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Weekly theme ideas thread

I'm out of ideas. Just post your ideas in the comments below. Before you post, please take a look at the list below to check if your idea is not a duplicate:

Thank you!

  • Abandoned
  • Alleys
  • Architecture
  • Autumn
  • Beer
  • Birds
  • Black & White
  • Bokeh
  • Books
  • Breakfast
  • Bridges
  • Calm
  • Candid portraits
  • Candlelight
  • Candy
  • Cars
  • Cats
  • Chaos
  • Christmas
  • City lights
  • Coffee
  • Colors
  • Cooking
  • Darkness
  • Destruction
  • Details
  • Dogs
  • Door
  • Doubles
  • Drinks
  • Easter
  • Easter eggs
  • Edges
  • Eyes
  • Family
  • Feet
  • Flags
  • Forest
  • Freedom
  • Friendship
  • Gear
  • Golden Hour
  • Good morning!
  • Gradients
  • Halloween
  • Handcraft
  • Hobbies
  • Hygge
  • Interiors
  • I see faces
  • Knolling
  • Landmarks
  • Layers
  • Light
  • Look down
  • Look up!
  • Love
  • Low angle
  • Machines
  • Macro
  • Magic
  • Man's best friend
  • Metal
  • Minimalism
  • Movement
  • Music
  • New year
  • Night
  • Numbers
  • Out of focus
  • Overhead
  • Patterns
  • Portraits
  • Public transport
  • Rain
  • Red
  • Reflections
  • Refreshing
  • Retro
  • Retro cars
  • Roads
  • Roofs
  • Round
  • Selfie
  • Shadows
  • Signs
  • Silhouettes
  • Sky
  • Smell
  • Smoke
  • Snow
  • Space
  • Spring
  • Staircase
  • Still Life
  • Strangers
  • Street art
  • Stripes
  • Summer
  • Symmetry
  • Tech
  • Three of a kind
  • Time
  • Tookapic
  • Toys
  • Trains
  • T-shirts
  • Urban Typography
  • Vans
  • Water
  • Weird
  • Windows
  • Women
  • Work
  • Workspaces
  • Yuletide
96 comments

Artur Łobocki -Green
-Street photography
-Fashion
-Look
-Moments
-Hands

Gogi Golzman movement
nightlife
culture

Artur Łobocki "Movement" was already in Aug 2015

Gogi Golzman and what about culture ? =]

120mr - rhythm
- white
- weather
- four elements
- squares

Rafał Bolko - simplicity
- geometry
- plants
- mood
- refraction
- painted

czari - trees,
- sun/moon,
- airships,
- boats,
- regional,
- crowd,
- traffic,
- blue hour,

agnieszka bladzik food, diner, desserts, structure, anger, smile, crazy, movies

Rafael - Abstract,
- Geometric,
- Lines,
- Unexpected Beauty,
- Old Meets New,
- Travel,
- Landscapes,
- Nature,
- Long Exposure,
- Multiple Exposures,
- Street Pets,
- Storytelling,
- Sports,

agnieszka bladzik storytelling sounds exciting :D

Jennifer Storytelling could be a special theme where people can try to tell a story in several entered pictures throughout the week!!!

Nyna This sounds awesome! I'm in! :-)

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Rafał Bolko Do tego WTF dodałbym jescze LOL :)

Kazzi First weekly theme I saw was "strange" and I fell in love with it. I'd love to see something in that direction :)

Hanna Gawrychowska - drops,
- web/spiderweb
- insects
- sunrise/sunset
- moments
- rivers/lakes/sea
- events

Magda Korzewska - sport
- bike
- religion
- up side down
- movie frame
- mirror
- yellow
- jump
- fruits and veggies
- business/office
- weather
- summer vibes
- shoes
- make-up
- body part
- tatoo

Jakub Bobrowski maps, trip, exploration,
glass, cup,
warm, cold, heat...

