30-Day Photography Challenge: Daily Prompts to Improve Your Camera Skills

1. 1 Introduction to the course: Hello, everybody, and welcome to our newest project, a 30 day Photo Challenge. So what is a 30 day photo challenge? It's exactly what it says. So over the next 30 days, we're all going to work together. We're going to take one photo a day each day with a different theme. So the idea of the project is that it will challenge you in terms of how you see the world. It'll help you develop your photography in a technical manner, and it'll also help you develop an eye for seeing things in a slightly different way. So what makes this different from other generic photo challenges? Well, first of all, you are part of a community. So every day, we are going to create a group where you can upload your photo. You can share it with the rest of the group. You can gather feedback. And also, you can discuss any kind of technical challenges or any thoughts or any ideas for developing your own photography within that group. So it's really supportive. So the idea is that we go on this journey together and that we actually help each other improve and we support each other. Also, as part of this group, I'll create a series of resources so you can continue developing and can continue pushing your photographic practice beyond this initial project. Once you are part of the group, you're part of the group, so you can start sharing your work and you can help each other along the way. I'm a massive, massive believer. That support and being part of a community to help each other grow and help each other develop is much, much more important than creating absolutely perfect photography. For me, as you will have heard me say lots of times, the art of taking the photograph is much more important than the photograph itself. Okay, that's enough of me talking about what we're going to do. I think what we need to do is do it. So let's dive in. Let's start day one on our photographic 30 day challenge. 2. Day 1 Worm eye view photography: I. Day one. Okay, so today's theme is a worm's eye view. I know it's a funny title, but essentially what it means is a low angle. So we're going to go down. We're gonna take our camera down. We're gonna take our viewpoint down, and we're going to shoot, point it up. So how does that affect what we're going to shoot? Well, it plays with the angle. It plays with perspective. It also might help you decide what you want to shoot. So what is your subject going to be? We're not going to be specific, so we're not going to do nature. We're not gonna do architecture. It's absolutely back to basics, low angle. Okay. So there's a couple of things here. So my camera doesn't have a tilt screen, the one I'm using for this project. So I either have to lay down, which is probably not that practical. So there's a little bit of potluck for me. So I'm going to take line from a low angle. Now, you might want to use your phone. You might want to use your camera. You might want to use a camera with a flip screen. Mine doesn't. So I'm going to go low. I'm going to frame out to do it. I'm gonna take the picture, and then I'm going to look at it. So actually, the process of taking the image is as important as taking the image itself. Enjoy the challenge, enjoy the task. Let's reconnect later once we've taken our picture, and we'll chat and we'll discuss and we'll support each other along that journey. 3. Day 2 Textures Photography: Day two. Okay, we're going to change things up for today. Today, we're going to combine a couple of things. So today's topic is textures. So that might be your favorite textures like a brick wall. It might be fabrics. It might be grass. It might be It could be anything, anything that is a favorite texture, too. So we're thinking close ups and we're thinking textures. Now, this really changes how we take our image. So we're really not looking at establishing a scene. So for example, if you're going to do a landscape, you'd want to establish that scene and all of those parameters out. This is really about macro photography. It's really about zooming in and getting close. So if your camera doesn't have a macro feature, so I'm using my smartphone for this one, so I can zoom in to a certain extent. But what I'm going to do is I'm going to pick my lens, and then I'm going to take my image, and I might edit that in post production. Along with today, what I'm going to do is I want to drop some notes in our course of some different photo editors. I'm using a free editor for this, but I show off an iPhone and I edit my images off Apple. So it is specifically an apple one, but I'll drop a couple of different ones in case you're on other phones such as Android or whatever. And if you're taking yours on your professional camera, you might already have an idea of how you want to edit this. So you might want to use Light room or you might want to use capture one or whatever software you're currently using. Okay, that's enough of me. Day two, we're looking at textures. See you all soon. 4. Day 3 Joy in motion Photography: So we've done two very different things on day one and Day two. Day three, we're going to push this forward now. So Day three, we are going to capture