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
- 3 Jan 2019 Camera Cuddle
- 13 Jan 2019 In the style of....
- 20 Jan 2019 Dutch Angle
- 27 Jan 2019 Photographs are everywhere
- 3 Feb 2019 Exploring the tipping point
- 10 Feb 2019 How still can you hand hold your camera?
- 17 Feb 2019 EX7 Two Up
- 24 Feb 2019 EX8 Depth of Field
- 3 Mar 2019 EX9 Analise your favourite photographs
- 10 Mar 2019 EX10 Four different quadrants or four different corners
- 17 Mar 2019 EX11 Blue
- 24 Mar 2019 EX12 Dominant Mass
- 31 Mar 2019 EX13 What do you love?
- 7 Apr 2019 EX14 The Point of Power
- 14 Apr 2019 EX15 What is your sharpest lens and aperture combination?
- 22 Apr 2019 EX16 A full range of tones
- 28 Apr 2019 EX17 Defocus the backgrounds
- 5 May 2019 EX18 Analagous Colours
- 12 May 2019 EX19 Out of Focus
- 19 May 2019 EX20 Odd numbers verse even numbers
- 26 May 2019 EX21 Limit your focal length
- 2 June 2019 EX22 Blue and Yellow
- 9 June 2019 EX23 Talking about art
- 17 June 2019 EX24 Triangles
- 24 June 2019 EX25 Manual
- 30 June 2019 EX26 Seeking Critiques
- 7 July 2019 EX27 Calming horizontals
- 14 July 2019 EX28 Emotional Colours
- 22 July 2019 EX29 Chiaroscuro
- 30 July 2019 EX30 Self Portrait
- 4 Aug 2019 EX31 Ten Seconds as a restriction
- 11 Aug 2019 EX32 High Key
- 18 Aug 2019 EX33 Low Key
- 25 Aug 2019 EX34 Time to mature
- 1 Sept 2019 EX35 Warm or Cool
- 8 Sept 2019 EX36 Breaking the rules
- 15 Sept 2019 EX37 Depth Captivates
- 23 Sept 2019 EX38 Titles and Captions
- 29 Sept 2019 EX39 Circles
- 6 Oct 2019 EX40 Yellow
- 13 Oct 2019 EX41 Shoot from the hip
- 20 Oct 2019 EX42 Think like a film photographer.
- 27 Oct 2019 EX43 Blue and Red
- 3 Nov 2019 EX44 The power of the center
- 10 Nov 2019 EX45 Paper
- 17 Nov 2019 EX46 Blacker than black
- 24 Nov 2019 EX47 Multiple Exposures
- 1 Dec 2019 EX48 Panning
- 7 Dec 2019 EX49 Three Up
- 15 Dec 2019 EX50 Green and Red
- 22 Dec 2019 EX51 Get it right in camera
- 28 Dec 2019 EX52 A Project of Nine in January 2020
- 2 Feb 2020 EX53 Colour Balance
- 9 Feb 2020 EX54 Crop someone else's photographs...
- 16 Feb 2020 EX55 Soft Light - Hard Light
- 23 Feb 2020 EX56 Reflections
- 29 Feb 2020 EX57 Left and right bias
- 8 Mar 2020 EX58 Diagonals
- 15 Mar 2020 EX59 Dynamic Range
- 22 Mar 2020 EX60 Just start
- 28 Mar 2020 EX61 Recreate the art of another
- 4 Apr 2020 EX62 Having your work processed by another
- 11 Apr 2020 EX63 Leading Lines
- 18 Apr 2020 EX64 Painterly
- 25 Apr 2020 EX64 Wabi Sabi
- 2 May 2020 EX65 Diptych
- 9 May 2020 EX66 Talking about the Elements of Composition
- 16 May 2020 EX67 Emotional Halves
- 23 May 2020 EX68 Centring
- 30 May 2020 EX69 Artists Statment
- 6 June 2020 EX70 Centre of Interest and the Greatest Tonal Contrast Focal Point
- 13 June 2020 EX71 Describing form with tone
- 19 June 2020 EX72 Atomospheric Perspective
- 27 June 2020 EX72 Composing Negative Space
- 3 July 2020 EX73 The Perfect Aspect Ratio
- 10 July 2020 EX74 Divine Proportions
- 17 July 2020 EX75 Proximity and Similarity
- 24 July 2020 EX76 Minimalism
- 31 July 2020 EX77 Improving your backgrounds
- 7 Aug 2020 EX78 Seeing and composing the highlights
- 14 Aug 2020 EX79 Blocking in the Shadows
- 21 Aug 2020 EX 80 Whites and Highlights
- 28 Aug 2020 EX83 Repetitions
- 4 Sept 2020 EX84 Identifying colour palettes
- 11 Sept 2020 EX85 The Three Colour Rule
- 18 Sept 2020 EX86 Just Two Colours
- 27 Sept 2020 EX87 Emotional Colours
- 2 Oct 2020 EX88 Continuation
- 9 Oct 2020 EX89 Closure with circles and ovals
- 16 Oct 2020 EX90 Symmetry
- 25 Oct 2020 EX91 Time as a compositional element
- 30 Oct 2020 EX92 Balance
- 6 Nov 2020 EX93 Focus on where you Focus
- 13 Nov 2020 EX94 Processing for congruence
- 20 Nov 2020 EX95 Coversations
- 27 Nov 2020 EX96 The Edges are always important
- 4 Dec 2020 EX97 Patterns
- 11 Dec 2020 EX98 Vantage Points
- 18 Dec 2020 EX99 Moving the point of focus
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weekly exercises 2
- 25 Dec 2020 EX100 Five Diptych's if you dare
- 3 Feb 2021 EX 101 What does photography teach you?
