There were so many things I did not get to try in 365 days this year, that I have to stay on for a second year. I also thought to ease some of the "what will I shoot today" stress, I would come up with an assignment each week for the year. Thanks to friends we have a great list and want to share it with everyone out there. To participate all you need to do is take a photo of the assignment that week. Can you take 21 photos of the assignment with your ace account, sure. Can you miss seven weeks and then join up, absolutely. Do you have to be in year two to join, not at all, the more the merrier.
So below is the list, and I will start off by posting the assignment and tag on Saturday for the week starting Sunday. Remember this is a great way to have fun, share success and failures (you should see my waterdrops, they are epic fails), get great feedback, and see how others interpret the same assignment.
31-Dec Fireworks
8-Jan Abstract House Hold Item - Take a photo of something everyday in your house and make it into an abstract - Looking for ideas go to tag abstractaugust
15-Jan Moon Shot - First Full Moon of the Year
22-Jan Color - Saturate your photo with color, see how color interacts with each other
29-Jan Single Subject Week - All photos should be around a single object
5-Feb Weather Week - can include natural elements such as storms, snow, sun, wind, rain, clouds)
12-Feb Textures - Just a great Texture shot
19-Feb Contrast of Lighting
26-Feb Monthly Assignment - Take an object throughout the year and apply a technique you were working on that month.
4-Mar Star Trails (may need to carry into the next week if necessary)
11-Mar Burning Light Bulbs
18-Mar Depth - Have three layers within in your photo to make your eye travel through the picture.
25-Mar Light Painting of an Object
1-Apr Shadows
8-Apr Street Photography -Can be done in a store or at a mall
15-Apr Composition - take several shots of the same scene, but with different compositions
22-Apr Fizzy Water Shot
29-Apr Monthly Assignment Reminder - Lets see how far you have come this month.
6-May HDR Processing
13-May Bokeh in Nature
20-May Water Reflection
27-May Flash Photography
3-Jun Light Trails
10-Jun Layers in Editing
17-Jun Solstice - Capture the change of Season and Light
24-Jun Silhouette
1-Jul Story Telling - Tell a story with your photo. We can provide a scene that you can convert to a photo
8-Jul Textures - Use a texture shot as an overlay to some other photo
15-Jul Panning
22-Jul Go Crazy with an existing Photo
29-Jul Monthly Assignment Reminder - Lets see how far you have come this month.
5-Aug Reflections not in water
12-Aug Levitation
19-Aug Food Photography
26-Aug Sunsets
2-Sep Think outside of the Box
9-Sep Self Portrait
16-Sep Unexpected - Do something that we would not expect from the photo
23-Sep Landscape
30-Sep Monthly Assignment Reminder - Lets see how far you have come this month.
7-Oct Panorama
14-Oct Reduced/Fixed Color Palette - Pic can only have three colors, or we can assign your colors.
21-Oct Abstract Season Changes - Show us how the seasons have changed in your area
28-Oct Over Exposed
4-Nov Contrast in Subject or Texture
11-Nov Candle Light
18-Nov Black and White
25-Nov Monochromatic or Sepia
2-Dec Framing Photos
9-Dec Bokeh with Lights
16-Dec Favorite Technique learned this year
23-Dec Bonus
30-Dec Bonus
Also if you want an emailed excel spreadsheet, let me know.
this is great - I am planning to try and themes thing come 1st Jan as my second year alternatives album needs pepping up! would love the excel sheet juliette.packham@sapartners.co.uk nice one Paula and I'll try and join you as often as I can!! :o)
@brumbe Thanks for compiling this great lis of ideas! I am going to do some participating in this because it will help me come up with ideas... just can't commit to it 100% because I know myself too well! :) PS - I just copied and pasted the list into an excel spreadsheet and it worked great!
@brumbe Thank you for this list. I kept thinking, rethinking, thinking, rethinking, etc. what I wanted to do my 2nd year. This list will really help. Thank you so much for coming up with this. Could you send this list to me on an Excel spreadsheet? If you don't have the time or if you can't do this, I will try to do this on my own later.
Wow, Paula, what a list!!! You are awesome!! I may not be able to do them all but definitely will try some!! Thanks so much for putting this together!!
@brumbe Would you please send me the spreadsheet....I have lost my momentum and will be wrapping up the year short a month or so of pictures. *sigh* I think you have done a wonderful job, and will copy this and put it on my fridge to remind me :) kathy.desjardins@rogers.com
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I think Paula's pics were good examples. Here's two pics from this week;
@pwallis - Here the strongest silhouette is in the front, and then several "layers" of mountainsides behind each other. This picture has a strong 3D-feel and makes you look "through" the pic rather than "around" the pic.
@autumnseden - Awesome take on the classic road shot; the white fence in the front catches the eye first and you can start the journey through the picture along the road. In the middle you see the covered bridge. You continue along the road and reach the back with those silhouettes against the sky. Since the road goes across the picture in the back, it really makes you look there to see if there's more eye candy. At the same time you notice the golden field on the right side...
@brumbe@janmaki Cool thanks you two! I'll try it out sometime, I think I may just be overthinking it...racking my brain...sorry I'm a bit slow sometimes, but when it clicks I'll get it. Hopefully I can translate it into my photos. Thanks again for the splendid examples. I really do appreciate it.
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I may join in for some of these, going to need some inspiration for year 2. =)
I hope I can do some of these with you guys!
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Some great ideas here! I'm starting right now with Dec 16th...
18-Mar Depth - Have three layers within in your photo to make your eye travel through the picture.
I'm still trying to understand depth in my photography. Three Layers seems a bit of a challenge which I would like to take.
Thanks so much for any info/help.
I think @janmaki may have better examples. I believe this was one of his weekly choices.
I think Paula's pics were good examples. Here's two pics from this week;
@pwallis - Here the strongest silhouette is in the front, and then several "layers" of mountainsides behind each other. This picture has a strong 3D-feel and makes you look "through" the pic rather than "around" the pic.
@autumnseden - Awesome take on the classic road shot; the white fence in the front catches the eye first and you can start the journey through the picture along the road. In the middle you see the covered bridge. You continue along the road and reach the back with those silhouettes against the sky. Since the road goes across the picture in the back, it really makes you look there to see if there's more eye candy. At the same time you notice the golden field on the right side...
@brumbe excellent "go to" list!