If everything goes well (and last year it didn’t) when this goes live on the website and hits the email inbox of the email subscribers, I will either be waiting to board a plane in Chicago OR sitting on a plane in Chicago waiting for it to take-off and return me to the sweet ground of the Cyclone State.
However, just because I am nowhere near a computer and not in any position to compile, code, convert (for you people that keep sending me .HEIC files even though I keep asking you not to – looking at you Nathanial), upload, categorize, write, and publish the submissions for SUNSHINE, that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t get started on this week’s theme.
This week’s theme is…. drumroll please…
WIDE ANGLE
WIDE ANGLE! What a great theme for Year 12 of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE!
What is a WIDE ANGLE image? It is simply an image taken at a perception that is larger than the human eye. What that means for those of you using real cameras. A picture taken with a lens that is less than 50mm. 35mm or wider to be safe. A perfect time to dust off that fisheye lens and play with it.
However, I think I can count on 1 hand the people that submit pictures taken with a real camera. Even the pro and semi-pro photogs use the camera on their phones mostly. My phone is a Google Pixel 8. So my camera will look different than your camera probably. But they are mostly the same. When you look at the settings on your camera it probably has a little button that says .7x, 1x, 2x, 5x. Your picture needs to be taken of any setting that is smaller than 1x. If you look at the theme reveal image you will see this is set at .5x.
Most people think of WIDE ANGLE as something that is used for landscapes. But I would urge you to play with getting closer to things with WIDE ANGLE than you normally do. I bet you will find the results to be fun!
Depending on my energy levels and how much Bokeh is willing to let me work when I get home, I will publish the SUNSHINE submissions either tonight, but more realistically sometime tomorrow.