- 9 Feb 2021 EX102 Seeing Differently
- 16 Feb 2021 EX103 Multiple Exposures
- 2 Mar 2021 EX104 Influential Artists
- 9 Mar 2021 EX105 Celebrating our influences
- 16 Mar 2021 EX106 Creative Constraints
- 23 Mar 2021 EX107 Soft Light Hard Light
- 30 Mar 2021 EX108 Soft Light Hard Light - Going further
- 13 Apr 2021 EX109 Following your intuition
- 20 Apr 2021 EX110 Limiting beliefs
- 27 Apr 2021 EX111 Fishing
- 11 May 2021 EX112 False Colour
- 18 May 2021 EX113 Abstracting Colour - Intentional Colour Shifts and False Colours
- 8 June 2021 EX114 Letting go of perfection
- 15 June 2021 EX115 Your artistic voice
- 29 June 2021 EX116 Three types of photograph
- 6 July 2021 EX117 Contemplate Colour
- 20 July 2021 EX118 Contemplate Space
- 27 July 2021 EX119 Dreamscapes
- 3 Aug 2021 EX120 Contrast
- 11 Aug 2021 EX121 DADA inspired randomness
- 17 Aug 2021 EX122 Surrealism - Bringing unrelated objects together
- 8 Sept 2021 EX124 Photographs and Captions
- 14 Sept 2021 EX125 Floral Project
- 5 Oct 2021 EX126 Questions and Answers
- 12 Oct 2021 EX127 Weston inspired
- 19 Oct 2021 EX128 How close can you go?
- 26 Oct 2021 EX129 Imogen Cunningham inspired
- 4 Nov 2021 EX130 Localised adjustments
- 9 Nov 2021 EX131 processing variations
- 16 Nov 2021 EX 132 Inspired by words
- 23 Nov 2021 EX133 Processing variations
- 1 Dec 2021 EX134 From one comes many
- 9 Dec 2021 EX135 Themes and Variations
- 2 Feb 2022 EX136 including the self
- 15 Feb 2022 EX137 Mirrors and Windows
- 22 Feb 2022 EX138 Art is a Mirror
- 1 Mar 2022 EX139 Including artworks in your photography
- 8 Mar 2022 EX140 Simulating photographic techniques
- 22 Mar 2022 EX141 Teach a processing technique
- 29 Mar 2022 EX142 David Hockney colours
- 6 Apr 2022 EX143 I speak for...
- 12 Apr 2022 EX144 I would like to explore...
- 11 May 2022 EX145 Photographing to a beat
- 17 May 2022 EX146 Joiners
- 24 May 2022 EX147 Joiners - unrestricted
- 31 May 2022 EX148 Joiners with real prints
- 7 June 2022 EX149, EX150 & EX151 Collage
- 29 June 2022 EX152 To see things new
- 12 July 2022 EX153 Exploring more in the everyday
- 2 Aug 2022 EX154 Observation Skill Development
- 9 Aug 2022 EX155 A project inspired by our own words
- 30 Aug 2022 EX156 The Dot
- 6 Sept 2022 EX157 Ish
- 20 Sept 2022 EX159 Reflections
- 27 Sept 2022 EX160 a reflection mini project
- 11 Oct 2022 EX161 Contrasts
- 29 Nov 2022 EX162 Monochrome Processing
- 10 Dec 2022 EX163 Monochrome processing part 2
- 15 Dec 2022 EX164 The Diptych Project
- 21 Feb 2023 EX165 Intentional Over Exposure
- 28 Feb 2023 EX166 Are blacks needed in high key artworks
- 7 Mar 2023 EX167 Selectively adding highlights and whites to a low key image
- 14 Mar 2023 EX168 High Key | Low Key
- 29 Mar 2023 EX 169 portrait or landscape orientation
- 11 Apr 2023 EX171 New split tone combinations
- 18 Apr 2023 EX172 Auditioning
- 9 May 2023 EX173 Laying out diptychs
- 17 May 2023 EX174 Adding words to diptychs
- 30 May 2023 EX175 Make a poster or book cover using two fonts
- 6 June 2023 EX176 Multiple Exposures with Blend Modes
- 13 June 2023 EX177 Blending Photographs
- 27 June 2023 EX178 Multiples, diptychs and more
- 4 July 2023 EX179 Project planning
