Weekly Photography Assignment: Black and White

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Each week we’ll be giving you a theme that you can submit a photo for, and we’ll choose our favourite to be featured on the Nature TTL website. Participating in these assignments will be a great way for you to encourage yourself to push the boundaries of your photography and improve together as a community on the website.

Week 207: Black and White

Our theme this week is Black and White, and we’d love to see what images of nature you can create in black and white! This can be done in post production, or you may be able to pre-visualise your images without colour ‘in-camera.’ Look for bold, stand-out patterns and striking compositions that would lend themselves well to being stripped of colour. Perhaps you will look for interesting and striking perspectives and leadings lines in a forest, or capture the details of your favourite wildlife species in silhouette against the sun, or even look for textures and patterns in plants and the smaller aspects of nature. Whether you’re a seasoned nature photographer, or a total newbie, the options for creative black and white nature photos are endless, and we can’t wait to see what inspiring images you can create.

Here are some tutorials to help you:

To enter your photo to this assignment, add it in the comments below this post. By submitting your photo, you are giving us permission to feature your photo the following week if it is chosen as one of our favourites. Please keep images under 2MB in size otherwise you may have difficulty uploading them.

weekly photo assignment — To enter your photo, look at the comments at the bottom of the page and press the ‘Upload Image’ button.

Here are some guidelines to keep things running smoothly:

Photos must be your own work
Please enter no more than 3 photos per week
Please only enter photos taken within the week of the assignment
Include a description with your photo and tell us a bit about it!

You have until next Monday, 26th of December, to submit your photo.

Last week’s winner

Last week’s theme was Colour – and our favourite image this week is:

This week’s winner is this image, captured by Louise: We love the use of the colour yellow in this image. It’s a great exercise to train our eye to look for and focus on a single colour in an image, and it can create a really pleasing result when executed well, as in this photo! The soft tones are warm and inviting, and the crisp focus on the intricate details of the flowers draws our eye into the may layers of the main subject. Well done, and thank you to all who entered!