joy in motion. So you'll notice already that my themes are quite broad, because what I don't want to do is I don't want to restrict you in the kind of images you take, but I also don't want to restrict your process. I want you to really feel able to explore and to work within your creative boundaries and also to slightly push yourself out of your comfort zone. So what does joy in motion mean? For me, it means things like people having fun. It means smiling faces. It means people being together. For you, obviously, it can mean something very different. And that's what's really great about this 30 day photo challenge is our image. All of our images are different, and they're very much unique and personal to us. Okay, today's theme, Joy in motion, I will see you all very soon. 5. Day 4 Light & Shadows Photography: Oh Day four, we're starting to get into swing of this now, and we're starting to build this into our daily habit. Day four's theme is something that is one of my absolute favorite things to photograph. So today's theme is light and shadows. So we're really going to look at those dramatic shadows. So it might be when the sun hits a building or it hits something at a certain angle, and you're on your daily walk, and you suddenly notice that shadow, and that's the moment for you. It may be something that you create yourself, so you might want to add some light into this and you might want to create your own dramatic shadow. So it could be something I don't know, something really simple like a glass of water in your kitchen and you just put your phone light against it, move it around in different places to create different shapes and shadows, and then you take your picture, then you jump into your editing software, and you edit that. What I'm also going to do as part of this 30 day challenge is I'm going to throw in some extra editing tip video. So I'll do some quick editing videos to show you some ideas along your creative process because obviously the whole point of this is to build that daily habit to challenge our creativity, to take images each day with a different theme, but you also need to edit them, so I'll start jumping those into the course, as well, and they'll just be part of it. Okay, let's go get some light and some shadows and I'll see you for day five. 6. Day 5 Reflections Photography: Day five, today's theme is reflections. I absolutely love working with reflections. It could be through a window, through a mirror. One of my personal favorites is combining Day one's theme and Day five's theme, which is reflections through puddle. So you get low you get that perspective. So I really want you to think about reflections today. And again, we're not going to give you a specific subject to take a picture of. The task is looking at the world slightly differently through that reflection. Have fun. Enjoy it, and I look forward to see, A, your raw image, but B, your edited image. Cause as we know, taking the picture a great creative process in its own right. The second part of the creative process is then editing that image and sharing that with the world as we want to see it. So day five, reflections, image, edit, see you all for day six. 7. Day 6 Hugge Comfort Photography: Hello. Welcome to day six. Today's concept is something you may never have heard of before, and I apologize if I get the pronunciation wrong. So we're going to focus on huge comfort, and Hog is a Danish word meaning cozy homely, that kind of thing. So today's theme is huge comfort, you think about things that are homely, things that are cozy. It's usually generally quite warm palettes. Again, as we said in yesterday's video, take the image, do all your composition, allow your creative process to happen. You can create warmer tones in post production, whether you're using photometer light room or your generic Photos app on your phone. I'm a massive believer when it comes to software in not buying software until you need to upgrade. So until your creativity is impeded, then it's the time to upgrade. So you don't need to buy any additional software for this course. And I just want to put that out there. Probably should have said that earlier on, but Daysix we're saying it now. So today's theme, huge comfort. So think about warm, homely, all of that stuff that makes us go, Oh. Okay, let's get this one done, and I will see you for day seven. 8. Day 7 Self portraits Silhouette: Day seven. This one, again, I know I've said this before. It's one of my personal favorites. Truth be told, though, it's also the one that I antagonize over most. Today's theme is self portrait. I know I know before you start messaging me and tell me that you don't want to do it. I also have my reservations about doing self portraits. Let's put it out there. None of us really like the way we look. We always and will always find imperfections in things. This isn't about creating a self portrait, there you go. Yeah, I'm happy with that. Hopefully, you do say that with the photography and the composition and all those things. But it's about pushing our creative boundaries. It's about experimenting, and it's about finding new ways to do this. So a self portrait doesn't have to be there you go, self portrait. Obviously, you