Aga Ka coffee, bicycles, green, silence,

Satoshi T Woman's best friend, cosmetics, hairstyles,high-heels,handbags,jewelies,stockings,mannequines,cookies,sweets

Kazzi Really femine ideas, at last the first ones ;) Satoshi, are You a feminist? <3

vera I would say "men" :-)

Rafal horses, insects, energy, electricity,

Katrina Yu -frame within a frame
-tiny stories/moments
-translucent
-softness
-habits
-close
-faceless portrait
-cinematic
-horror
-in between
-metaphors
-negative space

Nilson Menezes Dutch angle
Fridges
Vanishing point
Underwater
Dashboard
Swimmers
Solitude
Eyeglasses
Chiaroscuro
Homelessness

Paweł Kadysz Dutch angle could be interesting.

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Kazzi Forbidden.

Kazzi Forbidden. Zakazane, zabronione, zakaz wstępu.

Kazzi A cokolwiek. Budynki do rozbiórki, zamknięte miejsca, bariery pod Sejmem.

Hanna Gawrychowska Y..hymmm... 😉

vera So many good ideas!👍🏻

Bomba Addiction

Scars

Conversation

Reverse

Finances

Texture

Foundations

Fear

Wild animals

Clubs/Pubs

Column

Cleanliness

Dirt

Treasure

Competition

Fight

Sounds(except music)

Dreaming

Wall

Rats' race

noun Waw, so many ideas!
I was thinking about .
Photos
White
Skyline
Horizontal
Vertical
Sand

Marcin K. wood
devices
stores
ground

Darek up side down
insects
waterdrops
RGB or Basic Colors

Nilson Menezes Rule-of-Thirds
Golden-ratio

Marta Nowakowicz-Jankowiak - Pin up
- Pawn (PL - pionek)
- King
- Proud
- Newspaper

marek Great ideas!
Below some of my suggestions on the topic of the week:

- asymetry
- collage
- flow
- fragmet
- games
- herbs
- joy
- medical
- most wanted
- my-city
- my-country
- negative (photography)
- one-two-three
- old-fashioned
- triangle

Ross - History/Historic
- Bygone Era
- Yesteryear
- The Past

Magda Korzewska some more: Illusion photography, tiny people, monument, water feature

jazzie Since I think a lot about how much to postprocess pictures and often ask myself how others are handling postprocessing:
- unprocessed
- before / after (composites, one half 'original' and one half 'processed as you usually would')

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Kazzi @jazzie You might even write a quick tutorial about how to do it in PS - I know it's easy to find on YT, but I personally hate learning from videos, definitely prefer the reading option :)

Satoshi T Yes, I also want to know how create impressive pic by other members.

jazzie Who, me? 😳😄 I always feel like many others work far more professional... But of course if anybody is interested I'd share my 'secrets' with you! I use Lightroom for 99% of postprocessing. PS is used for composites and retouching that's too difficult for LR.

Nilson Menezes My opinion is that weekly theme should be very objective one. This week weekly theme - elegance - is subjective and cultural point of view.

Paweł Kadysz Post whatever is considered elegant in your culture.

AP Darth Numbers:
Monday: 1
Tuesday: 2
Wednesday: 3
Thursday: 4
Friday: 5
Saturday:6
Sunday: 7

ponzu Wow, nice thread. I have been here for 10 photos (according to the badge I received), but have not found a chance to follow the weekly theme. For me, coming up with _a_ photo, any photo, can be a challenge. But I like the idea of a theme and would like to follow it more.

ponzu Is the checklist at the top being updated? Is it the list of all past themes, or just a list of @Paweł ideas that he chose to indent with checkmarks rather than bullets?

"Sports" was last week's theme and I don't see it listed.

"Food" is this week's, so probably should also be checked off.

Marcin K. I am afraid, that it is for July the ~~21st, 2017~~.

Edit: "Summer Vibes" is not there, but "Vans" is there.

Magda Korzewska Ponzu top list refers to past Weekly themes (posted a couple weeks ago). As far as I remember there is no possibility to edit talk, so this is the reason it is not updated for last Weekly themes as sport, elegance etc. Try to post at least one photo for WT, it help a lot to find idea for daily pic.

ponzu I don't think lack of ideas is my problem. I wake up, walk the dog, drive, sit at work, work out at the gym, eat, work some more, and drive back home, all the while thinking of what and how I would photograph. I am still thinking about it as I help with homework, eat, and walk the dog in the evening.

