Here are another 5 personal photography challenges to inspire your creative development over the next week:
1. The Themed Triptych
Each day this week, create a triptych – a set of three images displayed together – based on a single daily theme. Themes could include “movement,” “solitude,” or “morning routine.” This challenge pushes you to think about how images relate to one another, strengthening your ability to build a visual narrative and shoot with a specific concept in mind.
2. Low Light and Long Exposure
For the next seven days, shoot only in low-light conditions, experimenting with long exposures. This could be anything from city streets at night to a dimly lit room. You will gain technical confidence in manual mode, understand the relationship between aperture, shutter speed, and ISO, and learn to capture motion and light in dynamic ways.
3. A Study in Colour Theory
Choose a single colour each day and make it the dominant subject of all your photos for that day. This exercise forces you to actively seek out specific hues in your environment, leading to a deeper appreciation of colour’s role in composition and mood. It will improve your ability to use colour intentionally to create emotion.
4. The 100-Pace Challenge
Go for a walk each day. Stop at a random point, and take all your photos for that day within a 100-pace radius of that spot. This constraint forces you to look deeply at a limited environment, finding interesting subjects, angles, and compositions in a place you might otherwise overlook, thereby honing your observational skills.
5. Recreate and Reimagine
Find a famous photograph or painting each day and attempt to recreate it with your own style and subject matter. This challenge is a masterclass in composition, lighting, and posing. By deconstructing and emulating the work of masters, you will gain practical insight into what makes a powerful image and develop your own creative voice.