know, you know me by now. We started to connect. It's about pushing those boundaries. So it might be a self portrait that's a low angle. It might be a back bite, so it's more of a silhouette portrait. It's whatever you feel comfortable with, but the idea is to experiment. So think about self portraits, think about experimenting and think about how can we push those creative boundaries. Listen, they all can't be really comfortable exercises, can they? We all have to have a little bit where we go, h, not quite sure about this one. Let's get through it and let's move on to the next day. See you soon. 9. Day 8 Leading Lines Photography: Okay, we've got over the self portrait one. I'm not saying it won't come back, but we've done it in our first week. So we've done a week. We've done seven days of our photo challenge. Let's do a quick check in. How are you feeling? What's been challenging? What's surprised you? What have you done that you've gone? I really didn't want to do that. But actually, it was right. Or dare I say it? I quite enjoyed it. No, for me, the self portrait one yesterday, it's always a thing of mine. It's always been a thing. I actually really enjoyed it. It was quite nice to try a few different things. Okay, let's move on. We are in week two, day eight. Well done sticking with it so far. This is the crunch point. Okay? This is where it stops becoming a novel, and this is where it starts becoming a bit more of a habit. You start to build that process in, and it can, like, truth be told, it can feel a bit like, Oh, doing it again. Please, please, please stick with it. I promise this is where breakthroughs happen. Okay, so Today's theme is leading lines. So have you heard of that before, leading lines. So it could be it's also known as the vanishing point, for example. So usually, if you look if you live in a city with big buildings and you look up and you see the skyscrapers go up, that's the vanishing point. It could be train tracks. You look at a train track, and as you see it going down there, it starts to vanish. That's the vanishing point. Obviously, don't go jumping on train tracks. That's super dangerous. But you could do it from a bridge from a high angle, for example, leading lines is our today's theme, start of Week two, day eight. Let's do it, and I will see you for day nine. 10. Day 9 Negative Space Photography: How did that feel? Did you get your line? Did you get your vanishing point? Did you get your leading line? Okay, as ever, we're moving quick. We're moving on. Today's theme is da da da da. Negative space. So we're not trying to fill the frame. So actually, when you're a photographer or a filmmaker or you're creating scenes with your camera, negative space is as important as positive space. So, for example, looking at me right now on camera, this bit around me, that's the filled space. Over here, you can't really see it off camera, but here we've got some negative space. Over here, we've got a bit of negative space. We've also got some space here that we're filled with this light and these books and so on. So really, you're looking at the space next to the space. I guess, when you think about it like that. So today's theme is negative space. Have a play, experiment, enjoy it. See you in the next one. 11. Day 10 Bekeh Effect Photography: A Welcome to Day ten. We're really in the flow now. Okay, so we've tried lots and lots of different themes. We're going to try a lot more different themes. This one is it might be a little bit challenging to achieve if you're on a smartphone, so you might want to achieve this effect with your editing. Alternatively, what you can do is you could download a free app like Black Magic Camera, for example, and that will give you manual control. So if you can get manual controls on your phone, that'll really help you with the photo part of this. If you can't, please don't worry. We can do this next effect in editing. So this is called the booker effect. And really, it's that kind of blurred slightly out of focus effect. So you'll see a lot on lights festival lights, if you're doing this course and this day happens to fall on a festive season, do you know you might get some festive lights that you could try this on alternatively. You could just turn the light on or you can set Do you know those fairy lights that lots of people have? You could put some of them up and you can get some effects from there. So this is the booker effect. It's really I'm trying to think about how I can articulate this. It's it's less about creating a perfect image and more about creating something abstract, almost like a piece of art. So think about color. Color will really, really help you during this process. Okay, booker effect, pushing ourselves, changing our creative eye, changing our photographic practice. See you in the next one. 12. Day 11 replecement: Day 11. Wow. Okay. How did you find yesterday's challenge the Boker effect? I love doing booker, but I always feel a bit weird because it never quite comes out as an image that I think it will do in my head. But I absolutely love it because it's really good for challenging your perception of what you think your photography is and really challenging the perception