Challenge Instructions: START HERE!
I’ve grouped the challenges into Learning Stage below, just so they’re easier to find as the library of challenges grows, but of course you’re welcome to do ANY challenge you want! You’re not restricted to your specific learning stage!
I’ve put all the Editing Challenges together in one section, except for the Beginning Stage challenges, which will show up twice.
For All Learning Stages
New! Challenge (May 2025)
This challenge asks you to step outside your comfort zone and try something new. This could be a new location, new lens, new lighting situation... the aim is to do something you've never done before!
Strength Challenge (April 2025)
This challenge is very thematic. How can you show STRENGTH in an image? Thinking purposefully and intentionally about how you construct a meaning is key here.
Open Skies (March 2025)
This challenge encourages you to embrace using an open sky in your photos! Interesting clouds, sunsets or sunrises, we're stepping out of the woods and into the wide open world.
Refocus Challenge (February 2025)
This challenge asks you to refocus, to get back to WHY you started taking photos, and to find a way to show that reason in one image.
Firsts Challenge (January 2025)
This challenge asks you to try something completely new, whether in editing or in your photography, to get out of your comfort zone, learn something, and develop your skills!
Fairy Lights Challenge(December 2024)
Water Challenge (Nov 2024)
Greens! Challenge (August 2024)
Look to the Light (Sept 2024)
Leafs! Challenge (Oct 2024)
Reflections Challenge
This challenge is all about reflections, and creativity! We encourage you to go and take a photo featuring a reflection - not necessarily involving water! Think outside the box and really challenge yourself creatively in this challenge.
Beginning Stage Challenges
Light Challenge!
This month, we're going to be diving deeply into light.
Learn Your Camera’s Capabilities
In order to get full control over our photos, we need to understand what our camera is capable of. This challenge encourages you to push your camera to the limits, so you know what it can do under different circumstances.
Challenge: See the world with a new perspective!
Beginning Loki: Editing Challenge
Beginning Editing Challenge: Pitrie
Creating Stage Challenges
Perfect Personality
🥸(all): Our job is to capture personalities & tell stories. What do you need to think about to best show a subject's personality? That's what the July challenge is all about!
Limited Location
This challenge aims to push you creatively and to explore multiple ways to use one location. We often drive ourselves crazy trying to find the "perfect" location, or to move from here to there and to have 20 different spots along a walk... when sometimes all we need is one good location, used a variety of ways, to create a collection of completely different photos.
Variety Challenges: All about the dog
There are 3 challenges included here! Each of them is designed to get you out of your comfort zone, challenge you creatively, and inspire you to photograph your subjects in different ways to our normal posed artistic portrait.
Panorama Challenge
This challenge encourages you to consciously create panorama-type photos, not of landscapes, but to fix your composition, give the dog more space to look into, or make the background softer and blurrier by being closer to the dog when shooting.
Exploring Stage Challenges
“Joy” Challenge
Whether you're photographing in spring, or a litter of puppies, being able to capture and show an emotion is incredibly important to our work as photographers! In this challenge, focus on the a joyful feeling when out taking photos.
Gradient Challenge
This Challenge was created by Sabrina, and has downloadable files for you to work through the steps on. The aim is to add some sunrise colours to an otherwise grey sky!
Different Action Challenge
This challenge asks you to think outside the box when it comes to taking action photos! Moving beyond the "dog runs toward you" or "dog jumps over log toward you" but to start experimenting with other ways of showing movement and action.
Pets and People Challenge
This challenge is all about photographing pets and people together, and moving beyond the "classic pose" of dog & person sitting or standing side by side.
Urban Challenge
Beyond & Fun Challenges
Glow Up!
This challenge offers two possibilities: either recreate an old photo of yours to see how much you've progressed - so go back to a similar/same location, and take a totally new photo there... or to re-edit an older photo of yours with your new editing skills.
Portfolio Challenge: Anchor
Spooky Season Challenge
Editing Challenges
Beginning Loki: Editing Challenge
Deep Green Editing Challenge
This editing tutorial links to the "Deep Green" editing tutorial & lesson, and provides you with two options of photos to edit. One being simpler, the other much more advanced. You are encouraged to "copy" the edit, to push your editing skills, try new techniques, and expand your editing options.
Gradient Challenge
This Challenge was created by Sabrina, and has downloadable files for you to work through the steps on. The aim is to add some sunrise colours to an otherwise grey sky!
Beginning Editing Challenge: Pitrie
Challenges coming soon:
- Self portrait challenge
- Action challenge
- Backlight challenge
- Gradient Challenge
- Head-swap Challenge
