I’ve decided to pick two separate challenges to work on throughout 2016. I may throw in some random 30 day challenges and the like as well, but that’ll be depending on how busy I am with what I have going on. My goal is to focus on increasing my skills as a photographer.
I’m going to do another 365 challenge, though this time it is going to have a slightly broader theme that 2015’s (which was macro). Each month will be assigned a different color, where I get to photograph anything that fits that description. I can do any style and technique.
My plan so far:
January – Blue
February – Pink
March – Green
April – Purple
May – Yellow
June – Gray
July – Navy blue
August – Teal
September – Orange
October – White
November – Brown
December – Red
I may or may not replace one of the colors above with gold or silver. I haven’t decided yet.
The other challenge is more of a combination of projects, all designed to get me trying new techniques and practices. Like I said I really want to expand my photography in the next year. It’s a twist on the 52 weeks challenge. Most of my ideas are based from here:
But I switched some out based on my preferences or what I felt was feasible (the last ones on the list are more like suggested challenges, so I swapped them out).
My plan so far is this:
Jan. 2nd – Water drop art
Jan. 9th – Splash art
Jan. 16th – Smoke art
Jan. 23rd – Cross polarization (may change)
Jan. 30th – Food landscapes (LOVE this idea)
Feb. 6th – Fine art food
Feb. 13th – Flowers on ice
Feb. 20th – Abstracts in oil
Feb. 27th – Oily reflections
March 5th – Psychedelic soap film
March 12th – Refractive art
March 19th – Kitchen close ups
March 26th – Still life bokeh
April 2nd – Bokeh bubbles
April 9th – Still life light trails
April 16th – Light spirals
April 23rd – Pax East (My goal is to photograph 50 cosplays over the weekend long event)
April 30th – Right time, wrong lens
May 7th – Deconstructed landscape
May 14th – Minimalist mono landscapes
May 21st – Starlight landscapes
May 28th – Shoot the uninspiring
June 4th – Car park abstracts
June 11th – Selective color
June 18th – Naked night photography
June 25th – Optical illusions
July 2nd – Fireworks
July 9th – Recreated a tilt-shift effect
July 16th – A-Z photos
July 23rd – 1-100
July 30th – Faces in unusual places
Aug 6th – Light orbs
Aug 13th – Brenizer effect portraits
Aug 20th – Alternative car trails
Aug 27 – Ferris Wheel
Sep 3rd – Cinemagraphs
Sep 10th – Intentional camera movement
Sep 17th – A festival
Sep 24th – Time-lapse photo
Oct 1st – Portrait shoot
Oct 8th – Creative self portrait
Oct 15th – the world at your feet
Oct 22nd – Faceless portraits
Oct 29th – Tell a story
Nov 5th – Geocaching
Nov 12th – Pinhole photography
Nov 19th – Light paint a still life
Nov 26th – Small world
Dec 3rd – Lo-fi Look
Dec 10th – Intentional photo mistakes
Dec 17 – Foggy Landscape
Dec 24 – Pawprints/tracks in the snow
Dec 31 – Levitation photography
***I know a lot of these projects are very involved as far as planning/time spent photographing/editing and supplies needed, so I have a backup plan that I can go to whenever I don’t have time to prep a weekly shoot.
I’m going to ask a handful of friends (and blog readers, if anybody wants to throw ideas at me) to write a list of 20-30 scavenger items. I’m going to leave it vague, so they can get creative with it (I’m also not going to tell said friends why I want the list). I can then pull from these lists and see how many I can find and photograph in a day. (This is on the 52 list linked above, but I decided to move it to my backup plan and get more than one friend to help out).
wow that’s a lot of challenges!
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I know realistically I won’t get to all of them, but at least this way I know I’ll make an attempt to try new things!
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it’s good to have goals!
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Fun 365 challenges! Love the colour idea as well. Good luck!
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