A list of fun, hands-on photography exercises to help you get out of a creative rut. It includes simple challenges like using just one lens, sticking to one location, or limiting your shots. You’ll also find open-ended prompts like photographing reflections, textures, or shapes. It’s all about slowing down, seeing differently, and building your skills one photo at a time.

As photographers, we have a lot of tools available to us: compositional rules, lighting knowledge, the exposure triangle, and so on. Color is just another one of those tools. While it can be an intimidating element to a photographer, color can help solidify a voice. Knowing and understanding color theory - the way painters, designers, and artists of all trades do - a photographer can utilize color to their benefit.

There are many visual tools in your artist’s toolbox which help create more striking visual narrative. One such toolset includes so called “compositional rules.”