Tiljans hands, eyes, moustaches, beards, laughs..

wkaleniecki forgotten, vibration, pulse

Ewa Kudlaty - half
- two tones/colors
- monochrome
- alone
-succulents
- centered

ponzu I like "Centered". We are being told every day to avoid centered composition, but sometimes it just works "Golden hour II" I would be interested in exploring what subjects specifically benefit from the "bullseye" composition.

Anne -aliens
-ghost
-spark
-contrast
-favourite things
-soft

Arkadiusz Bała - technology

eventide - Gems
- Masks
- Jewellery

viola Blue hour?

Kazzi how about .JPG week, with absolutely no photoshop, lightroom, presets, just JPG straight from the camera? :P

Daniel Borth good idea :)

Ian Prince Aha, now that could be very interesting !

Gosia Awesome idea!

Paweł Kadysz Ok, cool. No I need to find some examples. And I have no idea how to recognize SOOC photo :P

agnieszka bladzik yes that was my thought that it would be pretty hard to recognized if the photo was not manipulated

Magda Korzewska Yes this might be tricky. I tag my last 2 SOOC, but this is nothing interesting to be shown as example.

Urszula Stachowicz Oh my, that would be sooo challenging. :D

Kazzi Let's just trust the users, won't You? We do it for ourselves, and the worst lie is to lie to yourself...

Kazzi yep. It would be a catastrophe for some... ;)

Magda Korzewska Absolutely true. I think it is not Paweł concern if we cheat ourself but to find SOOC photo to give an example, am I right?

Paweł Kadysz Exactly what I mean. The 4 example photos you see in the weekly theme description.

Karolina Oksiędzka death
life
obstacle
sparkle
shimmer
happiness
exam
nude
accident

Mikołaj Science

makebate - vintage vibes
- elements
- nightlife
- leisure
-oldies but goldies
- mystery
- dance
- moments in frenetic life
- history
- trip/ voyage/ journey
- intimacy

Nyna And one from me: tattoos!

Kazzi yeah!

Paweł Kadysz Ok, I need inspiration again. We had 147 weekly themes already and it's now really difficult to think of something new without being very very specific (Photos of male siamese cats mid air, but only during the golden hour).

Magda Korzewska Just a few from me - up side down, no face portrait, illusion photography, mirror, traffic, tatoo, body part.

vera From me too... in the air - perspective - men - open - smiling - reflection ...

120mr I say rhythm once again ;) It's a vast theme.

Shawn Lately, in my area, I have been noticing small outbuildings like sheds, like tool sheds, garden sheds, & garages. I like older ones with some character rather than prefabricated ones from the lumber store. I plan on doing an album of them, but I would love seeing this as a theme.

Another thing I notice is that small family owned stores and businesses are fewer as "big box" stores take over. I like small business storefronts and I like the idea of documenting these places before they go away.

So,
Outbuildings
Storefronts
Insects

Monika Fabcia -Painted
-Home
-Window
-Low Key
-My shoes
-Orange

Anne - Play
- Words
- Square
- Children
- Body
- Dreams

Damian Cichy Maybe smartphone photos week, with no raw, expensive lenses and cameras. Only you and your phone.

tania and no post-treatment..... good idea @Damian !

Joe Fortin Unedited / Right out of the Camera

Ginger Science
Maths
Physics
CHEMISTRY
Biologia
Etc

wkaleniecki Inverted

makebate vintage vibes

oldies goldies

delicacy

Lido adolescence

Daniel Zaleski I really like this week's theme (Temples) as I planned last week a photo-serie of the local churches, temples and chaples in the city I started to work in recently. Both interiors and exteriors, new and old, in good state and ramshackle.
As a thanks and my contribution, here are my suggested themes (I went throught the list of the themes and tried to check using search tool, but most likely I will duplicate some ideas):

Easier themes:
- Graveyard
- Hangover
- Energy
- Fatigue
- Ugly
- Plastic world
- Portrait without eyes
- Paradox / Contradiction

More challenging themes:
- Social differences
- Flash in the darkness
- 5 seconds
- (City) Night visions