52 Week Challenge: Week 17 / Apr 22nd – Composition: Balance

[Mel]

Hey everyone,

Tomorrow, Monday April 22nd brings us into Week 17 of the Dogwood Photography 52 Week Challenge, and the theme for this week is:

Composition: Balance
Balanced composition is pretty straightforward, unless you are trying to shoot in the "Accidental Renaissance" style. So shoot a balanced image in the Accidental Renaissance style.

About the Compositional Eye category:
“In past challenges we have explored the rules of composition. This year we push the rules even further by using them in specific ways to train your compositional eye.”

Use the tag 52wc-2019-w17 when you’re uploading your images to 365, along with any of the following tags which are recommended on the Dogwood Photography challenge page here

dogwood52
dogwood2019
dogwoodweek17

And of course, do feel free to share your photos here in the comments.

Images tagged for Week 17 can be seen here

New to 365? Or just looking for a new challenge? Anyone can take part in the 52 Week Challenge and all are welcome – find out more and see the master list of themes for the year on our original discussion thread here

The 52 Week Challenge has been created by Dale Foshe and the wonderful community at Dogwood Photography

It’s now in its fourth year and has thousands of participants from all around the world – please do take the time to click through for full information about this and previous year’s challenges, more ways to share online, and more info about the challenge’s creators. I’ve been in touch with Dale to let him know that we’re following along here on 365 and he’s happy to have us join in. Theme and category descriptions and instructions come directly from the challenge page here

Every week, I’ll post a reminder of the coming week’s theme - if you’d like to be notified when these are posted, drop me a comment below so that I can tag you.

See you next week! 😊

[Mel]

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[Richard Brown]

That sounds easy... Not!

[Mel]

@rjb71 Yes... have to admit I had to google accidental rennaisance style!

[Richard Brown]

@m2016 me to!

[Shanne]

the last few have been challenging enough - this one is going to be really tough

[☠northy]

i had to google it as well... and i "still" haven't a clue... also - i think it may have to be in colour... deep... sigh....

[CristinaL]

Eep.

[Shanne]

@northy the best article I found was from Buzzfeed because it explained why: https://www.buzzfeed.com/lynzybilling/19-photos-that-accidentally-look-like-renaissance-art

[Mel]

Great article @shannejw thanks for sharing... but crikey :P
@rjb71 @northy @cristinaledesma33

[JackieR]

Visited Google and a few websites, took camera for a walk and actually got a golden ratio shot - with abit of cropping!! What a brilliant, but difficult, prompt. Don't think I'll ever manage that Fibonacci Spiral though.

[☠northy]

ugh... i can't "see" the golden ration when i'm shooting! this was a challenge some months ago and it eluded me then... can't imagine i'm going to be any better at sorting it this go around!