January Newsletter

Nations Photography Club
Jan 4, 2018
2 min read

Happy New Year everyone!

We hope you’ve had amazing and relaxing holidays. Your pictures were breathtaking! Thank you everyone for participating, especially since it was during the holidays and many of you were quite busy. It was hard for us to choose the winner and runner-ups, and after a long discussion we selected the 6 best pictures. So without further ado, here are the top pictures of December's competition for theme "Contrast":

1. Ana VAN DER REE

2. Virginia PONTORIERO

3. Anurag SAWARKAR

4. Giulia STEINFATT

5. Sophia SMITH

Again, thank you everyone for submitting your amazing pictures, they were great. For January's competition, the theme is:

THEME OF THE MONTH:

Blue

For January, we want you to tell us what blue means to you through photography. Is it the colour of tranquility and peace or rather solitude and sadness? Or is it the colour of joy and hope? It is up to you to decide what this colour means and to experiment with your camera however you want to tell us about it. You can photograph blue objects or you can photoshop your pictures to enhance the blue tones in your image. But don’t worry if you’re not good at editing pictures, by just changing the “white balance” in your cameras (or phones) you can give your pictures bluish tones. We hope you have fun with this theme and try out new tricks with your cameras. Also, Davide was thinking of creating a new Instagram page called “Blue Haze” to showcase blue pictures, so if you wish so, yours might get in ;)

Good luck, we are looking forwards to checking out your competition entries!

The Photography Club

Gessy, Davide, and Chiara

TIPS:

To enhance the blue tones of your image, you can change your white balance to “Tungsten” (the icon is a tiny light bulb) in your camera/phone settings. This setting is usually used for indoor photography, were incandescent lighting makes your pictures look warmer. “Tungsten” tries to compensate the warm tones and therefore cools down the colours in your picture.
If you want to take a picture of the sky, try experimenting with the shutter speed of your camera. If the shutter speed is quite high, less light will come in and therefore your picture will look darker (like in one of the examples below). This is useful when you want to have the sky lit up and the foreground dark.

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