Task

Complete the 30 day art challenge, taking a different photo per theme each day. Yes, you can attempt multiple photos on a single day.

Purpose

A 30 Day Art Challenge covers TONS of ground, and has so many subjects that it’ll do wonders to your autodidactic learning skills (googling your own answers.) A former student did this for her final project, and I was so amazed at the results and her growth that I thought it should be an official project.  

Criteria for Success

Your photos don’t NEED to be taken once per day. For instance, a walk around Seattle might let you get a photo for Architecture, Self Portrait, Street Photography, and Motion Blur in one day. Heck, why not panic and do all 30 themes on the night before it’s due? However, they should all be distinct; don’t turn in 4 nearly identical photos for a hard light sunset symmetrical street and expect us not to notice.  

Your Lightroom Catalog should provide everything we need to view all your photos (save 4 star ratings for what you turn in) and understand what the theme of the day is (keywords, name, etc). I would recommend a naming convention of Project2_30DayChallenge_day1_Cats.  

These themes were taken from several disparate 30 Day challenges. You can mix and match til you hit 30.  Several have been omitted because we cover them later in the course.


  1. Inside your House
  2. Self Portrait
  3. Freebie
  4. Hard Light
  5. Soft Light
  6. Movement and Action
  7. Recreate a favorite painting or photo
  8. An Emotion
  9. Other person’s Portrait
  10. Reflections
  11. Macro
  12. Street
  13. Product
  14. Wildlife
  15. Artificial light
  16. Fire
  17. Backlighting
  18. Odd number of Subjects
  19. Meme
  20. Steam, Smoke, Fog
  21. Symmetry
  22. Isolated movement with motion blur
  23. Cyberpunk
  24. Forced Perspective
  25. 1 point perspective
  26. 2 point perspective
  27. Rule of Thirds
  28. Black & White
  29. Texture
  30. High Angle
  31. Low Angle
  32. Silhouette
  33. Sunset
  34. Sunrise
  35. Golden Hour
  36. Blue Hour
  37. Bokeh blur
  38. Lens Flare
  39. Landscape
  40. Dynamic Tension
  41. Light Painting
  42. Water Droplets
  43. Unbalanced
  44. Frame within a Frame
  45. Depth of Field
  46. Water Splash
  47. Slow Sync Flash
  48. Panning
  49. Harris Shutter
  50. Shallow DoF
  51. Deep DoF
  52. Hidden Camera Mirror Photo
  53. Red
  54. Orange
  55. Yellow
  56. Green
  57. Blue
  58. Indigo
  59. Violet
  60. Complimentary Colors
  61. Fashion
  62. Cold
  63. Crowd
  64. Accidental Renaissance
  65. Nature
  66. Shadow
  67. Raking Shadows
  68. Stock Photography
  69. High key
  70. Low Key
  71. High Contrast
  72. Low Contrast
  73. Numbers
  74. Typography
  75. Motion Blur
  76. Sandwich Bag Portraits
  77. Underexposed
  78. Overexposed

Rubric

100 points total.
  • 3 points per photo
  • 10 points for having a clean lightroom catalog.

Knowledge and Skills

Example Project

In the Files section, check out 30daychallenge_resler.pdf. $CANVAS_COURSE_REFERENCE$/files?preview=110824768&sort=created_at&order=desc

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