#52WeekChallenge:
Please send your submissions for each week to rlduffill@gmail.com, including the week number and titles.
Decay: Make an image that shows something coming to the end of its natural life.
Advanced: Use texture to demonstrate the detail of the decay.
Isolate Your Subject: Open up your aperture (low f stop number) to isolate your subject in perfect focus and create an attractive blur elsewhere in the image.
Advanced: Isolate and make your subject pop, yes! But that ‘bokeh’ should be pretty dramatic too!
Minimalism: Keep things simple. Make an image with one strong element. Keep other components of the picture down to a minimum. Remember the saying ‘Less is more!’
Advanced: Be aware of other composition rules and the use of complementary tones/colours.
Toy Story: Tell a story with toys or about toys.
Advanced: Create a ’tilt-shift’ effect for that ‘toytown’ look.
Bokeh: Google ‘bokeh’ to discover what it is. Create an image with a shallow depth of field with beautiful bokeh.
Advanced: Create shaped bokeh.
Make us laugh! Capture or create a scene that depicts humour or one that will actually make us laugh!
Advanced: You REALLY need to make us laugh!
Faces in Strange Places: Take a picture of something you discover that unintentionally resembles a face. No people allowed.
Advanced: As above.
Mono Flower: Record the beauty of a flower in black and white.
Advanced: Do it studio style, even if on your tabletop. Think of composition, lighting and sharp focus where it counts.
Filters: This is filter week. Whether it’s a coloured sweet wrapper over your lens, a big stopper or something else – use a new or borrowed filter to create an effect.
Advanced: Should be a filter you have not used or seldom use.
Atmosphere: Whatever the weather, record its drama, mood and effects this week.
Advanced: As an enthusiast, shoot your photo at dawn or dusk.
A stratled portrait! Take a portrait shot that captures an expression of alarm, surprise or concern in the subject. This challenge should bring out the Director in you.
Advanced: Include a wider-angle shot that shows the cause.
Wheels: Whatever the vehicle or subject, capture the patterns and motions. Use different shutter speeds to blur or freeze the action.
Advanced: Look for something different…
Cool Down! A glass. Ice. A drink. Create an image that will cool us down on a hot summer’s day!
Advanced: Ice, creating a splash or a drink being poured into a glass, offers such artistic scope. Explore and enjoy!
Street Photography. Show us a slice of life in a neighbourhood, village, town or city centre. The subject need not be aware that you are taking their photo!
Advanced: Candid means candid – try not to get noticed!
A Bug’s Life: Get in the garden and take a photograph of a butterfly, insect or bug. Whether you show its environment is up to you.
Advanced: Try a Macro, or a moving/flying subject.
Explosion of Colour: Your photo should assail the senses with vibrant colour. Any saturation of the colours in editing software should be avoided.
Advanced: This is really advanced… depict a really colourful scene… in black & white!
Halfway Journey: It’s Week 26, which means we’re halfway through this challenge year. Make an image with text that shows us what you feel you have learned about photography so far this year.
Make a Splash: Take a close-up of a droplet splashing into water. It’s an old favourite photography project, but there is a lot to learn every time you do it. Advanced: Use a liquid other than water.
RANDOM BIRD: Your challenge this week is to get a good picture of the first wild bird you see while out with your camera. See a wood pigeon? That’s your bird – plan, prepare and go get the shot!
Advanced: Your bird should be the first one you see in flight.
Sugar & Spice: Artistic. Interpret how you like.
Advanced: A still life.
