52 Week Photography Challenge List

Use this 52 Week Photography Challenge List as a weekly exercise to get out and take pictures!

Each challenge encourages you to photograph a subject theme or use a basic photography technique.

52 week photography challenge list

Remember, the best way to improve your photography skills is to practice, practice, practice!

Below you’ll find the list of 52 challenges to work on each week of the year. Each challenge will have a link to an article explaining the photography topic or concept.

You can download the list for free at the end of this article!

52 Week Photography Challenge List

Week 1: HORIZON LINE

Week 2: RULE OF THIRDS

Week 3: FOREGROUND, MIDGROUND & BACKGROUND

Week 4: FILL THE FRAME

Week 5: LEADING LINES

Week 6: PERSPECTIVE

Week 7: SUNRISE

Week 8: SUNSET

Week 9: BLUE HOUR & GOLDEN HOUR

Week 10: BOKEH

Week 11: WIDE ANGLE & PANORAMA

Week 12: PART OF THE WHOLE

Week 13: FRAMING

Week 14: PATTERNS

Week 15: RULE OF ODDS

Week 16: NEGATIVE SPACE

Week 17: REFLECTIONS

Week 18: SCALE

Week 19: MOVEMENT

Week 20: LONG EXPOSURE & MOTION BLUR

Week 21: HORIZONTAL / LANDSCAPE ORIENTATION

Week 22: VERTICAL / PORTRAIT ORIENTATION

Week 23: LANDSCAPES

Week 24: STRUCTURES AND INANIMATE OBJECTS

Week 25: PEOPLE

Week 26: POINT OF VIEW

Week 27: NATURAL LIGHT

Week 28: SHADOWS

Week 29: SILHOUETTE

Week 30: LINES

Week 31: CURVES

Week 32: MACRO / GET CLOSE

Week 33: CENTERED

Week 34: SKY

Week 35: NIGHT

Week 36: WEATHER

Week 37: SEASONS

Week 38: WATERFALLS AND RIVERS

Week 39: WILDLIFE AND PETS

Week 40: EYES

Week 41: TREES

Week 42: LAYERS

Week 43: SUNBURST

Week 44: COLOR

Week 45: BLACK AND WHITE

Week 46: MOOD

Week 47: CONTRAST

Week 48: ABSTRACT

Week 49: SUBJECT

Week 50: SHAPE

Week 51: MINIMALISM

Week 52: TELL A STORY

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Tips to Improve Your Photography

In order to find out what type of photography you truly love, you must capture images of many things: people, landscape, architecture, food, dogs, cats, birds, rivers, waterfalls….  

Set a goal to find those things you LOVE to PHOTOGRAPH!

The best way to learn photography and improve your skills – shoot, shoot and shoot some more!

You can read and watch tutorials, but until you put the information you have accumulated into motion, you aren’t going to learn a thing!

Photography should be FUN! If you are photographing the things you LOVE, it will be!

Camera Gear for Landscape Photography

  • Tripod: take a look at these compact and lightweight travel tripods!
  • Camera Bag: protect your camera from sand and water → We use Lowepro camera backpacks for outdoor photography.
  • Neutral density filter: to compensate for variance of light you’ll need to use a neutral density filter. → Check out the Kase magnetic filters we use!
  • Camera cleaning kit: remove dust or water that WILL get on your lens. NOTE: this is not for cleaning the sensor.  
  • Memory cards: purchase name brand memory cards since you’re trusting your images to the card! → We use Lexar and Sandisk!
  • External hard drive: copy photos to a portable external hard drive ‘just in case’. 
  • Headlamp: use when taking sunrise and sunset photos!

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