Photography Exercises
These photography exercises were developed by Len Metcalf.
This is an index of the exercises, click on a link to take you to the exercise. It is best to work through them in number order.
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weekly exercises
- Jan 3, 2019 Camera Cuddle
- Jan 13, 2019 In the style of....
- Jan 20, 2019 Dutch Angle
- Jan 27, 2019 Photographs are everywhere
- Feb 3, 2019 Exploring the tipping point
- Feb 10, 2019 How still can you hand hold your camera?
- Feb 17, 2019 Two Up
- Feb 24, 2019 Depth of Field
- Mar 3, 2019 Analyse your favourite photographs
- Mar 10, 2019 Four different quadrants or four different corners
- Mar 17, 2019 Blue
- Mar 24, 2019 EX12 Dominant Mass
- Mar 31, 2019 EX13 What do you love?
- Apr 7, 2019 EX14 The Point of Power
- Apr 14, 2019 EX15 What is your sharpest lens and aperture combination?
- Apr 22, 2019 EX16 A full range of tones
- Apr 28, 2019 EX17 Defocus the backgrounds
- May 5, 2019 EX18 Analagous Colours
- May 12, 2019 EX19 Out of Focus
- May 19, 2019 EX20 Odd numbers verse even numbers
- May 26, 2019 EX21 Limit your focal length
- Jun 2, 2019 EX22 Blue and Yellow
- Jun 9, 2019 EX23 Talking about art
- Jun 17, 2019 EX24 Triangles
- Jun 24, 2019 EX25 Manual
- Jun 30, 2019 EX26 Seeking Critiques
- Jul 7, 2019 EX27 Calming horizontals
- Jul 14, 2019 EX28 Emotional Colours
- Jul 22, 2019 EX29 Chiaroscuro
- Jul 30, 2019 EX30 Self Portrait
- Aug 4, 2019 EX31 Ten Seconds as a restriction
- Aug 11, 2019 EX32 High Key
- Aug 18, 2019 EX33 Low Key
- Aug 25, 2019 EX34 Time to mature
- Sep 1, 2019 EX35 Warm or Cool
- Sep 8, 2019 EX36 Breaking the rules
- Sep 15, 2019 EX37 Depth Captivates
- Sep 23, 2019 EX38 Titles and Captions
- Sep 29, 2019 EX39 Circles
- Oct 6, 2019 EX40 Yellow
- Oct 13, 2019 EX41 Shoot from the hip
- Oct 20, 2019 EX42 Think like a film photographer.
- Oct 27, 2019 EX43 Blue and Red
- Nov 3, 2019 EX44 The power of the center
- Nov 10, 2019 EX45 Paper
- Nov 17, 2019 EX46 Blacker than black
- Nov 24, 2019 EX47 Multiple Exposures
- Dec 1, 2019 EX48 Panning
- Dec 7, 2019 EX49 Three Up
- Dec 15, 2019 EX50 Green and Red
- Dec 22, 2019 EX51 Get it right in camera
- Dec 28, 2019 EX52 A Project of Nine in January 2020
- Feb 2, 2020 EX53 Colour Balance
- Feb 9, 2020 EX54 Crop someone else's photographs...
- Feb 16, 2020 EX55 Soft Light - Hard Light
- Feb 23, 2020 EX56 Reflections
- Feb 29, 2020 EX57 Left and right bias
- Mar 8, 2020 EX58 Diagonals
- Mar 15, 2020 EX59 Dynamic Range
- Mar 22, 2020 EX60 Just start
- Mar 28, 2020 EX61 Recreate the art of another
- Apr 4, 2020 EX62 Having your work processed by another
- Apr 11, 2020 EX63 Leading Lines
- Apr 18, 2020 EX64 Painterly
- Apr 25, 2020 EX64 Wabi Sabi
- May 2, 2020 EX65 Diptych
- May 9, 2020 EX66 Talking about the Elements of Composition
- May 16, 2020 EX67 Emotional Halves
- May 23, 2020 EX68 Centring
- May 30, 2020 EX69 Artists Statment
- Jun 6, 2020 EX70 Centre of Interest and the Greatest Tonal Contrast Focal Point
- Jun 13, 2020 EX71 Describing form with tone
- Jun 19, 2020 EX72 Atomospheric Perspective
- Jun 27, 2020 EX72 Composing Negative Space
- Jul 3, 2020 EX73 The Perfect Aspect Ratio
- Jul 10, 2020 EX74 Divine Proportions
- Jul 17, 2020 EX75 Proximity and Similarity
- Jul 24, 2020 EX76 Minimalism
- Jul 31, 2020 EX77 Improving your backgrounds
- Aug 7, 2020 EX78 Seeing and composing the highlights
- Aug 14, 2020 EX79 Blocking in the Shadows
- Aug 21, 2020 EX 80 Whites and Highlights
- Aug 28, 2020 EX83 Repetitions
- Sep 4, 2020 EX84 Identifying colour palettes
- Sep 11, 2020 EX85 The Three Colour Rule
- Sep 18, 2020 EX86 Just Two Colours
- Sep 27, 2020 EX87 Emotional Colours
- Oct 2, 2020 EX88 Continuation
- Oct 9, 2020 EX89 Closure with circles and ovals
- Oct 16, 2020 EX90 Symmetry
- Oct 25, 2020 EX91 Time as a compositional element
- Oct 30, 2020 EX92 Balance
- Nov 6, 2020 EX93 Focus on where you Focus
- Nov 13, 2020 EX94 Processing for congruence
- Nov 20, 2020 EX95 Coversations
- Nov 27, 2020 EX96 The Edges are always important
- Dec 4, 2020 EX97 Patterns
- Dec 11, 2020 EX98 Vantage Points
- Dec 18, 2020 EX99 Moving the point of focus
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weekly exercises 2
- Dec 25, 2020 EX100 Five Diptych's if you dare
- Feb 3, 2021 EX 101 What does photography teach you?
