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52 Week Photo Challenge (Dogwood Year 1) for Omnifocus
52 Photos:
- W1 Portrait: Self Portrait @due(7 Jan)
Start things off right with a "selfie"! Explore the self timer setting on your camera.\
- W2 Landscape: Traditional Landscape @due(7 Jan + 1w)
Shoot a beautiful landscape and share it with the world. Find a nice foreground and don't forget the sky.
- W3 Artistic: Red @due(7 Jan + 2w)
Shoot whatever inspires you. Red should be the focus of the image. Don't be afraid to be creative.
- W4 Portrait: Headshot @due(7 Jan + 3w)
You shot a selfie, now shoot a "selfie" of someone else!
- W5 Landscape: Black and White @due(7 Jan + 4w)
Look for a scene with great contrast that will make a great black and white.
- W6 Artistic: Candy @due(7 Jan + 5w)
Your artistic interpretation this week should be inspired by something sweet. A great chance to play with macro photography.
- W7 Portrait: Faceless @due(7 Jan + 6w)
Tell someone's story without showing their face.
- W8 Landscape: Wide Angle/Panorama @due(7 Jan + 7w)
This is a great opportunity to explore panorama stitching and create a wide sweeping landscape.
- W9 Artistic: Shadows @due(7 Jan + 8w)
The opposite of light is dark, the absence of light is shadow. Interpret this into a masterpiece.
- W10 Portrait: Environmental @due(7 Jan + 9w)
Show a subject in their natural habitat. Their place of work or hobby is a great start. Tell their story with the environment.
- W11 Landscape: Reflection @due(7 Jan + 10w)
Find a way to show your landscape/natural beauty in reflection. The mirror world revealed.
- W12 Artistic: Transportation @due(7 Jan + 11w)
Our world is one defined by how we get around. Literal or interpretative, find inspiration in transportation.
- W13 Portrait: High Key @due(7 Jan + 12w)
Expose to the right and create a light, airy high key portrait.
- W14 Landscape: Zoomed in @due(7 Jan + 13w)
Most landscapes are wide sweeping images. Try an alternative and zoom in instead.
- W15 Artistic: Metal @due(7 Jan + 14w)
Cold, hard steel. Shiny Aluminum. Or even rusted and broken down. Find your inspiration in metal this week.
- W16 Portrait: Movement @due(7 Jan + 15w)
Most portraits are stationary, so this week explore adding some movement. Dancing, twirling, or even hair flips.
- W17 Landscape: Urbanscape @due(7 Jan + 16w)
Most Landscapes are wide open spaces of natural beauty... this week find the beauty of the urbanscape/cityscape.
- W18 Artistic: Texture @due(7 Jan + 17w)
The artistic inspiration this week is texture. You should almost be able to feel the image.
- W19 Portrait: Messy @due(7 Jan + 18w)
Take an amazing portrait of someone, make a mess while you are doing it.
- W20 Landscape: Nightowl @due(7 Jan + 19w)
A tripod is going to be handy this week... time to shoot a night landscape. Look for some light for the scene! Car lights, city lights, or maybe just moonlight.
- W21 Artistic: Fantasy @due(7 Jan + 20w)
Is this real life, or is this just fantasy... Your artistic inspiration this week is fantasy.
- W22 Portrait: Hands @due(7 Jan + 21w)
Usually the face is the strongest element in the frame; with the hands being second. Make the hands the most important element in your image this week.
- W23 Landscape: Weather @due(7 Jan + 22w)
This week should be as unpredictable as the weather! Feature the weather in this week's landscape.
- W24 Artistic: Sparkle! @due(7 Jan + 23w)
Shoot what inspires you this week, just make sure it sparkles.
- W25 Portrait: Silhouette @due(7 Jan + 24w)
Expose for the background and let your subject fall into shadow. Shape is important this week.
- W26 Landscape: Simplify @due(7 Jan + 25w)
Simply the scene to make your primary subject stand out.