of what makes a great image. So it's a really useful thing to do, and it will come in handy as you develop your photographic practice. I'm absolutely certain. Let's jump into today's theme. So today's theme is a theme that I don't do enough of, really. I need to do more of this. So I'm really excited about this one. This theme might be a little bit more for me. So it's food texture. So not food photography. You know, we can all jump on social media and we can see pictures of our dinner. It's not taking a picture of your dinner. It's about food textures. Really, I guess when you break it down, it's about micro photography. So, you know, it might be, for example, coffee. I love seeing macro photography of coffee. Bang alight on the side, create some beautiful shadows, camera from the top. Really gorgeous. So the idea is to stop your audience. They'll have a look, trying to figure it out here it is. Oh, I think it's this, I think it's that. But also, the other ideas, again, challenge yourself to see things from a different perspective. Food, texture, micro photography. Enjoy this one. I look forward to seeing what you create. I'll look forward to seeing what I create, and I will see you in the next 13. Day 12 Black & White Photography: We are flying through these day 12. I love this one. I'm not gonna lie. I know I've said it before, but this possibly is one of my favorite themes. Day 12 is black and white photography. So what I really want you to think about is contrast. Look at those contrasted areas, those tones really play with depth. When you take color out of the equation, absolutely changes the game in terms of photography. You really start to see things differently. Again, if your camera doesn't do black and white, not an issue. We'll jump into post production, and we can black and white it, and we can play with those different tones and contrasts. And I'll do a little video on my tones and contrasts when I'm doing my editing, as well, just so you've got a reference file. So Black and White photography, tones, contrasts. Think about architecture. That's beautiful when you're doing black and white. Think about shadows, think about shapes. Think about setting a scene, and I will see you ready in the next one. 14. Day 13 Clouds Photography: Day 13. This theme we're going to look up. Forget that film. Don't look up. We are going to look up. Today's theme is about sky and Cloud. So I really want you to think about all of that stuff you've learned before about shape, about texture, about negative space. We're gonna look at the sky and we're gonna take some images. It might be something really simple like an empty sky with one solo bird flying across. It might be beautiful different shaped clouds with the sun bouncing off it and creating these beautiful shapes and shadows. Absolutely your call. Whatever you decide is what you're going to take, but I'm going to take all of this learning with you, and we're going to look up, and today's theme is the sky and clouds and all of those things. Fabulous skies. See you in the next one. 15. Day 14 Nature Photography: Day 14. And I'm tightening this letters in nature. So what I would really want you to think about is forget about those vast expansive landscapes. I want you to think about detail. So really focus on those bits of nature that really capture your eye. It might be a fallen tree in a forest. It might be a blade of grass. It might be macro. It might be a big wide, vast expanse landscape. If you live somewhere where you've got all those dramatic scenes, by all means, please, please do capture it and please share it with us, 'cause we all want to see beautiful photography, and we all want to see beautiful landscapes. But for this one, I want you to think a little bit more outside of that box. So again, we're bringing all of those 13 previous days learning into this session. So we're thinking about letters in nature. So what does that mean? What does it mean to you? I know where my brain's going. I know what my mind is thinking. But for you guys, see where you get. I'm also not going to dictate it could be color. It could be black and white. You could bring that shapes and that contrast, you could bring that negative space of framing into your work. It's whatever works for you, you are the photographer. You're totally in the flow now. See you guys in the next one. Two. 16. Day 15 Symbols of hope Photography: Day 15 we are officially halfway through our photographic challenge. I can't believe it's come so quick and I can't believe the amount of images we've created. But let's keep going. Let's keep pushing. Let's keep finding that creativity, and let's move on to today's theme. Because we're midway, today's theme is hope symbols. So that might mean many things to you. It might mean something that's religious, for example, so it might mean a cross or it might mean something else. It might mean an image of somebody that brings you joy or brings you hope. It might mean a little trinket on your key ring that every time things are a little bit difficult, you look at that and it brings you up. It could mean anything. So for me, I'm not 100% sure what this is going to be yet, so this is a bit of a thinker for me, but I'm