Creative Challenge photographer for 52 weeks

This Challenge is not a specific start date. Choose any convenient time and start. Every week, you need to perform the tasks of the three categories.

1. Story. Any good photographer can make a beautiful picture. But not everyone is able to use this picture to tell a story. Tasks of this category will help you not only to see and share the beauty of the surrounding world, but also to tell more.
2. Technics. Technical skills are important in photography as well as creative. In carrying out these tasks, you experiment with camera settings and functions of graphic editors.
3. Inspiration. Tasks of this category give full play to your imagination. Do the job can be understood both literally and figuratively.

1st week

History: The Rule of Thirds

Need to mentally divide the picture vertical and horizontal lines into thirds, placing the important part of the composition at the intersection of these lines. Although this principle of composition is known, even novice photographers, not everyone knows what to use it. But it's great to tell a story.

Week 2

Equipment: without treatment

Do not use any graphic editors. Try to make an expressive photograph without treatment. And not muhlyuyte! Be sure to save this image before the end of the Challenge.

Third week

Inspiration: Plot

This week, you should inspire the earth. On your photos can be landscape, soil, plants or anything else.

Week 4

History: Mirror

Try to tell a story using a mirror.

Week 5

Technique: 10 frames

Make ten frames of the same scene. Each frame shall be taken from different angles, with different distances and with different focus settings. All ten of the photos are not published, select the one that you like the most.

Week 6

Inspiration: sweets

Try to be inspired by some confectionery, but do not show them to your photos.

Week 7

History: something forgotten

Tell the story of a forgotten subject.

Week 8

Technique: the last frame

Imagine that you need to make a great picture, but you have only one frame. No second chances.

Week 9

Inspiration: Still Life

A pair of fruit on the table will not surprise anybody, try to approach the task creatively.

10th Week

History: A Perspective

In this case, the present term as the ratio between the subject. If you want to complicate his task, experiment with an altered perspective. This method helps to make objects in the frame more or less, closer or farther away than they really are.

11th Week

Technique: splitting tones

It's a way of processing images when applied to the shadows of one color, and the light - the other. Splitting tones with color correction is often used in the media to give the required mood pictures.

12th Week

Inspiration: Orange

Get inspired orange or orange. Or both, and others.

13th Week

History: The golden hour

Called golden hour before sunset and one hour after sunrise, when the sun paints everything in golden color.

14th Week

Technique: Pan

Usually this technique is used to capture an object in motion. In this case, the photographer follows a moving subject using a slow shutter speed.

15th Week

Inspiration: solid

Decide for yourself how to interpret it.

16th Week

History: leading line

Top line - one of the most important techniques of composition. These lines may be, for example, roads, fences, bridges, rows of buildings, rivers or trees. Tell a story with the help of leading lines. Just do not take pictures of the track, it's too corny.

17th Week

Technique: connecting lighting (loop lighting)

This is one of the most common techniques of lighting in portrait photography. In this technique, the light source is located slightly above the level of the human eye in the photograph. Because of this, from the nose drops a small shadow on the cheeks. Try to make a portrait in this technique.

18 Week

Inspiration: purple

This week, get inspired purple - the color of magic and mystery.

19 Week

History: neighborhood

Tell the story of your immediate environment, such as the patio next to the house. Give viewers a glimpse into your daily life.

20 Week

Technique: overlay sky

Sometimes the sky does not want to turn out well in photographs. This week, try to replace the sky in his picture more interesting. For example, you look for a suitable sky among the photos on Flickr, available for free license Creative Commons.

21th Week

Inspiration: soft

Just as with the "hard", you can decide how to understand the word.

22th Week

History: geometric shapes

Triangles, circles, squares - everything is excellent compositional elements of the image. Try to tell a story with them.

23rd Week

Technique: f / 8

Take a portrait with the installation of f / 8 aperture. Try to identify the person in the background is not at the expense of depth of field.

Week 24

Inspiration: green

The green color symbolizes life, nature and hope. Draw inspiration can be almost anything.

25 Week

History: toys

Tell a story using toys or Toys.

26 Week

Technique: painting of light

You need to photograph at night. Put the camera on a tripod, set a slow shutter speed (30 seconds) and "paint" with light. Particularly well suited for flashlights such equipment, LED tapes and laser pointers.

27 Week

Inspiration: communication

We live in an era of continuous dialogue, so that inspiration literally surrounds you on all sides.

28 Week

History: portrait, landscape disguised

Make a portrait, but disguise it under the landscape. Tell the story of a man in the photo, using the surrounding area. Deceive the viewer.

29 Week

Technique: Water drops

To get a good picture of water drops, you will need the right lighting, Macro and a lot of patience.

30 Week

Inspiration: Family

Family portrait - it's too easy. Let's complicate the task itself: people in the picture should not be.

31th Week

History: PIP

Another classic technique composition - to frame your subject to one frame as if he were in another. This natural frame can become trees, door and window openings.

32th Week

Equipment: High Dynamic Range

This technique combining multiple photos of the same object taken with different exposures. Due to this, the image looks more vivid and crisp.

33rd Week

Inspiration: High Key

Usually in high-key (high key) perform portraits, but you can not be limited to this genre. On this photo is not dense shadows, even, soft light falls on your subject.

34th Week

History: Stranger

Tell the story in pictures of a stranger, using the environment.

35th Week

Technique: glued panorama

To do this, you need to stick together several photos in a photo editor. To complicate the task, you can try to create background blur (bokeh effect or Brenayzera method).

36th Week

Inspiration: low key

Low key (dark tone) - high contrast key. In this technique, a small light released, the most important part of the image. The photograph should prevail dark tones.

37th Week

History: balance

This is another method of composition. Balance in the picture can be achieved with the help of color, tone or placing next few articles.

38th Week

Technique: 50 mm

Take a photo by setting the focal length of 50 mm. No matter what your lens: fixed or variable focal length.

39th week

Inspiration: water

Get inspired water in any form.

40th Week

History: bright colors to black and white

Try to talk about something bright with the help of black and white photography. Flowers do not take pictures.

41 Week

Technique: levitation

Part of this camera trick, partly - Photoshop. Make two frames: one with a model (for example, standing on a chair), and the other only to the background. And then combine them in the editor, removing the chair.

42th Week

Inspiration: Music

There are no restrictions. Get inspired and create.

43rd Week

History: The movement

Capture motion in a picture is not so simple. Try using the movement to tell a story.

44th Week

Technique: neutral density filter

Use a neutral density filter and shutter speed set for 30 seconds or even longer. It is particularly interesting with these settings will look like water landscape or a lively city street.

45th Week

Inspiration: Cold

Decide for yourself how to interpret it.

46th Week

History: The front of the landscape plan

Usually about something tell portraits, but also in the landscape can be a story. Try to send it using the foreground of the landscape as a "model", and the background - as the background.

47th Week

Technique: bokeh unusual shape

Bokeh effect (background blur) is interesting in itself, but this week, try to create a bokeh unusual shape.

48th Week

Inspiration: The human body

The human body has inspired artists since time immemorial. Let this week it will be a source of inspiration for you.

49th Week

History: the modal time

Modal time - it's an hour after sunset and one hour before sunrise. The sky at this time is usually painted in a beautiful blue and purple tones. Tell a story with these colors.

50 Week

Equipment: complete machining

Go back to the photo taken in the second week (which you are not edited), and treat it in an image editor.

51 Week

Inspiration: fear

Try to pass on the fear of photos so that viewers have experienced it too.

52 Week

History: your story

Tell your own story.