- W27 Artistic: Blue @due(7 Jan + 26w)
You were inspired by the fiery red earlier, now be inspired by calming blue.
- W28 Portrait: Family @due(7 Jan + 27w)
Whether it's the family you are born with or the one you choose, show the world what family is to you.
- W29 Landscape: Waterscape @due(7 Jan + 28w)
Ocean, lake, river, pond, or puddle. Make water the primary subject of this landscape.
- W30 Artistic: Patterns @due(7 Jan + 29w)
Get inspired by the rhythm that patterns bring to your images.
- W31 Portrait: Street Candid @due(7 Jan + 30w)
Candids on the street, show us life in your town through the lens.
- W32 Landscape: Colorful @due(7 Jan + 31w)
Shoot a landscape that packs as much color as you can find into the scene.
- W33 Artistic: Collaboration @due(7 Jan + 32w)
Doesn't matter what you shoot, just do with another artist. Share vision and ideas. Collaborate.
- W34 Portrait: Child @due(7 Jan + 33w)
Candid or posed, capture an image of a child. Try getting down on their level for a unique perspective.
- W35 Landscape: Nature up Close @due(7 Jan + 34w)
Get up close and personal with nature in this natural beauty shot. Flowers, bees, bugs and spiders might all make great shots
- W36 Artistic: Food @due(7 Jan + 35w)
Take your food photography to the next level. Its not lunch, its art.
- W37 Portrait: Fashion @due(7 Jan + 36w)
Avant-garde to commercial to traditional, and everything in between. The focus is the clothes this week.
- W38 Landscape: Get Low @due(7 Jan + 37w)
Time to look at the world from a different angle. Shoot a landscape from a low point of view.
- W39 Art: Handmade @due(7 Jan + 38w)
Your artistic interpretation should be inspired by another artisan's handmade work. Literal or interpreted.
- W40 Portrait: Sitting in a Chair @due(7 Jan + 39w)
Either a formal sitting portrait or a re-interpretation of this classic. Photography your subject sitting in a chair.
- W41 Landscape: Get High @due(7 Jan + 40w)
Everything looks different when you are high. Find a high perspective to shoot this landscape
- W42 Artistic: Minimalist @due(7 Jan + 41w)
Isolate your subject using the minimalist approach. Inspire someone with your art.
- W43 Portrait: The Elderly @due(7 Jan + 42w)
Tell the story of an elderly person through the power of your camera. Capture the lines of their life.
- W44 Landscape: A Tree @due(7 Jan + 43w)
Some of the most famous landscapes in the world feature a tree. Time to see what you can do.
- W45 Artistic: Nostalgic @due(7 Jan + 44w)
Use nostalgic as your inspiration this week. Long for the moments we want recapture. The good times.
- W46 Portrait: Backlit @due(7 Jan + 45w)
The sun makes a great back light, as well as a flash. Don't forget the fill light. A flash or reflector can be used to fill in the subject.
- W47 Landscape: Abandoned @due(7 Jan + 46w)
Capture an image of that which others have forgotten. It may be the last image before its gone from us forever.
- W48 Artistic: Bokeh @due(7 Jan + 47w)
A shallow depth of field is often used to isolate the subject. Create an artistic interpretation using shallow depth of field.
- W49 Portrait: Dancing @due(7 Jan + 48w)
Whether it's a professional dancer, or just some kids in the street. Try experimenting with slow and fast shutter speed to both blur and freeze the subject.
- W50 Landscape: Symmetrical @due(7 Jan + 49w)
Often considered one of the hardest compositions to pull off, Symmetry. Challenge yourself this week by shooting a symmetrical landscape/urbanscape.
- W51 Artistic: Art @due(7 Jan + 50w)
It is time to really challenge yourself. Your artistic interpretation should be art, about art. So meta.
- W52 Portrait: Another Self Portrait @due(7 Jan + 51w)
For your final challenge, we end where we started. Take one last self-portrait, and be amazed at how far you have come in a year.
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