Summer photo projects. Ideas and recommendations
Summer is quickly approaching, sunny days and relaxation on the beach are ahead, where it will immediately be clear who did what in the winter. For those who want to lose weight, we have made a powerful motivational photo selection. The heroes of these photographs pulled themselves together and were incredibly transformed! See for yourself.
This guy's progress is minus 77 kg in one year.
I ran for a year and a half and lost 56 kg.
This is my sister before and after losing 76 kg.
This is what I look like after losing 70 kg.
I lost weight from 145 kg to 54 kg and I feel great!
Having lost the extra weight, I look much better.
This man was told he would die if he didn't lose weight. He lost 150 kg.
A young mother lost 45 kg after she found out that her husband was cheating on her and calling her a fat cow behind her back.
This guy was homeless, every day he only ate fast food - 10,000 calories. Since then, he has lost 140 kg and found love.
Three years ago this woman weighed 272 kg, now her weight is about 100 kg
I worked hard and this is my result.
I lost almost 40 kg, gained a new life and a cool hobby.
The photo shows that now I only cover a third of the refrigerator.
This girl was an alcoholic. After coping with addiction, she was able to lose 75 kg.
Before - 144 kg, after - 64 kg.
We lost weight together. Before and after photos clearly show the difference.
The bride has lost 90 kg since her wedding day. Now she can wear her wedding dress with her husband on her 16th anniversary.
This couple weighed 350 kg for two. By engaging in physical activity, they lost half their weight.
I'm wearing the same shorts. Then I weighed 122 kg, now - 61 kg
A year ago, I promised myself that I would fit two legs into one leg of my pants. I kept my promise!
It's been one year since I lost weight.
In 2007 I weighed 156 kg, today my weight is 84 kg.
Slowly but surely. In seven years I lost 50 kg.
It was 124 kg, now it is 81 kg.
This is what the fattest man in the world looks like after losing 317 kg.
My transformation from 120 kg to 52 kg.
My fiance lost almost 65 kg in a year.
After losing weight from 84 kg to 62 kg, only my smile remained the same size.
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12.08.2014 | 3525Procedure for the Photo Contest “How I Spent the Summer”:
Location: city information portal website / “Photo” / PHOTO COMPETITION “How I spent my summer”
Rules for participation in the competition: from August 12 to August 25, upload your best photos from vacation to . To do this, go to the “Photo” section and add a file using the box "Add a photo" at the top of the site by selecting an album “PHOTO COMPETITION How I spent my summer.” In addition, you can send photos by email. The competition includes children's and family photographs. There is only one obligatory condition - the photo must be taken this summer, and where is absolutely unimportant: in the village with your grandmother, in Ivanovo, in Chukotka or in the Maldives.
From August 25 to August 31, “like” voting will be held on the website portal. The winner of the competition will be the participant whose photo receives the most votes. On September 1, the results of the competition will be summed up, which we will publish on the portal.
The winner receives a prize - a certificate for the purchase of stationery and supplies for school and office in the amount of 1000 rubles from the Paper World chain of stores.
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Summer is in full swing and you can’t let a minute, or even a day, go by without taking a picture of something. No matter how you come up with a photo adventure and go on it. Today we will try, briefly, to look at thematic areas, which you can use when developing a summer photo project for yourself.
Summer photo projects in nature
Like every season, summer is distinguished by several basic principles. Summer is, first of all, the predominance of warm, one might even say hot, colors in the surrounding nature. As a rule, the summer period is when you have the opportunity to travel outside the city, where a larger field opens up for photographic searches.
The Importance of the Foreground in Photography In order to make your photo more convincing compositionally, you need to build the composition in such a way that you have a convincing foreground in the foreground. The presence of a foreground will allow you to build a relationship between depth and scale in the photo. The foreground will direct the viewer's eye away from the large object in the foreground and deeper into the image, giving him an idea of the scale of the landscape being shown. To define the foreground, you can use any objects, both natural (mountains, stones, branches) and man-made (wall, fence, etc.).
The lines in the frame that you catch in the surrounding nature are one of the ideal composition tools. Natural lines focus viewers' attention and direct eye movements. For example, if your photo shows converging lines, it could be a road, or a river, or railroad tracks, your viewer will definitely draw their eyes to the point where these lines converge. Diagonal lines are considered ideal in a composition, especially those directed from the lower left corner to the upper right corner.
Mood in photography It is natural for any photographer to find in every moment and in every frame its own unique, special character, special mood. Works that manage to preserve the drama, internal history, beauty and peculiarity of the landscape, works that convey the atmosphere are considered the best representatives of the genre. In order for you to get a characteristic landscape, you need to go shoot it on a cloudy, cloudy day. After all, a bright sky and clear sun are not the best companions when looking for a landscape mood. Rather, the mood and character of the landscape must be sought in haze, fog, storm clouds, everything that allows light and shadow to play in your lens.
Sky in photography 
You can try experimenting with plants. Play with angle, color, look for the sun. You can try taking a photo with an interesting plant pattern in black and white.
