One Day, One Picture

Participating in online photography assignments is a great motivator for getting you out there in the field with your camera. You can choose how active you want to be by shooting for weekly, bi-weekly or even monthly assignments held in various forums, including Flickr and Digital Photography School just to name a few. I even host a monthly contest through my blog at Picture Your World Photography to challenge my readers to “Get Out There!” and shoot regularly.

I love this concept because you will often find yourself shooting things you might not have noticed before as you try to interpret a given theme. You see things in a new light and you challenge not only your own creativity, but the ability of the viewer to see things the way you see them, too.

I took this shot of an outhouse in Pine Junction, Colorado, for my blog’s August assignment: Rural Architecture. I changed the color image to a sepia tone and completed some contrast and tonal adjustments. I used controls in the Lens Vignetting section of the Lens Correction tab in Camera Raw CS3 to create the white vignette. Increase amount to lighten the corners, or decrease amount to darken them. Decrease midpoint to apply the adjustment to a larger area away from the corners, or increase midpoint to restrict the adjustment to an area closer to the corners.