Photography Challenge - Week 30

22 July - 28 July

Looking for some photography ideas to test your skills and get your creativity flowing? We’ve got 52 weeks of photography challenges to help inspire you. You can view the full list of challenges here.

This week's challenge is...

Handbag product photo by Karl Taylor

Handbags and Purses

Textured leather, intricate zip detail, and endless colours… Whether you’re shooting close up details or more general flat lays, this week’s challenge presents plenty of opportunities to get creative.

As you’ll see in our handbag live show, colour is one of the ways you can get creative. Incorporating juxtaposing colours is an effective technique if you want to create eye-catching results. But it’s not the only way. Matching hues are another option if you’re looking for a more classic, elegant style, for example.

Lighting is another way to get creative. Handbags can be tricky subjects to light, but professional results can be achieved with quite simplistic lighting (in the handbag live show I only used bare bulb lights in a small studio space). Experiment with your lighting to control the hardness or softness of the light or see what mood and emotion you can create.

Below are a couple of recommended classes that will be useful for this week’s challenge. We can’t wait to see what you come up with!

Pink handbag floating on juxtaposing background

Live Workshop – How to Photograph a High-end Handbag

Overhead photo of fashion accessories

Live Photography Workshop – Fashion Accessories Flat Lay

Karl pointing at a large softbox

Introduction and understanding light

Karl explaining a selection of lighting modifiers

Lighting modifiers and their effects

Guidelines

  • Please rename your image file using your first and last name (e.g. Karl Taylor.jpg).
  • Only images uploaded using the form below will appear in the gallery.
  • Please upload no more than one image.
  • Uploaded images should be 3000px on the longest side.
  • Images can be posted in our members' Facebook group, but will not appear in the gallery unless also uploaded via the form.

Submit your image

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Week 30 - Members' Gallery

Comments

    1. Ben H (VE Team)

      Hi Meet,

      Weekly Challenge submissions are not subject to critique I’m afraid, but you can get Karl’s feedback on your work by participating in our Working to a Brief assignments or submitting to our Members’ Image Critiques.

      Here’s the current Working to a Brief assignment:
      https://visualeducation.com/working-to-a-brief-10-the-dewdrop-flower/

      And here are some forthcoming critique shows. When submissions for these open, we’ll put out the call via email and social media, so look out for those!
      https://visualeducation.com/class/members-photography-critique-post-production/
      https://visualeducation.com/class/photography-critique-ad-style-product-images/
      https://visualeducation.com/class/portraiture-photography-critique/

      Best wishes,
      Ben H (KTE Team)

    1. I don’t think I’ve seen a course specifically on this bag but you have other courses which can help you. Some of them are listed in the description above.

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