going to go for it. I'm going to embrace it, and I will post my image like I do at the end of this video. Okay, let's do it. Day 15, let's get this done. And 17. Day 16 Glint & Glamour Photography: Day 16. We're over halfway. Oh, my days. I can't believe we're on day 16, and we are closer to the finish than we are to the beginning. Okay. You're not here to hear me, Bax lyrical. You're here for today's theme. Today's theme is glint and glamour. I know I've got an absolute knack of coming up with titles. What does that really mean? So what does glint and glamour mean? I'm thinking you're walking, you see the sun hit light that pond, then it just sparkles, and it creates this really ethereal moment. So glint and glamour. So we think about those moments where light hits water. Light hits something reflective, light hits something shiny, and it just creates that ethereal moment. So that's what we want to capture the ethereal moment. Pro tip, what might really help you is that session we did on Boca effect in this one. Think about your booker. Think about your depth of field. Think about your post production process in this and how you're going to create those effects. Right? I'll see you tomorrow. 18. Day 17 Furry Friends Photography: Okay, so today, we're going to go for cuteness overload. Today's theme is all about furry friends. So if you've got pets, it might be getting that really cute angle of your pet. I've just got a new puppy, so I definitely know what I'm going to be focusing my image today on. So today's Fairy Friends, whatever that means to you, I really look forward to seeing all your pictures today, and I'm really excited for cuteness overload. See you tomorrow for the next one. 19. Day 18 Circles and symmetry Photography: And Day 18, today's task. So we're going to look at circles and symmetry, okay? I love something that's symmetrical, you know, geometric patterns, creating space just to really create something that visually it's just really beautiful to look at. Just there, you can appreciate it. You can observe it. So think about symmetry. Think about patterns. Think about circles are great. Like, you can go outside the circle the, but circles are great because, you know, they're really easy to photograph. But it may be that you find something that's symmetrical that you really want to experiment with. If you don't find it when you're out in the world today, doing whatever it is you're doing, create it, you know, get a mirror, play with perspective. Think about reflections. Think about that glint and that glamour. Think about force perspective, all of those things that you've been doing up to this point all come into play, and we'll all support your creative journey on this. So symmetry, circles, patterns. See you in the next one. 20. Day 19 Layers Photography: Okay. Welcome back to Day 19. Today's theme, again, it's a little bit different. I know I said that a lot because they're all a little bit different but today's theme is about layers. So laying up your image. So that could be done in a couple of ways. If you're really great at post production, you might want to do stacking, so you might want to focus stacking. You might want to layer your image on top of each other. So you take five, six, seven images of the same thing at different exposure levels. In post production, you stack them together. To create a much more vivid, rich image. It might mean something different, so it might mean layers, so it might mean something like ground layer, middle layer sky. You might want to lay your image for foreground background. You might want to lay your image with sky, trees, concrete, for example. So it's super simp, but it's about layering. It's whatever works for you in terms of what layering means and how you want to tackle that challenge. Fabulous. Okay, let's jump in. Let's share those pictures, and I will see you for tomorrow. 21. Day 20 Birds Eye View Photography: Welcome back. Day 20 of our 30 day photo challenge. I'm gonna give you a bit of a break today. I'm not gonna make you think too hard. You've been really pushing those creative brain cells and really pushing those creative juices and really pushing yourself as a photographer this last couple of weeks. So today, we're going to take it down a notch. We're gonna have an easy day, and we're going to think about the Bird's Eye View. Now, I know what you're thinking. But Wayne, I don't have a drone. How can I get a bird's eye view from up there? Birds don't always fly up there. Bird's Eye view just means top down. So it may be something from your eye level. It may be you just hold your camera, you hold it up, and you go down. It may be something in your home. It may be something in your office. Okay? So we're thinking about it top down. So today's challenge is top down photography. Enjoy it, post it. Let's see it, tag us all in. Let's look at it. I really want to get inspired by your photography, as well. See you in the next one, everybody. 