Straight out of camera. No Lightroom, no Capture One, no colour grading, no cropping. Whatever the camera produces, that is the photograph.

This is more frightening than it sounds. Post-processing has become the place where a mediocre frame becomes an acceptable one — where composition errors get cropped away, where flat light gets pushed to drama. Removing that safety net forces you to get it right in camera.

Shoot JPEG. Set your colour profile or film simulation before you go out. Expose carefully. Frame deliberately. Live with the results.

By the end of the week you will have a clearer sense of where your in-camera decision-making is weak. That information is worth more than a month of processing practice.

Watch for: the instinct to 'fix it in post'. That instinct is telling you something about the original frame. Note what it's telling you.

The point: post-processing should enhance a good picture, not rescue a bad one.