Happy New Year Everyone, Lets start something new!
01 Jan
Happy New Year folks
Hope everyone is enjoying their first day into year 2009. This year I’m going to join the herd and start on project 365. Looking at my photo folders I pretty much saw a daily stream of photos so why not turn this into a committed photography project. The community feels friendly and cheery so I’m definitely going to enjoy meeting other fellow 365′ers along the way. I think most of my 365 photos will be pretty much focused on music, movies, books, things i buy, places i go and food i eat (and then pretty much whatever comes my way).
So yes! Lets start fresh with a nice countdown shot.
This shot was taken literally at midnight, I took a lot of practice runs to ensure the watch was in focus (f4 to be sure and trying out my external flash to give the hand some tone) and it came out pretty good. The problem was obviously showing that it was midnight on my watch, I tried illuminating the watch but that lost all the blue and dark coolness of the shot so there wasn’t much to do. I like this shot because it was one of those “you only get one shot at this” shots where if I missed (or in this case mess up with the dark watch face), then I’d have to accept the mistakes and consequences. Hopefully this is what the year is going to be about, not trying to achieve perfection and just experiment with whatever I have already.
Some more rambles about this shot, yes, whilst everyone was partying it up, enjoying fireworks or celebrating with others, I was sat in my room taking this shot. Nobody’s home so it was pretty much on my own (and I decided against going to a party to avoid being alone in a crowd). But I made the most of it and spent the rest of the evening watch DIE HARD 4.0 on bluray with the sound system turned up to the max (sorry neighbours!) I stopped halfway to watch the rest in the morning since it was 2am.
Happy new year everyone! If you’re a fellow photographer who hasn’t done project365, I recommend you do it.
Happy new year CB!
Project 365 sounds like fun.
It really it
thanks chalky, happy new year to you too!
This post got me and my friend started on project 365. It seems like a wicked daunting task, but I think if we pull it off it’ll be amazing looking back over all the pictures.
Anyway, Happy New Year! Keep on keepin’ on!
Wow, glad you started doing this because of my post! The whole project sounds like a blast already, i just need to make sure i’m not too much of a perfectionist in terms of the photos, if a day is boring, i should not hide it if that makes sense, the photo should really be boring to reflect the shot haha. But yeah, good luck with the photos!
Yeah, I’m afraid that a lot of the days are gonna be boring since I live a pretty boring life, lol. But I think it’ll all be awesome when I look back and realize all the awesome (and boring) times I had.
happy new year bob! Internet is quite fuzzy in this rudimentary island so, deeply sorry for my absence. Its so awesome you’re doing the 365 photo thing , looking forward to see what u come up with!
thanks, it should be fun, i wanna make sure i do lots of weird and interesting things, stuff that talks about me too and what i do and like and enjoy and stuff and whatnot.