Starting my 365 project

As I’ve been getting back into photography over the last year one of the biggest challenges I’ve faced is actually getting out to shoot. All too often I’m doing something else and taking photographs slips to the back burner. A few days ago I came across Shawn’s post about starting a 365 project (which essentially is a challenge to take at least one photograph everyday for 365 days) that is limited to shots taken with a 50mm lens.

I do like the 50mm lens, I feel it makes the photographer move to compose the frame. However, seeing as how I’m still working back into shooting I’ve decided to be a little less restrictive with my 365 project (come on 365 days is a long time!) in hopes that by providing myself the flexibility to use other lenses and cameras I can improve my overall skill.

So here are my own self-dictated rules:

1) at least ONE photograph taken per day (Now I know there will be days when it just doesnt happen, but the goal is at least one photo a day).

2) Can use any camera and lens combination (I’m even going to allow my iPhone in this category but seriously hoping that I don’t end up using it very often. The goal is to get me out shooting, not reaching for my phone).

3) I’ll post the one photograph of the day to the Flickr set I’ve set up. Now the posting will likely not be everyday so I’ll try to get them up as often as possible. I’ll also likely end up doing a weekly summary here.

4) That’s it…. I think.

While I’m not limiting myself to only 50mm shots, one of my goals will be to use the lens as often as possible in order to force a different prospective. Feel free to add anything in the comments.

And with that, the first picture 1/365 – 9/28/2009

Posted in Photography, Tumblelog on September 28th, 2009 Taged with project365

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