Project 365

[Quamen]

One Photo, Every Day, For a Whole Year.

Anyone else embarked on such an excersise? The idea, for me at least, is to improve my photography skills while maintaining a record of the year gone by.

I've just started (2 weeks ago) and it's going quite well. It's forcing me to take more photos that I normally would, it's also forcing me to take photos under lighting conditions that I normally wouldn't. To keep things interesting it's forcing me to photograph a variety of subjects that I find throughout my daily life.

Best of all, I'm having fun with my camera exploring life around me.

Flickr Photoset (http://www.flickr.com/photos/quamen/sets/72157594426133162/)

[Nicole]

This is something I've been contemplating for the new year. I'm still trying to decide. While I know that I can start it any time, if I'm going to, I'd like to start January 1st, for the new year. Nice set you've got so far, good luck keeping up with it :)

[Quamen]

Deliberating whether or not to start took me a long time as well, 3 or 4 months of contemplation. I wish I had just started earlier, then I would have stacks of photos already in the set :)

[wulf]

I'm quite tempted by the idea but with plenty of other commitments, including trying to put something on my blog every day, I don't think I'll get round to taking a daily picture.

However, I am expecting that I will be doing a lot more photography in 2007.

Wulf

[Redrabbit]

I like that idea of one picture a day. I will try that starting tomorrow. Thanks,

[hitkaiser]

It's a neat idea if you move around a lot (and have time to whip out the camera)

But on a day to day basis I'm pretty much between home and work, I think it would end up with lots of close up shots making it very repetitive...

I guess the challenge would be to make it interesting... Oh well I might just try it starting tommorow :)

Does this mean there is going to be a new thread here everyday for Project365?

[alissasanderson]

I pretty much take pictures every day anyway. It would be getting them edited and posted daily that would be an issue for me--sometimes a week or more goes by before I actually have a moment to download them from the camera. But it's a rare day that I don't pick up the camera and photograph something--my kids, the sunset, something...

Does it count if you post 7 images at a time, all on Saturday, and label them with the proper days of the week?:)

[Saralonde]

Interesting idea and one I would like to start tomorrow, but I have a bad feeling this will go the way of so many things I start at the beginning of a new year. Two or three weeks and then I'll forget a day or get incredibly busy with something and have no time, well, you get the picture :D . It will probably work as well as my idea to start exercising regularly this year.

[Quamen]

Does it count if you post 7 images at a time, all on Saturday, and label them with the proper days of the week?:)

Doesn't matter when you post the pictures. All you need is a picture for each day taken on that day.

It's a neat idea if you move around a lot (and have time to whip out the camera)

But on a day to day basis I'm pretty much between home and work, I think it would end up with lots of close up shots making it very repetitive...

Yea that is a potential problem, but then again, maybe it will force you to go home a different way and explore some areas of your home town you usually wouldn't.

Since I have one more year of university to go I'm able to move around a bit. Well I hope I will be.

[heliot]

Have been contemplating this myself, tomorrow would be a good day to start. :)

[Rommel]

This is a fantastic idea - one of those ones that I kick myself for not thinking of on my own. I was a bit irked recently when I've been spending a few days doing photoshop work and not taking any pictures. Also it will be really interesting to see how much improvement I can make in photography within a year. Of course I am starting near the very bottom, so there's lots of room :) Great idea Quamen (and the others who thought of this independently)! Glad I caught this before I go to sleep so I can begin on the 1st.

[Lastoadri]

coool.. I feel lucky reading this idea today.....
1st of jan still got plenty of time to kick off the 365 project plan with you

[Gunsotsu]

Well, I started this blasted project myself. Time will tell the route 365 days worth of images will take.

[AZ4Runner]

I just recently started a project similar to this. I'm making a concerted effort to expose a "roll" of film every day for 2007. Since I shoot digital, I've had to define what the "roll" consists of . . . I have defined it as a minimum of 36 exposures.

I'm hoping that my experiment will show progress as I grow as a photographer, not just in my photography skills, but in my ability to see more creatively.

[theusher]

I'm doing it (or trying to remember to) just to make a stop motion video of myself from all year long. I'm doing it with my built in iSight, as I'm not much of a self portrait photographer. =)

*Think I misunderstood this 365 project, I thought it was the self image one..LOL*

[KJMarino]

I just started this project as well... i hope i grow as a photographer this year

[sagelike31]

Yeah I've been doing it since October of last year. (http://www.photoblog.com/user/sagelike31)<-------LINK

It is one of the main reasons why my photography skills has gotten so much better.

The whole taking a picture a day thing is not as important as posting everyday. I try to "take" a picture everyday but it just doesn't work out that way.

So, I take my camera wherever I go and hope to catch something, I make it a point to go somewhere at least once a week and take some shots and I've been working on my macros indoor whenever it has rained.

This leads me to have more pictures that I know what to do with. This also makes me have at least 1 weeks worth of pictures ready just in case something happens (sick, work, etc...)

Hope this helps everyone.

[hoges]

started on the 1st then proceeded to get very ill, its harder than you think but even if you only post every couple of days it makes you work at it . Finally using my macro lens i have had for 12mths