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Photography Challenges

Photography challenges are a great way to improve your photography. Think you need to buy a new camera or the latest gadget to improve your photography? Think again.

5 day photography challenge

The photography challenges you'll find on this page include monthly, seasonal, 52 week projects and are perfect for beginners to practice and perfect your photography with a solid structure for inspiration and motivation.

These challenges offer you expert advice, tricks of the trade, and suggested starting points to get your creative juices flowing.

What can you expect from these photography challenges:

  • Shooting and non-shooting challenges.
  • Get my top tips for success.
  • Exercises that will push you through your sticking points.
  • Discover ways to look at everything differently.
  • Your creativity will be expanded.
  • You will learn to take more interesting photos.

A few of our most popular challenges

  • Hidden Treasures challenge
  • Use Your Camera Daily
  • Shoot at 100 Paces challenge
  • Limit Yourself to One Lens challenge
  • Shoot Wide Open challenge
  • Shoot in Monochrome, Learn to See Light challenge
  • Long Exposure photography challenge

The best way to improve your photography is by challenging yourself and by being consistent with your practice so you can really cement your learning. These challenges are designed to guide you to see the world a little differently and bring out your creativity while pushing you to edge outside your comfort zone at the same time.

5-Day Photography Challenge: join our photo editing photography challenge and sharpen your editing skills. All RAW files provided, as well as practice images to work with for texture overlays and sky replacement challenges.

Are you ready to start challenging yourself? Take a read of the top challenges below to get going.

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Photo Editing Challenge Day 3 – Getting Creative with Luminar AI

by Darlene Hildebrandt | Last Updated: January 5, 2022

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In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to use the creative tools in Luminar AI to add style and mood to your images.

Photo Editing Challenge Day 2 – Contrast and Tone Control

by Darlene Hildebrandt | Last Updated: January 15, 2022

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In this tutorial, you’ll learn what tools to use to adjust the contrast, do tone control, and add sharpness with Luminar AI.

Photo Editing Challenge Day 1 – Quick Edits with Luminar AI

by Darlene Hildebrandt | Last Updated: January 5, 2022

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Day #1 of our new photo editing challenge! In this first tutorial, you’ll learn how to process your images in under three minutes with Luminar AI.

Holiday Photography Challenge #2 – Traditions

by Darlene Hildebrandt | Last Updated: December 23, 2020

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The holiday season is upon us so we’re going to take advantage of that in a photography challenge to photograph your holiday traditions!

Holiday Photography Challenge #1 – Twinkle Twinkle Little Lights

by Darlene Hildebrandt | Last Updated: December 23, 2020

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Introducing our new series of photography challenges around a holiday theme! This week it’s all about twinkle and bright lights.

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Yes, you can learn to take better photos! It’s my passion to help you learn the photography basics and take better pictures. It’s also the same reason I teach workshops, do photo travel tours, and have online photography courses available.

Enroll in our free photography basics for beginners course, or 12-part portrait photography course, also free.

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