Explaining the Prompts
Each month is broken into 4 weekly themes: Picture Life, Picture Basic, Picture Color, and Picture Style. These are meant to fuel your imagination, keep you engaged, and challenge your creativity. They give you the opportunity to see the same things in different ways.
PICTURE LIFE
Picture Life is where you will be challenged to chronicle your life. Each Picture Life week will have a theme that will give us a glimpse into your day-to-day life. This is where we all will have the opportunity to get to know one another a little more. We encourage you to show us all aspects of your life, including your beautiful self! In Picture Life week there will be a Where I Stand prompt coupled with a time of day prompt. Here we encourage you once a month to show us what you are doing at a certain time of the day by showing us where you are standing.
PICTURE BASIC
Let’s get technical! This will challenge your creativity with a technical agenda. In these weeks of your year, you will look at leading lines, flat lays, lights, and shadows, (to name a few!). Don’t be shy to ask for clarification, camera settings, or any tips and tricks. We aren’t magicians here, we share our secrets!
PICTURE COLOR
We will focus on a specific color chosen by the Creative Team for these weeks. This year our colour choices will be a little beyond just the basics. You can include a little of the color, go completely monochrome, or anything in between. You will likely find that this is one of your favourite weeks.
PICTURE STYLE
Lifestyle, architecture, landscape, sports, and golden hour, are just some of the styles you will be encouraged to play around with to try out something new. Some of these might be a little out of your comfort zone. Our hope is that by the end of the week, you may have discovered something you love. You might find style in your original photo or add some style in post-processing.
EXTRA CHALLENGES
Along the way, you’ll notice a few added monthly challenges sprinkled in to give you extra inspiration.
Macro Monday
For this prompt, we encourage you to get in close. Grab your macro lens and macro filters or just crop your photo in post-processing. This is where we can focus on the little details.
Scavenger Hunt
A quarterly challenge where instead of one prompt, you have 4 . Take the 4 photos and make a collage. Make it work for you and your day.
Picture My World
This is a quarterly challenge. We are hoping you can return to the same spot 4 times on these days to document the changing seasons in your world or in your life.
Extra Seasonal Challenge
We are introducing something new this year…. Seasonal challenges. Seasonal challenges are extra technical challenges to help you learn or practice technical skills. The challenge is separate from daily prompts and is there to give you that extra boost if you want to take it on. The extra challenge will occur 4 times a year and will come with technical instruction. Once the challenge is offered, you will have a week to think about it, practice, and then take and post your image.
