The Pro Photo Business Forum

Each week the PPBF gives its readers a new challenge designed to help their studios grow. Sometimes the assignment involves shooting, and sometimes the assignment calls for a particular action to be taken.

This Week’s Assignment:
Subject Isolation With A Shallow Depth Of Field.

As photographers we are storytellers.  Our job is to provide elegant tools for our customers to tell their stories.  One way we can create a more elegant and polished story, and further define ourselves as professionals, is through the use of a shallow depth of field.  A shallow depth of field is a tool a photographer can use to draw the viewer’s gaze to a certain area in a finished portrait, making it more clear was to what the photograph is trying to convey.

This week, your assignment is “Shallow Depth Of Field”.  Tell a story, and make the subject of your story more clear through the use of a shallow depth of field.

And for this week’s contest, we have a prize for the winner!

First Place Prize:  Simply Selling

The winner of this week’s challenge will receive “Simply Selling” by Doug Box!  A $200 value!

How To Enter:

1) Complete the assignment and place the results on your own blog, linking back to the challenge post.

2) Post a comment on this blog entry that you have completed the assignment with a link back to your blog entry. A link will be posted at the bottom of this assignment pointing back to your blog entry, thus creating a reciprocal link and helping with your SEO.

3) The winner of the assignment will be posted in the following weeks assignment.

If you wish, you can place the following graphic above in your blog post to show your readers your participation in the weekly challenge.

Congratulations To Last Weeks Winner:

Professional Photographer Leanne Wildermuth – Artist By Nature

Second Place:

Houston Family Portrait Photographer, Aric C. Hoek of Solaris Studios

Here are the entries for this week’s Weekly Challenge!

Houston Wedding Photographer Bryan Lindsey has completed the Weekly Challenge!
Professional Photographer Leanne Wildermuth – Artist By Nature has completed the challenge
Houston Wedding Photographer Jonathan L Golden has completed the Weekly Challenge!
Professional Photographer Michael Bromley has completed the Weekly Challenge!
Memphis Family Portrait Photographer Clicne Ellis Photography has completed the Weekly Challenge!
Arkansas Wedding Photographer Michelle Posey has completed the challenge.
Collierville Family Portrait Photographer has completed the Weekly Challenge.

By Aric C. Hoek, owner and creator of Ten Houston Wedding Photographers