Like any other time of year, summer has its own characteristics. We have already said that summer is often a vacation period when people devote all their attention to relaxation, themselves and what they love most. To begin with, if you are a novice photo hunter, you can take the camera on your own vacation and start with photographs of your own friends, but immediately try to capture characteristic meaningful photographs, and not just click everything.
You can, before starting your trip (shooting), agree with your friends that your photographs will tell some kind of your story, and they will gladly agree to help you with this.
As you gain experience, it will be easier for you to capture interesting moments, both in urban genre photography and in documentary landscape photographs.
Summer photo projects in the city
If you still don’t manage to go out of town and you spend the whole summer in the city, don’t despair. The city is a great place to find ideas for your photographs and photography projects.
Urban still life Let's start small. You can devote a single weekend to searching for this urban still life and, believe me, it is a very exciting activity. Still life, translated from French, means “dead nature.” Using this qualitative definition, you can hunt for all the “inanimate” urban nature - these could be monuments, park benches, fountains. All this can be viewed through the lens from different angles, in different time days, under different lighting conditions. You can also stroll through the markets or along the streets where free artists are located.
Old houses are the perfect place for hunting photos. And old houses will always look advantageous and interesting. You don't have to be a super professional photographer to take some very good black and white photographs of one of the oldest houses you can find in your city. It's all about the houses themselves. Each house absorbs the history and destinies of its residents, and these stories are reflected on the walls, windows, and doors. Windows look very interesting separately or entrance doors, landings.
The cityscape is generally very interesting. There is always a mass unique opportunities to search for new forms, new angles, new compositional and stylistic solutions. And even if you are photographing the most popular architectural object in your city, you always have a chance to take “that” photograph.
We have already repeatedly talked about documentary photographs and photo projects, and yet we will once again focus on people and the street. The street - in general - the best place to search for stories, interesting footage and fresh ideas. There will always be people the best models in photography, because the original purpose of photography is to reflect a person’s life, and the person himself is the best reflection of himself.
So take a trip through the streets of your hometown and take pictures of people.
In the summer you can also go on a visit and turn this visit into a photo hunt. The most important thing is to look for something interesting and unusual. Expand your circle of perception. For example, ask to visit some friend of a friend who is doing something interesting. Everyone has one artist or musician in reserve. Ask to visit this artist or musician, and spend a few hours with him, photographing him doing his work. Let this musician or artist of yours not pay any attention to you and your camera, then the photo shoot will be as successful as possible and the photographs will turn out to be relaxed and open.
There's still more than a month left until the end of summer. Imagine more than thirty opportunities to create an interesting summer photography project. Everything is in your hands, the main thing is that they have a camera. We believe that you will get an interesting summer photo story, and it doesn’t matter whether it’s about outdoor recreation or about summer city life. And we will be happy to talk about your projects in our next articles. We are waiting for your summer photo projects.
Do you love summer as much as I do?
I love summer and miss it very much. In “sunny” November, I propose to plunge into summer memories and take part in a photo competition! Each competition has its own rules and prizes. "How I spent summer" not an exception. I won’t send the winners of the competition on a trip, but they will definitely go to the movies.
Grand Prize - 2 cinema tickets for any session in your city!
1. Summer trip.
2. have a good summer.
3. Mi-mi-sweet summer.
The “summer travel” category includes photographs from trips - another country/city, mountains, sea. A reflection of the best moments and memories that you brought from your summer trip. It doesn’t matter how far you were from home.
The “Lucky Summer” nomination combines home photographs, i.e. photos taken at the dacha, in the field, at a picnic. Summer in the city also applies here.
The nomination “mi-mi-sweet summer” is fantasy. Funny shots with kids, cats and bunnies. Send kissing, loving couples and other touching shots to this nomination.
Competition rules:
1. Dates of the competition: 9.11-25.11.2014.
November 9-22 – collection of photos and distribution according to nominations
November 23-24 – publication of all photos on the blog
November 25 – summing up
2. The competition includes photographs that you took yourself, i.e. not from the Internet.
4. There are no serious requirements for the photo - a clear, not blurry photo that reflects the essence of the nomination. Not necessarily professional.
5. Photos can be sent in all categories, but only win in one.
6. In the email you need to introduce yourself and indicate minimal information: where, when and under what circumstances the photo was taken. Come up with a title for your photographic work.
7. Each participant can send no more than two photographs to the competition in each category.
9. The jury will determine the winners. The jury is my J family.
10. There can be only one winner in each category.
Competition prizes:
The prize is 3 sets of tickets of 2 pieces. to the cinema for any show in your city. If there is no cinema in your city or it is not possible to purchase electronic tickets, then I will tell anyone in a convenient way cash equivalent of the prize.
I reserve the right to highlight a few photos and award an originality or "people's choice" prize.
That's all for this! I look forward to your competition entries.
P.S. If you have any questions about the competition, ask them in the comments to the article.
Repost is welcome!