22. Day 21 Faceless Emotion Photography: Day 21. Right. First of all, we're going to take it up today. So today's theme is faceless emotion. How do you capture emotion in a scene without this? It's a really difficult one, this I think. I always find this really challenging. But that then does give us an opportunity. So when something's really challenging and it's not obvious how you find a solution, it really pushes our creativity. It really pushes our boundaries about how we create something that fulfills the theme, but also challenges us as photographers. So we're going to create an image, and it will be amazing because, you know, I've seen your work. I know how great you are. Faceless emotion. So think of this one. Have fun. Enjoy it, and I will see you tomorrow for tomorrow challenge. But also, I look forward to seeing what you guys create. 23. Day 22 Sunrise & Sunset Photography: Day 22. Okay, I've got a great one for you today. Today's challenge is either sunrise or sunsets. So what I want to do is I really want you to think about how you're going to capture that glorious sunrising or that stunning sunsetting. I'm not an early riser, so I'm going to go for a sunset image. If you're an early riser, let's get some sunrise. Let's get the whole day across our photography journey today. Please do make sure you share them. Make sure you show as you're before and your after images, if you're editing them as well. And I'm not gonna say anymore about it, actually, 'cause I think it speaks for itself. So, have a great day, and I will see you for tomorrow's photo challenge. 24. Day 23 Silhouette Photography: Hello. How did you find yesterday's sunset awesome rife challenge? I have to say, it was a bit challenging because it's quite cloudy a lot that I where I am. But, yeah, it was good. It was a good day. I enjoyed it. I was thinking about what my space and my environment was going to be all day. So my sunset image I'm quite happy with. Again, please do share yours. Don't forget we want to see them and not just yesterday's. We want to see all of the images you've been taking, so tag us in and do share those. Okay, let's move on to today's. We're entering the final hurdle here. Today's challenge is silhouettes. So I want to think about silhouettes. It doesn't have to be a person. It can be an object, it can be a building. It can be a thing. So whatever you feel is right for your photography. A couple of tips and tricks on how you can do this. Back light. Light behind your subject. We'll give them or whatever that is, a really lovely frame, and it'll create your sus then you can hands them in post production should you want to or you can get them straight out of the camera. Over the last three weeks, we've done lots and lots of challenges on lots of different bits for you to work on. So for this, take all of that learning, step back, and I would say absolutely less is more. Great. Right. Let's do it. Let's crack on. Let's go get our photo for today, and I'll see you tomorrow for the next one. 25. Day 24 Music Vibes Photography: Okay. Okay. In today's photo challenge, we're going to go a little bit to the side, and we're going to photograph musical instruments. So it's a musical themed photo challenge today. So if you play an instrument, and my daughter plays guitar, so it's pretty simple for me. Well, provided she'll let me go into her room to do some photography. But again, really challenge yourself. So is it a whole image? Is it a portion of an image? Is it placing the camera at the end of the strings and adding those disappearing lines or that vanishing point photography that we did earlier into today's challenge. So it's a bit left field. It's a bit out there, but today's photo challenge is musical inspiration. See what you come up with, and I will see you tomorrow. 26. Day 25 Frame within a frame Photography: Okay, Day 25. Last 55 days left. We're getting to the end. Today's theme or today's challenge, should you choose to accept it? Well, you're obviously gonna accept it 'cause we're doing a 30 day challenge. I don't know why I tried to sound mysterious, to be honest. Today's challenge frame within a frame. So obviously, we frame our image, but I want to frame within a frame. Whatever that means to you, I'm going to leave it with you. You might want to make something and photograph through it. You might want to take something with you. You might want to go through spaces or go through cracks. But the idea is frame within a frame. Day 25. Right. Get out there, get those images, start making some magic, and I'll see you tomorrow. 27. Day 26 Street Photography: And Day 26. We're almost there. We're almost at the end. I'm super, super proud of you guys that are still here, those that are still doing it, it's super hard to do this every day. Last year, I did a 365 day photo challenge. It was really difficult. I'm not gonna lie. I had some ups, I had some downs. Some days, everything fell into place. Some other days, it was really hard. And I'm sure some of you guys have found some of the tasks during this course really difficult and really challenging. But you're stuck with it, and that's the point you've push yourself. You don't have to love everything. You've push yourself. Today's challenge, then, is one of my personal favorites. I think I say that a lot, don't I? But it genuinely is. I genuinely love this challenge. Street photography. I'm going to keep it super open, super relaxed. Whatever that means to