Unbelievable as it may seem, it's going to be May in three days' time. I hope you had been saving those half and half photos as it's time to think about half-and-half photos once again. As the pretty Nicole Campbell @nicolecampbell is away, I'm glad to host this year's Half and Half challenge once again.
If you follow the Half and Half Project on Instagram you will know they describe this type of photography as 'Parallel lines meet together in our minds'. It is a quirky way of explaining how to capture two separate scenes in the one photo.
Many 365ers have been participating in this challenge for the past several years now. It is a lot of fun. You can join for the whole month, a week or whenever you have what appears to be 2 halves in one shot. Some people like to set themselves a theme for each week and others like to mix it up and capture a different subject each day.
The challenge is quite simple, you just need to change the way you look at subjects/objects when you photograph them. Here are a few tips to help you:
1. Capture a photo that appears to be of two halves. For example a solid wall in one half of the photo and a door in the other or a tree trunk in one half of the image and the surrounding landscape in the other half. You are capturing what appears to be two separate scenes in the one photo, you are not taking two photos and combining them into one.
2. If you take your photo in a square format or plan to crop it square your images will appear symmetric and look very nice.
3. You can capture horizontal or diagonal lines. How you approach the theme is entirely up to you.
4. Have fun. Once you train your mind to look at potential images in this way you will see them everywhere."
Thanks for the heads up- I hadn't thought about doing it again, but I think it'll be a good one to get me out and about. I haven't been walking like I should so...
This is a new one for me and i’ll be on the lookout for some examples. I did look at the IG page as I struggled a bit with the concept at first but I get it now!
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