Photography Prompt: Transparent
Week of 2024-05-11 to 2024-05-17
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Be Inspired and Learn Something New
What lies beneath the surface?
Some things are hard to grasp while others are much more transparent.
Visually, as photographers we can experiment with different levels of transparency to achieve creative results.
This photo looks like it was edited in Photoshop with a painted effect, but was in fact straight out of the camera, photographed through a textured blind that was lit up just enough to see outside to the idyllic English countryside.
Conceptually, things that are “transparent” may not be what they seem on the surface.
How can you play with ideas around transparency to create a visual metaphor for this complex concept?
As I was writing, the idiom, ‘The cards are on the table” came to mind. A phrase that means to reveal something which you have kept hidden, like cards in a game of poker.
Of course your images can be a mix of visual and conceptual.
Photographer Gérard Flayol has a keen eye for portraying unique moments in his street photography that are layered with meaning.
In his photo, “Le gobelet transparent”, he is using the beggar’s transparent glass as a metaphor for how the person herself is transparent in society, often unseen by those all around her. The intent could go even further to imply that the people who are on the streets begging for money are not always what they seem.
This is a good reminder that photography is not just about providing a visual glimpse of a place in time, but also a medium for communicating ideas, emotions, and points of view that have the power to truly change minds and perceptions.
You can choose to add meaning to your images, even if it is just for yourself, or to make an obvious point for wider understanding.
How much or how little your photos do that is yet another level of transparency.
Last Week’s Prompt Photos for “Force”
In keeping with photography prompts which are ambiguous enough to be widely interpreted, last week’s prompt of “force” resulted in a range of great interpretations.
There were a few clever illustrations of the sheer force of man, or perhaps also showing the futility of the force of man vs nature.
A few other portrayals of force as strength and power were shown through boxing.
In another battle of nature vs man, Florence shows us the patient force of will of this hungry kitty at the entrance of a butcher shop.
Forces of nature were in full display including wind, water and fire.
Henny showed us an unfortunate example of destructive forces with this image of a fire that ravaged an old chateau in Heel, Netherlands.
Benkirane Thami in Morocco shared this image of “force majeure”. A visual depiction of the idea of how unforeseeable catastrophes can impact our lives.
See all the photos shared for last week’s Force prompt.
I love "house through blind". What a stunning effect. I'm going to try this. See if I can make it work with my blinds. Thank you for the inspiration and prompt.