This will be our second Challenge night of the year where our members get to test their creative skills in a new direction.

This challenge is not strictly a “scavenger hunt” in its truest sense and you can stage your shots as well as taking more observational ones. Members are encouraged to think beyond the record shot and what techniques or processing they can use to lend creativity to their images?

Select up to five prompts from the list below and submit images for comment (prints or digitals). Digitals will be due by Tuesday evening, 31 May and should include the prompt along with your own name in the filename. You can submit up to 5 images in total, they can be 5 images on the one theme or a mixture of themes to make up the 5 submissions. Get thinking and show us your creative skills! You can also download a PDF of this list by clicking HERE…

Bokeh – create an image that uses bokeh as a primary compositional tool.

Low Light – create an image in low lighting conditions that emphasises the use of light and direction as a primary aspect of the composition.

Movement – create an image that uses movement – either intentional camera movement or a moving subject as the primary compositional tool.  The image should give a strong sense of movement or motion.

Architecture – create an image that highlights an unusual or striking aspect of a piece of architecture.

Selective focus – use selective focus to draw attention to the primary piece of subject matter in your image.

Negative space – create a photo that uses negative space as a strong compositional element.

Shadows – create an image that uses shadows as the primary part of the composition.

Primary colour – create an image that uses a primary colour (Red, blue or green) as the primary compositional tool.

Emotion – create an image that implies an emotional state by the use of composition, lighting and subject matter.  It is expected that images would NOT be in the form of portraits – we want some imagination put in to implying an emotional state.

Reflections – create an image that uses reflections (water, mirrors, glass etc) as the primary compositional tool.