You made this next to impossible. Let me just start there. The transformation in some of you guys has been MEGA and I struggled to get it down to my shortlist (longlist really, if we’re being honest). I thought at that point it would be good to work through a few and show you guys some pointers with the remaining images, before trying again to narrow it down. I got to 4, then needed help. The final call was impossible so I went with my gut and the winner is the image above!
The video of the breakdown can be found here:
The Short Shortlist consisted of these 4 stunning photographs with beautiful use of foreground interest to frame and lead into the shot. The focus was perfect, the exposure, solid and the tones were bang on:
The initial longlist can be seen below. If your image is in there then you already did an amazing job!
But what is Augusts challenge? Augusts challenge is:
BOKEH
I’m looking for creamy background, shallow depth of field and as much separation from the background as possible. Remember, all your other things need to be solid too!
To enter, tag @thatdogspotphoto in your photo when you post it to Instagram (also follow us, that would be helpful!) and add the hashtag #TDSchallenge to the post description.
Can’t wait to do all this again… (kind of sarcastic, also kind of true – this was SO hard but so amazing to see the photographs coming through!)