you, street photography. The other thing, just a quick pro tip. Personal opinion, street photography looks fantastic in black and white. But again, you make that creative decision. It's your photo journey. It's your creative exploration, and it's about your development. I will see you tomorrow for the next photo challenge. Last couple, last couple. But please do post them. Let's share them, bang them in the groups, and let's all grow and learn together. A 28. Day 27 Colour Photography: Day 27. Right. Let's get straight into it. No waffle straight down the bar of the lens. Color. And we to really focus on color today. Today's challenge is color explosion. That might be lots of different colors. That might be Wes Anderson, muted, pastel color palette. It might be focusing on one color in a subject. It might be that you take your scene, you pull your one color out and you black and white, everything else in post production. Totally your call. Color. Let's do this. Let's get out there. Let's get our image, and I'll see you in the chart, and I'll see you tomorrow. 29. Day 28 Night time Photography: Who's feeling tired? I'm feeling tired. My brain feels like it's leaking out, but I'm super, super excited. I feel really inspired. I feel really creative at the moment. And I feel like I'm going to keep doing this challenge beyond these 30 days. But with that in mind, today's challenge, it's nighttime photography. Look up, look up at the stars, look at the shape of the color at night, look at the light, look at the palette of nighttime. It's very different to daytime. A quick pro tip, one of the best times to photograph at night, if you don't have any lights with you or you're just on your smartphone is what we call blue hour. And that's the hour after sunset. So if you're luck enough to be in a place where the sun is shining and you're getting all that beautiful golden sunlight, once the sunset, get out. Look at that blue hour. Everything is just magical. You're gonna absolutely love it. Right. Enough of that. Couple more days left. Let's get our Photo challenge done for today, and I'll see you tomorrow for the next one. 30. Day 29 Imperfictly Imperfect Photography: Wow. Day 29. It's gone so quick. How has it come this quick? Okay, how did you define yesterday? I love working with color. I do. But I also get slightly overwhelmed 'cause there's so much color about. Who went out at Blue hour? Who got that beautiful blue light? I love it. Here's my image. You'll see it. It's gonna be in the group anyway. Right. Today's Challenge. It's the second to last one. Imperfectly imperfect. That's the theme. We all know I love a good theme, a good title. It's about photographing the imperfections, might be the blemish. It might be the spot. It might be, you know, the eyebrows. I don't know. Whatever it is imperfectly perfect for you. Photograph the imperfections. You know, when we're doing photography, we always want to make everything beautiful. You know, we see online all the time about removing this spot and removing that spot and getting all those beautiful studio shots. We don't want that. We want the real, the gritty. We want to see reality. Give me that imperfection, because do you know what? I guarantee once you start thinking about it and we get over that hurdle, we realize they're not that important anymore. And actually, they're quite beautiful. Right. Let's do it. Let's crack on. I'll see you tomorrow for the final challenge. Ah. 31. Day 30 Your choice Photography: I Congratulations, well done. You got to the final day. Oh, my days. Do you know what? It's been a creative smogsbd. I've loved every minute of it. I've been inspired, I've been challenged. I've almost given up. I've pushed through my creative barrier, and I feel a much better photographer for it. And actually, do you know what? Some of the skills I've learned refound during this project. I'm going to use in my professional work. I'm going to use when I'm on set. I'm going to use when I'm photographing for different events, et cetera. So it's reignited my passion, and I really, really hope it's done the same for you. Today's challenge, the final photography challenge. In many ways, it's the easiest. In many ways, it's absolutely the hardest. Dealers choice. You get to choose out of the last 29 themes, which one you want to focus on today. Which one has been your favorite? Which one did you really love? Pick that one or alternatively, which one has been the one that's challenged you most? Which one has been the one that you've gone? Oh, I want to get this over and done with. Then I challenge you to go do that one again. Look at it from a different perspective. Look at it with these new creative photography eyes that you've got over the last 30 days. Guys, pop your images in the groups. Pop them in the course. Let's see them. Thank you so much for spending the last 30 days with me. It's been an absolute honor on my side. I've loved it. I've loved seeing your films. I've loved seeing the stuff you've created. You've definitely 1,000% inspired me, and I can't wait to continue this journey, and I can't wait to see you all flourish and grow as you move forward with your photography practice. Day 30, let's go get this.