Made It Halfway Through Your Photo 365 And Need Some Ideas/Inspiration?

Congrats for making it this far with your Photo 365/Project365! It's called a challenge for a reason! But you might be having a hard time coming up with some ideas...so how about a few from the Learn Photo365 Photography Assignment app to help you back on track!

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One of the new assignment additions is a 30 day subject challenge, where it gives you a random subject to photograph for an entire month!

The challenge of course is to find interesting ways to shoot the same subject.

So, how about a....
GREEN PEPPER!

Now you will obviously need more than one to last you a month. But here are some ideas to get your started:

LIGHT
Backlight, spotlight, sidelight, toplight

CONTRASTS
Red is the contrasting color to green. So shoot it up against a red pepper. On a red plate
You could also try it against yellow, blue, black and white backgrounds.

MULTIPLES
Grab a bunch and see what interesting patterns you can make.

HIDE IT!
Make it a fun game by hiding them in a location and seeing if your viewer can find them.

EATING THEM
Since you'll have all those peppers, you might as well make something tasty! Maybe Fajitas?

Try some slow shutter speed shots on a tripod as they are being chopped.

Record the shapes/patterns as they are cut.

Or using backlighting with a flash or bright light on one cut in half to make it glow inside!

If you don't mind the potential smells, you could even record one pepper's evolution as it...uh...changes over the month...

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MORE TIPS BELOW!

I hope you find these tips useful!
If so, it would be awesome if you would check out my LearnPhoto365 Photography Assignment Generator Apps on the app store, a unique photography app that's meant to inspire you to take great photos!

Perfect for anyone taking part in a Photo 365 challenge, there are over a hundred individual assignments and hundreds of thousands of potential random ones. Versions available for iPhone/iPod and iPad, including free versions so you can try them out! Full details, including reviews and tour videos of the apps can be found at www.learnphoto.ca/apps Even if you only download the free version that would help get it up the app store lists!

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SCAVENGER HUNT
Come up with a list of words/descriptors that you can attempt to find with your camera!

Here's a random list of 10 words I just got from the app!
CLUTTERED
PRIVATE
ANGRY
NATURAL
BOUNCY
SHOUTS
SWEATY
PACKAGED
HANGING
NEGATIVE

RANDOM OBJECT/TECHNIQUE

This assignment gives you a random object and technique to shoot it with. It can come up with some pretty crazy combinations!

OBJECT: STOP SIGN
TECHNIQUE: BACK LIT. Shoot the sign with the sun behind it, or if you want to get creative, set up a flash at night

OBJECT: HAMMER
TECHNIQUE: IN PAIRS. Creating interesting compositions with two hammers!

OBJECT: DOLL
TECHNIQUE: PERSPECTIVE. Make the subject appear large in the frame by having it close to the camera with a wide angle lens.

VERSE TO VISUAL
Illustrate your favourite quote, song lyric, poem, saying, riddle, or book passage with a photograph!

Here's two from the app!
"They call me mellow yellow..."
"Time flies when you are having fun!"

SHARING YOUR PHOTOS:
 I've created two groups of FLICKR to share images taken inspired by the apps
Add your photos to your flickr stream, then JOIN the group and select ADD PHOTOS.  
For SLR/P&S shooters put your images here:

http://www.flickr.com/groups/learnphoto365

For Iphotographers shooting with iphones/ipod touches, put your images here:

http://www.flickr.com/groups/ilearnphoto365/


Best of luck with the next half of your Photo 365!

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