Project 365!!!

Hey everyone!!! I figured I'd start a little thread to showcase our photos! The idea is to take at least one photo everyday for a year. Why? Well.... why not?!

Here's a few reasons why:

Taking a photo a day is a big undertaking with big payoffs. Here are just a few reasons why you should consider doing it:

•Imagine being able to look back at any day of your year and recall what you did, who you met, what you learned… (Often we find it hard to remember what we did just yesterday or even last night, let alone a whole year ago!)


•Your year-long photo album will be an amazing way to document your travels and accomplishments, your haircuts and relationships. Time moves surprisingly fast.


•Taking a photo a day will make you a better photographer. Using your camera every day will help you learn its limits. You will get better at composing your shots, you’ll start to care about lighting, and you’ll become more creative with your photography when you’re forced to come up with something new every single day.

Here are six tips on how to create your own Project 365:


1.Bring Your Camera Everywhere
Yes, everywhere. Get in the habit. Grocery stores, restaurants, parties, work, and school. Going to a movie theatre? Snap a pic of the flick with your phone–there are photo-ops everywhere. If you have one of those tiny tiny cameras, you have no excuse not to have it in your pocket all the time. And if you don’t? Camera phones are a great substitute.


2.Make Posting Easy
You can install blog software like Movable Type or WordPress on your own site and create an entry for each photo, but for true ease of use, try a photo sharing site. Flickr will let you post a week’s worth of photos in 2 minutes flat, and fotolog and Photoblog.com are geared toward a photo-a-day workflow. Making it fast and easy means you’re much more likely to do it.


3.Vary Your Themes
Try to capture the day’s events in a single photo. Perform photographic experiments. Take a photo of someone new you meet, something you ate for the first time, or something you just learned how to do. Take a photo of something that made you smile. And don’t forget to take a photo of yourself at least once a month so you can remember how you’ve changed, too.


4.Tell a Story
Use your blog entry, or your photo description, to explain what’s going on in each day’s photograph. How good did that dinner taste? What made you want to take a photo of that stranger? It’ll help you remember down the road, and it gives friends following along a better appreciation of why you took the photo you did. You don’t need to write a lot, just enough to add some color.


5.Don’t Stop, No Matter What
This is perhaps the most important tip of all. You will get tired of taking a photo every single day. Some days, you will consider giving up. Don’t. The end result is worth the effort. Remind yourself why you wanted to do it in first place.

There will be times you’ll think there’s nothing interesting left to take a photo of, and times you’ll think you didn’t do anything exciting enough to take a photo of. There’s always a great photo to be made.

Get out of the house and take a walk. Or stay inside and look around. Take a photo of something important to you. Take a photo of the inside of your house so you can see how your taste has changed over the years. Take a photo of anything, just don’t stop.

N.b. It helps if you’ve told your friends about the project and asked them to follow along. Their encouragement will keep you going!


6.Post early, post often
Plan on going through and posting your photos at least once a week so you don’t get backlogged and feel overwhelmed. Ideally, post every day or two. Again, spend the time up front to make sure it’s quick and easy to post. It’ll make all the difference.

Info from photojojo.com.

If you can't take or upload a photo everyday, don't worry about it. Share what you have, when you have it! Happy shooting everyone!!!

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Here's my post for the day. Not the greatest photo, but I was just playing with the new Fisheye Lite lens I DLed on my iPhone.

My little Lucy-fur.

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i thought i would take your advise... this is my first try at self-portrait

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ps... i'm working with only an iphone camera: i want to see what apps can do with an iphone camera and it's the one camera in the world i won't forget to take everywhere i go

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my friend's little girl is recovering from surgery.

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one of our two doggies

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i recently re-started couponing. the crowded supermarket looked interesting to me

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i just might re-start gardening

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SO made me a lovely fire, today

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Soooo, I took my photos this weekend, but my home computer died! But catching up....

January 14th- Sweet (Taken with my Canon Rebel XS, 50 mm lens)



January 15th- Water (Taken with my Canon Rebel XS, 50 mm lens)



January 16th- Morning (Taken with my Canon Rebel XS, 50 mm lens)

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i thought you had left me!

glad to see you're back and i'm really loving the sugar picture

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taking a look at my desk from a different angle

this was 1-17-2012
fell asleep before uploading

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January 18th, 2012- What I'm Reading. (Taken on Canon Rebel XS, 50mm lens.)

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SO's hookah

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i'm working on my grandmother's sweater

01-19-2012

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Here's my photo from yesterday! This is my sister's sugarglider. It's not the greatest photo, but that's because he's nocturnal and if you turn on the lights, he hides. This was taken with my iPhone 4S and edited with Instagram.



ETA: I just uploaded one from my DSLR. It's still blurry and dark. I can only do so much without shining a light on him, but here ya go!

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thanks about the sweater



1-20-2012
took a walk at lunch. there was a tractor in the parking lot

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Posted by libby2595

Posted by jilliibabii

Here's my photo from yesterday! This is my sister's sugarglider. It's not the greatest photo, but that's because he's nocturnal and if you turn on the lights, he hides. This was taken with my iPhone 4S and edited with Instagram.

IMAGE

there's an app for that

LINK

this app has a feature to help reduce noise. hth

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A puzzle I was working on! Which is now complete! Taken with my Canon Rebel XS, 50 MM lens.

ETA: Ohhhhh, you wanted to SEE the picture?!

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there will be enough time for snow pictures, tomorrow. today, we're cold and staying inside.

this is the old man

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01-22-2012

a little behind... but here they are

puppy paw prints in the snow
not my best, but it was not a great day