Well 2025 is almost over (good riddance) and 2026 is almost here. So it’s time to start working out a 2026 shot list!

So I’m part of a few camera clubs in the Detroit area and Eastside Camera Club publishes their monthly challenges a year in advance – so that gives me time to plan out a 2026 shot list.

I want to focus on portraits with these shots, so if you want to see yourself in one then… CLICK

January – Trains, Trams, Busses.

• So near the Shelby Twp municipal offices there’s an old steam engine. Could be a cool spot for a shoot.
• Bus stop grafitti
• Person waiting at the bus stop
• A shot of a bus parked at a stop taken from across the street

Initial of Last Name (So “R” in this case). I’m thinking a portrait focusing on one of these:

• Reading
• Red
• Rage
• Revenge
• Renaissance
• Reed (A self portrait)
• Rain
• Regret
• Romance

Macro

• Macro is not really my thing so I’m struggling to see how to make this a portrait
• Probably shoot some lego’s

“Throwback to years ago” (which I gather to mean something old).

• Thinking a portrait – left side is younger picture, right side is an current picture of the subject
• Same thing as above, but for a car

Music/Singing

• Street performer
• Posing with guitar

Head Stones

• Possibly a cemetery shoot?
• Headshot of a person photoshopped to show them turning to stone
• Light painting in a cemetery at night

Woods

• Portrait in a forest
• Lumber Yard / Home Depot Portrait
• Light painting on forest trail

Car Details

• Close up of somebody holding a set of keys
• Macro shots of tires, badge, steering wheel, stitching

Negative Space

• Side portrait
• Person walking at edge of frame

People at Work

• Vendors
• Construction workers
• Photographers – just pics of people taking photo’s at events.

Contrast

• High contrast Noir portraits

Windows

• Person looking in/out of window
• Windows logo on PC (lol)
• Abandoned building with a person or ghostly figure seen in a broken window

Color Quest (Pick a color and it should feature predominately in a picture)

• Already know what I’m doing for this – the scarepark photo’s I took in September used a lot of red lighting. So I’ll use one of those.

Blur

• I got this idea out of The Art of the SNL Portrait – a first curtain portrait with motion blur.

Mirror

• I shot some of this stuff recently with Gracyn so I’ll probably look to do something similar. Just portraits of people looking into mirrors

Grit

• This feels like a statement of character, so I need to think about how to show that

Upside down

• It would be cool to find somebody that can do a handstand

Mini/Mighty

• Probably a macro shot of some of my d&d mini’s attacking a dragon.