horror, Macabre & Cosplay Photography

Community Volunteer ^pullingcandy

Serenade me Sinister is back! This time around it features art alongside The 69 Eyes! Check it out for some fantastic artwork. ^pullingcandy has also published the Horror and Macabre Roundup and the Cosplay DD Roundup!

Street Photography

Community Volunteer `StamatisGR

The September Roundup of Street Daily Deviations is out! Check it out for awesome works and inspiration!

Photo-journalism

Community Volunteer `xbastex

Part Five of Masters of Photography is out and explores fantastic historical photo-journalists. Reccomended Artists gives you some ideas of who to watch right here on deviantART in the Photo-journalism Community.

Photography Resources

I found this gem in *Fuzzypiggy's journal. So far I think it's only relevant to UK photographers - but I lost myself for a while searching through the images, particularly local, to see what people have snapped. The map is geared up to help you find locations to shoot at throughout the country and gives examples of what people have shot before. Take a look for a bit more info and a fantastic resource!

News & Events From the Forums

The Forum Events Calendar gives you lots of information on the events and challenges going on in the forums this month. We've also opened up the Critique Thread for October - drop by with your work for some feedback!

Color space

War Photographer Opinions

Fashion and Glamour

Technique Help

Selective colouring, Why do you LIKE it?

Pancake Lens?

Urban Exploration: Where do you find your places?

Main adjustments done in RAW or Editing software?

Macro Lens?

Your first wedding shoot. How did it go?

Wedding Photography?

Suggested photography groups?

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Photography Books

Photographing Shadow and Light by Joey L is a fantastic book exploring the photographers talent with a unique approach to portraiture and lighting. It's available now and retails at just £19.99. Worth a read or a borrow if you're into people and portrait photography and want an opinion from a young and inspiring photographer! Bryan Peterson has published a guide to understanding composition which is available from October and retails at £16.99. You can find it at [link] or amazon!

Exhibitions

London

From the 1st of October in East London - it's Photomonth! It runs until the 30th of November, so there's a couple of months of awesome there and over 200 exhibitions and events are planned! For more information check out [link]!

13th Sept - 13th Jan 2013 @ The Barbican - Everything was moving: Photography from the 60s and 70s

Until 28th October @ Museum of London - At home with the Queen

Until 30th September @ Gallery OXO - Sea Change: Comparative Photos taken at low and high tide

East England

Until 28th October @ Red House - Beyond the Image: Photographers Gallery

30th September - 14th October @ Forum - New Angles

Wales

17th September - 24th October @ Museum of Modern Art - Brian Adams: Rhaedr Ddu

Weekly Features to keep an eye on!

There's so much going on around the community especially for Volunteers that sometimes the awesome news can be missed out. I hope to share any weekly or monthly features that are ongoing here so that you can browse them at your leisure. If you know of something that needs to be listed let me know!

Making a Difference from ^3wyl

dA Love for Everyone from `lintu47

Wonderful Wednesday from `JamminJo

Project Porkchop from ^Astralseed

Under 1,000 Views from *L0NE-W0lf

Colour me Orange from =Siaandra

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General Photography: ^Kaz-D | ^3wyl

Architecture: ^anmari

Abstract and Surreal: `DpressedSoul

Animals, Plants and Nature: ^IsacGoulart

Darkroom: ^RockstarVanity

Artistic Nude and Fetish: ^Nyx-Valentine

Conceptual: `DemonMathiel

Fashion: ^Pixel-Spotlight

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Pinup and Glamour: ^DistortedSmile

Photo-journalism: `xbastex

Street: `StamatisGR

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~summra Oct 6, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

I often find myself trying to incorporate the sky into a larger vision, such as the sun peeking through a window or the blue standing in contrast of the grass. I do have a picture that is completely sky hiding in my gallery somewhere, but I do need more now that I think of it.

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WONDERFUL collection here!

As always!

^Kaz-D Oct 7, 2012 Hobbyist Photographer

Thanks!

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^1pen Oct 5, 2012 Professional Photographer

What a great article with so much useful information. Thanks so much for the feature, made my day!

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