- Capture at least 10 images for your weekly challenge
- Post the best 5
- Print One for your portfolio
- Reflect on what you learned
- What was the hardest part of the challenge
- What worked out in your opinion.
- What would you do differently next time?
Weekly Challenges
- Pick up your camera ( any camera, mobile, mirrorless, point and shoot, or DSLR).
- Check out the prompt for the week every Sunday: Remind, and Blogger along with a link to some great sites.
- Take a photo any time that week and post it to Instagram using the hashtag #clsartphoto and #clsweekphoto
- Like your favorite for the week - prizes
- Watch your skills grow!
Each year I like to a weekly challenge - sometimes we participate in a flickr, or 365. This week we are doing the 18 week, challenge. Inspiration from: 52 PetaPix site.
Weekly Challenge Categories:
Each week, the weekly assignment will be in one of 3 categories:
Categories
Story Telling: Good photographers can take beautiful images of something. Great photographers can take an image that tells its story. This category makes use of compositional rules and directed prompts to push you towards not just looking at the beauty of something, but to find a way to tell that something’s story.
Technical: Technical Aptitude is just as important as creative inspiration in photography. With that in mind this category is a mix of in camera and post processing techniques designed to expose you to new technical skills and techniques.
Artistic Impression: When this category comes up, you really have room to express yourself. You can interpret the assignment literally or figuratively. Unlike the other two categories that are more focused, the idea of this category is to let your creativity shine.
Weekly Challenge Categories:
The rule of thirds is the first compositional rule most photographers learn; but most don't know why they learn it. The rule of thirds is amazing for telling a story. Tell a story using rule of thirds.
Your inspiration this week is land. This could be a landscape, or an image inspired by the land in some way.
W3
W3:Technical: Ten Shots Shoot 10 shots of the same subject. Each shot should be from a different angle, distance, and focal length. Share your favorite image from the set.
W4
W4:A throwback to one of the favorite weeks of the original challenge. Your artistic
Week 5 Containers
Boxes, tanks, wrappers: for this week's Photo Challenge, show us something that contains something else.
Week 6:
Artistic: Red Shoot whatever inspires you. Red should be the focus of the image. Don't be afraid to be creative.
Week 7
Landscape: Weather
This week should be as unpredictable as the weather! Feature the weather in this week's landscape.
W8: Story: Perspective
Perspective for the purpose of this challenge is the relationship of objects in the scene. If you really want a challenge this is a good chance to use forced perspective.
W8
Artistic: Still Life Your inspiration this week is Still Life. A couple of pieces of fruit on a table won't impress in the advanced challenge though... so really be creative.
W9
Artistic: Orange Your inspiration this week is orange. Either the color orange or an actual orange. Or both.
W10
Story: Golden Hour
The golden hour is the hour before sunset or after sunrise when the sun casts amazing golden tones. Find a way to use the golden hour to tell a story.
W11
Technical: Panning
Use the technique of panning to capture a subject in movement. Panning is using slower shutter speed while following the subject with the camera to create the sense of movement in an image.