- Feb 9, 2021 EX102 Seeing Differently
- Feb 16, 2021 EX103 Multiple Exposures
- Mar 2, 2021 EX104 Influential Artists
- Mar 9, 2021 EX105 Celebrating our influences
- Mar 16, 2021 EX106 Creative Constraints
- Mar 23, 2021 EX107 Soft Light Hard Light
- Mar 30, 2021 EX108 Soft Light Hard Light - Going further
- Apr 13, 2021 EX109 Following your intuition
- Apr 20, 2021 EX110 Limiting beliefs
- Apr 27, 2021 EX111 Fishing
- May 11, 2021 EX112 False Colour
- May 18, 2021 EX113 Abstracting Colour - Intentional Colour Shifts and False Colours
- Jun 8, 2021 EX114 Letting go of perfection
- Jun 15, 2021 EX115 Your artistic voice
- Jun 29, 2021 EX116 Three types of photograph
- Jul 6, 2021 EX117 Contemplate Colour
- Jul 20, 2021 EX118 Contemplate Space
- Jul 27, 2021 EX119 Dreamscapes
- Aug 3, 2021 EX120 Contrast
- Aug 11, 2021 EX121 DADA inspired randomness
- Aug 17, 2021 EX122 Surrealism - Bringing unrelated objects together
- Sep 8, 2021 EX124 Photographs and Captions
- Sep 14, 2021 EX125 Floral Project
- Oct 5, 2021 EX126 Questions and Answers
- Oct 12, 2021 EX127 Weston inspired
- Oct 19, 2021 EX128 How close can you go?
- Oct 26, 2021 EX129 Imogen Cunningham inspired
- Nov 4, 2021 EX130 Localised adjustments
- Nov 9, 2021 EX131 processing variations
- Nov 16, 2021 EX 132 Inspired by words
- Nov 23, 2021 EX133 Processing variations
- Dec 1, 2021 EX134 From one comes many
- Dec 9, 2021 EX135 Themes and Variations
- Feb 2, 2022 EX136 including the self
- Feb 15, 2022 EX137 Mirrors and Windows
- Feb 22, 2022 EX138 Art is a Mirror
- Mar 1, 2022 EX139 Including artworks in your photography
- Mar 8, 2022 EX140 Simulating photographic techniques
- Mar 22, 2022 EX141 Teach a processing technique
- Mar 29, 2022 EX142 David Hockney colours
- Apr 6, 2022 EX143 I speak for...
- Apr 12, 2022 EX144 I would like to explore...
- May 11, 2022 EX145 Photographing to a beat
- May 17, 2022 EX146 Joiners
- May 24, 2022 EX147 Joiners - unrestricted
- May 31, 2022 EX148 Joiners with real prints
- Jun 7, 2022 EX149, EX150 & EX151 Collage
- Jun 29, 2022 EX152 To see things new
- Jul 12, 2022 EX153 Exploring more in the everyday
- Aug 2, 2022 EX154 Observation Skill Development
- Aug 9, 2022 EX155 A project inspired by our own words
- Aug 30, 2022 EX156 The Dot
- Sep 6, 2022 EX157 Ish
- Sep 20, 2022 EX159 Reflections
- Sep 27, 2022 EX160 a reflection mini project
- Oct 11, 2022 EX161 Contrasts
- Nov 29, 2022 EX162 Monochrome Processing
- Dec 10, 2022 EX163 Monochrome processing part 2
- Dec 15, 2022 EX164 The Diptych Project
- Feb 21, 2023 EX165 Intentional Over Exposure
- Feb 28, 2023 EX166 Are blacks needed in high key artworks
- Mar 7, 2023 EX167 Selectively adding highlights and whites to a low key image
- Mar 14, 2023 EX168 High Key | Low Key
- Mar 29, 2023 EX 169 portrait or landscape orientation
- Apr 11, 2023 EX171 New split tone combinations
- Apr 18, 2023 EX172 Auditioning
- May 9, 2023 EX173 Laying out diptychs
- May 17, 2023 EX174 Adding words to diptychs
- May 30, 2023 EX175 Make a poster or book cover using two fonts
- Jun 6, 2023 EX176 Multiple Exposures with Blend Modes
- Jun 13, 2023 EX177 Blending Photographs
- Jun 27, 2023 EX178 Multiples, diptychs and more
- Jul 4, 2023 EX179 Project planning
